This is a bit strange for anyone to be randoming admitting or saying when you’re 30. At least thats my thought. I can only admit this to myself that I’ve finally manage to belief that I know what I want to be doing. Some folks are able to see that much earlier than 30. Lots of my high school classmates had said to me then that they were going to be doctors, lawyers and what not. Don’t really know if that was fullfilled but as for me at that time I had no clue and didn’t even care what my future was going to be. I just wanted to have a good time.

I’ve already reflected and thought about why it’s taken this long for me to figure it out and I’m done with thinking about it. Now it’s all about nurturing and fulling that mission to be there and do the best I can at accomplishing that for myself. It’s the only thing I am excited about and willing to invest all my time that I have available.

So what type of tool maker will I become? The ones who works / creates software to solve problems. At the moment I don’t know what problems I’ll be solving but my goal is to find the solutions to them when the opportunity arrives. My weapons will be a computer and the knowledge of programming languages and computer operating systems.

At the moment I’m at the beginning of this path. Right now I’m creating a web application to solve my problem with managing my money. I think it relatively easy issue to solve. The hard part is the learning curve on utilizing a programming language that I’m not very comfortable with at the moment but is helping me quickly in my progression on completing the web application. It’s been a fun journey building it.

From my own experiences I can tell you that I’m a bit of a procrastinator. I’m still debating if its something that I do on purpose or not. Very rarely do I finish things on time or a deadline. But the results usually end with completion whether it was on time or not. But how about saving the earth goal? That should include not just me but everyone else that inhabits and utilizes the resources of the earth.

Even now the current president of the country I reside in hasn’t put out a agenda about anything that would help the earth for the future inhabitants. Will humans be capable of living in a sustainable way by the year 2050? Will we’ve figured out a way to live as one with the earth and all the inhabitants without having to exterminate and cause other species to go extinct because of the current ways of living?

I doubt that the human race will pull out some late-night-no-sleep-problem-solved-by-late-morning solution like I did during college and previous jobs. If the human race does solve it at the last minute/second I’d be incredibly impressed. Because saving the earth should not be done and CANNOT be done over night. This is the rare times that I feel pessimistic about anything but for sure the human race is being a procrastinator on this and the end result will be an end for sure.

Twenty seven years until 2040. I’ll be 57 and 67 by 2050. By the rate of human life expectancy right now, I should be capable of being healthy and alive during those years. My parents at this moment are between those years and they’re still working. I’m quite sure towards those later years of life will be lived differently. The resources we have now won’t exist then and this could include medicine and technology. If technology isn’t available in mass as it is now then I don’t think a longer life expectancy might achievable or innovation to help human kind live with more ease? Right now humanity is squeezing out all the available resources. Maybe this is why I don’t want to pursue a family life because I feel certain that this is how the future will pan out and no way I’d want to raise a family in those conditions.

Crazy times are ahead. As for my future as I see it now, a disruptor of some sort if I’m not already.

I always have a hard time explaining what I want to say/convey when I converse with anyone. It’s like my thoughts are going full speed and not allowing me to understand them. I need to understand them so I know how to explain them to others when they need to be output.

One way I’ve discovered doing that is writing my thoughts down. Usually there is a lot if editing as I’m jotting down. This does work for me but it is very time consuming. The work environment I’m in requires that I know what I’m talking about (thats probably everyones else as well). Consequences of miscommunication will hurt me and others if what I’m trying to relay is not done right.

So at this point I guess I’ll become a proficient writer in order to get those thoughts communicated properly and correctly. What other way can this be done?

Some mathematical equations I’m able to think and solve them in my thoughts as i form them without having to write it down. Maybe I should try applying that to how I formulate conversational thoughts? I create sort of a blank canvas and visualize the math equations on it as I’m solving it. Maybe now I can try applying sentences instead of numbers?

Ohhhh but you see I had to write all my thoughts down in order to solve this issue of conveying my thoughts to you! But then again I’m really just talking to myself when I write.

I don’t watch the news at all because I don’t consider any of it of value. But through other avenues, mostly through twitter I’ve seen a lot of news related to mental illness. So much so that I even wrote a post about it on this website recently. Like any other soul in the world, we’ve been depressed for some reason or another. But there is an extreme to depression that some folks aren’t able to pick themselves up from that mindset. I guess Ben was one of those but I honestly don’t know what compelled him to such a choice.

