RSS
The quickest way to get an update when I post new writings is to follow the RSS feed.1
I recommend receiving RSS alerts by email, through a tool like Blogtrottr.2 Or you can add it to an RSS Reader3 of your choice!
Website Monitoring
An option - other than checking manually - that does not involve RSS is using a web monitoring app to check this website peiodically to see if updates have been made. I recommend Distill, which has a web app and browser extensions, and can do its check using your computer rather than on the cloud.4 The app will email you whenever it detects changes. I recommend setting the time interval to at least a few days - don’t make a computer use a bunch of energy checking a website every hour just for my sake.
Bonus Option: Watch the Github Repo
If you want all the gritty details, you can always see the latest updates to the website on Github.
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RSS stands for RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. We all owe much to the late Aaron Swartz, who helped develop RSS, along with Markdown (the syntax I use to write articles for this site), Creative Commons (the license under which this content is licensed), and Reddit. ↩︎
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You can also set up more complicated stuff like a Zapier integration if you like. ↩︎
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My favorite is Feedly, which has a great iOS app, but there are also plenty of free and open-source options. (Apparently Microsoft Outlook also has an RSS reading feature.) ↩︎
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One of the most popular apps for this is VisualPing, and it works well, but I prefer Distill’s apps. There are also self-hosted web monitoring solutions available, like Huginn. ↩︎