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I'm subscribed to this for a few months now and I must say that in general I'm pretty positive about it. However, it is usually a mixed bag of topics and the perceived quality -- or actually how much I enjoy reading the curated articles -- differs from day to day. Some days it is just a collection of "I did this thing in Typescript/Vue/React" type of articles and it just happens to be my preference that I dont find most articles about front-end dev not that interesting.

However, there are more than enough more "fundamental" articles in it every week. Whether it is about computer graphics, language theory or something about quantum computing, it is generally a nice mix. And I like that you can vote on the emails whether you like them or not (I don't know if this does anything but the idea is nice).

Oh, and I think that the "I already read this one on Hackernews or /r/programming" is pretty low.

Keep it up, Pek

If you don't enjoy `"I did this thing in Typescript/Vue/React" type of articles` you may like my news letter: https://betterdev.link.

It's a bit broad and focus more on OpsSide, general knowledge on programming than how-to style article.

Of all the programming newsletters I have subscribed, yours is one of the most informative out there. Thanks for creating it and keep up the great work.

Thank you so much for your kind words

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Indeed, because of our limited resources, we are only able to share 3 articles per issue, which has a high probability for all of them to be a "miss". We are making moves to grow, and hopefully that means more articles per issue and thus more value to our readers.

I am also very glad that you find the number of articles found in Hackernews and Reddit is low. That means that my time spent shifting through my list of more than 1,000 (and growing) RSS feeds actually produces good results, which was a bet I made early on when deciding what sources to use for my curation.

Thank you for doing this, I've found the newsletter refreshing and, even if the handful of articles aren't my cup of tea, they aren't retreads of stuff I see elsewhere. Programming language of the day is an especially deep well of stuff I've never heard of. Even though I'll likely never use any but the most mainstream of languages, it is always interesting to see what pops up.

Thank you for your kind words <3

Also, yes, I do take likes/dislikes into consideration. It's a very helpful tool that helps me see when I've done something people really didn't like or liked a lot. For example, my editorial on Google's AlphaStar was very well received: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836e0bf0...

There are a lot of these newsletters at the moment. I’m not sure how to differentiate them.

Does anyone have a list of the ones particularly worth following?

If you are in the .Net field, this guy's blog is a nice daily list of links to read. A lot come from HN.

The Wolf Report https://michael-wolfenden.github.io

Similar to Chris Alcock's The Morning Brew, which has been around since 2007. http://blog.cwa.me.uk/

It's not exactly coding related, but I really like the Orbital Index. The stories they choose are usually interesting and their blurbs are succinct enough to read during a few minutes break.

There are not that many general programming newsletters, but language specific there are a ton. A list I like to use is the Awesome Newsletter https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters

The only one I look forward to every week is TechLoaf: https://www.techloaf.io/

Probably not exactly what you were looking for though. :)

Hey, that's my newsletter!

Glad you're a fan, and always excited to see my extremely lo-tech baby get love on HN.

I'll send you some swag - reply to any of the emails.

Proud you're standing with The Loaf in this crowded Weekly Newsletter as a Service (WNaaS) space.

Lo-tech archive:

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=14538d8f8591165977...

> There are a lot of these newsletters at the moment. I’m not sure how to differentiate them.

So, you wanted a curated list of newsletters which provide curated lists?

Yes. But how do I know you're any good at making that list?

You crowd source it, and eventually you end up here[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

True. We need a curated list of curated lists of curated newsletters.

The ones that give you other ways to subscribe besides email, is how I differentiate. I am not interested in getting articles in my email, it's for correspondence only.

What other ways do you get newsletters? Twitter? SMS? ???

My preferred format for getting newsletters, blog posts, and other news is RSS. I use Feedly along with Reeder on macOS.

RSS or just directly on the webpage, either are preferable.

I use my inbox as a todo list, and something like Feedly for my article consumption. It's hard to mix the two successfully.

Most newsletters, especially ones using MailChimp, should have an RSS link unless they explicitly disabled it. Here is the RSS link for Morning Cup of Coding: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836e...

I don't promote it much because it has some disadvantages from my end, but I see the value in RSS. Hell, I rely on them to make each issue.

