I'm interested to hear what you think is good/important enough to warrant following, admittedly with the aim of expanding my list. I'd also be interested to hear what reader you use.<p>Here's my list (most of these are easily searchable so I won't link them):<p>Comics:
Cube Drone, Dilbert daily, Garfield daily, Invisible Bread, lolnein, Poorly Drawn Lines, The Oatmeal, xkcd<p>Misc:
xkcd what if?, John A De Goes' blog [1], Still Drinking [2], Krebs on Security<p>I use a Telegram bot [3] as a 'reader' of sorts (no affiliation).<p>[1] http://degoes.net/<p>[2] https://www.stilldrinking.org/<p>[3] https://telegram.me/TheFeedReaderBot
Interestingly (on reflection, not surprisingly) since going back to RSS, I've been reading a <i>lot</i> more from sites with expert content, but ugly typography.<p>- Math Babe (<a href="https://mathbabe.org" rel="nofollow">https://mathbabe.org</a>)<p><pre><code> + Superb musings and coverage on the societal
impact of everything becoming a prediction
problem (occasional applied technical
discussion)
</code></pre>
- Tech Dirt (<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.techdirt.com/</a>)<p><pre><code> + Lawyers Rule Everything Around Me
</code></pre>
- Light Blue Touchpaper (<a href="https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org</a>)<p><pre><code> + Thoughts on infosec from Cambridge Computer
Laboratory (influential on policy, excellent
coverage of conferences)
</code></pre>
- Muckrock (<a href="https://www.muckrock.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.muckrock.com/</a>)<p><pre><code> + News from the FOIA wars</code></pre>
- Slate Star Codex (<a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/" rel="nofollow">http://slatestarcodex.com/</a>)<p><pre><code> + Really good analysis of complicated and interesting
issues in science, medicine, politics, rationality,
ethics, and community dynamics.</code></pre>
I don't actually use RSS for news, because all the regularly updating sites I read fall into four categories:<p>- News sites like HN or LWN, where I find the RSS experience quite suboptimal compared to participating directly.<p>- Blogs, which I read entirely via Planet aggregators: Planet Debian, Planet GNOME, Kernel Planet, and Planet Mozilla.<p>- Comics, serialized stories, and other things where I want to read every page and remember what I haven't read. For these, I use Comic Rocket (<a href="https://www.comic-rocket.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.comic-rocket.com/</a>), which a friend and I wrote years ago. Every one of the comics you mentioned is tracked there, along with XKCD's What If.<p>(That's in addition to mailing lists, which includes announcement lists, and Twitter, which also covers things like This Week In Rust.)
One source that I am always delighted to see pop up each week in my Feedly reader is The Codeless Code: <a href="http://thecodelesscode.com/contents" rel="nofollow">http://thecodelesscode.com/contents</a> Each article is a parable or koan that aims to convey some kind of programming best practice. I'm very happy to recommend it.
Here's my pastebin: <a href="http://pastebin.com/X6mMEMD1" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/X6mMEMD1</a><p>I removed the "IRL" category of people I know personally.<p>Lots of these are defunct. "Comics" is the only category I keep up with on a daily basis -- the rest is much more sporadic, just based on what catches my eye when I'm skimming the unread list. I have around 6000 unread items at the moment.<p>After Google Reader closed down, I switched to Feedly for a few months, then installed Tiny Tiny RSS on my shared hosting -- never have to worry about the service shutting down or modifying its features without my permission anymore.
RSS feeds rock! Just needs a bit of tweaking to lower the noise, which is still very low, and best of all - untouched by algorithmic sorting, compared to social platforms like Twitter, Facebook etc.<p>Some interesting feeds we've created using Feedity are listed at <a href="https://feedity.com/featured.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://feedity.com/featured.aspx</a><p><i>shameless plug:</i> Using our tool at <a href="https://feedity.com" rel="nofollow">https://feedity.com</a>, you can create custom feeds for any webpage (including Twitter and Facebook).
Mozilla Hacks [0] is pretty much the only feed that makes sense recommending here. There's a lot of very detailed explanations for technical problems and their solution in there, which I find pretty interesting.<p>Otherwise, though, less so a specific feed and more a general idea what to put in there: YouTube channels.
