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The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found , a piece...
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found, a piece written by Colson Whitehead just a month after 9/11. “The New York City you live in is not my New York City; how could it be? This place multiplies when you’re not looking.”
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Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Fascinating and at times brilliant. I never quite got over being creeped out by the spiders, though. 📚
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1903 "Non-Practicing"
No Agenda Episode 1903 - "Non-Practicing"
Non-Practicing
Executive Producers:
Baron Tommyhawk of the Heartland
Anonymous
Randy Filkins
Adam Banks
Jamie Forsythe
Maygan Cline
Thomas Blowers
Tim Erlandsen
Dr. Don & Dame Audra
Sir nussbaum
Sir Justin Karsk of Jobber's Canyon
Sir Luca
Dame Becky — Becky Chinni, Baronetess of the Great Katy Prairie
Sir 10CFR50B, Baronet of the Palouse
Matthew Ferrell
Associate Executive Producers:
John Whiddon
Maggie Carty (switcheroo from Rob the Constitutional Lawyer)
Rob the Constitutional Lawyer
Manuka Gold
Sclazin' Hot Sauce
Calapooia Meetup
Robert Anderson
Linda Lupatkin
Christopher Choate
Scottie K
Knights and Dames:
Maggie Carty > Dame Maggie, Secret Dame of the Lake
Title Changes:
Sir 10CFR50B > Baronet of the Palouse (was Baronet of the Willamette Valley)
Order of the Ant:
Sir Mike (switcheroo from Dame Becky)
Randy Filkins
Jamie Forsythe
Sir nussbaum
Sir Justin Karsk of Jobber's Canyon
Sir 10CFR50B, Baronet of the Palouse
End of Show Mixes:
Jus Baker (Curry & Brunetti)
Jus Baker (Connection is Protection 2.0)
Jus Baker (Who's Freight)
Art By: Blue Acorn
Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
Back Office Jae Dvorak
Chapters: Dreb Scott
Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
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Congrats to the USA women's team at FIBA! Forgot the game was a little early, now watching the highlights. 🏀
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The Midterms Will Be a Referendum on MAGA (with Greg Sargent)
In this podcast, host Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Greg Sargent, staff writer for The New Republic and host of the Daily Blast podcast, discuss Trump's cratering poll numbers—worse than Bush's after Katrina—and what that means for the country, including how elites got hoodwinked by the vibe shift, why MAGA isn't working, and whether a major realignment is coming.
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about the problems with the latest court ruling against Elon Musk: Heads I win, tails you lose Problematic law is passed: A) Company or individual rushes a legal challenge out so they aren’t accused of waiting too long […] -
Added a new page in Micro.blog on the web today to highlight The New York Times best sellers. We usually avoid popularity contests, but this one feels right, like a shelf you'd see in a bookstore. I want to add more collections later, like nominees for the Booker Prize, Hugo Awards, and others.
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📸 Watching the world go by.
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📸 A Long Day ...
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Lick Lick.
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This is a test from Moshidon ➡️ micropub ➡️ indiekit MongoDB ➡️ Eleventy note ➡️...
This is a test from Moshidon ➡️ micropub ➡️ indiekit MongoDB ➡️ Eleventy note ➡️ Syndication to here #fediverse #ActivityPub
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🎥 Finished watching: 🔗 Shelter … Jason doing Jason and Bill doing Bill. Meanwhile so many movies I actually want to watch … what am I doing wrong?
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🎥 Finished watching: 🔗Justice League .. though I use the term ‘watching’ loosely. I fell asleep.
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💬 This I knew .. but I didn’t save it for the knowledge. I saved it for the writing.
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💬 Sadly, not just tech.
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I like her , perhaps that’s another good thing in the US landscape : Journalists...
I like her, perhaps that’s another good thing in the US landscape : Journalists saying fuck you to billionaires owned media platforms and building resistance and free thinking outside of the limited, bowed, humiliated media conglomerates that are licking Trump’s booth.
And the media are not alone, there are universities, law firms, corporations, tech moguls, ALL bowing to the King.
So the best thing that can happen is good people saying fuck you and taking a hike to build resistance on the side.
There isn’t just one way to resist. In fact, the best resistance against a corrupt regime is a multitude of forms of resistance.
At least some USians are not totally lost. And that’s good.