If it was a case of support or even venting out your frustrations I wish he’d believed that we were all there for him. I think that situations like these can be prevented if one just communicates with anyone. You need to let it out. Taking your life is so extreme. But I understand that mental illness is a serious matter as I’ve seen and heard of it more frequently than I’d like to.

Ben was one of the first of my group of friends I met in Houston that had graduated college. We all met through the wonderful community of Starbucks. We all worked there while we went to school. It was a great job but mostly because of the people I met working there. I never actually got to work with him. Ben was always visiting my store because of the other friends we had that worked at my particular store. His older brother Jack did work with me though. We were a wonderful bunch of creatives. I always had a blast helping him and Ben Ploughman with their indie films. They once recruited me to play a Mormon. That was weird.

Ben went on to be a Teacher in the Houston School District. I remember discussing with him about teaching and the experience of what was to be expected. I told that I respected the profession because of the influences that teachers can be on their students. But most importantly in such a huge city as Houston.

Ben was there when I got my first car and I drove it over to his apartment to hang out with him and some of our other friends. After a while we all decided to head out and I told him I just got my car and he should ride with me. As soon as I put the car in reverse I scratched the hell out of my rims. Ben shouted at me “LOS!!!” and I realized what I had done. All I did was look at him and we both started laughing. I thought that was a fantastic reaction. Maybe because he just made me not care of such a little thing. He was always joyful. As we finally headed out we got into a serious conversation about the ladies and then Ben told me one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me “Los if I had a daughter I would want her to marry someone like you”. I was pretty floored by his comment. I could only reply to him with a “thanks Ben!”. It was easy to get close with Ben. He seemed to just provide you with a sense of loyalty. That he had your back.

The last time I was able to hang out with Ben was during the Houston Dynamo’s last season playing in the Robertson Stadium. This would of been the 2011 season. I didn’t know that Ben was a fan of the Dynamo. I had found out through my annoying facebook status that I’d put letting all my friends know I’d be going to watch another Dynamo game. He replied with a comment that he’d be at the game. I was pretty excited to know one of my friends was going to the game. I only had one other friend named Ray who would go to the games with me. So it was pretty cool to see him there. He enjoyed watching the games with the supporters group who were known to get in trouble every now and then. They always had cops nearby them.

I can only remember Ben as a joyful and great person. I never met a depressed or sad Ben. I will miss you pinche Ben!

Ben between Steven Katz and me at a get together doing some Karaoke.

Ben and me busting out a song of the Mexican band Maná.

At first it’s not easy to find them. Usually I have to take the long route before I get fed up and think there’s got to be a quicker way to do this.

So after a bit of trial and error I find a shortcut to my liking. I am infatuated with shortcuts! I’d admit it to the extent of an addiction. Any application, device, etc that I think can be done quicker to what I’m doing I’ll poke and move all I can without being destructful. I can’t help it. Part of it is curiosity driving me and the other is the frustration of knowing there has to be a better and quicker way of doing this. It’s all a matter of time until I can figure it out and BOOM I’ve got it!

Always the same process. First taking the long route to familiarize myself, then the realization that this is a bit long and tedious, then frustration, then trying to figure out a easier way and finally the shortcut is found.

It’s always fun though. I can’t complain.

Then it hit me that she wasn’t all there mentally and I really didn’t know what to do but let her say her peace until her dad just grabbed her and left.

Then the customers who were sitting inside while all this happened went up to me and said your “super nice to have let her just go at you like that”. I just knew whatever I did wouldn’t have done anything except just be patient.

Of course I also realized that was only one time I’d have to endure that verbal attack from her. But her father, like that mother from that link I posted earlier has to be in that situation helplessly over and over again.

That right there is hard. Your own flesh and blood. Your product you produced to the world and they’re a danger to themselves and anyone around them. As always a constant feeling I have, I continue to be so fortunate and lucky. But how can those folks get help?

You really don’t need an Internet connection to obtain education. Obtaining information to make you aware or knowledgable of something you wish to learn about is almost up to your persistence in obtaining it.

