you don't need up-to-the-minute or even up-to-the-month updates. In fact, it can make you miss the forest forest for the trees.
It’s not that you shouldn’t learn new things. However, most new things turn out to be duds. Even if you COULD know about every new thing as it makes the news, it would be foolish to try pursue / learn all of it before there’s more evidence it matters.
Here gives me enough news about what notable and I know where to find info for niche communities. But these days, it seems that I'm learning old tech most rather than the newish thing.
But in reality - how much of this do you need? I stay up to date because it brings me joy of learning. If it's more work than fun, consider how much of the new information you actually use day to day. Would you lose anything if you took 1 day every month or two to read through top 10 articles from that period? For most devs, I would bet they almost never get to use the things they learned in the last few weeks.
Reddit, Hacker News, online manuals, blogs , online magazines , offline manuals (back in the day), SDK documentation, Devdocs, Colleagues and friends, and Wikipedia.
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gooodvibes•2mo ago
Also, have you tried working instead of twitter? Learning instead of twitter? Just no twitter instead of twitter? Whatever useful thing you're telling yourself that you get from it, good chance that you're wrong and you can do without it completely instead of needing to replace it in some way.