Ask HN:What is your daily web routine?

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by Fuca • 17 years ago

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Mine is: Gmail, Local Newspaper, HN, Reddit..... work/personal sites.

johngunderman• 17 years ago

Gmail, HN, QC, XKCD, sometimes Digg.

My web routine == far too much lost time :)

Sometimes I just have to turn off the internet while I work. Unfortunately, I often need the internet to complete my work. Enter procrastination...

thomasswift• 17 years ago

Email, HN, RubyFlow and my own site to see what people added, then I get back to work.

pg• 17 years ago

I try to start by doing something not online, like walking somewhere to get breakfast and/or working on an essay. When I do sit down in front of a computer, I check HN first, then Gmail. (I'd probably check Gmail first if I weren't the one who had to fix HN if the site was wedged.)

HN and Gmail are the only sites I use regularly. I check the frontpage of Reddit about once every three days, usually when I'm watching HN restart after I've changed something.

jalammar• 17 years ago

iGoogle (contains Gmail, HN, Slashdot, Edge Online, Google tech news) then reddit. Rinse and repeat.

espadagroup• 17 years ago

Google Hosted Domain email, NPR 5 Min Podcast, The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Google Reader, Hacker News

shrughes• 17 years ago

I check reddit, then check HN, then check reddit again, then realize I meant to check proggit.

At this point in time, i forget that I've visited HN, so I check HN again. But then maybe somebody posted something interesting that I missed, so I refresh HN and look at how it changed. I do this a few more times.

Then I ponder, trying to remember what other forums I regularly visit. Ahhh, the Cavern of COBOL. So I check that. And then I think of a few more places. To refresh my programming, I see what's on the Drudge Report. By this time, there might have been a new post on HN, so I go back to HN.

Then I go to work, and check HN and Proggit. Then I check HN throughout the day. Usually while compiling. The build process has gotten quicker lately, so maybe I should get a few more antivirus programs. Then I get home and do anything but get on the computer. God, what was I thinking? Then I get on the computer anyway and check HN and Proggit, and realize that proggit is too low-quality and go back to HN, but then realize that HN is getting really repetitive and it's full of people who are just full of themselves, which I don't like because it reminds me of myself. Then I try to rip myself from the screen and if successful go have a life or something.

rickharrison• 17 years ago

Email, Wall Street Journal, HN, RSS Reader, Digg(once a week maybe), Work

staunch2• 17 years ago

Gmail, HN, iGoogle (one huge page with all my RSS feeds), Reddit, BBC, CNN.

fuzzmeister• 17 years ago

My home page is iGoogle, but instead of reading the stories in the built-in RSS, I always click through to the various sites (Digg, TC, HN, CNN, BBC, etc). No idea why.

staunch2• 17 years ago

I do as well. I like to see the article the way the author posted it and read the comments.

simonb• 17 years ago

Most of the web content I consume goes through my RSS reader (this includes stuff like HN, proggit, xkcd, Delicious subscriptions,...). The only exceptions are Gmail and forums without decent RSS support.

mikeyur• 17 years ago

After logging in I open up twitter and search.twitter to see if anyone has been talking to/about me. Then Gmail, HN. After that I get to work or open up NewsFire (RSS Reader).

rsayers• 17 years ago

First thing is Google reader, everything I read on a daily basis I get through rss, then I ssh into my server and open mutt, after that I'll check twitter.

lacker• 17 years ago

Every day: Work email, Gmail, Google Reader, HN, and FriendFeed. If I have spare time: Reddit, Friendfeed, Techmeme, Twitter.

I also subscribe to a lot of mailing lists that I have a filter set up to automatically label and skip inbox on, that generates a couple thousand extra emails a day that I skim through and read 1% of.

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