How to Follow a Blog

June 2025 (374 Words, 3 Minutes)

Blogs are pretty much the best thing ever. There are blogs full of insights and original takes and blogs linking to interesting parts of the internet. I have a couple favorite blogs listed below, that I personally enjoy. But, how does one follow a blog?

On some blogs, you can leave your email address and they will email you all their new posts. I find that inconvenient, because the mail inbox gets flooded with emails. Another way to follow a blog is on social media, if they are on social media. But that’s inconvenient for other reasons.¹

There is an extremely convenient and simple way to follow most blogs (including all blogs on Substack², Medium, Bluesky and Mastodon). It’s an old technology called RSS. Think of it as podcasts for reading.

Screenshot of NetNewsWire with some Blogs followed — NetNewsWire with some followed blogs

A great RSS app for Apple devices is NetNewsWire. With NetNewsWire installed, following a new blog is as simple as sharing the webpage of the blog to NetNewsWire from your browser.

Screenshot of the iOS share menu opened from Safari on a blog showing the NetNewsWire app icon — 1) Tap the share button when visiting a blog you like, then select your RSS app. If it doesn't appear in the list, tap the three dots on the right to find it.

Screenshot of the pop-up menu to add a new feed to NetNewsWire — 2) Tap "Add Feed" in the pop-up menu

Alternatively, clicking the RSS symbol (if the blog has one) does the same thing.

Screenshot of the RSS symbol — Tapping the RSS icon should open your installed RSS app automatically

It really is that simple. You now have a chronological, high-quality feed of the authors you enjoy reading. You can also enable iCloud sync to have the same feed across your devices. NetNewsWire is also available for Mac.

And I haven’t tested it, but Feedly News Reader might be a good alternative on Android and the web.

Blog Recommendations

These are some of the blogs I love reading.

Marginal Revolution: Written by two economists, this is a blog broadly about economics. A great source of interesting articles and studies.
Daring Fireball: Technology blog with a focus on Apple by John Gruber, the inventor of Markdown. His takes are always well thought-through and measured.
Space-Biff: I can’t even begin to imagine how hard it must be to write entertaining reviews for boardgames. But Dan Thurot does it in Space-Biff.

If you have blog recommendations for me, please send them over.

Happy reading!

Maybe you don’t have or don’t want the particular social media that a blog uses. Maybe the blog posts would get buried by the algorithm. Maybe you would miss them if you didn’t check in on the app at the right time. ↩
For Substack you need to make sure you are on the correct URL when you share. It should look like username.substack.com ↩