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After my 6th "mark all as read", I built a reader that doesn't count
My problem wasn't finding blogs, it was keeping them. My bookmark bar became a graveyard of 200+ sites. I'd never check because who wants to manually visit 30 sites a day?
So I moved to RSS like everyone here. Then I got the second problem: 1000+ unread badge anxiety. Every reader looked like Gmail. I'd fall behind, feel guilty, hit "mark all as read", swear I'd start fresh. Did that like 6 times. That's what I mean by bankruptcy.
A year ago I started a personal project to fix it for myself. I've been using it daily since, and figured I'd finally share it: suprafeed.cmozaiq.com
The core decision: there is no unread count. No inbox.
You make shelves (like "slow blogs" vs "news"). You paste any blog / Substack URL and it finds the feed + favicon + articles. Then:
- Focused shelf = one article at a time for deep reading, prev/next + bookmark dock
- Digest shelf = scannable list for high-volume sources, auto-purges old news after 24h
Live here if you want to try it: suprafeed.cmozaiq.com
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I don’t know how USians aren’t more bothered — even humiliated — by watching Can...
I don’t know how USians aren’t more bothered — even humiliated — by watching Canadians resist Trump more coherently than the United States itself.
And I don’t mean that Americans aren’t resisting. They are. People protest, states sue the federal government, judges block illegal decisions, Trump’s approval is collapsing.
But look at Canada.
Canadian consumers are boycotting American products. Businesses are finding new suppliers. Travel to the United States remains dramatically below 2024 levels. The Canadian government now has an explicit strategy to double exports outside the United States. And Canada is moving closer to Europe economically, strategically and militarily — to the point that Mark Carney is reportedly exploring some kind of unprecedented “associate” relationship with the EU.
That’s not just anger anymore.
That’s adaptation.
And I think this is the part Americans haven’t fully reckoned with yet.
The United States hasn’t lost its military power. It hasn’t stopped being one of the largest economies on Earth. It hasn’t magically ceased to matter.
What it is losing is something much harder to rebuild: trust.
The assumption that the United States is a reasonably predictable ally, a stable trading partner and a country whose commitments will survive the next election.
That assumption is dying.
International polling already shows an extraordinary deterioration in America’s reputation. Even indexes that still rank the United States first in global soft power recorded the largest decline of any country in 2026.
And once countries start reorganizing themselves around the possibility that America cannot be trusted, replacing Trump with another president doesn’t simply reset the clock.
Supply chains get rebuilt. Trade goes elsewhere. Defence industries develop alternatives. Alliances deepen. Infrastructure gets constructed. Companies learn how to operate without American suppliers. Governments discover that strategic autonomy is not merely an ideological slogan but insurance against Washington.
That is the extraordinary self-harm of Trumpism.
Trump promised to make America so powerful that everyone would have to bend to it.
Instead, he is teaching everyone how to live without it.
Canada is doing it. Europe is doing it. Other countries will do it in their own ways — sometimes because they want to, sometimes because they have no choice.
And that may ultimately be healthy.
A world less dependent on a single country is potentially more resilient. Europe should have developed greater autonomy decades ago. Canada probably should never have allowed such overwhelming dependence on one trading partner. Countries in Africa and Latin America have every reason to diversify relationships rather than constantly choose between great powers.
The irony is brutal.
No terrorist organization, foreign adversary or grassroots revolutionary movement could realistically have inflicted this kind of strategic damage on the United States.
It required the United States itself.
There is something almost Brexit-like about it: external enemies can hurt you, but self-harm has a completely different scale. You know where your institutions are. You know which alliances matter. You know which foundations are load-bearing.
And then you dismantle them yourself.
The United States will survive Trump. Of course it will.
But the world that existed before Trump may not return.
Because the rest of us are learning a lesson that will survive him:
never again build a world in which so much depends on the political sanity of one country.
It’s over.
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Since enabling Threads cross-posting for my own blog yesterday, I've already found and fixed two bugs in Micro.blog's Threads support. Little things that maybe a user would overlook and not bother to report. Just a reminder of the value of dogfooding.
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I don't think I've shown off the author books sheet in our book blogging app Epilogue. Here's a very short video of how it looks.
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I understand Apple wanting to get through the iOS 27 final releases before giving us a new Xcode to play with Duo sizing, but it's still a bit of a letdown. Developers want to play with the new shiny things.
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Palabre Reader
My favourite Rss reader of all time is still Palabre Reader. I still use it to this day, but I wish the developers would update it and put it back on the play store. Or allow someone else too take it over and maintain it.
