--- title: Top independent sources on daily.dev month by month description: A data visualization (bar chart race) tracking the top independent content sources on daily.dev over the past 3.5 years. Key trends: 2023 was dominated by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-independent-sources-on-daily-dev-month-by-month-fmdd3tule twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Top independent sources on daily.dev month by month | daily.dev og:description: A data visualization (bar chart race) tracking the top independent content sources on daily.dev over the past 3.5 years. Key trends: 2023 was dominated by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-independent-sources-on-daily-dev-month-by-month-fmdd3tule og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fMdd3TUle.png og:image:alt: Top independent sources on daily.dev month by month og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Top independent sources on daily.dev month by month **[daily.dev World](https://daily.dev/sources/dailydevworld)** · [@idoshamun](https://daily.dev/idoshamun) · 2 min read · 35 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary A data visualization (bar chart race) tracking the top independent content sources on daily.dev over the past 3.5 years. Key trends: 2023 was dominated by long-form personal writing, 2024 saw the rise of video content, late 2024 to early 2025 saw memes taking over, and today features a mix with opinions and personal takes leading. Rankings use Wilson lower bound (95%) over a 3-month rolling window. ## Content Following the success of [my last analysis](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-everywhere-but-is-it-really-what-we-read-the-most--utcbntkdy), I realized you guys really love to see data backed insights and so here's another one. A bar chart race to see the top independent sources month by month for the past 3.5 years. It tells the story of how the content has changed over time. - 2023 belonged to the writes, long-form, hand-crafted, personal posts - 2024: the rise of video - late 2024 early 2025, memes are taking over - today: a mix of everything but opinions and personal takes are topping the charts (Rankings are a Wilson lower bound (95%) over a 3-month rolling window of daily dev data) All the sources ranked by their appearance: - ByteByteGo - [https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego) - Robin Wieruch - https://daily.dev/sources/robinwieruch - Quastor - https://daily.dev/sources/quastor - stitcher.io - https://daily.dev/sources/stitcher - Josh W Comeau - https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau - Ahmad Shadeed - https://daily.dev/sources/ishadeed - DHH - https://daily.dev/sources/dhh - TkDodo - https://daily.dev/sources/tkdodo - Brad Frost - https://daily.dev/sources/bradfrost - Matt Rickard - https://daily.dev/sources/mattrickard - The Pragmatic Engineer - https://daily.dev/sources/pragmaticengineer - Jake Archibald - https://daily.dev/sources/jakearchibald - Kent C. Dodds - https://daily.dev/sources/kentcdodds - Addy Osmani - https://daily.dev/sources/addy - Swizec - https://daily.dev/sources/swizec - .NET Escapades - https://daily.dev/sources/andrewlock - System Design Newsletter - https://daily.dev/sources/systemdesignnews - Fireship - https://daily.dev/sources/fireship - Theo · t3.gg - https://daily.dev/sources/t3dotgg - ThePrimeagen - https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen - Tech World With Milan - https://daily.dev/sources/techworld-with-milan - Javarevisited - https://daily.dev/sources/javarevisited - Anton Zhiyanov - https://daily.dev/sources/antonz - bigboxSWE - https://daily.dev/sources/bigboxswe - Work Chronicles - https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles - The Developing Dev - https://daily.dev/sources/developingdev - Amigoscode - https://daily.dev/squads/amigoscode - xkcd - https://daily.dev/sources/xkcd - Daily Dose of DS - https://daily.dev/sources/dailydoseofds - Manager.dev - https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton - Engineer's Codex - https://daily.dev/sources/engineerscodex - Cassidy Williams - https://daily.dev/sources/cassidoo - sean goedecke - https://daily.dev/sources/seangoedecke  ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@debajyatidey** · 2 upvotes > insightful information. Keep sharing these... **@randy** · 2 upvotes > Nice to see DHH bouncing around in there. > > @idoshamun, it seems like that's a bit of a finite list. Any chance you could catalog the sources into a set of links so we can look into them more? I'm familiar with a several I saw, but others are totally new to me. **@hardik15** · 1 upvotes > Keep this kind of insight coming. Loving it. This gives a very good idea of current trends and updates without any survey or anything. > > > Just raw and real data from users around the world. **@killshot13** · 1 upvotes > Cool concept. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Validated cross-sections in the dev world are increasingly hard to come by and thus all the more valuable when discovered. 😎 **@lezli01** · 0 upvotes > Nice list ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-popular-blogs-of-hacker-news-in-2025-itammc4yt) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#dailydev](https://daily.dev/tags/dailydev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/top-independent-sources-on-daily-dev-month-by-month-fmdd3tule) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-independent-sources-on-daily-dev-month-by-month-fmdd3tule","headline":"Top independent sources on daily.dev month by month","text":"A data visualization (bar chart race) tracking the top independent content sources on daily.dev over the past 3.5 years. 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Keep sharing these…","datePublished":"2026-07-22T18:40:06.695Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fMdd3TUle#c-ZvEv5mpLy","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Debajyati Dey","url":"https://daily.dev/debajyatidey","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127122455?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice to see DHH bouncing around in there.\n@idoshamun, it seems like that’s a bit of a finite list. Any chance you could catalog the sources into a set of links so we can look into them more? 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This gives a very good idea of current trends and updates without any survey or anything.\nJust raw and real data from users around the world.","datePublished":"2026-07-23T05:35:55.650Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fMdd3TUle#c-90UT1M8Lu","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Hardik","url":"https://daily.dev/hardik15","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--O0TOmw4y--/f_auto/v1715772965/public/noProfile"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Cool concept. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Validated cross-sections in the dev world are increasingly hard to come by and thus all the more valuable when discovered. 😎","datePublished":"2026-08-20T15:50:18.188Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fMdd3TUle#c-r8F8Yrz4M","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Michael Rehnert","url":"https://daily.dev/killshot13","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto/v1627784981/avatars/frrfkLRFu"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice list","datePublished":"2026-07-22T17:30:22.912Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fMdd3TUle#c-tkvvPX8aW","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"László Szabó","url":"https://daily.dev/lezli01","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKj3v7EFYJoXUUuro6ALF9fD3RTRATiBpBOVcOzqro4fy6bWqMm=s96-c"}}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/dailydevworld","name":"daily.dev World"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"daily.dev World","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/dailydevworld"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Top independent sources on daily.dev month by month"}]} ```