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
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
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.0x42.net
Rubyflow
RubyInside
O’Reilly Ruby news
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
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
EmadIbrahim
- the intriguingly odd world of .NET
Michael Gray - Graywolf SEO Blog
- Rants on SEO, the internet and media
shoemoney
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
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
War Nerd
- I’m inherently skeptical of anyone who delivers a lot of absolute statements… but fascinated by this guy regardless.