RSS is a fantastic way to keep current with lots of different sources, without the hassle of going through a bunch of sites every day. You make sure you never miss something important. It’s a huge help for me when trying to stay up to date all the time (especially on web development, which we all know is moving extremely fast).
I wanted to share the list of all my current RSS feeds I follow. I really want to keep this list up to date, so I will try my very best to keep it current at all times.
The list consists of many different pages covering different topics. The topics can be things like: productivity, angular, web development in general, programming in general, blogs from people like me (which means passionate developer, just in case you wondered!).
I try to keep the list as neat as possible. Feeds that push out a lot of content better be pushing out a lot of good content, or else I will delete it pretty fast.
You can also download an export of my subscriptions from feedbin here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kwho5m7j3jpax3a/subscriptions.xml?dl=0
Also, if you have any great tips for feeds I should use (and feature here), let me know!
Feeds
Inspirational/Productivity
The blogs and websites here are mainly about productivity and inspiration.
I like to sprinkle in some deep and reflective stuff in my feed list. It gets boring with just heavy technical posts all day.
99U
99U provides short but sweet articles about inspiration and creativity. Doesn’t take much time to read, but the articles provide great value and are well written.
Website: http://99u.com/
RSS: http://99u.com/feed/
Fundamental Programmer
Not to frequent postings, but great posts about becoming a greater programmer. Lots of great productivity tips.
Website: http://www.fundamentalprogrammer.com/
Feed: http://www.fundamentalprogrammer.com/feed/
J.D. Meier’s Blog
J.D. Meier is the author of the fantastic book ‘Getting Results the Agile Way’. The very same book I am basing one of my new apps on (which I wrote about a little here: Extreme Results)
Meier posts inspirational and productivity-centered posts.
Website: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jmeier
Simple Programmer
Written by John Sonmez who know a thing or two about productivity, inspiration, selling, programming and a quite few other things as well.
If you are starting out as a developer, I strongly recommend you follow this guy. He was the one that inspired me to actually get started blogging (and not just thinking about it).
Website: http://simpleprogrammer.com/
Feed: http://simpleprogrammer.com/feed/
Web Development / Web Design
I am in love with web development (and especially front-end), so most of my feed is concerned with just that. However I would like to level up a bit with my design skills as well, so I follow some site that write about that too.
If you are into Web, the feeds here might be of huge help to you!
Smashing Magazine
Frequent postings about everything related to web development and design. Fantastic resource for learning just about everything in the front-end web domain.
They even have books!
Website: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Feed: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/feed/
A List Apart
Another great resource for everything front-end web. Programming and design, and lots of it!
There are several feeds to choose from, depending on what sort of topics you want, and how much: http://alistapart.com/about/rss
Website: http://alistapart.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/alistapart/main
SitePoint
Web development site with all kinds of topics: Front-end, back-end, design, entrepreneur, wordpress, etc.
Very frequent postings, but so much great content makes it OK. I read articles from this site almost every day.
Website: http://www.sitepoint.com/
Feed: http://www.sitepoint.com/feed/
Adactio (articles)
A Web Developer named Jeremy keith runs this blog. Not too frequent posting, but nice content.
I only follow the articles, because I am not interested in his journal entries.
Website: https://adactio.com/articles/
Feed: https://adactio.com/articles/rss
CSS-Tricks
Great site by Chris Coyier. He is a resourceful guy that also has a great podcast called ShopTalk, and he is the creator of CodePen.
Despite it’s name, CSS-Tricks is not JUST about CSS. It’s about Web Development and Design in general.
Website: https://css-tricks.com
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CssTricks
David Walsh Blog
David Walsh is a Senior Web Developer at Mozilla and he provides a lot of great tips through his blog. It’s very neatly written and provides short and great learnings.
Website: http://davidwalsh.name/
Feed: http://davidwalsh.name/feed
Inspect Element (articles)
All about design. Written by Tom Kenny. I especially love his ‘Learn from Great Design’ articles where he goes through some web site and showcases why the design just works.
Website: http://inspectelement.com/
Feed: http://inspectelement.com/feed/
Joel Glovier’s Blog
Joel Glovier’s Blog. He works at Github.
Posts about many different things, mostly about creative stuff. It’s his personal blog, so I guess it will be about anything he wants 🙂
Website: http://joelglovier.com/
Feed: http://joelglovier.com/feed
Onextrapixel
Online magazine about web design and development.
Website: http://www.onextrapixel.com/
Feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/onextrapixel
Position Absolute
Another design focused blog, written by Cedric Dugas.
In it’s own words: “Thoughts about UX, front-end development & product management”
Website: http://www.position-absolute.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/position-absolute/nyJv
The Eisenberg Effect
Rob Eisenberg’s blog. This guy has worked on many great frameworks. Recently he was working on Angular 2, before he went on to create another one of his own called Aurelia.
