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In total I follow around 130 different RSS feeds (just for tech blogs). These range for esoteric scheme blogs to Netflix, Uber, Facebook Engineering. It came to
by ianleeclark 9y ago
In total I follow around 130 different RSS feeds (just for tech blogs). These range for esoteric scheme blogs to Netflix, Uber, Facebook Engineering. It came to a point where I had a really hard time prioritizing everything, so I implemented a fairly naive algorithm to rank them. I found the most interesting stuff was coming from FAANG, so I would give their engineering blog posts a few extra points (multiply by 2). I really like Julia Evans and always learn something from them, so her blog is currently a multiple of 5 for me (the highest).
I have been toying around with making this aggregation a weekly newsletter, but currently it's just a landing page and an Elixir/Phoenix app (what I use to keep track of my RSS feeds). If anyone's interested: https://unicorndigest.com https://unicorndigest.com
- O_H_E 9y agoBecause I have not settled yet, what feed/RSS reader do you use
- sankha93 9y agoI tried multiple feed readers but didn't find anything satisfying or simple enough. These days I use a Python script that runs as a daily cron and sends me a plain text email of new posts from the sites to which I have subscribed.
- ianleeclark 9y agoA custom Elixir/Phoenix application I wrote. I'd recommend Feedly for anyone who has a small amount of feeds they follow (I think I have over 200 different sources at the moment), but I need custom ordering that Feedly doesn't offer which is why I wrote my own.
- O_H_E 9y agoWould you mind sharing, I didn't find it in your github. I was thinking about Elixir recently anyway ;)
- tmaly 9y agoHow much manual review do you have to do to keep this going?