# 3 Simple Hacks to Stay Up-to-Date as a Developer

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- Author: [[Bran van der Meer]]
- Full Title: 3 Simple Hacks to Stay Up-to-Date as a Developer
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## Highlights
there's just too much you have to filter somehow you have to find the right news aggregators for your topic [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j6ye17qj6mqt3hvcv776vd0t))

social media is it's itself an
aggregator of content of course and you can even argue that daily doev which I just showed is social media I recommend to follow specific creators that you like and if you don't have anybody you like yet then you can try and find those people from now on whenever you go to conferences you can pay attention who the speaker is whenever you're reading books or reading articles look up the author see if they have a Blog see if they publish other things [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j6ye8bktbvyjv1763jf4333z))

try and go to at least one conference a year [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j6yebe0q7bq1gdgmf4zzw6xa))

I like conferences because they have a
tendency to burst your filter bubble [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j6yeckqdxp8na7meb3m1fz14))

you're looking for a job a Meetup is often a chance to meet a company that's very local that's very close to where you live and you get a chance to meet them outside of the normal hiring process which can also be an advantage [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j6yees1azkpzgsabf3r546av))

calm any fear you may have fear fear of becoming
irrelevant [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j6yefnrc19pj2f04dq6p6h7g))

what I do is once a year I read a lot of vacancies I don't think about applying for another job I'm not actually applying for another job I am just purely looking at what companies are looking for [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j6yeg5yy6m8g2tpgd4xj5gv6))

