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Nothing quite replaced Dr Dobbs... Hacker News offers random links to the kind of technical articles that Dr Dobbs used to have, but of course - for better or w
by glimshe 3y ago
Nothing quite replaced Dr Dobbs... Hacker News offers random links to the kind of technical articles that Dr Dobbs used to have, but of course - for better or worse - it's a lot less focused.
- ghaff 3y agoThere were quite a few magazines of the era: Dr. Dobbs, Byte, arguably some of the electronics mags, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science... that would have looked very unfocused through the lens of 15 years or so later.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoCreative Computing was great too
- rabbits77 3y agoI hope it’s not too controversial of an opinion, but the audience for written long form software engineering content is very small. In the 70s through the mid 90s, before the WWW v1.0 bubble taught the world you could get rich quick in software, there was a greater appetite to, say, take your time working your way through an article on a new technique in C. Now the vast majority of people just want copy/paste Python code examples from Stack Overflow. At most they may suffer through a brief video tutorial. Part of this is not some “kids these days” sort of reason, but the reality that most code is much more short lived than ever before.
- TheCondor 3y agoThe internet has negativity and criticism. Probably doesn’t matter what you do, someone will crap on it. (Heck, I'm guilty here too) DDJ was just affirmational, “here is some knowledge” “here is how I built <x>” there is an innocence to it. You might ignore it, that knowledge might alter your career. It was a neat magazine of people doing cool stuff in areas I’m interested without the baggage. Just possibilities. Hard or impossible to replace with that scale today.