How to Follow My Blog

I've been sharing a lot of links to my blog on social media lately. I figured I should probably help those of you still stuck in the social silos of big tech break free from the chains of the algorithmic feed. It’s time to remind you of tech long forgotten by many, but still widely used if you know where to look.

RSS

Remember that orange square with two quarter circles and a dot?

Yeah, this thing! RSS (short for Really Simple Syndication) was developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a way to easily distribute and aggregate frequently updated content, like blog posts and news articles. It allowed users to subscribe to websites and receive updates automatically, avoiding the need to visit each site individually. Though it’s been somewhat overshadowed by social media platforms in recent years, RSS remains a powerful, decentralized tool for keeping up with your favorite content on your own terms.

Back in the day, you used to look for this button on interesting websites and copy the URL to paste into your feed reader and subscribe. Practically every website had it!

Even today, the vast majority of blogs publish RSS feeds. News websites publish them. Even some social media sites (like Mastodon, simply add .rss to the end of a profile URL) publish RSS feeds!

Feed Readers

If you want a blog post about which RSS feed reader to pick, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many folks with more time on their hands than I do have compiled copious lists and notes extolling the virtues and weaknesses of various options.

Suffice to say, you have choices: Feedly, Feedbin, The Old Reader, and many more.

Links

If you're looking for the links to add to your feed reader, look no further than my new Subscribe page. You can also find a link near the top of this page!

From there, you’ll find links to all my feeds. Happy blogging, friends!