I worry about school education, like the one you pay for at the college / university level. The current way of getting a education cost a lot of money. Which then equals to debt after completion or not. You are assured to be owned finically by someone. That sucks.

Like the music industry before napster, they were pretty happy selling music to consumers in plastic trays with papers inside them and the music trapped within a compact disc (cd). They organized the way we were able to consume our music which we paid with our hard earned money. Another perspective would be how they were able to control a product and how we were able to consume it. The only choice we had was how we could or could not pay for it.

Then Napster happened and disrupted and pissed them off. Obviously we still don’t have total control of how we consume our music but we definitely have options like we never had before or thought we could have. I can have my music on my little portable USB drive, MP3 player, phone, computer, and back it up on that old ancient compact disc that was once used as the only way to consume my music. Now it’s used as a storage unit which I’ve yet to ever go back and retrieve music. Mostly because I can store my music in multiple places.

I would say its early days of this sort of event or events happening in the education system. I think we’re a little bit passed the early phases of other ways to obtain education. Back in 2004 I remember my college was offering me to take my newly made course for my newly developed degree online instead of attending a class inside a physical building. An option that had never been offered before in the education industry that I was aware of at the time. I didn’t take the class online initially because I was dependent at the time on the colleges computers for me to do my work. Which meant it didn’t benefit me in being able to do the work from somewhere else other than in my class with my classmates. I found that amazing that it was an option and could see that being the future of the education industry.

Only now or the past few years that websites like Udacity are offering classes that were once available at colleges / universities are being offered online freely. Not only that but are taught by Stanford professors. For free!

Some of the similarities I see between this new wave of obtaining education and obtaining music from napster is choices. Like the music industry offering you a full album but you only want that one song, well Udacity is offering you choices of what you are only interested in. You don’t have to take all the lame classes that aren’t necessary. Just what you care about and see benefit of obtaining. At the moment the choices you make are free. How about that!?

The other similarity is the web. How democratic it is in giving you the power of choice and accessibility. Both napster and Udacity are born from the web platform. A world less traveled and known. We’ve only been on it for around roughly 20yrs. Compare that to other platforms / businesses that provide you consumption like television, radio, telephone and you’ll see how minuscule it is in comparison.

I believe education is extremely important as a human right to have. I’ve been working in the education industry for the past four years. Not much, I know. But I’ve always been a curious one of obtaining knowledge. So this is of importance to me and the industry itself. I’m sure of a few things on the future regarding this industry. The ones who will be needed to further push and guide us along will be teachers and tool creators.

At the moment I’m a tool creator. But how will I adapt to those needs in the future depends on the path that the education industry decides to take. I don’t know whether that’d be a path of openness and transparency. Hopefully not a path of more control because we know how that usually ends up like.

My hope is that education can become as orbital and accessible as music has become. You’ll have all sorts of avenues to pick and choose of your education.

I do understand most people can’t make those types of choices when confronted with that environment. Thats because from elementary up to high school were not educating students to make their proper educated choices or form ideas of their own. They are being taught to follow instructions and be obedient. So this type of change needs to start from the foundation. If this type of process is ever implemented step by step as they go from elementary to high school they’ll be more than adequate to know what to do when they see choices in front of them. Even better they’ll be able to challenge those choices to make better ones than the ones provided.

The way you’ll be faster on your computer will be though the use of keyboard shortcuts. As in simple commands like CONTROL + O. This command opens something on whatever application your using. So my purpose is to show all this shortcuts that I personally know of from mostly two operating systems, Mac OSX, and Windows. From these two operating systems I will showcase the keyboard shortcuts to applications like Microsoft Outlook for Windows, Numbers on Mac OSX, and browsers as well.

They’re two types of ways to see and find the shortcuts to the particular thing you want to know about. First start by operating system, and then application. Or operating system and then operating systems shortcuts for using the operating system you’re using.

Here is a quick outline of a search for keyboard shortcuts on Microsoft Outlook that is available on both operating systems Mac OSX, Windows.

• Windows
  • Microsoft Office
    • Outlook
      • Control + 1 = Inbox View
      • Control + 2 = Calendar View
      • Control + 3 = Task View
      • Etc…

Seems very simple, just show operating system and its applications and you choose which one you want to learn the shortcuts on.

