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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

926: RSS Is NOT Dead

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Scott and CJ explore why RSS still matters and how it’s more underused than outdated. They discuss how to self-host RSS readers, escape the noise of the modern web, and reclaim a cleaner, ad-free reading experience across devices. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:09 Brought to you by Sentry.io 02:41 What is RSS and how does it work? RSS Atom (web standard) JSON Feed 06:14 Hosting your own RSS server: Miniflux, FreshRSS, and more Miniflux FreshRSS 11:00 Decluttering the web with article scraping 12:38 Best RSS clients for desktop and mobile Capy Reader Google Reader ReadKit Pocket is shutting down wallabag mymind 18:51 Where to find RSS feeds The Brutalist Report Programming Subreddit Hacker News BlueSky Shameless Plugs Syntax YouTube Channel: Cursor User Tries Claude Code Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax, folks.

0:02.5

Today, we're talking about RSS, which is alive and well.

0:06.9

We're going to be talking a little bit about how C.J. uses RSS, because that's right.

0:11.5

Wes is on vacation.

0:13.0

Joining me once again is C.J.

0:15.6

What's up, C.J.

0:16.9

Not much. I'm excited to talk about this.

0:19.1

I've been experimenting with a lot of different ways to read RSS and, you know, just stay up to date with the news. And so, yeah, excited to share all of my findings.

0:29.3

I'm excited because when anytime people talk about RSS, I just say, all right, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I've ever, and I'm saying like even going back to the year 2000, I don't think I've ever had a good RSS setup. I used many of the popular apps at the time, like was it Google Reader or one of those, you know. Google Feed Reader. Yep, I've used a lot of the apps, but I never really got a good system.

0:38.9

I'm interested to hear how you use it. one of those you know google feed reader yep i've used i used a lot of the apps but i never really got a

0:56.1

good system i'm interested to hear how you use it but also like why win and wear those types of

1:01.4

things so i i'm ready to have my mind blowing uh my mind blowing yeah my mind is uh is actively

1:08.3

blowing i guess yes so rsss uh it gives you a feed of stuff, yada, yada, yada,

1:13.9

but the feed that I'm checking the most is my Century feed at Century.io because it lets me know

1:20.3

which websites or which websites, which pages have the worst user misery score. And that

1:26.9

accounts for a lot of things.

1:28.3

Basically, like how fast and how often these pages are hit.

1:31.5

It's letting you know truly what are the pages you need to look at.

1:35.5

First and foremost, if you want to improve the time that people are having on your website.

1:42.1

What about like payments?

1:43.4

You're getting failed payment alerts?

1:45.7

Things like that.

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