Drill down to the key topics you need to stay on top of, find reputable sources for those, then try and kill the rest (or at least leave it to your spare time,

Drill down to the key topics you need to stay on top of, find reputable sources for those, then try and kill the rest (or at least leave it to your spare time, using your phone in bed, whatever). We do stuff like Hacker News Digest but for numerous programming related areas, such as http://javascriptweekly.com/ http://javascriptweekly.com/ http://rubyweekly.com/ http://rubyweekly.com/ http://dbweekly.com/ http://dbweekly.com/ (and several other) and 240,000 people trust us with this each week now. There are many great folks doing similar things in other niches, however.