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Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs

423 points by deepakkarki 8y ago

badrabbit 8y ago
Nice work. Your site does not render well on my mobile browser for some reason. I would subscribe to a newsletter or feed of this.
- deepakkarki 8y ago
  Scroll down, there is both a newsletter and a RSS feed!
  - badrabbit 8y ago
    Thanks.
deepakkarki 8y ago
I curate every weekday, 8-10 high quality links. Been doing this for about an year! Feel free to ask me any questions. Mailing list : https://www.discoverdev.io/subscribe https://www.discoverdev.io/subscribe RSS feed : https://www.discoverdev.io/rss.xml https://www.discoverdev.io/rss.xml
- feydaykyn 8y ago
  Hi, Thanks for your ongoing work! Would it be possible for you to create a duplicate rss feed where the articles are the root and not hidden in the description ? It would help keeping up with the pace by speeding up the scanning process (I only check for my feeds once a week or so, I have tons of links to go through). I realize this would hide the 'daily' aspect of your effort, and I would totally understand if you declined. Thanks again!
  - deepakkarki 8y ago
    Oh hey! I used to do this before but a lot of people started complaining that they then had duplicate items in their RSS feed, like the one from the website and one from me as well. Plus it will be hard to figure out which ones are coming from DiscoverDev, no?
    - feydaykyn 8y ago
      In Feedly the source feed is always displayed, I thought it was the same in others feed readers as it seems a basic info. I understand the duplicate issue for those following both DiscoverDev and the discrete websites, I wouldn't mind as it is intentional but that's just me. I'll make the extra clicks ! Thanks again (edit: spelling)
Proven 8y ago
Is that legal?
campallison 8y ago
"Handpicked by AI..." I hope that joke was intentional.
- deepakkarki 8y ago
  ;) Well, I wanted to automate it, but the "AI" just so easily got fooled, though if anyone is interesting in working on it with me I'd be happy. Now that I've been running it for an year, I have some unique insights that would be helpful.
  - rpm33 8y ago
    Great work, DM'ing you
  - nigealj 8y ago
    If you are planning to eventually automate this with some sort of recommendation engine, then I hope you're at least capturing all the data and analytics currently to help drive that in the future!
aw3c2 8y ago
Nice! It would be great if posts had timestamps, eg on https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/jvm https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/jvm
- deepakkarki 8y ago
  Hmm.. I didn't realise it wasn't there, sorry about that, will add it by Monday :)
andrewstellman 8y ago
This looks valuable. Good job with the tags. Even better if there was a way to do a full-text search of all articles from the front page.
deepakkarki 8y ago
For those curious, DiscoverDev is a fully static site hosted on Netlify. It's all handcrafted vanilla HTML and CSS. (The first site I've ever developed, zero design experience, so nothing fancy). Zero lines of Javascript as well :) 1. I've written my own crawler+parser which parses selected blogs and publications and then displays new articles to me in a chronological manner in a GUI. 2. I select the articles myself, and tag them. 3. Then a script sees all the selected articles and generates a JSON file. 4. I've written my own static site generator which consumes this JSON and spits out the updated website and RSS. 5. I push the changes to my git repo. 6. Netlify listens to the git repo and updates my build. 7. People see my updated webpage and RSS feed within seconds. Thanks for taking a look. ----- Subscribe to the newsletter if you're looking forward to receive a weekly digest of interesting articles and resources. You can unsubscribe anytime, I keep my content to the point.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  And as a result, the site is fast as if made of magic. Thank you for doing it right. > The first site I've ever developed, zero design experience, so nothing fancy Design is good too. It is utilitarian, just at it should be. I'm increasingly convinced that getting "design experience" at some point starts to cause problems. At least if one's getting that experience without getting some extra "common sense" and "be nice to other people" experience.
  - iratewizard 8y ago
    I feel like it needs to be stated that not all of us engineers have the same brutalistic taste in design.
    - TeMPOraL 8y ago
      It's not about brutalism. It's like that "make it, make it good, make it fast" adage for optimization, for design it should be - "make it, make it good (for the job it's supposed to do), then make it pretty". Alas, I see the trend is to start with "make it pretty" and then often not even continue to "make it" part.
osamagirl69 8y ago
I love the idea, I have longed for a no-nonsense aggregater of blogs/websites/etc without the bloat. Is there any chance you could add more hardware orientated stuff? Even if all it did was scrape hackaday.com and remove the spam and 'editors' drivel.
- deepakkarki 8y ago
  Oh would I love to do hardware (as I got into software through hardware itself)! But I feel the project will become too broad, and wouldn't be for any one group. I do include a bunch of hardware/maker resources in the newsletter though!
chime 8y ago
This is fantastic! Added to my daily read-list. Already enjoyed two articles I'd have never come across. Thanks for your efforts.
jnpatel 8y ago
Would you all like it if the links on the front page of HN were more like those on Discover dev, or happy with the way it is?
- deepakkarki 8y ago
  I like HN for what it is, I get to learn form a variety of topics I wouldn't have encountered otherwise. Discover dev was made to solve another pain point - I prefer tech only news, like a bunch of in depth articles without any commentary. The idea was that engineering teams all over the world produce some really great content on their blogs, but find it hard to get any traction given all the SEO optimised blog spam, so I wanted to create a resource that would promote the good articles to those who seek it. Later I also expanded to include a couple of tech publications like Hackernoon, code mentor, etc (but you'd be surprised at the number of blog spam and blockchain articles that get produced there - I filter out all but the interesting / in-depth ones).
Matt3o12_ 8y ago
Wow, the design is amazing -- I am really not good with design but it is very simple and extremely very clean. I might steal it at some point. I also really like the no javascript approach. You even have a RSS reader, which is really helpful but I have one little nickpick, the date format is: "Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00" which is slightly wrong (you forgot +0000 as the time zone). Good job anyways!
nzjrs 8y ago
Seems to be only software engineering. Maybe the mods can update the submission title?
gozrik 8y ago
The design is great, I love it. And the site itself is something I’ve wanted for a long time.
dragonshed 8y ago
There is a lot to like here, but I wish viewing by tags had a more obvious sort applied. Some items included aren't of interest to me, so naturally I'd like some way to filter those out. Viewing a tag is a good way to do that, but then I lose the chronological organization.
- pbourke 8y ago
  Not sure about this, but the items on tag pages appear to be in reverse chronological order. It might help if there was a date displayed beside each item.
antonio-ramadas 8y ago
First, great work! I’ve subscribed the RSS feed :) This is something I started wishing for! Second, on the RSS feed, could you display the source of each link as you do on the website?
lucidone 8y ago
A small, subjective point of improvement: #fff and #000 are very high contrast, I find pages with a slight muting of these two colors (ie, #fcfcfc and #030303 - an offset of 3 in rgb) to be much easier to read. Regardless, I love the site. I've bookmarked it and will visit alongside my morning routine.
dchuk 8y ago
I maintain a similar site here, but it’s all hands off, RSS feeds + hn style voting interface: https://engineered.at https://engineered.at problem is no one votes so it’s basically chronological. The curation quality of your site is fantastic! Keep it up!