I’ve been wanting to create this website for such a long time. My love of shortcuts started back in 2001 when my instructor in my first class at the Art Institute of Houston told my class that if you want to be ahead of the game start learning the shortcuts to the applications you’ll be using. Ever since then I’ve taken to heart his words because I truly believed that if I couldn’t learn those keyboard shortcuts I’d fail at anything else I tried to learn at the school. I have a lots to document on this website for my own sake.

Hope this website will help you all just as these keyboard shortcuts has helped me. But just knowing the shortcuts doesn’t make you faster its your way of working plus adding the knowledge of keyboard shortcuts that puts you ahead of the game.

First on that screenshot is named “Save it!”. Thats my Instapaper bookmarklet that saves web pages to my Instapaper account to read/access later.

Second on the list “Readability“, a bookmarklet that converts web pages into a ad-free and comfortable reading layout.

Third is the “dyslexic” bookmarklet that replaces all typography on the web page to the Dyslexic open source web font.

Fourth we got the “pinboarded” bookmarklet that stores all web pages that I want to bookmark. Different to Instapaper because Pinboard is used as a library of resources that I store tutorials, how-to’s, manuals, and many other things that I won’t delete. Web storage in other words. Instapaper for just reading material that’ll be removed after I’ve read it.

Fifth and final is “FontFriend” bookmarklet that lets me really modify the web page almost to my liking. Change font to many of the fonts available on Google Web Fonts, font size, line-height, and many more types of modifications.

These bookmarklets are pretty much shortcuts of what I use to do with firebug or webkit web inspector tools. Shortcuts are nice! Of course thanks to those web developers who created them. I’ve even made good use of the bookmarklet technique at work for logging into our monster cms. It just consist of one line of JavaScript. I’ve put it up on my github account so you can make use of that little snippet of code. All it does is append whatever you want to the end of the address bar when you click on the bookmarklet.

For example on a wordpress backed website the address usually ends in yourdomain.com/wp-admin or website.com/wp-login when trying to login. So instead of having to type the “wp-admin” or “wp-login”. Just add it to the snippet code and you’ll be able to go directly to the login page by simply clicking the bookmarklet.

First you create a bookmark of whatever web page on the bookmarks bar. I’m using Google Chrome in this example. But this technique works on all browsers. The difference is in how the technique is applied. IE throws an error but just ignore it and say Yes to the dialog box that appears. If you hit not the JavaScript code won’t be inserted into the bookmark.

Second, edit the URL/Location(Firefox) and add the JavaScript code and you should be done creating your bookmarklet.

Here is the code to add “wp-admin” to the end of your WordPress backed website.

javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href+'wp-admin';

Anyways, I thought I’d share them with you and see if you make good use of them as I do everyday!

I have them organized by folders.

First folder Jobs, because you never know when you’ll need a new one or for me personally another way to keep up with what is being needed in the field of Web Design / Development.

Listed by alphabetical order:

Authentic Jobs

http://www.authenticjobs.com/rss/custom.php?terms=&type=2&cats=&onlyremote=&location=

Design Jobs / Aiga.org

http://feeds.feedburner.com/design-job-postings

Dribble / Full Time Jobs

http://dribbble.com/jobs.rss

Smashing Jobs

http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/rss/freelance/all

37signals Jobs

http://jobs.37signals.com/categories/1/jobs.rss

Second folder Good Reads, when in the mood for reading some good long articles or anything not entirely web design / development related.

Seth’s Blog

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/atom.xml

Subscribers: 240,431

Great inside information about keeping it real with customers and other sort of related topics.

Think Mexican

http://thinkmexican.org/rss

Subscribers: 37

Because I’m Mexican thats why!

Third folder Misc, just information that is really something that peaks my specific interests. So far not to much just the one below.

Ciclistas Urbanos

http://ciclistasurbanos.org/feed/

Subscribers: 2

Well because I like being on a bicycle and I know the people behind the folks of this bicycle group.

Fourth folder Nerdo, information for nerds pretty much. Nerdo is I’d guess the slang in spanish for nerd which I’ve been called a few times and well couldn’t think of a better name for the folder.

