I can honestly say the resources at LWN have helped my career immensely. The in depth series on topics like namespaces and io_uring directly allowed me to tackle some hard projects - without those articles I would have steered clear of "magic i don't understand" and the relevant projects would have suffered.
It's definitely worth subscribing if you have the means (and the low cost of subscriptions suggests a lot of readers here have the means).
Just to show support for corbet and his team. He could keep the articles paywalled forever, but is making them free after a week. Becoming a paying member is our way to say thank you for his fair attitude (and keeping ads at minimum level).
I work at totaly different field in IT, most articles are just "wow, that's interesting" for me and - I still keep LWN's subscriptionm and it is the only one I have.
Indeed. They even provide a mailing list you can subscribe to which will notify you whenever an article goes free. I think you need to have an account with them firstly though.
One metric I'd love to see is the comparison between use of the link to visit the old site from the new site as opposed to the link to the new site from the old
Still got a big list of improvements to make but I'm quite happy with how it's coming together.
https://whos-that-pokemon.gicelascona.org/