There's a few channels which I follow, but I don't particularly fancy visiting youtube.com for it, and neither do I particularly fancy having a Google-account.<p>But YouTube offers RSS feeds for pretty much every channel, which solves both problems. Also has the added advantage of all the features that your RSS reader offers, particularly being able to filter out any video series that you don't care about has been incredibly useful to me.<p>If you want to migrate your subscriptions to RSS, there's also a button in YouTube to export all of them to an OPML-file, which you can then import into your RSS reader (if it supports import). Assuming Google hasn't changed the design of YouTube since last time visited, this button should be at the bottom of the "Manage Subscriptions"-page.<p>As for RSS reader recommendation, on desktop I use QuiteRSS [1], mainly because it's the most feature-rich RSS reader that I've found so far.<p>On Android, SpaRSS [2] is my preferred reader, with my main-criteria being that it supports at least filtering and OPML-import, is preferably FOSS, and plays nicely with my YouTube-usage (I use it together with NewPipe [3]).<p>[0]: <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/" rel="nofollow">https://hacks.mozilla.org/</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://quiterss.org/" rel="nofollow">https://quiterss.org/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.etuldan.sparss.floss" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.etuldan.spar...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.schabi.newpipe" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.schabi.newpi...</a>
<a href="http://cacm.acm.org/" rel="nofollow">http://cacm.acm.org/</a> - Communications of the ACM<p><a href="https://www.hpcwire.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hpcwire.com/</a> - HPCwire: Global News and Information on High Performance Computing<p><a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/" rel="nofollow">http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/</a> - Lambda the Ultimate<p><a href="https://openai.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/blog/</a> - OpenAI Blog<p><a href="http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/</a> - Shtetl-Optimized. The Blog of Scott Aaronson<p><a href="http://feedworld.net/toc/" rel="nofollow">http://feedworld.net/toc/</a> - Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator<p><a href="http://deepmind-ai.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://deepmind-ai.blogspot.com/</a> - DeepMind AI<p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.technologyreview.com</a> - MIT Technology review<p>And a bit of fun:<p><a href="http://phdcomics.com/comics.php" rel="nofollow">http://phdcomics.com/comics.php</a> - PhD comics<p><a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.smbc-comics.com/</a> - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics<p><a href="https://what-if.xkcd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://what-if.xkcd.com/</a> - What If?
Which RSS reader do you all use? RSS fell by the wayside for me after Google Reader was shutdown. I thought HN+Reddit+Twitter+Medium would replace it but I still find myself missing updates from several wonderful sites that don't update regularly.
I wrote (and maintain) my own rss reader for iOS - <a href="https://github.com/younata/RSSClient/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/younata/RSSClient/</a>, here's a trimmed down version what I follow:<p>News:<p>- Electrek - <a href="https://electrek.co" rel="nofollow">https://electrek.co</a> (Basically Tesla news, but ostensibly EV news)<p>- Hackaday<p>- MacRumors<p>Swift/iOS Dev:<p>- Natasha The Robot - <a href="http://natashatherobot.com" rel="nofollow">http://natashatherobot.com</a><p>- Swift Weekly Brief - <a href="https://swiftweekly.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://swiftweekly.github.io</a><p>- This Week in Swift - <a href="http://swiftnews.curated.co" rel="nofollow">http://swiftnews.curated.co</a><p>- NSHipster<p>Misc:<p>- xkcd What If<p>- Wait but Why<p>- Mr. Money Mustache<p>There's also other stuff not really worth mentioning - serialized stories (mostly just feeds for a few reddit user's posts), my blog, some comics, etc.
I'm a big fan of Feedly, have been using it since they came out and the constantly keeps improving stuff.<p>Among the things I subscribe too are about a 100 webcomics.<p>Decided to share all my RSS links here: <a href="http://feedshare.net/theknarf/" rel="nofollow">http://feedshare.net/theknarf/</a><p>A lot of different stuff on that list, but mostly programming, web development and comics.
<a href="http://thebrowser.com" rel="nofollow">http://thebrowser.com</a> (subtitle: "Writing worth reading") is one of my favorites.<p>It is basically one voracious reader (Robert Cottrell) who trawls the internet to select 5-6 pieces worth reading every day. It's a good combo of news, economics, science, and just random, beautiful writing – I really value non-tech-related writing it introduces into my feed/life. (There is a subscription fee to see more 2-3 of today's articles, but it's like $30 a year).<p>I also recommend subscribing to a filtered feed of HackerNews if you feel like it's taking up too much of your time but you don't want to give it up entirely :). I follow <a href="http://hnrss.org/newest?points=100" rel="nofollow">http://hnrss.org/newest?points=100</a> so I only see articles that get at least 100 points.
