The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by jotto on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:57PM (#19185769)

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering:

  * quality decline of Google search results
  * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us)
  * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by peruvian on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:22PM (#19185888)

> What's causing the rise of these curated lists?

People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy.

The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless.

Sindre (original awesome list author) is one of the few who actually curates their lists.

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by trimstray on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:27PM (#19186659)

I do it only for stars... really man? Creating and maintaining such a list is not a simple thing. It's not awesome or other shit in the name.

This is a collection of my short notes, one-liners, useful links, tools and more. I added it to gh, to share with others and get other interesting things. Not for stars! The amount of them is obviously nice but not crucial.

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by dqpb on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:43PM (#19186775)

What is the value of GitHub stars?

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by jplayer01 on Sunday February 17, 2019 @04:06PM (#19186912)

You're worth more as a person with more stars. They're like upvotes, basically.

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by pizzazzaro on Monday February 18, 2019 @01:00AM (#19188901)

>worth more as a person

LOL! Social Capital gone insanely, nakedly wrong? Or just a Freudian-style slip?

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by jplayer01 on Monday February 18, 2019 @01:51AM (#19189017)

It's meant tongue-in-cheek, not seriously.

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by DaftDank on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:17PM (#19185867)

Personally, what I like about it is that it steers me in different directions of learning. When a list like this is curated by the right person, it can help you weed through a lot of low-value content sites, with similar information.

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by noonespecial on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:22PM (#19185895)

The quality decline is real:

I'm searching for one line of text. Every click gets me 100 meg of browser-choking script that leaves me bashing at the close tab button just to get the session back.

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by amrrs on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:03PM (#19185796)

Or a good archive that could be referred later. that could be an easy option with delicious but these aggregation helps in very quick reference of something that's required. Also browser and device independent.

Strange it might seem, I'm managing a personal list https://github.com/amrrs/Interesting_Links which helps me to read later and share it with someone in future.

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Re:The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blo... by djhworld on Sunday February 17, 2019 @04:31PM (#19187057)

> * quality decline of Google search results

I don't think that's necessarily true, Google is really good at answering questions, it's not so good at "give me a good set of recommended resources on this topic" which requires human input.

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