ABOUT ELSEIF

The signal, not the volume.

elseif reads 71 engineering feeds, groups the ones covering the same event into a single cluster, and ranks those clusters by how much independent agreement each has. It is a reading surface: no voting, no comments, no accounts.

Why cluster at all

Any single feed shows you what one editor thought was important. Reading twenty feeds shows you the same story twenty times. Clustering collapses that repetition into one row and turns it into evidence: when several independent outlets reach for the same story within hours of each other, that agreement is worth more than any one of them saying it loudly.

It also makes disagreement visible. On a story page you can see the headline each feed chose for the same event, which is often the most revealing thing there.

What we write, and what we do not

The summary and the three key points on each story are written by elseif from the cluster. They are original text, checked against the source material before publication: any claim that cannot be traced back to what we were given is rejected and replaced with a plain factual note. We would rather publish a thin note than a confident invention.

We never reproduce a source's article text. Every headline links to the outlet that wrote it, and the reporting credit belongs to them.

Why the name

else if is where a program admits the first answer was not the whole answer. That is the editorial idea too: be decisive, then show the alternative and its trade-off.

How the site is funded

elseif is free to read. Advertising appears on pages carrying our own analysis, never on bare link lists, and never styled to resemble a story or a control. Ads have no influence on ranking, which is computed before any ad is served and uses none of the same inputs. We do not ask you to click them.

Guides

Alongside the news index, elseif publishes a small set of reference guides on everyday programming decisions. They are written the same way as everything else here: a direct answer first, then the boundary where that answer stops being useful.

Contact

Found an error, a misattributed story, or a feed we should be reading? Email [email protected]. Specific corrections are welcome and acted on.