My Favourite Feeds

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I am an avid user of RSS feeds. Checking my list reveals that I am subscribed to 530 feeds! In the spirit of sharing I thought it would be interesting to share a snapshot of my current reading list. This may prove an interesting resource for someone looking to get started with feeds or just to grow their existing subscription list.

I’ve tried to focus on feeds that are generally interesting and have high value per-post. So these should get you some interesting content without exploding your reading queue. I’ve also preferred feeds that contain the full article content so that you don’t need to leave your reader (although articles that require interactivity or are worth the click are still included). I have cut out feeds about specific software that I use or games I play as I don’t think most of these changelogs are very interesting unless you use that software. I’ve also cut out most of the higher-volume feeds and feeds that were specific to me (like a feed of outdated packages I maintain).

I’ve managed to cut down the list to 50 items. Still a good chunk, but I encourage you to read a post or two from each before subscribing and take the ones that interest you. Or just subscribe to them all then unsubscribe if you don’t find the posts interesting. That is one of the great things about RSS, subscribing costs nothing and unsubscribing is reliable. No one will save your email to spam you later.

If you just want to grab them all you can download this OPML file which can be imported into your feed reader. Or you can just follow along and subscribe to your favourites.

Below I’ve provided links to each site, as well as a direct link to the feed. I’ve also added a small summary which is typically copied from the site or feed itself, but may be added or edited by me if it didn’t seem very helpful. Items are just in alphabetical order.

News & Blogs

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

Homepage Feed

Some random thoughts about crypto. Notes from a course I teach. Pictures of my dachshunds.

Almost Secure

Homepage Feed

Focus on security.

Andrew Ayer

Homepage Feed

Blog typically focused on TLS and the Web PKI.

Aphyr: Posts

Homepage Feed

Blog focused on distributed systems especially consistency as well as software and Clojure in general.

Bartosz Ciechanowski

Homepage Feed

Interactive articles

Great interactive introductions to mechanisms and physics.

Bartosz Sypytkowski

Homepage Feed

Software dev blog

Especially CRDTs.

Bits about Money

Homepage Feed

About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of.

Filippo Valsorda

Homepage Feed

Posts on cryptography.

GNOME Shell & Mutter

Homepage Feed

Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter

GTK Development Blog

Homepage Feed

All things GTK

ImperialViolet

Homepage Feed

Adam Langley’s Weblog

Focus on cryptography, especially passkeys.

Jaz’s Blog

Homepage Feed

A space where I rant about computers

Focus on software performance.

Kevin Cox’s Blog

Homepage Feed

You’re reading it.

Kobzol’s blog

Homepage Feed

Blog about programming stuff.

Focus on Rust.

Mozilla Hacks

Homepage Feed

The Web developer blog.

On Life and Lisp

Homepage Feed

Software freedom, graphics, and gay.

PCG

Homepage Feed

A Better Random Number Generator.

Performance Matters

Homepage Feed

A blog about low-level software and hardware performance.

PostgreSQL and Databases in general

Homepage Feed

Database internals.

Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson

Homepage Feed

Programming, tech topics, with a chance of unicycling

Stephen Colebourne’s blog

Homepage Feed

Thoughts and Musings on the world of Java and beyond.

Tyler Mandry

Homepage Feed

Focus on Rust.

V8

Homepage Feed

Without boats, dreams dry up

Homepage Feed

Xaver’s blog

Homepage Feed

More or less random posts about stuff in KDE and computer graphics.

baby steps

Homepage Feed

This blog is where I post up various half-baked ideas that I have.

Focus on Rust.

benjojo blog

Homepage Feed

Programming, Networking and some things I found hard to fix at some point

brr

Homepage Feed

Observations on Antarctic infrastructure. Anecdotes from daily life for support staff. Focused on McMurdo Station and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

computers are bad

Homepage Feed

A newsletter on technology and its problems and also whatever else

cr.yp.to blog

Homepage Feed

D. J. Bernstein’s personal weblog.

Focus on cryptography.

Dolphin Emulator

Homepage Feed

Posts about the Dolphin GameCube and Wii emulator with in-depth technical information.

what if?

Homepage Feed

Answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday.

Spoiler: Not every Tuesday.

ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman’s blog

Homepage Feed

I’m currently working on a no-nonsense blogging platform and a GPT-powered socratic tutor.

Comics

Loading Artist

Homepage Feed

Poorly Drawn Lines

Homepage Feed

Sarah’s Scribbles

Homepage Feed

sticky comics

Homepage Feed

webcomic name

Homepage Feed

the same joke every time

Videos

Breaking Taps

Homepage Nebula Feed YouTube Feed

CGP Grey

Homepage YouTube Feed

Captain Disillusion

Homepage YouTube Feed

Hbomberguy

Homepage Nebula Feed YouTube Feed

Practical Construction

Homepage Nebula Feed YouTube Feed

Practical Engineering

Homepage Nebula Feed YouTube Feed

Retro Game Mechanics Explained

Homepage Feed

Simone Giertz

Homepage Feed

Technology Connections

Homepage Feed

Veritasium

Homepage Feed

Zogg from Betelgeuse

Homepage Feed

video.xiph.org

Homepage Feed

Xiph.Org’s video series about digital media.