In the Web 2.0 era, I always started my day in my RSS reader. A mainstay of this blog at its peak was covering the debuts and new features from many different approaches to staying caught up on friends and the news, not just from Google Reader (RIP), but Feedly, Lazyfeed, Flipboard, TweetDeck, Shyftr, my6sense and too many others to mention.
Webnerd.ai -- with the Cloud Nine theme.
Pick from many themes to browse with color.
For old-school RSS junkies, Webnerd.ai should feel really familiar. It features trends, you can follow other curators, see recommended items, and the basics you would expect, keeping feeds current and alerting you to new posts.
Reading and curating the best of the web on Webnerd.ai.
Webnerd.ai is built in the spirit of the original open web: subscriptions to your favorite sources you trust, simple discovery, and one-click sharing, just like we all used to, including your own shared items, which has its own RSS feed, and even straight to Bluesky -- my preferred space (lacking the toxicity of others), but if you must, Facebook and X work too. I've been sharing as lgstream on Bluesky already, and it works great.
My Webnerd.ai reading stats from the last 7 days
For those of you nerds (like me) who have OPML, bring it and get started. Or just pick from the many curated bundles I've spun up (with Antigravity's help) to start filling your feeds.
Webnerd.ai comes pre-loaded with content. You can preview the feeds and subscribe.
What's in Those Curated Bundles
Every feed in these 12 bundles has been verified for active publishing so you can preview the stream and subscribe with a single click. On day one, here are the 128 voices powering our launch bundles:
- 🍎 Apple Core (Mac/iPhone fans): Daring Fireball, Six Colors, MacStories, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Michael Tsai, 512 Pixels, Pixel Envy, The Eclectic Light Company, Birchtree, and TidBITS.
- 🤖 Robot Rave (The Android diaspora): 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Authority, Android Central, Droid Life, XDA, Android Developers Blog, Phandroid, SamMobile, Android Headlines, and Chrome Unboxed.
- 🧠 AI Insiders (AI leadership and insights): Simon Willison's Weblog, One Useful Thing, Latent.Space, Ben's Bites, Interconnects, Don't Worry About the Vase, Understanding AI, Exponential View, Import AI, Hamel's Blog, and Sebastian Raschka.
- 🚀 Active Tech Voices (Active independent tech bloggers): louisgray.com, Platformer, Where's Your Ed At, Cautious Optimism, Spyglass, Big Technology, Pivot to AI, Sean Goedecke, The Pragmatic Engineer, Not Boring, Computer, Enhance!, and Techdirt.
- 🏛️ Political Pundits (US politics from the spectrum): Slow Boring, Silver Bulletin, Letters from an American, Noahpinion, Paul Krugman, The Bulwark, Persuasion, Political Wire, Strength In Numbers, and Civil Discourse.
- 🔌 Gadgets Galore (Hardware of every kind): Engadget, The Verge: Tech, The Verge: Smart Home, WIRED Gear, Liliputing, The Gadgeteer, GSMArena, CNX Software, DPReview, ServeTheHome, and Hackaday.
- 🎵 Music & Liner Notes (Notes on notes): The Honest Broker, The Lefsetz Letter, Aquarium Drunkard, Fluxblog, Can't Get Much Higher, Dada Drummer Almanach, The New Cue, Flow State, First Floor, and Stereogum.
- 🏟️ Smart Sports (Sports and Analytics): JoeBlogs, The Stein Line, Neil Paine's Substack, The Long Game, House of Strauss, TrueHoop, Cup of Coffee, Read Optional, DC Rainmaker, Kareem's Substack, Grace on Football, and Basketball Feelings.
- 🎬 Culture, Screen & Page (Culture and film): kottke.org, Austin Kleon, Culture Study, The Reveal, What's Alan Watching?, Counter Craft, Entertainment Strategy Guy, Blackbird Spyplane, Swissmiss, and The Intrinsic Perspective.
- 📈 Markets & Macro (Business and economics): Chartbook, Kyla's Newsletter, A Wealth of Common Sense, The Big Picture, The Diff, Calculated Risk, TKer, Stay-At-Home Macro, Apricitas Economics, and Construction Physics.
- 🔬 Science, Medicine & Nature (Science!): Ground Truths, Your Local Epidemiologist, In the Pipeline, Sustainability by Numbers, Volts, Experimental History, Shtetl-Optimized, Inside Medicine, Astral Codex Ten, and Why Evolution Is True.
- 🍳 Kitchen, Table & Drink (Food bloggers): David Lebovitz, What To Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking, Kitchen Projects, Fingers, The Bittman Project, Stained Page News, Smitten Kitchen, Vittles, and A Cup of Jo.
To get started, sign in with your Google account at Webnerd.ai, grab a bundle or two, and start reading and sharing. Webnerd.ai works great on desktop, and mobile continues to get better! Android app soon. See you in the feeds, and let me know what you think.