Anyone else remember Palabre Reader? And agree with me .
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I've been writing about Atlantis on various social media sites in the last few days. Published the long piece I wrote yesterday on Facebook and X, both of which allow long posts. Wasn't going to try that on Mastodon or Bluesky, which have character limits (I know Mastodon doesn't technically have a limit, but in practice it does). And I am reaching old school Frontier enthusiasts, and realize I need a feed they can follow to stay up on the news. For now the one place to follow is rss.xml on scripting.com. If your reader can't deal with http, let me know. -
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Far too late for this, we’re still paying the price of the US descent into folly...
Far too late for this, we’re still paying the price of the US descent into folly, followed by its closest allies getting a blank check to reconfigure their part of the world. The US never did an introspection after Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq or whatever disruption it caused in the name of “security & oil” and so there will be no introspection in relation to Iran or Israel, just the same descent to hell supported by ignorance and idio-klepto-kakistocracy.
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On the Ground in Michigan with Abdul El-Sayed
Tommy flies out to Detroit to talk to Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, asking him about his masculinity-forward campaign, the electorate's appetite for candidates who fight back, and how to restore trust in the American healthcare system. But first, Tommy sits down with Jon to talk about the energy he saw on the ground in Michigan, what he heard from voters, and what it'll take for Abdul to win come November.
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2026-09-13 10:35: Nelly the pup absolutely loving life in the field! 🤣
Nelly the pup absolutely loving life in the field! 🤣
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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RSS isn't dying, it's disappearing into apps that make it usable. Here's my take:
I've been thinking about why RSS stayed niche for twenty years despite being genuinely good, and where it's actually heading now.
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My take: there were always two kinds of people. One group wants out of Big Tech and the algorithm, back to open formats they control (the classic RSS crowd). The other group wants modern features, audio, summaries, clean interfaces, stuff in the car. For a long time RSS served the first group but not the second, so it stayed a tool for a technical minority.
What's changed lately is that a wave of new apps is using AI to fill the gaps that kept RSS out of most people's hands. Finding feeds without touching a URL, reading them aloud, summarising, organising on-device. The protocol underneath is the same open format, but the friction is gone. So people who've never heard of RSS end up using it without knowing, because the app hides the technical part.
I don't think RSS is about to boom (anyone promising that is selling something). It's quieter than that. It's just becoming usable by people who aren't us.
Wrote it up properly here if anyone wants the longer version: https://safeandinformed.com/blog/where-rss-is-quietly-heading
Curious what this sub thinks. Do you see RSS staying a power-user tool, or do these AI-layer apps actually bring in normal people? And does that dilute what made RSS good, or extend it?
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RadarRSS has evolved quite a bit since my first post here — here's where the project is now
I've been working on RadarRSS for a while now, and the project has changed quite a lot since I first shared it here.
What started as a simple RSS reader has gradually turned into a more complete news dashboard focused on discovering, organizing and understanding information from multiple sources.
The current direction includes:
- Aggregating multiple RSS/Atom feeds
- Organizing news into categories
- Highlighting relevant stories
- AI-assisted summaries and content analysis
- Working toward cross-feed story deduplication, so the same event reported by multiple sources can be treated as a single story
- A more modern dashboard-style interface
- Open source development
A lot of these changes came from feedback and suggestions from people in the RSS community, which has been really useful in shaping the project.
I'm still actively developing it, so I'm interested in hearing from people who actually use RSS every day:
What would make RadarRSS genuinely useful enough for you to consider using it alongside — or instead of — tools like FreshRSS, Miniflux, Newsboat or Feedly?
GitHub: https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS
And thanks to everyone who has already given feedback or tested it. It's changed quite a bit because of you.
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I built a new RSS reader app that uses AI to... just kidding. Seeking advice about Inoreader and The Athletic.
My set up:
-Inoreader subscription to handle deduplication and scraping for non-RSS sites.
-Unread to view my feeds.
Problem: I subscribe to the Athletic and am into MLB, the NBA, the NHL, and the NFL. I like soccer once in a while when it's high stakes like the World Cup but am completely uninterested in anything like the Premier League. The Athletic includes a TON of European soccer headlines in the general Headlines feed.
