Ahoy-hoy. I'm a late-30s Australian who happens to write code for a living (I don't particularly like the title Software Engineer). We had a brief email exchange about year ago regarding some of your career-related posts.
I read via RSS because it allows me to check blogs in bulk when I feel like it, rather than being prodded by notifications. I like to operate on a pull, not push, model for most technology (which also explains why I'm only commenting on this post weeks later). I probably subscribed after seeing a few of your posts linked by Bruce Lawson and/or Cooper Press. Came for the tech stuff, stayed for the reviews of books from authors I'd never heard of — the Becky Chambers books are amazing!
(Although I also stayed for the tech stuff, to be fair.)