I just set up TinyTinyRSS (https://tt-rss.org/) at home and I'm looking into interesting things to read as well as people/website publishing interesting stuff.
This, among the other things, to reduce the daily (doom)scrolling and avoid the recommendation algorithms by social media.
So: who or what do you follow via RSS feed, and why?
Lots of webcomics
NPR,BBC,CBC
Local news
...and THIS site!
Via RSS?
I didn't know you could follow youtube channels via RSS! Where do I find the feed link, given a youtube channel?
I have removed Youtube apps from all mobile devices and only watch the creators whose content I'm interested in through RSS, without notifications and distractions. It's a much more pleasant experience, definitely recommend.
- Julia Evans - Daniel Stenberg - Geohot - Cloudflare and Netflix’s respective tech blogs - TorrentFreak - LWN.net - and some others in spanish -
P.S. Even HN is something you should personally control. It's very useful whenever moderators flag a submission you might've liked.
- Anton Zhiyanov
- Register Spill by Thorsten Ball
- Phil Eaton
- Mitchell Hashimoto
- Gunnar Morling
- Jack Vanlightly
- Charity Majors
- Bryan Cantrill
- Marc Brooker
- NULL BITMAP By Justin Jaffray
Another tip is you can subscribe to YouTube Channels and Podcasts via RSS as well. I wrote a little bit about my setup to help reduce doom scrolling: https://tylerhillery.com/blog/how-i-consume-the-internet/
(It’s my OPML file translated to HTML via Hugo.)
As to why, they generally post original and insightful stuff on topics I care about, like web dev, security, Ruby, Rust, etc.
Matt Lakeman
Global China Pulse
Sinocism
Bartosz Ciechanowski
brr
Construction Physics
Jonathan Nolan's substack
On the Seams
Quanta Magazine
Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist
Aeon | a world of ideas
Classic Film and TV Café
Experimental History
The Marginalian
The Prism - Gurvinder
The Technium
Westenberg.
Chameth.com
Activity in the release-notes tag
All Things Distributed
An Untitled Blog
Charles Hugh Smith's Substack
Chips and Cheese
computers are bad
Dwarkesh Podcast
Francis Stokes :: Githublog
iRi
Rest of World - Latest Stories
Shtetl-Optimized
Signal Blog
マリウス
I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website.
A few of the things that I follow that may be a bit different for people are :
Arnold Kling - a PhD economist who worked in technology and is genuinely different.
https://arnoldkling.substack.com/
Noah Smith - a PhD economist who writes about economics and the world
Roger Pielke Jnr - a guy with a PhD who writes about climate and energy and was excommunicated by the climate priesthood.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/
Andrew Sullivan - a conservative, gay, HIV positive, Catholic writer who campaigned for gay marriage.
All of my YouTube and nebula channels I follow via RSS and I think that's kind of giving me the most bang for my buck. I can just get focused on the videos that I want to subscribe to without having to even go to YouTube and get pulled into the algorithm, as well as a few sub Reddits, hacker news front page (it's how I found this post), Lobste.rs, 404 Media, some local blogs (my food co-op, biking website, other community things), some web comics, one news group, and a couple forums.
I've also contemplated Podcasts, but I still have a dedicated player for that.
https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/ - very good software posts, mostly around Ruby on Rails.
https://crankysec.com/ - Cybersecurity rants mostly, fun to read.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ - Ed Zitron's writings. Good counterpoints to all the AI hype these days.
These come up often on HN but I'll call them out anyway:
https://jvns.ca/ - Julia Evans, good technical content all around.
https://xeiaso.net/ - Xe Iaso, good technical content all around once again
Mixtape•5h ago
These usually sit in the corner of my screen through the day. Some are better than others for work purposes. The Verge could probably go, and 404 is a bit more socially-focused than the rest. In particular though, having rapid updates from BleepingComputer and El Reg is a great way for me to learn about new vulns, issues that might affect my users, etc.