Reviews by Team: Email newsletters

Less spam, more knowledge

4 stars
A good way to discover interesting open source projects & resources

The changelog is known primarily as a podcast for the open source community, but it also offers this newsletter that’s generated from GitHub repository data. Unlike its weekly newsletter, this one isn’t curated – it’s just a list of repos that have been “starred” a lot (similar to a “like” on Facebook), with an “all time” and “recently” division.

Yet, I still find myself looking at it more frequently than at other email newsletters or feeds – just because it often leads me to discover some major new open source release by a corporate player, or an interesting new project that is quickly gaining steam. The consistent format and brevity makes it easy to parse. Recommended if you like open source & serendipitous discovery.