Information sources for developers?

June 18, 2021 8:20 AM

Hello, I am compiling a list of blogs, online information sources like magazines, etc for a team of developers/coders who work in the website world. They are writing somewhat bog standard php for wordpress, but they also have to produce work in React/JavaScript, MySQL, Next.js, Java/Kotlin for Android and Obj-C/Swift for iOS, etc. What blogs, newsletter subscriptions, websites, etc should the team absolutely be aware of? Thanks!
posted by archivist to Technology (7 answers total)

There's a bunch of weekly newsletters that are an excellent passive way to keep up with new stuff. Javascript Weekly, Node Weekly, DB Weekly, React Status (okay i guess they broke the weekly naming cycle). There's one for pretty much every language or focus. I'm also a big fan of frontendmasters.com. They have a good rotation of current courses on best practices and deep dives for a good range of topics for frontend to full stack devs. Udemy courses as needed never hurt, but its way easier to buy a lot of them than to sit through a bunch. And honestly, documentation across the board for frameworks (at least FE side of things) has gotten tremendously better over the past decade. I spend a lot of time just on the Next site for referencing things.
posted by zsh2v1 at 8:40 AM on June 18, 2021

Smashing Magazine
Webdesigner Depot
css-tricks.com
posted by pyro979 at 8:42 AM on June 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

oh, one more, usually dev podcasts do nothing for me, but almost every person on my team has loved listening to the single threaded podcast (https://anchor.fm/single-threaded) she does an amazing job about talking about emotions in development, which lets be real is the daily reality of most of what we do.
posted by zsh2v1 at 8:44 AM on June 18, 2021

devdocs.io is very handy
posted by ropeladder at 3:17 PM on June 18, 2021

phptherightway

phparch.com

I don’t know if this is “absolutely need to know” but
Awesome PHP collects a number of PHP resources, and different people create different “Awesome” collections for all sorts of technologies.

I really like Thinking in React as an overview of how to use React.

Your team may also have resources to share!
posted by worstname at 7:14 AM on June 19, 2021

Response by poster: thanks all!

If anyone else sees this and have any other resources, please feel free add. Don't worry if you think it's obvious, there is a chance I am not aware of it.
posted by archivist at 7:00 PM on June 23, 2021

I just learned today about dash which aggregates documentation from 200+ sites/technologies. I’m looking forward to using it.
posted by bendy at 9:57 PM on July 6, 2021