{"id":380,"date":"2021-04-23T10:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/?p=380"},"modified":"2021-04-17T22:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:16:59","slug":"my-sweet-setup-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/my-sweet-setup-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sweet Setup: RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being an RSS user is probably one of my most unconventional and nerdy habits, but they&#8217;re such a better way to experience the internet I feel I must evangelize them.<\/p>\n<p>I could write paragraphs of text, but inspired by a recent talk I saw at RailsConf, I&#8217;d like to show you instead in a more&#8230; visual form:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1.png\" alt=\"RSS sketchnote page 1\" title=\"1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"598\" height=\"448\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2.png\" alt=\"explanation of what an RSS feed is\" title=\"2.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.png\" alt=\"explanation of how an RSS feed reader works\" title=\"3.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.png\" alt=\"demonstration of the convenience of RSS feeds\" title=\"4.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.png\" alt=\"rss feeds are cleaner\" title=\"5.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/6.png\" alt=\"final notes on why I like RSS\" title=\"6.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to subscribe to some things via RSS, here are a handful of my favorite feeds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/feed\/\">Ars Technica<\/a> (I pay to subscribe to Ars Technica, which gets me access to a special version of the feed with full-text articles, which I strongly recommend)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/rss.xml\">xkcd.com<\/a> &#8211; a fantastic webcomic for nerds<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/rss\">The Onion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog.atom\">GitHub&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/index.xml\">Daring Fireball<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5toys.com\/feed\/\">9to5toys<\/a> (a great feed of deals on gadgets, updated daily)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meh.com\/deals.rss\">Meh<\/a> founded by the prople who brought us Woot.com, Meh is its spiritual successor, selling exactly one thing each day at a good discount. I&#8217;ve been getting KN95 masks from them on the cheap lately.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobian.org\/index.xml\">Jacob Kaplan-Moss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jvns.ca\/atom.xml\">Julia Evans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/MacRumors-All\">Macrumors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most sites offer an RSS feed. RSS links aren&#8217;t as prominently placed as they used to be, and sometimes they&#8217;re called a &#8220;feed&#8221; or maybe even an &#8220;atom feed&#8221; or similer. Sometimes you might have to guess at the feed URL (it&#8217;s often found by adding <code>\/feed<\/code> to the end of the home page URL). <\/p>\n<p>RSS feeds are a little nerdy and that might predispose you to think they&#8217;re kind of arcane and weird to use. But in fact, the opposite is true. They are a much nicer, much cleaner way to use the web. When I watch other people browsing full web sites loaded with ads and annoyances, I get the same jarring feeling I get when I go home to Iowa and see family members watching broadcast TV with its obnoxious and loud commercials and terrible shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an RSS user is probably one of my most unconventional and nerdy habits, but they&#8217;re such a better way to experience the internet I feel I must evangelize them. 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