I just read Hacker News :).<p>shameless plug: I also created a weekly newsletter for frontend development - for lazy/busy people like me that don't want to sift through the millions of blogs/articles/aggregators. @frontendweekly1
I use inoreader + reeder. Reeder integrates with Pocket so I can read offline.<p>I follow:<p>- Newsites: HN, Dzone, Voxxed, ARS Technica, Highscalability...<p>- Webcomics (Xkcd, Commitstrip, Dilbert...)<p>- Youtube channels: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channelId}" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel...</a><p>- Most of these: <a href="https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs</a>
I cut 80-90% of my feeds in the last years and prefer digests now because they provide more information for less time spent reading.<p><a href="http://ios-goodies.tumblr.com/rss" rel="nofollow">http://ios-goodies.tumblr.com/rss</a> - iOS digest<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SidebarFeed" rel="nofollow">http://feeds.feedburner.com/SidebarFeed</a> - design digest<p><a href="http://feeds.newscientist.com/health" rel="nofollow">http://feeds.newscientist.com/health</a> - some science news<p><a href="http://feeds.newscientist.com/life" rel="nofollow">http://feeds.newscientist.com/life</a> - more science news
I am using BazQux Reader (<a href="https://bazqux.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bazqux.com/</a>). The name is awful and it is also paid, but it is very fast, stable and very similar to Google Reader.<p>Bonus point: it is written in Haskell
- anime/subs related stuff<p>- webcomics (xkcd, alberto montt)<p>- music (boards of canada wiki, music for programming.net)<p>- java stuff (adam bien, onjava.com, planet clojure, grails.io, the server side, the cognicast)<p>- job boards (wfh.io, functional jobs, stack overflow careers, clojurework.com)<p>- coding stuff (atomic spin, adam bard, ycombinator, /r/clojure, the changelog, infoq)<p>- mixed bag (ars technica, some reddits, waxy.org, thisiscolosal.com, etc.)
I read the New York Times in mine via a phantomjs script that pulls out the text courtesy of DOM selector 'p.story-body-text.'<p>It's not perfect but I cannot find a closer approximation to the Kindle newsstand experience on a computer screen.<p>I am an All Digital Access subscriber of the Times and consider my actions justified under the Terms of Service, for whatever that is worth.<p>I use the Newsbeuter RSS reader.
I use Feed Wrangler (<a href="https://feedwrangler.net" rel="nofollow">https://feedwrangler.net</a>) as my RSS-service of choice. I use Reeder on my Mac and on iOS (<a href="http://reederapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://reederapp.com</a>) to get at those feeds.
I'm using Newsblur (<a href="http://newsblur.com" rel="nofollow">http://newsblur.com</a> YC S12), mostly through its Android application which works great offline in the subway.
About 200 different feeds, so knowing what you're looking for would be good.<p>I use Brief on FireFox with Live Bookmarks. Let's me control frequency of downloads, navigate using keyboard, etc.
newsbeuter is nice and I use it myself <a href="http://newsbeuter.org/screenshots.html" rel="nofollow">http://newsbeuter.org/screenshots.html</a>
i wrote own reader :) <a href="https://github.com/truerss/truerss" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/truerss/truerss</a>
Here is the pastebin of what I follow<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/hc6yby4h" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/hc6yby4h</a><p>It is.... ummmm.....well rounded?
<a href="http://feedly.com/smcleod/blogs" rel="nofollow">http://feedly.com/smcleod/blogs</a><p>That's a link to the various sites, blogs, updates that I subscribe to, Phronix and Ars are both a bit noisey but other than them the rest I take good care to keep up with.<p>I personally think it's fantastic that RSS has made such a come back (some would say it never actually went away), it' such a simple, useful tool that's easy to integrate with just about anything.<p>----<p>Another interesting discussion I enjoy having is finding out how people read / digest / discover feeds:<p>tldr; I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly's own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself.<p>I can see myself dropping back to a single app / service, which would likely be Feedly but for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with it so I'm open to change if it ever causes me an issue (which it hasn't).<p>----<p>I use a combo of two tools:<p><i>Feedly</i> - <a href="https://feedly.com" rel="nofollow">https://feedly.com</a><p>RSS feed subscription management.<p>Features:<p>- Keyword alerts<p>- Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url<p>- Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote)<p>- Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content<p>- IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration<p>- Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I'm on the website)<p>- Backup feeds to Dropbox<p>- Very fast, regardless of the fact that I'm in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.<p>- Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I'm looking forward to that!<p>- Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me)<p>- Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we're getting very meta here!)<p>2. <i>Reeder</i> - <a href="http://reederapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://reederapp.com</a><p>A (really) beautiful and fast iOS / macOS client.<p>- The client apps aren't cheap but damn they're good quality, I much prefer them over the standard Feedly apps<p>- Obviously supports Feedly as a backend but there are many other source services you can use along side each other<p>- I save articles using Reeder's clip to Evernote functionality... a lot<p>- Sensible default keyboard shortcuts (or at least for me they felt natural YMMV of course)<p>- Good customisable 'share with' options<p>- Looks pleasant to me<p>- Easy manual import an export just like Feedly<p>----<p>- Now can someone come up with a good bookmarking addon / workflow for me? :)