How to Follow

Thanks for the interest!

If you want to follow me on various platforms, I’m on GitHub, Bluesky (mostly posts syndicated from this site, and convos), LinkedIn (barely, usually in need of an update), and the fediverse at @piper@vis.social. I’m a lurker only on Instagram, if you’re interested in the few photos I take then check out the photolog.

If you want to be notified when I’ve published a new note, you have a few options. Members of the fediverse can follow @blog@piperhaywood.com, Bluesky users can just follow my account, email lovers (masochists, every last one of you!) can sign up for weekly or monthly publishing summaries via this MailChimp form, or you can use RSS. The old stalwart, can be topic-specific, and my personal preference. More below.

RSS

RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary”, and it’s a standardised format that allows a reader to get updates about a website in the RSS app of their choice. It’s been around for a while but unfortunately isn’t used all that often any more. The Vice article “The Rise and Demise of RSS” outlines the history pretty well.

But it’s not dead! It’s still a useful tool for keeping up to date with the online content that is important to you. Unlike social media, it keeps the user in control of their content and the overall noise level.

The main RSS feed for this website is:

https://piperhaywood.com/feed

There are also RSS feeds for every topic, you just have to add /feed to the end of the permalink URL to get the topic-specific RSS feed URL. For example, the “Processes” category:

Permalink URL: https://piperhaywood.com/category/work/processes
RSS URL: https://piperhaywood.com/category/work/processes/feed

There aren’t as many RSS apps as there used to be, but there are still a few out there including Feedly. If you don’t have one already, search online to find one that suits you best.