I recently subscribed to https://golangweekly.com which is a great newsletter if you're into Go. :)

https://www.humanreadablemag.com/morningcupofcoding

This reminds be a bit of The Morning Brew by Chris Alcock, which has been around since 2007. It's heavily .NET focused though. http://blog.cwa.me.uk/

https://us18.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836e... if you need RSS feed.

At times in the past I've had to stay off HN because I needed to recover emotionally from all the posts about surveillance/dystopia/etc. But I always come back because it's my primary touchstone for what's going on in the software industry. I'm curious if this newsletter could fill that role instead.

I'm unable to get the domain name to resolve, Chrome's telling me the IP address for www.humanreadablemag.com can't be found. Is anyone else getting this?

Try this: https://www.humanreadablemag.com/morningcupofcoding

I think I messed up the DNS settings.

Still not working for me.

Both name servers for humanreadablemag.com, when asked about www.humanreadablemag.com, returns two CNAME records, leading to different names:

  www.humanreadablemag.com. 900   IN      CNAME   humanreadablemag.com.
  www.humanreadablemag.com. 900   IN      CNAME   ext-cust.squarespace.com.

This is not even allowed by the DNS RFC’s, so I don’t know how you even managed to do this. Fortunately the TTL is only 15 minutes, so when you fix it, it should propagate quickly.

Also, non-www links, i.e. humanreadablemag.com, redirects to www. This is normally recommended, but since it’s the DNS records for www that’s broken, it does make it impossible to read the site at present.

Until you fix your DNS, anyone could add these lines to their /etc/hosts file to make your site accessible for them:

  198.185.159.145 www.humanreadablemag.com
  198.185.159.144 www.humanreadablemag.com
  198.49.23.144 www.humanreadablemag.com
  198.49.23.145 www.humanreadablemag.com

So, the squarespace one I think was automatically added when I connected my account to it. The "humanreadablemag.com" one I guess was there before I connected squarespace and is used for "www".

I guess I should delete the latter? I don't want to do anything stupid and bring the site down :/

As far as I can tell, you can delete either one of the CNAME records, since both of their targets have the same set of A records. But if you really want to be sure, your hosting provider (Squarespace in this case) should have explicit instructions on how to configure your DNS records.

I removed the non-squarespace one and everything seems fine. How do I check if the issue you found is resolved?

Yes, seems fine now.

  dig +norecurse +nocmd +noall +answer @ns1.hover.com www.humanreadablemag.com

Or, if you like, https://zonemaster.net/

The link should be the following I think https://www.humanreadablemag.com/morningcupofcoding

The mail list archive is here: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836...

That mail list archive link is down.

There is an issues index:

https://www.humanreadablemag.com/issues-index

Their last entry in "All Issues" is of May 2018, but other links show issues from September 2018, etc.

I see this on the mail archive link

03/26/2019 - Validating a Coordination Protocol with Alloy, Using Sequence Properties to Verify a A Serial Port Transmitter, Enums In JavaScript 03/25/2019 - Boolean blindness, Ruby's Hidden Gems, StringScanner, Build yourself a DVCS

It seems to be blocking my location. I can't even ping it.

Minor things I've noticed whilst looking at archives, which made me somewhat puzzled for a bit:

* Pressing Escape redirects to a Squarespace login, which is weird (was trying to get out of Ctrl-F seeing if Python was listed)

* You have article headlines that aren't clickable to get to the article, instead relying on body links.

That is very odd behaviour indeed. I will look into this. I wonder what that could be...

The body links was the old format. I change that a while ago, but the index page hasn't been updated yet.

The Escape thing is default Squarespace behavior. I believe you can turn it off in your site settings.

Huh. I never knew this was a thing. Anyway, I just disabled it.

I’ve been following this for sometime but it’s gotten tedious. I’d love a weekly digest option too. There are a lot of days when I skip the morning mail and then 15-20 of these are backlogged.

I hear you. I am working on the backend to make this possible, but it's a little bit more complicated than I originally estimated.

Great. Thanks for all the work you're doing!

Link broken

Fixed.

Nope. Still broken.

Port 443 is closed. You have to change the link from https to http.

I can't change the link :/ I can't even delete it anymore. I

A mod will probably be able to change it for you.

Done!

Thank you so much!

Now the server is dead :(

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