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Keeping Up With Web Dev

• January 24, 2023
• Today I Learned
• Oliver

The internet moves fast. New libraries, new tools, major updates to existing tools, security vulnerabilites etc.

To keep up with this we created a #learning channel in Slack. This serves two purposes: It gives a place for team members to share and discuss links to cool new stuff but also automatically pulls in RSS feeds. The list of feeds has slowly built up over time and I wanted to share them for anyone else who wanted to better keep in touch with Web Development news.

Feeds

• Frontend (HTML, JS, CSS etc)
  • HTMHell - https://www.htmhell.dev/feed.xml
  • JavaScript Weekly - https://javascriptweekly.com/rss/1o43fna3
  • HTML5 Weekly - https://html5weekly.com/rss/1anhaa0b
  • MDN - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/rss.xml
• Backend (PHP, Laravel etc)
  • Laravel Daily - https://laraveldaily.com/feed/
  • Laravel News - https://feed.laravel-news.com/
  • PHP.net news & announcements - https://php.net/feed.atom
  • The PHP Foundation - https://thephp.foundation/atom.xml
  • PHP.Watch News - https://php.watch/feed/news.xml
  • PHP.Watch Articles - https://php.watch/feed/articles.xml
  • SQL Tips (email newsletter only)
• Various Blogs
  • HTTP 203 Podcast - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Http203Podcast
  • Jake Archibald - https://jakearchibald.com/posts.rss
  • Freek Van der Herten - https://freek.dev/feed/originals
  • Surma - https://dassur.ma/index.xml
  • Brent Roose - https://stitcher.io/rss
  • Tim MacDonald - https://timacdonald.me/feed.xml
  • Seb De Deyne - https://sebastiandedeyne.com/index.xml
  • Shameless plug - https://freshleafmedia.co.uk/blog/feed
• Tools
  • Sentry - https://blog.sentry.io/feed.xml
  • PhpStorm - https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/feed/
  • GitHub Engineering - https://githubengineering.com/atom.xml
  • Bitbucket - https://blog.bitbucket.org/feed/
• Infrastructure
  • Kubernetes - https://kubernetes.io/feed.xml

At first glance this seems like a lot but it results in only 3-5 posts per day. Most of the time you can scan the head line and summary and know if you're interested or not. The same applies to the JS and HTML weeklys.

If you want to setup your own Slack channel here are the commands to do so:

/feed subscribe https://www.htmhell.dev/feed.xml
/feed subscribe https://thephp.foundation/atom.xml
/feed subscribe https://php.watch/feed/news.xml
/feed subscribe https://stitcher.io/rss
/feed subscribe https://php.watch/feed/articles.xml
/feed subscribe https://feeds.feedburner.com/Http203Podcast
/feed subscribe https://freek.dev/feed/originals
/feed subscribe https://dassur.ma/index.xml
/feed subscribe https://laraveldaily.com/feed/
/feed subscribe https://githubengineering.com/atom.xml
/feed subscribe https://feed.laravel-news.com/
/feed subscribe https://jakearchibald.com/posts.rss
/feed subscribe https://blog.sentry.io/feed.xml
/feed subscribe https://php.net/feed.atom
/feed subscribe https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/feed/
/feed subscribe https://blog.bitbucket.org/feed/
/feed subscribe https://javascriptweekly.com/rss/1o43fna3
/feed subscribe https://html5weekly.com/rss/1anhaa0b
/feed subscribe https://timacdonald.me/feed.xml
/feed subscribe https://sebastiandedeyne.com/index.xml
/feed subscribe https://kubernetes.io/feed.xml