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How to Stay Up to Date With Programming Trends
Some daily activities to help you stay on the cutting edge
How do you stay a relevant developer when there are so many releases every day — new programming languages, new libraries, and trendy new ways of coding?
Keeping up-to-date with so many online resources can feel overwhelming.
A quality “tech watch” is part of a programmers job. Staying relevant is just as important as your other missions.
This piece is a list of activities you can do. Do them at different moments of the day and build your own strategy for an efficient tech watch.
Subscribe to Newsletters
Newsletters are curated publications that may interest you. Subscribing to a few is the most obvious way to get started.
Find websites which are about topics you like and subscribe to their newsletter, so the information comes straight to your email box. This prevents you from having to go to each website to do your selection.
I take two minutes in the morning to quickly go through my emails, then chose what I want to read during the day.
When I feel like reading something, I just have to pick it from my reading list.