App.net

http://blog.app.net/feed/

Subscribers: 34

My new NOT twitter social network that’s currently invaded by fellow nerds. It’s also a paid membership social network. At the time of this writing it’s $5 dollars a month, $36 a year, and $100 a year for developer (super duper nerd) membership. I initially paid $50 bucks for alpha.app.net/cazepeda because I helped fund the project before it launched. But I did pay for a second account alpha.app.net/cienfuegos for my graphic designer persona which was at the new yearly price of $36.

Kottke.org

http://feeds.kottke.org/main

One of the best feeds that really keeps you up to date with new nerd gadgets, apple stuff, and technology related topics. Fantastic information and really well organized and written. I recommend even if you’re not a nerd.

Profserious

http://blog.prof.so/feeds/posts/default

Subscribers: 896

London’s Global University Engineering Dean’s personal blog. He writes about he’s students and bits and pieces of the different aspects of engineering. Pretty good inside and perspective of the educators that are preparing our future. Just be ready for some long reads though, he gets into it.

One Thing Well

http://onethingwell.org/rss

Subscribers: 6,555

I kind of think of this blog a bit like kottke.org but just plain straight up “Here this just happened in software news, check it out.”. No filter and just give it to me type of format.

Rands in Repose

http://www.randsinrepose.com/index.xml

Subscribers: 44,987

If you really like to hear about nerds or fascinated by them, this is the blog to follow. Really well written.

SachaGreif

http://sachagreif.com/feed/

Subscribers: 605

A designer with technical background that’s created apps and what not. I always try to find good ones who sort of keep an up to date blog and that they blog about what they’re creating. He’s one of them.

samsoff.es

http://samsoff.es/posts.atom

Subscribers: 372

The creator of the Cheddar app which I’m a paid member of. I goes to keep a list at all times on my iPhone, iPad and Macbook. He’s product is good with nice athletics to it. He considers himself more of a developer but does good design work as well.

Shawn Blanc

http://shawnblanc.net/feed/

Subscribers: 452

Well if you can’t enough of technology news from Kottke.org then Shawn Blanc’s got some more for you. But a very cool section of his blog is about other designer / developers Sweet Mac Setups. You can spend some time going through those.

Stanford Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/home/feed

Subscribers: 456

Since I’m a bit of a security and mostly privacy nut, its good to be informed. Right now I’ve yet to find a better place to find that type of information than Stanford’s Law School blog about said topic.

Fifth folder Visual / Product Design, all about eye candy! Really that’s how I usually treat this folder feeds. I just go through them and be amazed by these talented designers. There is a good mix of graphic design, visual interactive design, product design information. My favorite folder really.

Anton Repponen

http://work.repponen.com/rss/

Subscribers: 150

Amazing quality work from Anton. You can spend a whole day just going through he’s work.

Brand New

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/atom.xml

Subscribers: 174,240

If you are a graphic designer you really should already have this in your RSS feeds. If not, you’re about to feel guilty for not having been following it. One of my favorite things done on this blog is the discussion of a brand new logo for some company with the good and bad points about it. Recommended!

Design Work Life

http://www.designworklife.com/feed/

Subscribers 8,296

Another feed that graphic designers should already know about. So much work displayed of upcoming designers and students. Very inspiring amount of work that comes from this website. Also not a lot of discussion and just straight up eye candy format. I like! Recommended for sure!

Draplin Design Co.

http://www.draplin.com/atom.xml

Subscribers: 1,462

I have a favorite graphic designer from Mexico named Mr. Kone and in the United States this man would be it. They have very unique styles that at first you’d probably say I can do that. But just you try to replicate the work they do and see that it’s their experience that has made it look that simple.

Huds and Guis

http://hudsandguis.com/feed/

Subscribers: 279

This is a great and I’d say rare blog because it’s about graphical user interface designs. I’m sure some of you know what that is but we usually don’t pay attention very closely when we see that on movies, commercial or some format that isn’t on the computer screen per say. This folks do a great job of finding them and proving links to the sources of what they’ve found. I’ve always been a sucker for interfaces that appear on movies and one of the easy ones to describe to others what it is, the movie Tron Legacy. All over the place in that movie.

Instrument

http://blog.weareinstrument.com/rss

114

A creative design agency blog. These folks have recently been doing a lot of work for Google. Lot of the recent Google I/O 2012 boards, signs and what not at the conference were designed by them. But they really do just about anything that involves being creative and solving problems with design. They seem to have fun at that place.