Question: As far as I can tell there isn't any article metadata like a soccer tag that I can filter by on the Athletic's side. I'd prefer to continue subscribing to the general Headlines feed for miscellaneous stories that don't fit neatly into North American major sports. Do any Inoreader experts have any thoughts on how to filter soccer out of that feed? I'd prefer not to use a list of block words but I guess that's the fallback option if there isn't a cleaner way.
Thanks for any advice. : )
PS: Nothing against soccer, I just didn't grow up playing or watching it so I never got hooked.
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Matt's board repeats Sam's board.
Matt repeats Sam.
Only difference so far that this occupant of the peanut gallery observes?
Matt seems a much more responsible sort of chap.
Oh - and Boards❓Really❓WTF!❗️Get your act together❗️
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👁️ Earlier today, I was told that ‘A1’, pronounced ‘AONE’, is very dangerous. She'd read an article in Stuff warning that 'A1' posed a threat to the human race.
She was surprised I hadn’t read it. Her understanding was that I knew about this sort of thing.
Should I trust this person - or run?
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Wow, this Longhorns game getting interesting late. 🏈
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Spent a little time poking around on Tumblr because I needed to grab an export file to test. The new-ish communities feature is interesting.
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Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning:
I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data.It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization and downloadable GPX file and GeoJSON files. Here's that 5K route:
When I asked it how it had created the route, it replied:
I used Nominatim to locate the address and Overpass to download local OpenStreetMap roads and trails, then calculated the loops locally.
Frustratingly, the actual code it ran and exact details of what it did weren't visible to me in the ChatGPT UI. I see this lack of transparency is an anti-feature.
By the time I thought to ask for a copy of the Python code it had used, ChatGPT was unable to provide it. This appears to be because the thread had been compacted. I think any LLM system that uses compaction needs to both preserve the pre-compacted text and make that text available via agent tool calls, to protect against this kind of problem.
As for displaying the map to me, that used the visualize skill. It created a file called
/workspace/el-granada-5k-share.htmlto embed directly into the ChatGPT UI.Here's a copy of that HTML, which starts like this:
<div id="eg-share-loop"> <div class="viz-row"><h3>El Granada harbor loop</h3><span class="text-small">5.1 km</span></div> <div id="eg-share-stage"></div> <div class="text-small text-muted">Map data © <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenStreetMap contributors</a></div> <style> #eg-share-loop { width:100%; } #eg-share-loop #eg-share-stage { width:100%; margin:8px 0; } #eg-share-loop .eg-share-map { display:block; width:100%; touch-action:none; } #eg-share-loop .eg-share-map text { fill:var(--foreground); font-size:12px; font-weight:400; } #eg-share-loop .eg-share-label { paint-order:stroke; stroke:var(--background); stroke-width:3px; stroke-linejoin:round; } </style> <script type="application/json" id="eg-share-data">{"route":{"type":"LineString","coordinates":[[-122.467425,37.4997753] ...</script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/d3@7.9.0/dist/d3.min.js"></script> <script> (() => { const root=document.getElementById('eg-share-loop');
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<script type="application/json">element contains the full geometry needed to render both the running route and the map itself, using D3, which is loaded from an allow-listed CDN location described in this section of the visualize skill:External resources
- The CSP allows only
cdnjs.cloudflare.com,esm.sh,cdn.jsdelivr.net,unpkg.com,fonts.googleapis.com,fonts.gstatic.com, andfonts.bunny.net. Other origins are blocked and fail silently.
You are only seeing the long-form articles from my blog. Subscribe to /atom/everything/ to get all of my posts, or take a look at my other subscription options.
- The CSP allows only
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As I mentioned on the latest episode of Core Intuition, I've been running the iOS 27 betas, but I very rarely use Siri AI. Curious if anyone using Siri AI would like integration with the Micro.blog app? I haven't prioritized working on this because I'm not sure what would be useful, if anything.
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Reader Ultra - the no-nonsense RSS reader with one-time purchase and robust and fast sync service included
I'm a very heavy RSS user. Somewhere around 200 very active feeds, read across my phone, iPad and Mac, every day, for years. RSS is genuinely how I read the internet, not a thing I dabble in.
Which is why this started as frustration. I'd been on Feedly for ages and watched it slowly turn into something I didn't want: more tiers, more AI upsell, more stuff bolted onto a sidebar I just wanted to read from, and a monthly bill for the privilege. So I built Reader Ultra. iPhone, iPad and Mac. Fast, no nonsense, looks like it came with the OS. No algorithm, no "for you" tab, no upsell. Feeds, folders, unread counts. A folder with a few thousand articles opens instantly, because mine has to.
