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NAME What's going on!? (in tech) SYNOPSIS

A part of being a nerd^H^H^H^H technologist is maintaining an awareness of what is going on out there. For me that awareness takes a few different forms. Meetups, Slack/IRC, and most regularly RSS.

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RSS may have been declared dead by content companies back in 2013 (they couldn't monetize it) but self-publishing, blogs, and the general internet community continue to publish RSS/ATOM feeds and aggregation, making the technology a viable way to stay on top of current events in tech.

I continuously cultivate content in my RSS reader "Feedly" (handy web/mobile clients https://feedly.com) and check it many times throughout the day.

Being focused on Linux system administration, "DevOps", development, and leveraging open source software I categorize my feeds like this:

Aggregators - These are high signal-to-noise compilations of the latest happenings. Note the absence of reddit which in my opinion is too noise-to-signal.

AWS - Keep an eye on a provider of computing infrastructure.

Bloggers - These are people(not large companies) who blog on various topics that I have found interesting.

Comics - Get some levity.

DevOps - Open source projects, companies, and bloggers who focus on DevOps.

Makerspaces - I like makerspaces.

Programming - Relevant blogs for development methodologies or happenings.

Security - I read this the most often. Gotta be ready for the next vulnerability that needs immediate attention on your infrastructure!

Podcasts I have occasion to partake of.

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