Inventing Interactive

http://www.inventinginteractive.com/feed/

Subscribers: 518

Kind of like Huds and Guis blog, but still just as good because I usually find different articles on both. Have yet to find the same thing on either or. All about interactive!

jtnimoy

http://jtnimoy.net/rss/

Subscribers: 264

The maker of Tron Legacy’s interfaces! Enough said! A programmer who knows art and creates it. Read he’s About page.

Little Big Details

http://littlebigdetails.com/rss

Subscribers: 11,718

A must for designer of the interfaces variety! These folks find the smallest of details that we ALL miss but they find and show you what that was. Fascinating, especially when it’s a product you use daily and then you see them tell you about this little thing that you’ve never noticed. Recommended even if you’re not a designer!

Lovely Package

http://lovelypackage.com/feed/

Subscribers: 22,369

Yet another must subscribe to if you’re a graphic designer! A lot of product design stuff like Brand Identity and packaging articles. This one will make you feel like “I suck at this!”. It will just you see and drool.

MUDEO

http://mudeo.wordpress.com/feed/

Subscribers: 5

If you’re a sucker for architecture, this is the blog for you!

Nice Fucking Graphics!

http://nfgraphics.com/feed/

Subscribers: 3,001

My favorite blog feed! Thats from all my feeds I subscribe to, this is my favorite one that I look to dive into first. You’re a graphic designer, this is the website you want to follow if you don’t want to follow any of the others ones I’ve recommended, this is the one. A plus if you live in Mexico because a lot of designery conferences are usually promoted on here.

Precious Design Studio

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/precious-articles

Subscribers: 160

A creative agency / studio blog. They tend to write about their projects they’re working on but of course without the details of who the client is and even what specifically it is their working on. Yea I know not really writing about what they’re working on but at the same time they are writing about it. I like it because it’s like I’m sort of peeking into their studio.

Robin Boyden Illustration

http://www.robinboydenillustration.com/rss/

Subscribers: 1 (me!)

I love illustrations! This is why I follow this blog feed. When I find designers who solely just do illustrations I tend to add them to my RSS feeds if it’s available.

Sebastiaan de With

http://dewith.com/feed/

Subscribers: 1,402

A designer of the visual interface variety who does good work and even provides PSDs for you to download. Pretty nice!

Share Some Candy

http://www.sharesomecandy.com/atom.xml

Subscribers: 3,807

Eye candy for your eyes of all sorts! They include from brand identity, architecture, and even commercials. Fun blog!

Spoon & Tamago

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/feed/

Subscribers: 2,713

A rare find when I remember first finding it. Don’t even remember how that happened either? Just about exclusively of Japanese design! My favorites are the articles about Japanese architecture. Amazing buildings, houses that come out of those! I recommend this to everyone! It’s hard not to like Japanese design.

Yanko Design

http://www.yankodesign.com/feed/

Subscribers: 27,554

You want to take a peek of what future gadgets, cars we’ll be using or our kids? Subscribe to this blog! Everything of possible future products being designed conceptually. I remember there was even a conceptual design of a Facebook phone. Hell no! But it did look nice and blue.

Sixth folder Web Design, my bread and butter feeds all included here! You could say I’m very dependent on these blogs / websites for their content and my education in this field. We start it off with a big hitter!

A List Apart

http://www.alistapart.com/feed/rss.xml

Subscribers: 27,782

Like those graphic design blogs that you must be subscribed to, well if you’re a web designer this would be the ONE website you should be subscribed to. Everything about web design discussed in it’s best way! These are not tutorials or how-to’s, it’s well written long articles about WEB DESIGN TOPICS!

Adactio

http://adactio.com/journal/rss

Subscribers: 3,313

Like what Paulie told Rocky in Rocky IV just before Rocky was to go into the ring against the Russian Ivan Drago, “if I could just unzip myself and step out and be someone else, I’d wanna be you.”, I’d want to be like Jeremy Keith in terms of being a web developer. He’s great! I meet him at SXSW 2009! Enough said!

CSS-Tricks

http://css-tricks.com/feed

Subscribers: 34

I really shouldn’t need to tell you about these website ESPECIALLY if you’re a web designer. Who hasn’t learned a thing or two from this website. Enough said!