The bit worth talking about is sync: One device, fine, local-only works. Add a second and it falls apart: you read twenty articles at lunch, sit down at your Mac, they're all unread again.
The usual answer is iCloud, and for RSS it isn't good enough. iCloud is built for things that change occasionally; unread state is hundreds of tiny writes a minute while you scroll. So it batches and defers and your count lands twenty minutes later. Then both devices fetch the same hundreds of feeds independently, each decides for itself what's new, and you get duplicates and disagreements. Conflicts are unresolvable, because "read" and "unread" are equally valid and neither device knows which happened last. Wrong tool, and every app built on it has the same symptoms. That's the jank, I know, I tried this method for sync!
So Reader Ultra has a real server behind it. It fetches once, works out what's new and whether a feed is healthy or quietly dead, and the apps just pull:
• read/unread and starred identical everywhere within seconds
• no duplicates when two devices refresh at once
• refresh is one request, not hundreds
• broken feeds get flagged instead of going silent
• push when there's something new, so you're not refreshing out of anxiety
Not a Raspberry Pi in my closet, either. The backend is professionally hosted on Railway, containerised and monitored, with real uptime and backups.
And you buy the app once, sync included. No monthly fee, no Pro tier to unlock sync. One purchase covers all three platforms. I wasn't going to escape a subscription and then ship one.
If you read on more than one device, a real sync service isn't a nice extra, it's the whole thing.
Design target was Apple Mail. Not "inspired by", actually that: sidebar, list, article, same workflow you already have. Apple's guidelines followed properly — text styles so Dynamic Type works, semantic colours so dark mode and increased contrast are right everywhere, SF Symbols. The Mac app is a real Mac app, not a blown-up iPad build. When you're moving through hundreds of items a day, it really performs.
New this release: on iOS 27, iPadOS 27 or macOS 27 the Siri and Apple Intelligence features are live in version 1.18 in the App Store. Unread counts, summaries, search, mark read, add feed, by voice or from Shortcuts. Summaries run on-device. Articles are in Spotlight too. Note the difference from what annoyed me about Feedly: it's off to the side, not in front of your feeds.
Also: Safari extension that finds feeds on any page, OPML in and out (import your Feedly export in one go), content blocking, a pile of app icons.
On the App Store as Reader Ultra: https://apps.apple.com/app/reader-ultra/id6770337270 or more info at https://us.nz/readerultra.html
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Pacing the frontier
When it comes to OpenAI vs. Anthropic this year, I’ve been all in on Codex. After a chaotic couple of years for OpenAI in 2024 and 2025, this year has been solid. I think OpenAI is in the best position to bring the potential good from AI to the most people.
But this is a good new blog post from Dario Amodei about pacing the frontier. A short excerpt from the beginning:
I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and empowerment, and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom. […] But like many technologies before it, AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious.
Sam Altman responds:
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
Dario and Sam don’t agree on very much. This feels big.
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Each day comes and each day he looks more like Jabba The Hutt.
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I built a subscription-free RSS reader for iPhone/iPad/Mac — free to download, one-time purchase unlocks the rest
Hey r/rss — I'm the solo developer behind Basic Reader, an RSS/Atom reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that just launched on the App Store.
I built this because I got tired of watching RSS apps turn into $8–10/month subscriptions for things that should be... a feature of the app. So Basic Reader works differently:
Free to try, free to use for reading feeds:
- Feeds & folders with drag-and-drop organization
- Background refresh on a configurable schedule
- OPML import/export (bring your subscriptions in, take them out any time)
- Swipe gestures, starring, privacy controls for image/script loading
- Full VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Reduce Motion support
A single one-time purchase (no subscription, ever) unlocks:
- On-device semantic search — finds articles by meaning, not just keyword matches, and nothing leaves your device
- iCloud sync across your devices
- Filter rules — wildcard, regex, and semantic/topic-based filtering
- Timeline — one combined view of every article from every feed
- Additional article view styles (list/compact/card)
No analytics SDKs, no backend servers — I don't have the infrastructure to see what you read even if I wanted to. Your data lives on-device or in your own iCloud account.
It's on iPhone, iPad, and Mac (Catalyst) with a proper three-column layout on iPad/Mac, not just a stretched phone UI.
Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6781077283
Note: I haven't started implementing reddit's authorized app requirements, but if monitoring reddit via RSS is your thing, let me know and I'll bump it up the roadmap.
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📸 Well .. hello Wellington.
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Unread 5.0: better thumbnails, syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux
I just released version 5.0 of Unread. Unread is an RSS reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that features beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. This update adds:
- Huge improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails
- Syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux
- The ability to quickly mark old articles read
Details are available in my announcement post. You can download Unread now from the App Store.
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Micro.blog was founded on the idea that more people should have their own domain name, and yet the UI to actually do that has been clunky for years. I'm working on improving that, starting today with a little "Edit Domain" button to help walk people through the change.
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Congrats to John Brayton on releasing a big update for his feed reader Unread. Works on all Apple platforms, even syncs with Micro.blog's Inkwell.
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The communities that I feel the most connecting to on Mastodon have been going through a rocky few weeks. Federico Viticci back on X. Marco Arment taking a break. Everything with Omarchy and 1Password.
I usually avoid Meta, but maybe I need to cross-post to Threads for a bit. Change of pace. POSSE.
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My RSS reader is still my source of truth. I just stopped reading every item.
I like RSS because I get to choose exactly what I follow. No algorithm deciding what I should care about or no feed trying to keep me scrolling. But I had a different problem.
I’d open my reader and have 100-200 unread items waiting for me. Most of them weren’t things I needed to read in full.
I mostly wanted to know: What’s new? What actually changed? And which 3 or 4 things are worth paying attention to?
So I started experimenting with a different way of consuming my feeds. I give the RSS feeds I care about to Lissin and say something like: “Every morning, catch me up on these feeds in 5 minutes. Focus on what actually changed, skip anything repetitive, and explain why the interesting stuff matters.”
Then it checks what was published since the last episode, picks what’s worth including, and turns it into a short audio briefing. The part I’ve found surprisingly useful is that it remembers what it already covered.
So if five different posts are basically talking about the same development, I don’t need to hear the same story five times. And tomorrow’s briefing doesn’t spend half its time telling me what I already heard yesterday.
I still use RSS exactly the same way underneath. The feeds are still the sources I chose.
I’ve just changed the last step from: open reader > scan everything > decide what to read to: put headphones on > get caught up > open the original post if something sounds worth going deeper on.
I’ve been doing this while walking, making breakfast, commuting, etc., and it’s made me use some of my feeds more consistently than before.
We built this into Lissin and recently launched it on iOS.
I’m curious how other RSS people think about this: Which feeds do you genuinely want to keep up with, but rarely have time to read properly?
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My two cents about WordPress
Lots of stuff going on around WordPress for the last couple of years, and every bit of is a distraction from what I want to do to help the web get back on its feet. I remember how great it was when everything could hook into everything else. The web was like Unix. Today's "web" is like Disneyland. Safety first. Nothing interesting ever happens there.
So ask me what I'd like to see WordPress do, and this is what I'd tell you. Start something new, don't change what you do with WordPress, it is what it is. It's a 20+ year old project with market problems. Most software doesn't even make it that far.
The fresh start I'd like to see done is WordPress from the point of view of the web. The new mission is not about a dollar return on investment, rather it's measured by how much the web becomes Small Pieces Loosely Joined with All Parts Replaceable. How empowered are developers, not WordPress developers, but web developres. The more that's happening in the web, the better it will be for everyone, but especially WordPress. Why WordPress? Because as they say it's 89 percent of the web. The web is like a huge oil spill that has never been cleaned up. Everything has to improve if we start work on cleaning up the messes.
I come from NYC where all the bodies of water were cesspools when I was growing up. The Hudson River had garbage floating in it. When I went to school the incinerators in the buildings we lived in burned garbage on the kids, all nicely washed and dressed by our mothers, we arrived at school smelling like smokers. My grandfather took me to Knicks games at the Garden, and the arena was filled with smoke by half-time.
We can clean things up. Humans as a species are good at this if we put our minds to it. If you made billions on the web, why not put some of it to use in making it a web worth using. I used to say shit like this to Bill Gates, to no avail. He liked to point out he was going to give away all his money when he retired, and he kept that promise. But what if he started dealing with the world with charity when he had the biggest seat of power in the tech world? Think of how much more good he could have done.
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