Currently I get most of my news by working on projects and looking up everything I need. I then have terrible concentration and follow all kinds of links to cool new stuff.
I'm also looking into Twitter.
EDIT: I use Pocket to store a lot of the cool links for later. Then I have stuff to read on the bus and stuff.
I have to actively filter and not read things that are cool and tempting, but are not relevant or are distractions at particular point of time. Given that following sources help me keep updated with things.
Hashnode
Twitter — following different developers helps a lot.
People's Blogs / Medium Publications.
I use feedly to subscribe some of the blogs which don't have a subscribe method.
Some people spend a tremendous amount of time writing blogposts like apollo medium pub , Marmelab, coding horror. It's super interesting to keep reading about things you have no idea about from time to time.
Technology Newsletters — Javascript Weekly, GraphQL Weekly, ReactJS Newsletter, Node Weekly, whatever stack you use you should subscribe to yours.
Twitch TV Live Streams. Believe it or not if you can spare some time, this is a tremendous knowledge gain. This is a long list of developers who live stream or record coding videos frequently.
Podcasts. Whenever I'm running, running errands, walking, attending a boring party I plug in and listen — Changelog Podcast (a plethora of podcasts there, I mainly listen to React Podcast hosted by Michael Jackson), Javascript Jabber etc.
Stack Exchange websites and their email subscriptions — They have different websites for different things — cryptography, reverse engineering, code review, data science, web applications, tor, etc.
For React Ecosystem news Spectrum React is like reddit of react.
I haven't used Reddit for long enough to be able to see how awesome it is, though I've used it to stumble upon stunning things.
Github feed.
Google Alerts by keyword
Cho, Yongjoon
Github Explore
You can subscribe it, too.