I realize this may sound a bit stupid considering it’s the Internet; there’s information everywhere. That being said, over on Reddit I used Third Party Apps like Apollo and Pager to stay up to date on certain things (Apple OS updates, Windows OS updates, Nvidia Driver updates, etc) where they would send me alerts when new updates were released, and now with Reddit shutting down these Apps I’m a bit lost on how to continue staying up to date, that is without manually refreshing official sites and waiting for a new update to release. Now, yeah, I probably could just follow Twitter accounts, but Twitter is a shithole.
RSS feeds.
For general tech stuff, you can pick a hacker news RSS feed that suits your needs. https://hnrss.github.io/
For more specific topics, you can follow blogs dedicated to those subjects (using RSS as well). You get an alert when there’s a new post, instead of checking the page.
Aaron Swartz actually worked on RSS, so it’s ironic that I find myself revert back to it. Also, the signal-to-noise ratio is better than Reddit these days.
I use a mix of RSS feeds and the Feeder Android app to accumulate articles. I’m still tweaking my list of feeds, currently using Ars Technica, MIT news (ai), slashdot, bbc, npr, and some niche ones
how do you consume ars, bbc, npr etc. without being overwhelmed by volume? i use freshrss for my main, curated feeds where i always 0 out the read count and fraidycat for high volume news feeds but i wish there was another solution that would mix and present the feeds in a more interesting way.
RSS, basically. for software with github releases, there’s an RSS feed for release feeds by appending .atom to the releases page, like https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases.atom
check out nitter.net for twitter RSS, has been going strong through API changes. also since you mentioned Apple stuff, it’s not per small update but they publish major stuff on the Newsroom feed which has an RSS feed: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/rss-feed.rss
also you might like https://www.techmeme.com/ as a high-volume aggregator.
Yep RSS is the bomb and still the optimal way to stay in-the-know on whatever you’re interested in.
I’ve been trying to get into RSS even before Reddit went to shit, however the problem with RSS, or at least for me, is that I’m genuinely struggling to see ONLY the things that I WANT to see. With Apple for example, I ONLY want to be notified of new iOS updates, but every feed that I can find pushes out articles for everything Apple related, which is not what I want.
i finally remembered the other service that supports app store updates. scroll to Apple App Store here: https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/
It’s actually quite difficult to avoid hearing about important events even if you tried. You’re not obligated to be up-to-date about everything that’s going on. You can’t. You’re always missing stuff. Most of the information on the internet called “news” is just junk anyways and you’re probably better off not filling your mind with it.
Don’t want to tell anyone how to live their lives but just my two cents.
