Feeds.
Subscribe in your reader of choice.
// I keep RSS first-class. Full text, no truncation, no paywall, no analytics pixel. Five feeds — pick whichever slice you want, or grab the firehose.
/now block updates.NetNewsWire (macOS / iOS)
Free, fast, open source. What I use. Syncs via iCloud if you want.
Reeder 5
Beautifully designed. Worth the one-time price for serious readers.
Feedbin / Feedly
Hosted, works in any browser. Feedbin if you care about privacy, Feedly if you don’t.
Inoreader
Power-user features — rules, filters, full-text fetch. Worth a look if your inbox is 200+ feeds.
Miniflux (self-hosted)
If you’d rather not let anyone else know what you read. Drops on a Raspberry Pi.
Your terminal
newsboat. I’m not going to lie, I check this one too. It’s very fast.
// RSS is the original way to subscribe to the web. You install a reader, you paste a feed URL like the ones above, and from then on every new post from that site shows up in one place — no algorithm, no email, no notifications hidden behind three taps.
Subscribing this way means: Idecide what I see and in what order. It works for blogs, podcasts, GitHub releases, YouTube channels, Reddit threads — almost anything. You will never need an algorithm again.
Suggested first step: install NetNewsWire, paste the “Essays only” feed above, and forget about it for a week.