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I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD

I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss) Journals: professional journals in my field Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, weather blogs, etc. (all have RSS feeds) Industry: industry news from various podcasts, institutional blogs, regulator blogs, other subreddits reddits Global news: RSS feeds from my local big city newspaper Software news: Cloudflare status reports, release note blogs from my favorite softwares Work: rss feeds from github on some work repos. Then I come to HN and Twitter directly as well... (shame) [1] https://www.freshrss.org/ https://www.freshrss.org/

LonelyWolfe 4y ago
Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?
- prepend 3y ago
  I used it for a few years to access rss feeds from non-public internet routable jira servers. It was pretty nice to monitor new issues across lots of projects.
- Darmody 4y ago
  RSS in your email client is a bad idea IMO. I used thunderbird like that a lot but everytime I needed to read or send an email for something productive I'd see that there's a new post somewhere and I'd check it.
  - rcarmo 4y ago
    It was actually a pretty decent thing if you set up a dedicated account (I used to maintain rss2mail and https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap). I still have archived posts in MIME format, complete with images, etc. Amazing for archival purposes. The tricky thing is actually dealing with title-only feeds - these days apps like Reeder will fetch a readable version of posts automatically, and I never got around to implementing that in earnest.
ROTMetro 4y ago
I spent a couple of months trying to find podcasts, but they all seem to consume way to much time for value provided. Can you recommend any high value podcasts that don't just ramble about this weeks business press releases? I don't even care what fields, I used to love just the general consumption of what is going on in the world that the (now) dead internet used to provide.
- rcarmo 4y ago
  Oxide and Friends is BY FAR the best tech podcast you could ever listen to. Look it up.
- acidburnNSA 4y ago
  I really love this podcast: https://wherewegonext.com/episodes https://wherewegonext.com/episodes
spronket_news 4y ago
I built a thing that splices HackerNews into an RSS Reader so you can see it all in the same place. What's neat is it ingests the points from HackerNews, so you can splice the feeds together in a way that preserves the ranking of both feeds. website: www.spronket.com tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4ZqLro0-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4ZqLro0-o lmk if you have any questions or feature requests

LonelyWolfe 4y ago

Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?

prepend 3y ago
I used it for a few years to access rss feeds from non-public internet routable jira servers. It was pretty nice to monitor new issues across lots of projects.
Darmody 4y ago
RSS in your email client is a bad idea IMO. I used thunderbird like that a lot but everytime I needed to read or send an email for something productive I'd see that there's a new post somewhere and I'd check it.
- rcarmo 4y ago
  It was actually a pretty decent thing if you set up a dedicated account (I used to maintain rss2mail and https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap). I still have archived posts in MIME format, complete with images, etc. Amazing for archival purposes. The tricky thing is actually dealing with title-only feeds - these days apps like Reeder will fetch a readable version of posts automatically, and I never got around to implementing that in earnest.

ROTMetro 4y ago

I spent a couple of months trying to find podcasts, but they all seem to consume way to much time for value provided. Can you recommend any high value podcasts that don't just ramble about this weeks business press releases? I don't even care what fields, I used to love just the general consumption of what is going on in the world that the (now) dead internet used to provide.

rcarmo 4y ago
Oxide and Friends is BY FAR the best tech podcast you could ever listen to. Look it up.
acidburnNSA 4y ago
I really love this podcast: https://wherewegonext.com/episodes https://wherewegonext.com/episodes

spronket_news 4y ago

I built a thing that splices HackerNews into an RSS Reader so you can see it all in the same place. What's neat is it ingests the points from HackerNews, so you can splice the feeds together in a way that preserves the ranking of both feeds. website: www.spronket.com tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4ZqLro0-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4ZqLro0-o lmk if you have any questions or feature requests