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title: "Follow the Blog"
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nofollow: true
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---
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Here's your options for receiving updates about new blog posts:
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## Option 1: RSS
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RSS is the classic way to follow any blog. It comes from a time before
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aggregators like reddit and twitter stole the show, when people felt capable to
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manage their own content feeds. We should use it again.
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To follow over RSS give any RSS reader the following URL...
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<a href="{{site.url}}/feed.xml">{{site.url}}/feed.xml</a>
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...and posts from this blog will show up in your RSS feed as soon as they are
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published. There are literally thousands of RSS readers out there. Here's some
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recommendations:
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* [Google Chrome Browser Extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-feed-reader/pnjaodmkngahhkoihejjehlcdlnohgmp)
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* [spaRSS](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.etuldan.sparss.floss/) is my
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preferred android RSS reader, but you'll need to install
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[f-droid](https://f-droid.org/) on your device to use it (a good thing to do
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anyway, imo).
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* [NetNewsWire](https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) is a good reader for
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iPhone/iPad/Mac devices, so I'm told. Their homepage description makes a much
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better sales pitch for RSS than I ever could.
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## Option 2: Twitter
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New posts are automatically published to [my Twitter](https://twitter.com/{{
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site.twitter_username }}). Simply follow me there and pray the algorithm smiles
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upon my tweets enough to show them to you! :pray: :pray: :pray:
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## Option 3: Email?
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I tried setting up an RSS-to-Email list thing on Mailchimp but it doesn't seem
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to like my RSS feed. If anyone knows a better alternative please [email
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me.](mailto:mediocregopher@gmail.com)
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