Feed The Dev is a news aggregate website that provides links from various websites that are of interest to developers. The articles are fetched from various sources and are updated every hour.
If you would like to contribute and add a news source to this webite, please check out the Github repository that contains the feeds.json file with all of the sources.
Feed The Dev was created because its developer, Alex Seifert, was tired of having to visit multiple websites to keep up with the news in the world of development. While he uses an RSS reader as well, it does not synchronize with his mobile devices and he wanted a central area to view articles from any device. There are plenty of other news aggregate websites out there, but nothing that was specifically tailored to developers. Feed The Dev was created to fill that gap.
Feed The Dev uses a classic LAMP stack. It is built using PHP with the Symfony framework and a MariaDB database. Some people might be surprised that anyone would choose PHP for a new project, but the reason is entirely pragmatic rather than emotional: hosting should be easy and cheap. PHP hosting with access to a MySQL (or MariaDB) database is ubiquitous and as cheap as it comes whereas other tech stacks are generally much more expensive to host.
Feed The Dev was originally intended to be both a development blog as well as an aggregate website for development-related feeds. However, since the blog was rarely updated, it was decided to pivot the project to only be an aggregate website. The articles that were on the blog were migrated to the developer's personal blog so that they wouldn't be lost.
If you enjoy using Feed The Dev, please consider a donation to help keep the site running and the content coming! You can do so at this link: https://ko-fi.com/feedthedev.
