My RSS Feeds

An ungainly dump of what’s currently in my RSS feeds. Admin/utility/monitoring feeds snipped for your sanity.

Helpful usage hints: feeds best enjoyed via rbot’s RSS module when home, via Google Reader from BlackBerry when not.

Friends With Cool Blogs

Chris Patterson’s Skull Jackpot
- You might eyeball this and conclude Chris was only a gangster in the UI arena, but you’d be wrong.

Ben Menoza
- Ben is a user experience jet-setter who has some very interesting project-lifecycle notes I hope he finishes documenting.

Dev, Ruby/Rails…

Tom Moertel’s Weblog
- Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like

PlanetRails
- Yet another Planet- community aggregator.

MotionStandingStill
- Performance Rails stuff.

railscasts
- Free railscasts all the time. Awful nice of them.

hasmanythrough
- used to update more. I retain hope he’ll pick up the habit again.

errtheblog
- used to update more. I keep this in my feeds like Lassie waiting for Timmy to come home.

Mentalized
- Cool Rails/designer stuff.

omgbloglol
- Jeremy McAnally

Homo-Adminus
- Yet Another Admin’s blog. Neat performance/high-availability rails/DB stuff.

RidingRails
- This week in Edge Rails. It’s like candy.

RyansScraps
- What’s new in Edge Rails. Companion piece to the above.

planetruby.0×42.net
- Another Planet Ruby?

Rubyflow
- Ruby bits.

RubyInside
- Ruby bits.

O’Reilly Ruby news
- O’Reilly Ruby bits.

Rails meets the business world.
- I won’t lie; this group is kind of disappointing so far. I suspect/hope it’s because folks are out there learning by doing.

Spiteful
- Code in the real world.

Dev, Other…

emacsblog
- M-x all-things-emacs. Awaiting the week when I don’t need to be productive, yet am in front of a computer… hasn’t happened yet and technically I can’t imagine it. Happily, it turns out I was wrong. This was actually awaiting the month where I needed Org mode, which gave me a great hook to start playing with emacs… and it is awesome.

Mibbit news
- Seriously jealous of this app.

git-ready
- learn git one commit at a time

Database Programmer
- Cool mix of theory/practice that seems pretty hard to find.

MySQL Performance Blog
- MySQL. Performance. Blog.

Xaprb
- Author of High-Performance MySQL

Devsnippets
- UI stuff, occasionally server-side.

FreelanceSwitch
- Clearinghouse for freelance articles. Decent.

Hacker News
- Paul Graham’s entrepreneurial/software news aggregator. Must-read.

jambore.ee
- Expression Engine stuff.

EmadIbrahim
- the intriguingly odd world of .NET

Michael Gray - Graywolf SEO Blog
- Rants on SEO, the internet and media

shoemoney
- More SEO stuff

Finance…

TheBigPicture
- Barry Ritholz’ The Big Picture

fortunewatchblog

I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- I have not yet learned to be rich. I have learned a few interesting things nonetheless.

Local…

Syracuse UpDownTowners
- Yet another vaguely endearing/quixotic “Revitalize Syracuse!” endeavor

Syracuse Post-Standard
- Judging by the errors, I suspect the articles are written very quickly by interns or something.

9WSYR
- Things my local news RSS feed have helped illustrate, Item 1: Summers see a robust upswing in downtown stabbings. Strange sort of regional pastime, but I suppose that’s the exciting thing about getting out and seeing the world.

QA/DBA Jobs In Syracuse
- Local job market dismal even before downturn.

Networking Jobs In Syracuse

InfoDesign Jobs In Syracuse

Raleigh NC…
News Observer
Internet Engineering Jobs
InfoDesign Jobs
Systems/Networking Jobs
Software/QA/DBA Jobs

Other…

Rands In Repose
- Geek in management. Always worth reading immediately.

Wanting What You Have
- Relevant keywords: stay-at-home, mommyblog, organization tips, frugality, DIY. Occasionally awesome regardless.

Bitten
- Mark Bittman on Food. Great stuff in here for humans that both need to eat and like to feed themselves.

Gadget Fiend and Knife Maker Peter Atwood
- This guy has a cool story: he dreams up his own multi-tools, makes them in small but superbly-engineered batches, and people rush to buy them all up. Haven’t got one yet.

WhoisIOZ
- General commentary.

MonsterBrains
- A never ending celebration of monsters. Cool pictures at unexpected intervals.

Overcoming Bias
- Cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, microeconomics, applied statistics, social psychology, probability and decision theory, even a bit of Artificial Intelligence now and then.

Unfogged
- Group blog of some sort. Still not really quite sure what this is, but it’s occasionally interesting.

Language Log
- Pedantry ahoy!

War Nerd
- I’m inherently skeptical of anyone who delivers a lot of absolute statements… but fascinated by this guy regardless.