423 points by deepakkarki 8y ago

Nice work. Your site does not render well on my mobile browser for some reason. I would subscribe to a newsletter or feed of this.

deepakkarki 8y ago
Scroll down, there is both a newsletter and a RSS feed!
- badrabbit 8y ago
  Thanks.

deepakkarki 8y ago

I curate every weekday, 8-10 high quality links. Been doing this for about an year! Feel free to ask me any questions. Mailing list : https://www.discoverdev.io/subscribe https://www.discoverdev.io/subscribe RSS feed : https://www.discoverdev.io/rss.xml https://www.discoverdev.io/rss.xml

feydaykyn 8y ago
Hi, Thanks for your ongoing work! Would it be possible for you to create a duplicate rss feed where the articles are the root and not hidden in the description ? It would help keeping up with the pace by speeding up the scanning process (I only check for my feeds once a week or so, I have tons of links to go through). I realize this would hide the 'daily' aspect of your effort, and I would totally understand if you declined. Thanks again!
- deepakkarki 8y ago
  Oh hey! I used to do this before but a lot of people started complaining that they then had duplicate items in their RSS feed, like the one from the website and one from me as well. Plus it will be hard to figure out which ones are coming from DiscoverDev, no?
  - feydaykyn 8y ago
    In Feedly the source feed is always displayed, I thought it was the same in others feed readers as it seems a basic info. I understand the duplicate issue for those following both DiscoverDev and the discrete websites, I wouldn't mind as it is intentional but that's just me. I'll make the extra clicks ! Thanks again (edit: spelling)

Proven 8y ago

Is that legal?

campallison 8y ago

"Handpicked by AI..." I hope that joke was intentional.

deepakkarki 8y ago
;) Well, I wanted to automate it, but the "AI" just so easily got fooled, though if anyone is interesting in working on it with me I'd be happy. Now that I've been running it for an year, I have some unique insights that would be helpful.
- rpm33 8y ago
  Great work, DM'ing you
- nigealj 8y ago
  If you are planning to eventually automate this with some sort of recommendation engine, then I hope you're at least capturing all the data and analytics currently to help drive that in the future!

aw3c2 8y ago

Nice! It would be great if posts had timestamps, eg on https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/jvm https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/jvm

deepakkarki 8y ago
Hmm.. I didn't realise it wasn't there, sorry about that, will add it by Monday :)

andrewstellman 8y ago

This looks valuable. Good job with the tags. Even better if there was a way to do a full-text search of all articles from the front page.

