There are some truly phenomenal authors and publishers out there too. They don’t get the attention because they don’t clickbait, and they’re spending all their time being correct - which I guess doesn’t leave much time for marketing. 🤷

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Yep, totally true. The quieter voices and those who get less attention are often those who actually know a shed load more. They get hired for their knowledge too but can’t conform or keep up with the churn that seems to dominate so many outlets now and they ultimately leave (quite often to do their own freelance thing or writing books is quite common, or they switch careers entirely). That’s not to say there aren’t any now but nearly always comes down to a battle between monetisation and quality/time. Also those who know their stuff quite often don’t write about it; they use it (to build, etc) and get paid far more.

True. There are a few winners on YT especially (Primeagen, Theo, Fireship, Coding Aesthetics, Pirate Software (Thor) et al.) but I’ve not found many individual blogs to rely on. And most of those YT’ers are doing exactly what you said.

Prime works at Netflix,

Thor runs a game studio…

Etc.

Nice - you can tell when they’re talented.

I’ve been a solo/freelance dev basically my entire career. It has served me well as a bit of a mentoring substitute for learning how to manage complexity and work with others. Just being exposed to discussions about standards and processes, etc.

I owe the good ones a debt of gratitude. I just wish the majority of content was like that. World will never be perfect though. 🤷