Digging into WordPress

http://digwp.com/feed

Subscribers: 9

I know they’re countless of WordPress blogs but this one is the one I like the most. Jeff Starr is pretty well known around WordPress Developer circles. The tips and tricks on this website tend to be pretty basic. Nothing to complex to understand. Also WordPress is my go to CMS when building websites. So this blog is important.

Distilled Hype

http://distilledhype.com/feed

Subscribers: 66

Like the kottke.org and shawnblanc.net websites, this one would be almost like those except for the content is strictly for web developers. This website definitely keeps you up to date with what web developers are using to develop websites.

Hannon Hill News

http://feeds.feedburner.com/HannonHillNews?format=xml

Subscribers: 14

Hannon Hill has a CMS named Cascade Server. I’m just now starting to work on it. So if I want to make the best of it’s use I need to know what’s happening with the company that makes it. It’s not a free product either! I’ve meet some of the developers of the product on a recent trip to Hotlanta, Georgia. Nice folks!

Jeffrey Zeldman

http://www.zeldman.com/rss/

Subscribers: 6,660

The Godfather of Web Design! Enough said! Subscribe NOW! Also got to meet and take a picture with him at SXSW 2009. I was so nervous I said to him “Hello Mr. Jeffrey can I take a picture with you?”. Dork!

Luke Wroblewski

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FunctioningForm

Subscribers: 16,816

The man knows how to design web forms! He’s book on web form design is like the bible for some. Just take my word for it, but web forms are not nice to work with. But he’s book made it a bit more simple to work with them.

The Foundry from Sparkbox

http://www.seesparkbox.com/feed

Subscribers: 100

I started following this blog after what they did for http://www.msj.edu college website. As someone who’s been working in the education field for the past four almost five years, what they did on that website is impressive. College / University websites are almost impossible to manage and make it a unified website design. But they did it and I must find out how!

This is Responsive

http://responsive.rga.com/rss

Subscribers: 331

If you are aware at the moment and are a web designer, you’d know Responsive Web Design is the trendiest thing at the moment and this specific blog is all about it!

Toolbelt Workbench

http://blog.toolbe.lt/feed/

Subscribers: 2 (me and the developer)

Sort of a recent website geared to web developers and sharing what others use to build websites. Kind of like Distilled Hype.

Vassar Web Design

http://webdesign.vassar.edu/feed

Subscribers: Unknown?

A university / college blog about web design in the education environment. Pretty nice find for my specific needs.

WordPress Development Blog

http://wordpress.org/development/feed/

Subscribers: 28,740

I’m mean really if you work with WordPress you better be on this blog feed! Enough said!

Finally the seventh and final folder Yo, all about me, me, me! Well I got to make sure that the three websites I post from are working when using it’s RSS feeds.

mibrownsville.com

http://mibrownsville.com/feed

Subscribers: 1 (me)

All about me mostly riding my bicycle around my hometown and taking pictures. Thats all there is to it.

Cienfuegos Design

http://cienfuegos.co/feed

Subscribers: 1 (me)

My so-called portfolio website.

czepeda.com

http://czepeda.com/feed/

Subscribers: 3

My blog about randomness! Really just random. Bad grammar and what not. But I am a bit active on it.

Alright that’s it! In total I have 51 subscriptions. I usually go through them throughout the week. Impossible to read them all in one sitting. Usually on the weekends I get to finish them and start all over on Monday. So for those dummies who said RSS is dead, they’re so narrow minded. It’s a great web technology that I’m very fortunate to make a great use of. I have a debt of gratitude for Dave Winer the inventor of RSS for this great tool.

Also a side note to know, the subscriber numbers are probably wrong. I should have around 20,000 subscribers to my blog. Just kidding I’m using Google Readers Details and Statistics feature that lists the subscription feed url and number of subscribers number. They’re other details like Posts per Week and Last updated. I don’t think its quite accurate either. So don’t take those numbers as absolutes. Another thing that I advice is try to get the websites source feed url and not the feedburner feed url because I believe google is about to close the doors on that service for website feeds. I have a few on my list that use the feedburner feed url because I couldn’t find the source feed.

Well I hope some of these blogs / websites are useful to you as they are to me!