deepakkarki 8y ago

For those curious, DiscoverDev is a fully static site hosted on Netlify. It's all handcrafted vanilla HTML and CSS. (The first site I've ever developed, zero design experience, so nothing fancy). Zero lines of Javascript as well :) 1. I've written my own crawler+parser which parses selected blogs and publications and then displays new articles to me in a chronological manner in a GUI. 2. I select the articles myself, and tag them. 3. Then a script sees all the selected articles and generates a JSON file. 4. I've written my own static site generator which consumes this JSON and spits out the updated website and RSS. 5. I push the changes to my git repo. 6. Netlify listens to the git repo and updates my build. 7. People see my updated webpage and RSS feed within seconds. Thanks for taking a look. ----- Subscribe to the newsletter if you're looking forward to receive a weekly digest of interesting articles and resources. You can unsubscribe anytime, I keep my content to the point.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
And as a result, the site is fast as if made of magic. Thank you for doing it right. > The first site I've ever developed, zero design experience, so nothing fancy Design is good too. It is utilitarian, just at it should be. I'm increasingly convinced that getting "design experience" at some point starts to cause problems. At least if one's getting that experience without getting some extra "common sense" and "be nice to other people" experience.
- iratewizard 8y ago
  I feel like it needs to be stated that not all of us engineers have the same brutalistic taste in design.
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    It's not about brutalism. It's like that "make it, make it good, make it fast" adage for optimization, for design it should be - "make it, make it good (for the job it's supposed to do), then make it pretty". Alas, I see the trend is to start with "make it pretty" and then often not even continue to "make it" part.

osamagirl69 8y ago

I love the idea, I have longed for a no-nonsense aggregater of blogs/websites/etc without the bloat. Is there any chance you could add more hardware orientated stuff? Even if all it did was scrape hackaday.com and remove the spam and 'editors' drivel.

deepakkarki 8y ago
Oh would I love to do hardware (as I got into software through hardware itself)! But I feel the project will become too broad, and wouldn't be for any one group. I do include a bunch of hardware/maker resources in the newsletter though!

chime 8y ago

This is fantastic! Added to my daily read-list. Already enjoyed two articles I'd have never come across. Thanks for your efforts.

jnpatel 8y ago

Would you all like it if the links on the front page of HN were more like those on Discover dev, or happy with the way it is?

deepakkarki 8y ago
I like HN for what it is, I get to learn form a variety of topics I wouldn't have encountered otherwise. Discover dev was made to solve another pain point - I prefer tech only news, like a bunch of in depth articles without any commentary. The idea was that engineering teams all over the world produce some really great content on their blogs, but find it hard to get any traction given all the SEO optimised blog spam, so I wanted to create a resource that would promote the good articles to those who seek it. Later I also expanded to include a couple of tech publications like Hackernoon, code mentor, etc (but you'd be surprised at the number of blog spam and blockchain articles that get produced there - I filter out all but the interesting / in-depth ones).

Matt3o12_ 8y ago

Wow, the design is amazing -- I am really not good with design but it is very simple and extremely very clean. I might steal it at some point. I also really like the no javascript approach. You even have a RSS reader, which is really helpful but I have one little nickpick, the date format is: "Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00" which is slightly wrong (you forgot +0000 as the time zone). Good job anyways!

nzjrs 8y ago

Seems to be only software engineering. Maybe the mods can update the submission title?

gozrik 8y ago

The design is great, I love it. And the site itself is something I’ve wanted for a long time.

dragonshed 8y ago

There is a lot to like here, but I wish viewing by tags had a more obvious sort applied. Some items included aren't of interest to me, so naturally I'd like some way to filter those out. Viewing a tag is a good way to do that, but then I lose the chronological organization.

pbourke 8y ago
Not sure about this, but the items on tag pages appear to be in reverse chronological order. It might help if there was a date displayed beside each item.

antonio-ramadas 8y ago

First, great work! I’ve subscribed the RSS feed :) This is something I started wishing for! Second, on the RSS feed, could you display the source of each link as you do on the website?

lucidone 8y ago

A small, subjective point of improvement: #fff and #000 are very high contrast, I find pages with a slight muting of these two colors (ie, #fcfcfc and #030303 - an offset of 3 in rgb) to be much easier to read. Regardless, I love the site. I've bookmarked it and will visit alongside my morning routine.

dchuk 8y ago

I maintain a similar site here, but it’s all hands off, RSS feeds + hn style voting interface: https://engineered.at https://engineered.at problem is no one votes so it’s basically chronological. The curation quality of your site is fantastic! Keep it up!