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Byte and PCW are the two magazines I really miss. I know we have a wealth of information available to us now that we didn't back then so I shouldn't be sad... and yet :'( If someone put out a physical general computing magazine of a similar quality today I'd subscribe in an instant, but I suppose there's just not enough cranks like me to make it viable.

Speaking of quality material, any plans to revive NTK?

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The German Heise publishing house continues to publish the Byte/PCW-sort-of-like magazine "c't". Useful for keeping any German language skills alive if you're into that.

Judging from the latest cover it's at a ~00s technical level (on a PCW Magazine scale) - and they are diversifing, now including things like heat pumps and smart thermostats, heh:

https://heise.cloudimg.io/v7/_shop-heise-de_/assets/a/6/0/e/...

Thanks for the tip. I'm sort of background-aware of it, but as I don't read or speak German and online translation lacks a certain flavour, it's not really an option for me. Good to note that there are a few hanging on in other markets - and it certainly had a good reputation.

One that I found that was a "close but no cigar" incidentally was the Pi magazine "The MagPi"¹ - but it's a bit thin both physically and in content. I may yet subscribe, though, just in the hope of demonstrating a market exists!

¹ https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/

I agree about the MagPi; it's close. I think it would work great as eh, toilet reading material though. Lots of small stories/projects.

A friend of mine refers to that as "shiterature" :D

It does feel a bit like a charity/nostalgia project, but I am still glad it exists. I'd like to check out HackSpace as well, since I kind of enjoyed Make: in its heyday.

I didn't know about HackSpace, so thanks for that; I've ordered a copy. We shall see.

Time to learn German I guess!

This would be more viable if I wasn't learning Swedish already. Also I'm kinda lazy and it would take years to get to the level of enjoyment of reading fluently. With my luck they'd go bust in the interim.

If there's a good tech magazine in Swedish, however, that would be perfect :)

> physical general computing magazine of a similar quality today I'd subscribe in an instant

Same here. Of course, it's not the information itself, which is almost certainly available elsewhere.

The curation provided by a high quality magazine is all the value. I get hundreds of potentially interesting articles to read every day from countless email list subscriptions. I don't have time for that so I don't read any. If I could subscribe to something that curates the absolute best content into a monthly package.. where do I send money?

Haha! Weirdly, I'm going to be spending this month trying to see if something like that makes sense.

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