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You can follow the Twitter account of <Programming> 2017, the conference associated with the journal: https://twitter.com/programmingconf

I'll ask if we can set up an RSS feed or mailing list specifically for the journal though. Thanks for the suggestion!

Kind regards, Tim Molderez (publicity chair of <Programming> 2017)

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Just to add fuel to the RSS notion: there's been a minor exodus away from Twitter since the election, so for some of us that's no longer an option.

Pipe the important twitter feeds into an RSS feed. It's what I do :)

Do you use a service for this or something of your own? (I'd encourage a real feed in any case. It's past time to push more information through open channels).

You could use IFTTT, but I think you'd need to give it a Twitter account to work.

I've also found https://twitrss.me/ which doesn't require a Twitter login.

There are dozens, but that is the one I use. It's simple and no-bullshit.

One of the projects I would like to get to this year is writing a crawler that can format twitter and a few other sites that lack a proper RSS feed into an atom feed for me.

This is obviously due to the privacy concerns of pushing the feed through a random third party that can log my IP and determine which feeds I follow.

Still... what I have now is better than using twitter directly.

If you can't provide rss in a simple manner, perhaps you can use twitter but always with the same hashtag so that some service can be used. Twitter <> rss

Yes, please set up an rss feed. Thanks!

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