Replace email newsletters with RSS, get back some control over your attention

RSS is back, with a bang.

With Facebook’s latest data scandal, like many I seem to get more sensitive about privacy. Also, the time and attention it takes to follow my Facebook and Twitter timeline and read all those newsletters I subscribed to, got simply too much.

In an attempt to gain control over the information I consume–and the time and attention I give it–I logged into Feedly for the first time since long ago.

I deleted all feeds from the past. I crawled my email inbox for newsletters that I read regularly. I thought about websites I visit a lot and could

So for my code and design information what I ended up with:

• HackerNews: I love all stories about “learning”, but spend too much time there. Turns out there is a service to make a feed from a search term: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
• Twitter: I follow a couple of people intensively, so I was lucky that I TwitRSS gives me a feed per person: https://twitrss.me
• Github Trends: You can get a feed per technology and select a frequency. That is much better than the general weekly mail I got before: http://github-trends.ryotarai.info/
• Dribbble: To follow the latest design niceties, thereis an excelent unofficial RSS feed: https://dribbble.hittter.com/
• Reddit: To get a feed for your favorite subreddit, just add .rss to it. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev.rss

I did not find good solutions for the following sites:

• IndieHackers
• Quora
• DesignerNews

I know there are many services that convert webpages to RSS or use IFTTT, but I prefer services that do the heavy lifting.

Which services or feeds do you use to get back control over information consumption?