18 Nov 2025
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/e-reader-workflow/
The mission is simple: spend less time looking at my phone. I’ve made several adjustments to my information diet and to how I consume content online, but many of these changes made me even more tethered to my phone. So I set out to read more on my e-reader instead of constantly staring at my phone.
Put the phone down
First, a brief detour into my browsing and reading habits. I subscribe to a lot of feeds (check out my blogroll!) and going through my RSS reader gives me a similar dopamine hit to ...
26 Sep 2025
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/
The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful.
What the hell is RSS?
RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a standa...