Communities for developers

A link aggregator where the comments are frequently more valuable than the article, often including someone who built the thing being discussed. Also the monthly hiring threads, which are a genuinely good job source.

An open community for questions about careers, learning paths and final year projects, for people who would rather talk than read. Free, and often faster than waiting for a session.

A moderated community for engineers past the early career stage, where the discussions are about scope, management, difficult teams and career decisions rather than how to get a first job. Substantially higher signal than the general forums.

An anonymous, work email verified community where compensation, levels, layoffs and internal conditions get discussed frankly. Valuable for the data and worth approaching with caution for everything else.

An open publishing community where developers write about what they are building, and a low friction place to start writing yourself. Publishing regularly does more for a career than most people expect.

A large community where people post real interview experiences, timelines, offers and rejections, which is the only reliable public source for what a process actually looks like right now. Read it for the data points and discount the mood.

A large collection of working open source applications built on language models, with source you can read, run and take apart. Reading a complete small application teaches more than a dozen tutorials.

A podcast and newsletter interviewing the people building AI infrastructure and products, aimed at engineers rather than investors. A practical way to keep current on where the field is actually going.

A curated, organised collection of the computer science papers worth reading, including the distributed systems classics behind almost every modern architecture. Reading one primary source properly beats twenty summaries of it.