“How do you keep up with the latest trends and technologies?” I was once asked in an interview.

"I use daily.dev!" was my immediate response. This is my second year using this platform and this is how I found it.

Tech was one of the things I was excited about when I was in school - CES and MSW events, Apple presentations, new HTC smartphones... Of course, I read numerous tech reviews without any preference - everything was interesting to me. The only thing I wanted was to have one source where I could read all the articles from different websites. And this problem was solved thanks to RSS feeds and Feedly, which greatly improved the quality of reading.

I was slowly transitioning from tech to coding and Feedly was good for general content (news) but now I wanted to see context on a particular topic. Not all blogs have RSS feeds, and not all blogs only publish articles that are of interest to me. So I gave up on Feedly, saving the articles and blogs I wanted to read in my Telegram's Saved Messages. A step back in convenience, but the trade-off was definitely worth it.

As my experience grew, I became less and less satisfied with having to maintain a list of sources myself (or my value of tools that "just work" grew). Anyway, I wanted a tool that would do all the work for me. I wanted a tool that could collect programming articles and suggest content based on my preferences, so I googled something like "programming article aggregators". That's how I found daily.dev.

I don't think I can promote the platform better than the platform itself, so just watch the video.

For those who are interested in my description - daily.dev is a personalized feed with articles from various sources. And personalization here means you can either make it “broad” and read about absolutely everything (like I did with tech news and Feedly) or make it “deep” and have 100 articles about the useEffect hook in React. daily.dev also cares about healthy collaboration - in my opinion, the platform has one of the best communities, and the words "place where developers grow together" is a very accurate description. And daily.dev is full of extra features with a beautiful UI that makes things even better.

I have no idea how to calculate the value that daily.dev brings every day, but it definitely brings a ton.

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