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I thought people may be interested in this update. I started LLVM Weekly on the first Monday of 2014, and have somehow managed to get it sent out every Monday s
by asb 12y ago
I thought people may be interested in this update. I started LLVM Weekly on the first Monday of 2014, and have somehow managed to get it sent out every Monday since. As of today's issue, I've managed to complete it for every Monday of 2014. If you haven't read an issue before, this week's isn't very representative - it's been a very quiet week in terms of LLVM development due to the holidays.
When I started it off, I had in mind 250 subscribers as the amount that would make it feel worthwhile to me. I decided to try to publicise it with the second issue and posted to HN and /r/programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051572 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1v4lbi/llvm_weekly_summarising_developments_in_the_world/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1v4lbi/llvm_wee.... From memory, this led to the number of subscriptions quickly rising to ~800 or so. It's hard to tell the actual number of readers given that some are subscribed directly, some read via llvmweekly.org rss, some read on the LLVM blog, and some will just read the mails on llvm-dev. There are ~2k direct subscribers to the email and feedly tells me there are ~140 people subscribed to the llvm weekly RSS and ~2k to the LLVM blog, plus there are ~1500 followers of @llvmweekly. This is all peanuts compared to your average Ruby/Python/Javascript newsletter, but of course it's a niche topic.
I'm planning to continue through 2015. It's a fair investment in time to prepare each week, but as I use LLVM/Clang in my research it is at least useful to keep on top of development. If you have any suggestions on improvements, please do share.
- jklontz 12y agoYour weekly is best part of my Monday morning, glad to hear it will be around in 2015 :)
- bowlofstew 12y agoAgreed, I enjoy reading it as well. Keep up the great work!
- RBO2 12y ago+1 LLVM is a background topic for me. Your newsletter is both informative and joyful on my Monday morning.
- nekitamo 12y agoAgreed, thank you for maintaining this :)
- flohofwoe 12y agoI'm looking forward to and read each LLVM Weekly, great stuff! (via Twitter btw)