Minority opinion I guess but as someone who’s lost two siblings I never think a suicide reference is funny.

It’s so, so useful as a marketer (or someone working with marketing data) to have some basic SQL knowledge in your toolbelt.

I suspect the resistance is general fear of anything coding adjacent. But that’s a shame. SQL is one of the most approachable languages, and it’s so useful to quickly check under the hood of a in a particular dataset, or do some exploratory analysis.

RSS doesn’t solve everything. Walled gardens like LinkedIn aren’t really accessible through it. And that’s a shame. We shouldn’t have to be bound to a single platform to share and consume great ideas. But there’s still plenty of the web that RSS can still reach.

But even if a site supplies only the bare minimum in their feed (A headline and a link), I still get what I want: Getting direct updates from the writers and sites I want to hear from. Ownership of my own curation, rather than delegating it to an algorithm to decide for me.

I eventually woke up from that reality and started using readers again, first Feedly, then NetNewsWire, and lately Readwise Reader.
Some sites are better than others in handling RSS.

But it’s always been there, humming along, and it’s arguable more useful than ever in curating what you read on the web.
Years ago, when my beloved Google Reader was killed off, I temporarily was fooled into thinking social media feeds, and their built-in curation would replace RSS adequately.

The argument is stronger now, in the dystopian internet we have today. But even in the early days RSS was one of the best ways to sift through the garbage and mess of the web. These days, it’s a protocol rarely discussed. I imagine most have forgotten about RSS, or don’t even know it exists.

Yeah definitely where I got a bit more invested. First time reading too

I have not but just looked it up and…might have to check it out 😀

I think he thinks he’s as charming as Stede. But we only have his letter to go off of 😆