Getting News Faster Than Anyone Else, Automatically, with RSS

For situations that require quick confirmation, like a first-come-first-served event on an internal company board, this post introduces RSS as a way to receive new posts instantly without having to repeatedly visit a website yourself.

RSS is an XML-based feed that delivers only the core information of new posts, such as titles, links, and summaries. A reader app can periodically check this feed and trigger notifications without scraping the entire HTML.

There are three key advantages.

• Automatic collection: You can gather new updates without visiting the site directly.
• Fast confirmation: If you set a short check interval, you can receive updates almost instantly.
• Unified management: You can manage feeds from multiple sites together in a single reader.

Setup is also simple. After installing an RSS reader app or browser extension, you just register the blog's RSS address. The post uses a Naver Blog example, entering https://rss.blog.naver.com/rlaalsdn456456.xml and setting the check interval to 10 seconds to verify that new post notifications arrive.

However, RSS also has clear limitations. Because the reader sends repeated requests to the server at fixed intervals, as the number of users grows, this can create unnecessary load from the service's perspective. That's why many services have reduced or removed RSS, moving toward event-driven push notifications and their own app-centric structures.

Even so, RSS remains useful. Even if platforms differ, like Tistory, Medium, and GitHub Pages, as long as the feed format matches, you can gather them all in one place, making it especially strong for anyone who needs to quickly track tech blogs. This blog also provides RSS at https://dev.gmarket.com/rss, so adding it to a reader app lets you receive new posts right away.