17 Online Accounts to Follow for Software Development
We asked our top Software Engineers what they’re reading and listening to lately to stay updated on software development. Here are their recommendations on top accounts to follow:
YouTube
Fireship These high-intensity code tutorials can help you build and ship your apps faster. This channel has new videos every week that cover intermediate to advanced lessons about JavaScript, Flutter, Firebase, and modern app development. You can get project support, advanced full courses, and more at www.fireship.io.
Google Developers The Google Developers channel features talks from events, educational series, best practices and tips, and the latest updates across Google products, platforms, and services, including Android, Firebase, TensorFlow, Flutter, Google Assistant, and more.
Blogs
Eric Elliott on Medium Read all things JavaScript in Eric Elliott’s JavaScript Scene and The Challenge to ensure you’re up to date on the latest JavaScript news, frameworks, tricks and techniques, software management, and more.
CSharp Digest This newsletter is great for busy techs who want the news delivered to their inbox. You’ll receive weekly updates, interesting stories, and more in the .NET and C# space.
Scott Hanselman Blog As a prominent web developer for the Web Platform Team at Microsoft, Scott Hanselman has been blogging for the past decade about his personal web development experience. Topics range from technology to culture, gadgets, diversity, code, the web, and more. He also has three podcasts, a YouTube channel, and a Twitter account, which you can subscribe to.
Microsoft Developer Blogs Just like it sounds, this series of blogs has the inside scoop on the latest information, insights, announcements, and news from Microsoft, specifically written about Visual Studio, Xamarin, Azure, .NET, and various other development languages. There’s also an option to pull the RSS feed to have the news and announcements delivered to you.
Hackaday Get lost in mountains of fresh, playful hacks on the Hackaday blog written by developers all around the Internet, where new ideas and information are exchanged daily. The term “hacking” tends to have a negative connotation to the public, but Hackaday embraces the act as an art that is highly creative, technical, and clever. When used for good intent, it can positively promote the exchange of new ideas and information. So, if you have projects you’re proud of and want to show off, you can document your work on their hosting site, hackaday.io.
Adafruit With the Adafruit blog, you’ll get the latest trends, news, and resources on open-source hardware, electronics, gadgets, kits, and more to help you get the machine build of your dreams.
Twitch TV
Bald Bearded Builder This year, PreEmptive sponsored this channel, and PreEmptive’s JSDefender was implemented in various live coding projects. Tune in for software development and clever banter. With nearly 20 years of experience designing and developing software, Michael Jolley (the Bald Bearded Builder) loves sharing his knowledge with others and watching them excel. While building custom applications for clients today, Jolley spends considerable time pouring into others via his live-coding sessions on Twitch and talks at conferences and meet-ups.
Twitter
The Hacker News (@TheHackerNews) This widely read account has daily news and technical coverage on cybersecurity, information security, and hacking to ensure you’re one step ahead of trending malicious attacks.
Mobile Security (@mobilesecurity_) Are you a mobile app developer? This is a must-follow account. Stay informed on mobile security trends, specifically with Android and iOS platforms, and how you better adapt to safeguard your applications.
David Heinemeier Hansson (@DHH) If you haven’t heard of David Heinemeier Hansson, you should. As the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder and CTO at Basecamp, Hansson is a must-follow leader in the technology space. With many perspectives and opinions, his tweets offer great insight into software development for developers who want to grow professionally.
Kelly Sommers (@kellabyte) Given away by the name of her Twitter handle, Kelly Sommers has a witty personality. She’s also a highly influential developer with over 43K followers, with an impressive background as a four-time Windows Azure MVP and former two-time DataStax MVP for Apache. You’ll get a combination of playful and insightful development tweets.
Sara Ownbey Chipps (@sarajchipps) As a developer at Stack Overflow, Sara Ownbey Chipps is a prominent, influential developer in the space. While some of her tweets feature development news and personal opinions, she also engages in a mix of current events she feels worthy of a mention.
Nick Quaranto (@qrush) Nick Quaranto is the developer you’ll instantly feel like a friend. He has a more laid-back feed where he talks about development news and worldwide events he feels deeply passionate about.
Eric Lippert (@ericlippert) Eric Lippert designs programming languages at Facebook and is a former member of Microsoft’s C# language design team. Over the years of his professional career, he’s learned a lot about programming language design and likes to share those learnings with the development community on Twitter by fielding thousands of questions about C#, JavaScript, and other programming languages. He also has a blog worth checking out.
Jared Parson (@jaredpar) Meet Jared Parson, the creator of VsVim. Parson is also a C# compiler team developer lead at Microsoft working on a language and operating system incubation project. Give him a follow, and he won’t disappoint.
