Software Engineer Information Resources

Software engineer information gathering summary. Thin and wide.

General

Japanese

• X(Twitter)
  A tweeting social network, where a self-proclaimed 3-year-old can share useful insights.
• Hatena bookmark
  Social bookmarking website. You can find useful articles that individuals have posted on their blogs.
• Qiita
  A site that compiles technical articles.
  If you subscribe to the newsletter, you will receive a top article once a week. You can ignore the articles of beginner's articles.
• Zenn
  Technical articles, books. Split between Tech and the poem equivalent Ideas. Acquired by Class Methods.
• Slack
  You can enter the Slacks of the various communities and see where others have gotten stuck.

English

• Hacker News
  General technology trends. Many core topics.
• reddit
  Topic-based social networking site. Many of the technology-related items seem to be straight out of Hacker News.
• arXiv
  A site for submitting papers.
• Kaggle
  A competition site for machine learning and data analysis. There are some findings that have not been published.

Workshops and Conferences

Integration web service

• connpass
  Event management site. If you join a group, you will receive an email when materials are uploaded even if you don't go to the event.

• TECH PLAY
  You can see all events on external sites at once.

Machine Learning

• Computer Vision Study Group @ Kanto
  Study group on image processing. About every other month. Since it became remote based, it's integrated with other regions and done all over Japan.
• The Association for Natural Language Processing
• Tokyo BISH Bash: Study group for speech processing.

Magazine

• Software Design
  A magazine published by Gijutsu Hyoronsha. More about infrastructure, with articles on Vim, Emacs, and shell art. Monthly.
• WEB+DB PRESS
  Also published by Gijutsu Hyoronsha, more client-oriented than Software Design. Bimonthly and ceased publication in August 2023.
• Interface
  Embedded systems and robotics.

Newsletter

Frontend

• Frontend Focus
  Web front-end newsletter
• JavaScript Weekly
  Including backend since it is based on JavaScript

Backend

• Ruby Weekly
  Ruby general newsletter
• THIS WEEK IN RAILS
  Summary of this week's Rails commits.
• PyCoder's Weekly
  Python newsletters
• PHP Weekly NEWS
  PHP Newsletter
• Golang Weekly
  Go Newsletter
• Node Weekly

Mobile Apps

• iOS Dev Weekly
  iOS Newsletter
• Android Weekly
  Android Newsletter
• THE REACT NATIVE NEWSLETTER
  React Native Newsletter
• Flutter Tap

Others

• Weekly Kaggle News
• Bspeak! - Cryptocurrency/Blockchain
• Web Design Weekly
• Product Hunt Weekly
• JPCERT/CC Weekly Report

Stopped Renewals

• StatusCode Weekly
  DevOps newsletters.
• DB Weekly
  DB newsletters

Blogs

Game Development

C# is often used. Changes to game engines are summarized in the blog.

• Unity Meetup
• Unreal Engine Blog

Machine Learning

• Wizard Notes: Detailed comparison of voice libraries, etc.

XR

• Mogura VR
  Not technology-specific, but VR-related news in general

Smart Speakers

• Alexa Blogs
• Google Assistant Blogs
• Clova Developer Center Service Discontinued

Slides

• cvpaper.challenge
  A collection of papers from computer vision-related conferences