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Reddit user RSS feed: follow someone's posts or comments

A Reddit user RSS feed comes in three flavors: /user/NAME/submitted/.rss for the posts someone makes, /user/NAME/comments/.rss for their comments, and /user/NAME/.rss for both mixed together. Put any of them after https://www.reddit.com and your feed reader follows that account. If you only want to…

What is a tech bro? A quick answer and seven signs of the stereotype

What is a tech bro? It is a slang label, nearly always a jab, for a man in tech who acts as if every idea he has will change the world and every rule is optional. Dictionaries list it as disapproving, and the joke version of the type turns up every morning in TechTwitter IO, a free satirical paper…

Form 4 filings: how to read an insider's trade report

Form 4 filings are the reports a public company's insiders send the SEC after trading its stock, due before the end of the second business day after the trade. Each one says who traded, what kind of transaction it was, the price and how many shares the person holds afterwards. Here is how to read…

YouTube upload notifications: why new videos slip past the bell

YouTube upload notifications come from the bell next to the Subscribe button, and setting it to All is the first fix when you keep missing new videos. Even then, YouTube's own help page says not every new upload will produce a notification. For the channels that matter most, a separate alert from…

Google Scholar alerts alternative: five picks for new-paper alerts

The best Google Scholar alerts alternative for most researchers is AyeWatch: it alerts on a research question written in plain English and can watch the publisher and preprint pages where new work shows up first. For something free and tied to one field, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Scholar Inbox and…

Regulatory tracking: how to follow new federal rules, not just bills

Regulatory tracking means following the rules that agencies propose and finalize, not just the bills Congress passes. The free starting point is a Federal Register subscription, and AyeWatch adds a plain-English filter on top, so you get a short summary of the rules that matter to you and your bill…

Tech layoffs news: six places to follow the cuts, one of them funny

The quickest way to keep up with tech layoffs news is to pair one funny daily read with two places that report the cuts straight. Our pick for the daily read is TechTwitter IO, a free satirical paper; for the facts, TechCrunch's layoffs page and Layoffs.fyi cover most of what you need. Here are six…

ClaudeBar in short, and the free pick when you are not on a Mac

ClaudeBar is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows how much of your AI coding quota is left, for Claude and a long list of other tools, with a countdown to each reset. It needs macOS 15 or later, so if you code on Windows or Linux, or you want a longer history next to the meter…

OG image checker: why the share picture breaks, and how to test it

An og image checker downloads the picture named in a page's og:image tag and tells you whether Facebook, LinkedIn and X will show it, shrink it, crop it or drop it. The one we recommend is the image check built into seogeoaeo.ai's Open Graph checker, which reports the file's status, format, pixel…

Tweet notifications by channel: phone, browser, email or Slack

For tweet notifications on your phone, follow the account, tap the notification icon on its profile and choose All posts. For anything beyond that, such as email, Slack, a browser without the X app, or tweets about a subject rather than from one person, X has no setting, and an AyeWatch X monitor…

Claude Max price: what $100 a month buys, and what costs extra

The Claude Max price is $100 a month as of November 2026, billed monthly with no annual option. That buys five times the allowance of the $20 Pro plan; the $200 tier people still call Max 20x is now a separate plan named Ultra.

LinkedIn Ad Library search: each filter and what it finds

A LinkedIn Ad Library search can start from five fields: company or advertiser name, payer name, keyword, country and date range. Pick the field that matches what you already know. A company name pulls up one advertiser, while a keyword can surface every brand running ads on a topic. If all you…