Website: http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/
Feed: http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/rss/
Todd Motto
Web Developer called Todd Motto. His blog is about web stuff like Javascript and AngularJS. Seems like a really genuine and cool guy.
Also, his posts about AngularJS is really great!
Website: http://toddmotto.com/
Feed: http://toddmotto.com/feed.xml
Viget.com Blogs
Web blogs about design, code and marketing from a studio that creates websites and stuff for money. Seems like a nice place to work!
You can also subscribe to just design, code or marketing if you are not interested in some topics.
Website: https://viget.com/blogs
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Viget
WebAppers
Not my favorite resource, but they sure have some great tips about new tools.
However, it’s often stuff like free WP-themes, free icon-packs and so on. Sometimes that’s nice too!
Website: http://www.webappers.com/
Feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Webappers
General
Blogs and websites that posts about anything related to development and software engineering. Many of the greatest posts comes from here. That might be because it contains blogs from people like Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) and Martin Fowler.
I am a Software Engineer, so this stuff really works for me.
The Clean Code Blog
From my favorite person in Software Development, Robert C. Martin (also known as Uncle Bob). He is the author of my favorite Software Development books: ‘Clean Code’ and ‘The Clean Coder’. He write about my favorite Software Development topic too: Clean Code. I incidentally wrote a bit about just that a while ago: How I got started with Clean Code.
I might be a bit of a fanboy, but this guy is just funny and seriously smart. Follow this blog.
Website: http://blog.cleancoder.com/
Feed: http://blog.cleancoder.com/atom.xml
Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler is a great Software Engineer. He is one the real experts out there. I like to follow those.
Website: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/
Feed: http://martinfowler.com/feed.atom
Scott Hanselman’s Blog
Scott Hanselman is known for his great posts and all the great stuff he does (like his podcast Hanselminutes). Very likeable guy. Works at Microsoft.
He knows a great deal about many things. Also an industry expert. He seems to have gotten seriously into fun geeky hardware projects (I remember him being all giddy about 3D-printing for example).
Website: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
Feed: http://feeds.hanselman.com/scotthanselman
yegor256.com
Yegor Bugayenko is seriously opinionated guy. Particularly about Object Oriented design. I don’t always agree with him, but his posts sure a great read. And they are very interesting as well.
Website: http://www.yegor256.com/
Feed: http://www.yegor256.com/rss
Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler is another great Software Engineer I like to follow. He posts many great posts about productivity, inspiration and development.
Website: http://chadfowler.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThePassionateProgrammer
Coding Horror
Fantastic and funny blog by Jeff Atwood. This guy is one of the co-founder of freakin’ Stack Overflow.
Website: http://blog.codinghorror.com/
Feed: http://blog.codinghorror.com/rss/
Karoline Klever
A Norwegian developer (that writes in English, don’t worry) that write honestly about her life as a developer and speaker.
Website: http://www.karolikl.com/
Feed: http://www.karolikl.com/feeds/posts/default
Bjorn Tipling
Bjørn Tipling’s Blog. Some of my favorite posts this summer was from this guy. He wrote about the ‘this’ keyword in Javascript in a way that made me understand (the post btw is here: http://bjorn.tipling.com/all-this)
Website: http://bjorn.tipling.com/
Feed: http://bjorn.tipling.com/feed
Agile Jong
Junilu Lacar is a nice guy that writes about Agile stuff and Java. Great reads coming from this guy’s blog!
Website: http://agilejong.blogspot.no/
Feed: http://agilejong.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Other
I don’t keep many feeds that are unrelated to development or productivity in some way, but there are a few. Under each one I’ll explain.
OMG! Ubuntu!
I love Ubuntu and Linux (even though I am using almost exclusively Apple products right now). I like to keep current with what is happening in the Ubuntu Scene, so I like to get a couple of posts in my feed from OMG! Ubuntu! every once in a while.
This is the only tech news site I keep here, because it’s the only one I don’t have bookmarked and visit often.
Website: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/
Feed: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/feed
The Mozilla Blog
I love Mozilla, so I need to get all my Mozilla news straight into my feed. It’s that simple.
Website: https://blog.mozilla.org/
Feed: https://blog.mozilla.org/feed/
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog
I use JetBrains IntelliJ (which btw is the best IDE ever) every day, so I want to be updated on IntelliJ news.
Website: http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/
Feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/jetbrains_intellijidea
RSS Reader
I currently use Feedbin to store all my feeds. I use the feedbin.com reader to read my feeds on a desktop, and I use Reeder on iPhone and iPad (which syncs smoothly with feedbin).
Feedbin.com:
Reeder:
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