When I try to keep more or less up to date with what happens in the World – both personally and professionally (FreeBSD side mostly) – I use(d) social media like X/Mastodon/Bluesky/LinkedIn/… or sites like FreeBSD Forums/Hacker News/Reddit/… but always something was missing. If course no harm has been done – its just I included an interesting and valuable article on the next issue of Valuable News … but why not try to get back to good old RSS for more?Initially I followed only several sites over RSS – but more has come over time – and as I get closer to 40 of additional sources – I thought that I could share how to keep track of RSS sources on FreeBSD.GUI with LifereaAfter some search I found the Liferea GUI RSS client.It does exactly what I need. It just keeps track of RSS sources I configured and updates only when I request it with Update All button.TUI with NewsboatAfter some time spent with Liferea I wondered … maybe there is even some console/TUI client that does the same? … and there is Its called Newsboat and works nice under FreeBSD.As I already had all RSS sources configured in Liferea I exported them to the Newsboat config.% mkdir -p ~/.newsboat/% grep -E -o "xmlUrl.*" ~/.config/liferea/feedlist.opml | awk -F '"' '{print $2}' > ~/.newsboat/urls% newsboatNow this is what I saw after starting Newsboat with my RSS sources.Now you can hit [SHIFT]+[r] to reload all RSS sources.Here is how the process looks in progress.After some time most/all RSS sources are updated.To not favor anyone – lets check how my blog RSS works.Now lets select one of them.One of the first things I do in Liferea is that double click on an entry that seems interesting – to make it open in the Firefox browser.This is where Newsboat surprised me positively – I can hit [o] key – and it will also open in the Firefox browser Manual WayOne can also use the most bare option – no client at all – just personally parse RSS sources.These are mine RSS sources for today.% grep -E -o "xmlUrl.*" ~/.config/liferea/feedlist.opml | awk -F '"' '{print $2}'https://sourceforge.net/p/bsdrp/activity/feedhttps://atthis.link/rss.xmlhttps://briancallahan.net/blog/feed.xmlhttps://blog.feld.me/feeds/all.atom.xmlhttps://binsh.dev/author/binshdev/rss/https://www.cambus.net/atom.xmlhttps://discoverbsd.com/feeds/posts/defaulthttps://evilham.com/en/blog/feed.xmlhttps://eugene-andrienko.com/en/feed.xmlhttps://eoli3n.github.io/feed.xmlhttps://freebsd.uw.cz/feeds/posts/defaulthttps://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/feed/https://www.filfre.net/feed/rss/https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100https://hnrss.org/bestcommentshttps://honeyguide.eu/posts/index.xmlhttps://ipng.ch/index.xmlhttps://www.laeran.pl.eu.org/blog.rsshttps://michal.sapka.pl/rss.xmlhttps://ounapuu.ee/index.xmlhttps://pixelnerd.pl/rsshttps://pilledtexts.com/index.xmlhttps://people.freebsd.org/~dch/rss.xmlhttps://sidneys1.com/feed.xmlhttps://stafwag.github.io/blog/atom.xmlhttps://www.tumfatig.net/index.xmlhttps://thejpster.org.uk/atom.xmlhttps://xkcd.com/atom.xmlhttps://technophobeconfessions.wordpress.com/feed/https://vermaden.wordpress.com/feed/https://vermaden.wordpress.com/comments/feed/Now – lets parse the same I tried in the Newsboat TUI client.% curl https://vermaden.wordpress.com/feed/ 2> /dev/null \ | grep '' '{print $2}' \ | awk -F '