What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech? I look for a book. Books in general are usually miles better than technical blogs and

What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech? I look for a book. Books in general are usually miles better than technical blogs and you can find a ton of information addressed about a subject in one place, so there's the convenience factor (not that you couldn't create some program that indexes your bookmarks, but still have the problem of providing meaningful titles and organization for your bookmarks). I also find that books are generally peer reviewed, especially textbooks, so the BS is kept to a minimum. Makes for a more boring read, but its more accurate. That being said, I like language analysis posts. People tend to bring up a lot of things I haven't thought of, and there was one done on C a while back on HN that looked very good: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/ https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/ (tbh, I skimmed the article because I didn't have a lot of time to read it at the moment).