What's the alternative for "Byte" magazine today? Where do you go to read similar stuff?
What's the alternative for "Byte" magazine today? Where do you go to read similar stuff?
And even then I feel like any sort of magazine is anachronistic in this day and age. Too bad too because unlike the various far flung forums, slack channels, or subreddits, a magazine was a nice centralized melting pot where even the cover of the magazine could ignite an entire electronics revolution (and here I'm thinking of course about the Popular Electronics cover [2] that featured the Altair 8800). We've lost our "pulp watercoolers".
[1] https://magpi.raspberrypi.com
[2] http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/13/...
There isn't a lot of long-form technical journalism happening in print today. Web distribution is cheaper and simpler.
With print you have to lay out a page by hand - and I have no idea what they used before Quark/InDesign, but it can't have been easy to work with - get it printed to film for litho, sometimes with a few iterations, handed over to a trad printer, then distributed physically.
With the web you can upload text and images to a CMS and the layout can be handled automatically. And you're done. Ad revenue can also be automated, with manual exceptions for sponsorship deals.
Ironically producing videos for YT is a much more labour-intensive process, and therefore more like print, than plain web content.
That's the same "heise" where the somewhat-famous h2testw (for testing counterfeit USB sticks etc.), windows-offlineupdate (wsusoffline.net, now not very useful anymore) and umbpci (for those who remember the DOS days ;-) came from