The idea of a software magazine is very cool. We need to go back to 70's era when magazines were extremely high quality (atleast the ones we remember - BYTE magazine, for e.g.).
I find the excessive design a bit offputting. It's beautiful, nevertheless.
There’s a wonderful software magazine in Japan called “Software Design” that is complete with code examples and tutorials on various topics, including web programming (both front-end and backend), Python development, Linux system administration, databases, and much more. It’s issued monthly and has been published since 1990, constantly keeping up to date with the latest technologies. The latest edition features AWS, storage, and containers.
I remember poring over BYTE issues desperate for any technical detail! Issues that stood out: one on data compression and the one about the Taos Operating system.
MSJ (Microsoft Systems Journal) was another good one!
Likewise; and it looks nicely put together. The article just skims the surface — classic magazine-style, I suppose — but I’m tempted to subscribe if it covers a wide range of software engineering topics.
If anyone here reads this regularly, is it worth it?
I think so. Even if it's a little watered down at times, it's nice to have the strong focus on a given topic every time. It's also just nice to be able to go back to specific issues. I like to think of them as discussion starters: you can share them with your team, and do a little bit of a deeper dive into any of the given topics. It's really helpful to see some companies of various size's opinions/organization on specific issues(the architecture issue has a great example: https://increment.com/software-architecture/architecture-at-...).
It's also pretty spread out between issues(quarterly) so it's not very spammy.
