How do you follow news on tech and stay upto date?

11 points·zigmig··11 comments

What are your go to resources including HN and best ways to stay updated (I am on iOS)

I use NetNewsWire, an RSS reader on iOS and macOS. Ars Technica is the main tech news site I follow in there, but also follow a few dev blogs.

I find if I have too many general purpose tech news sites there is a lot of duplication of big stories, and the volume becomes overwhelming to the point I give up. So I try and keep it simple.

HN fills in some gaps, and I figure if a story is big/important enough, I’ll hear about it eventually.

I couldn't agree more with you. It does indeed get overwhelming. I was following twitter a lot but I eventually get lost in the swarm over there.

Any recommended dev blogs?

https://techurls.com

https://skimfeed.com

I use RSS for as much as possible (it’s how I found this post). On iOS/Mac I use the Reeder 5 app. I’ve tried dozens of RSS apps and found its UX to be the best, by far.

I use RSS for HackerNews[1], Reddit, YouTube, and Substack.

[1]: https://hnrss.github.io/

Thanks! hnrss is awesome, i didn't now about this before.

Any recommendations on YouTube / Substack?

graymirror.substack.com

What is your preset for HN feed?

Hacker News

I subscribe to the pragmaticengineer and check HN every now and then

I find that by using work email not personal, more likely to look at it.

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