I did not even know that Linus had his own site. Fantastic. I won’t be watching his videos on Youtube anymore! Hopefully, everyone I watch will have their own websites, so that I don’t have to visit Youtube.
He had something along the lines of a “best laptops for typing” video without mentioning the Thinkpad.
He continuously promoted Razer laptops without mentioning that they had an internal 50% failure rate of their own Razer laptops. (Thanks for keeping it real during a WAN Show, Luke.)
I still watch LTT as entertainment for some reason, but come on Linus. I have major respect for your biz acumen, but you can do better for your audience.
Partially due to his recommendations, I once recommended a Razer to an exec above me, he eventually had to do a credit card charge back after it started to bend all on its own. Not a good look. Lesson learned.
- Every major website where RSS would be useful (except Facebook. Twitter needs RSS like we need the plague), _has it!_ RSS support is ubiquitous
- There are carbon-copy clones of google reader. I use one every day (well, twice a week cuz I don't depend on reading RSS). You can just subscribe
- For really tricky stuff, you can wire together some stuff with, like, Zapier. It's annoying but way easier than it would be 10 years ago (cuz even then loads of random stuff didn't have feeds)
This is the most annoying kind of nostalgia. Not because it's wishing for an old world that never existed, but because it's implying that the current world doesn't _still have all of this stuff_. At least whining about XMPP has some merit.
And many new sites never test RSS functionality, so if there is a feed, it just shows posts tagged 'feed' or something like that.
If you had told me in 2005 that'd I'd become nostalgic for Flash-ridden, PHP backed, IE6-compatibilized internet I wouldn't have believed you, and yet here we are.