Forrst
is a new place for developers and designers to share inspiring code, screenshots and links.If you ever wanted other professionals frank opinion on a piece of code or can’t make a decision between one logo or the other! Forrst is the place for you. It is just ramping up and is still in invite only stage, but I urge you to get on and get to sharing. Nothing better than being popular on the new it site.
Twitter
if you still think twitter is place for little girls to tweet about their Bieber fever you are right. Although beyond that, [amazing reality] so are favorite products and software developers sharing latest updates and interesting articles. I use Twitter as my news aggregator. If I see the same story tweeted by a few people, usually give it a further look. Tweets are a great way to keep in touch, if you follow the right people!
Blog
now you might be saying madness, I don’t want to have a blog. I am not hipster, who shares everything in hopes to have a movie written about them when they die. Although blogs are the best place to cultivate that particular type of pipe dream. It will also allow you share things you find cool, or link you wished you had bookmarked, its a ways to track your progress as a developer and as a human being. Maybe even open doors for you in the future.
Github
what happens to code you write and keep on your hard drive and you dont let anyone use. It never gets run, or used beyond what it was intended for. In my mind that is a complete and full fledged fail. Get on Github, and set your code free. Great way to learn new things as well. Pick a language and start reading.
Stackoverflow
are you the type of person who asks a ton of questions and expects answers? Look no further the greatest Q&A site to ever hit the internet. Now that they are spinning off various sister sites even better time to join. Want to know more about cooking, coding, ubuntu, or maybe even something new. Vast knowledge base and I would recommend this for any developer who wants to know more.
HackerNews
Do you want a legion of smart developer send links to technical articles and interesting things in the news? If so get ready to probably waste [gain knowledge] an hour a day there easily hitting refresh. Check it out.
Reddit
Now you may thinks Reddit is mostly used for finding cool pictures of cats and place where you can make fun of people failing. Although that may be true there is a vast developer community on there that have various discussions about development broken up is more ways you can imagine in subreddits, chime in!
Coderwall
I know I said 7 but I can’t leave out this out for those of us who love competition, and awesome tracking of development achievements! Coderwall goes through your github repositories and gives you badass achievements on code you develop; they recently launched new profile pages that look awesome! Try it out!
—This post has been inspired by Scott Hanselman talk here.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
I find it hard to believe that this page hasn’t been updated in the past two years. Especially things having to do with twitter has changed significantly. I guess they have enough people knocking down their door.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sometimes no matter how smart you are. You end up still making bone headed moves.
For example Andrew Chen well accomplished and talented entrepreneur as you can see here. What!? He’s so great. What could have he possibly done that was so bone headed? Well he isn’t the only one guilty of this; just the straw that broke the camels back. Sorry Andrew.
It’s become fashionable to hate on Hacker News as of late. Most regulars attribute the decrease in quality to the increasing popularity of the site. The more people read and post, the lower the quality of the posts becomes. It’s just law of averages. That’s another story. Still a great site don’t get me wrong.
However, how do you reconcile solicited bacn from people who don’t care enough to get your name right.
Now the past couple of weeks I have been receiving emails from SV saying different things like Found you via YC News and googled for you- what are you up to these days?
Good question: But what I am more interesting in answering is WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I know what you think you are doing, getting the attention of talented and invovled developers.
Here is the latest email that started this blog post.
Hi mahdiyusuf,
You have a new message from Andrew Chen:
Found you via YC News and googled for you- what are you up to these days? (a quick intro from me: I’m based in the Bay Area and was most recently an Entrepreneur-in-residence for Mohr Davidow Ventures, a $2B venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley: http://andrewchenblog.com/about/) I’m starting up a company in Palo Alto, CA with a YCombinator alum, and backed by Marc Andreeesen (creator of the internet browser) and the investors for Skype/MySQL/Heroku/etc. I’m putting together a team here, and I wanted to know if you’d be interested or if there are any developers that you’d recommend we speak to? We’re wanting to talk to talented people from all over and have done visas, relocation, etc., to make it work. (The idea is related to a new form of blogging- we’re on a Rails/MySQL stack and doing some really interesting metrics and A/B testing work. Happy to talk more about it) Should we talk more? Or any recommendations for people we should speak to? Best, Andrew
- Did the email make me feel noticed? No.
- Did it make me want to work for you? No.
- Did it get my attention? Yes.
- In a positive way? No.
- Will I pass this on? No.
People who are looking for talent, need to take a step back and ask themselves, would someone they think is talented respond to a clearly automated email? How would thier current developers feel about hiring tactics? Take a second to think what they would react to. Interest in who they are and what they are about. I recieve alot of email from people online. If they are sincere and asking for something I am more than welcoming. But not like this, you didn’t even offer me a complimentary sexual enhancement drug.
Please. Stop.
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