I Stopped Reading Newsletters. Here’s What I Use Instead.
I Stopped Reading Newsletters. Here’s What I Use Instead. My morning used to start with four apps. RSS reader. Email. Slack. Twitter. Then I’d open a few tabs for sites that didn’t have feeds. Somewhere around the 200th email and the third Slack channel, I’d realize I’d already spent an hour and still missed the one article that actually mattered. Sound familiar? I’m a developer. I need to track releases, security advisories, blog posts from people I respect, and industry news that affects what I build. Not as a background hobby. As part of doing my job well. And here’s what I’ve realized after twenty years of trying different approaches: this problem has been “solved” three times. Each solution nailed something important. And each one created a new version of the same problem….
