Web whetstones

How do you stay sharp as a web developer and/or designer?I’ll share my advice below. I’m also looking for front-end folk to advise me too. What are your whetstones? That is to say: sources of news and knowledge to level up professionally. Does that metaphor work? We’re sharpening our minds, and I suppose the web too with our minds… are minds the whetstone here?Moving swiftly on, in rough order of preference:RSS feedsPeople love to declare “RSS is dead” because they’ve chosen the likes of Google to gate-keep their web access. Interesting choice, but RSS remains alive and well.When I discover a new blog and like what I read, I’ll subscribe. There’s a good chance that person will write something useful again one day! Funny how that works. I don’t flood my reader with big sites that exist to generate content. I collect personal blogs that may only post once a year. That’s still plenty of unique insights as the list grows.I won’t share my list because I feel for RSS to work you have to…