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I've noticed logrocket churns out semi-technical blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects. Take a look at what has been submitted from them: https://news.yc

I've noticed logrocket churns out semi-technical blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects. Take a look at what has been submitted from them: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=logrocket.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=logrocket.com There isn't much a common theme on what they write about. It seems to be a bit of everything programming related and usually fairly shallow tutorials. My guess is that it is a marketing strategy. They write all these tutorials to show up in developers searches for technical problems and hackernews. Its gets them a little name recognition. I guess it's worked in that I know their name and what they do but it hasn't worked in that I don't have an extremely high opinion of their articles. I mean they aren't bad, one helped me out once, but they are never amazing.

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
> blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects "en masse"?
maxbond 4y ago
I don't really disagree, but I would note they aren't arbitrary, there's some topics they're interested in and write about. Like Rust and data visualization. Lots of them are about gluing together two popular technologies. I imagine that this a compromise between their expertise and which topics are trendy. I agree it's for sure a marketing strategy, and that that necessarily makes the content middling to good but never great. Sometimes I'm interested in some pair of technologies that feels like something Logrocket would write about, and it usually turns out to be true. If you wanna use D3 with your favorite frontend framework and want to avoid some of the pain of starting out, you'll probably find a reasonable competent explanation and avoid some of the early pitfalls.