scottlilly

Back in the 1980s I used to read Omni magazine. In the 90s, it was magazines like Wired, Mondo 2000, and Boing Boing. These all presented views of the future that I found interesting and (mostly) hopeful - even if a good percentage of their articles had no basis in reality.

Today, they're all gone or nothing like what they used to be.

What magazines, blogs, podcast, etc. do you use to discover possible positive future technologies?

This is something I wanted to create for several months, and I recently finished it.

It introduces beginning programmers to C# by showing them how to build a very simple RPG (no graphics, very few features, etc.)

I know it won't appeal to 99.999% of HN readers, but it's something I'm proud of, and wanted to show off.

http://scottlilly.com/learn-c-by-building-a-simple-rpg-index

Many of us probably have fairly similar blogs - code snippets, conference notes, our thoughts on programming, etc.

Are any of you earning income through your developer blog? Not just by finding contract work, or by writing an ebook, but some other method. Maybe selling your libraries, doing training, paid access to "the good stuff".

If you are, can you share what you're doing, how you decided what to do, and how successful it's been?