The technology websites/RSS feeds I follow
An opinionated list of general technology sites I follow
Substack is great - nothing against it. Recently, I see a lot of people in Posts and Notes writing about the Substacks they follow. Naturally, there’s also the Recommendations features. These are all great ways to discover new content. Of course, this is in the same Writer universe of Substack. I assume most of us are also following news outlets, blogs and other publications. This is what this post is going to be about.
Last year, I made an effort to keep more up to date with what was happening in the world and around me. This meant following news, keeping up with trends in software, technology and a certain degree of curious content and learning more about things outside my main domain (of software development). One caveat being that I don’t have the most patience, especially for news, so I wanted to have something fast and convenient.
Here, I’m leave out the typical daily news because these things tend to be largely based on location, language and (unfortunately) also political beliefs. I’ll rather focus on that brings us all together here - technology.
Staying old school with RSS feeds
Talking about RSS feeds in 2025 sounds somehow old and unorthodox. In the tech community, a lot of people write software around RSS feeds and I always found it weird. In the past I was never like that. However, after looking around, it still made sense for me today. I don’t look for news on social media. In fact, I’m not a big social media guy. News-wise, I don’t like the idea of some proprietary recommendation algorithm telling me what I should be reading. We have all seen in recent years how this can be used in order to polarise society and deepen opinions on a particular side of the spectrum. I’m not saying this is necessarily intentional - it’s just human nature to look for evidence to the opinions we want to be true. Indeed, recommendation engines are good at feeing us this kind of, very convenient, content.
Another nice thing about RSS feeds is that they aggregate all your content in a single place - an app of your choosing. There are probably 1000s of RSS clients, tailoring to different audiences and needs.
Without further ado, here are the feeds I follow:
Ars Technica
Ars Technica needs no introduction for most people. It’s a news website for technology, science and overwhelmingly software and hardware. I like it because of its in-dept analysis, professionalism and wide range of topics. This RSS link I provided here is the general one, but you can also narrow it down and choose one for just a particular topic.
Tech Crunch
Also needs no introduction - Tech crunch is one of the more famous news websites for technology.
BBC News
Even though I said I’d refrain from traditional news, I wanted to add BBC since it’s so popular, even outside of the UK.
Entrepreneur
As a startup person, I like articles about entrepreneurship, running companies, and business. This feed contains some nice articles about that. Often times they are also about technology.
Paul Graham’s essays
Also an old school choice. Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y-Combinator, has been famous for his essays for a long time now. I thought they lost popularity in recently years, but once he published his “Founders mode“ article, and I saw how it exploded everywhere on the Internet, I saw I was wrong. If you are interested in the startup scene, it’s a definite recommendation.
HackerNews
Speaking of the Y-Combinator, here’s HackerNews. It’s an aggregator of itself, but they provide an RSS feed - here it is.
David Heinemeier Hansson’s essays
This might be one not many of you know. David is the founder of 37signals, author of Rework, author and maintainer of Ruby on Rails (plus another 100 things). His credentials and past are really impressive and he often writes articles in his blog. The last ones (as of this writing) got too political for my taste, but other than that, I really enjoy them.
Product hunt
If you’re into seeing new products on Product hunt, you can also add them to your RSS reader and get notified whenever there’s something interesting for you.
Medium
Medium publications have RSS feeds. It’s just https://medium.com/feed/ and then the username you’d like to follow. For instance, mine is https://medium.com/feed/@n.sobadjiev_2847
Substack
Substack obviously has a dedicated app and website, but if you want to see your favourite Substacks in an RSS reader, you can get them by appending /feed to the Substack you want. Mine would be https://hipstertech.substack.com/feed.
RSS readers
There are probably thousands of RSS reader applications out there, tailoring to every possible taste and preferences. SO what did I do? Naturally, I wrote my own.
I wanted to develop an open source news reader that was clutter and ad free and was bringing some smart features, fitting for the world of AI and language models. This is how Plainews came to life.
Plainews is a text-first RSS reader that extracts useful information from news articles and presents you only the text you care about - no ads, no upsells, no junk. Additionally, it lets you summarise and translate articles. It can also combine and give you the gist of a few articles at the same time. Perfect to staying up to date, without spending an hour every day on news.
If this resonates with you, give Plainews a try!
