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24 alternatives to Software Engineering Daily — The Evolution of Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson

DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Software Engineering Daily — The Evolution of Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Software Daily - 10 Philosophies for Engineers▲71

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3. 3
   Software Engineering Daily: Reality with Donald Hoffman▲56

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   2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Ruby on Rails Podcast - 202: Behind the scenes at Product Hunt▲98

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   2015 · 5by5.tv · its alternatives →

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   Talking Code - Product Design and User Experience▲59

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   Ruby on Rails Podcast #204: Money and open source▲81

   Sean and Kyle talk the economics of open source software.

   2015 · 5by5.tv · its alternatives →

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   The Mythical Man-Month▲84

   Essays on software engineering

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Software Engineering Daily: Translation with Vasco Pedro▲54

   The world through the lens of software.

   2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Prelang▲82

    Automatic Rails Development

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    Software Engineering Daily: Developer on Fire with Dave Rael▲53

    The world through the lens of software.

    2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Mythical Man Month▲68

    Essays on Software Engineering

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    Software Engineering Daily: Kotlin with Hadi Hariri▲56

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14. 14
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    The Agile Samurai▲70

    How Agile masters deliver great software

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    Software Engineering Daily — Scaling Uber with Matt Ranney▲71

    Matt Ranney breaks down the technical challenges and at Uber

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    Daily interviews about technical software topics.

    2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

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    Software Engineering Daily: Twilio Engineering with Pat Malatack▲58

    The world through the lens of software.

    2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

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    Full Stack Radio▲128

    A podcast for devs interested in building great products.

    2015 · fullstackradio.com · its alternatives →

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    Catastrophe Disentanglement▲56

    Getting software projects back on track

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    Ruby on Rails - 207: Choosing the Right Systems for the Job with Sam Lambert▲73

    Sam Lambert from GitHub shares how he chooses systems

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    The Hacking UI podcast #11 - Turning our side project into a full time gig▲62

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    2016 · hackingui.com · its alternatives →

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