The View from RSS

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive.

I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed.

Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

Current setup is freshrss running in a proxmox lxc on prem + tailscale. Big fan of the lire iOS app for interacting on mobile and use the freshrss webui on desktop. killthenewsletter helps patch in some email stuff too. RSS and NNTP are 2 technologies that have been with me for decades and you are gonna have to pry them from me.

Nice! I'm also around 2000 feeds in my reader, carefully selected over a couple of years. Only difference: I always click through to the website to read an article.

Now in the process of slowly making RSS my only social feed. Have a hard time of leaving Youtube, but once I embedded the videos of the channels I follow in my RSS reader I see a way of not getting annoyed by the recommendation algorithm on their website anymore.

I think the space of RSS feed readers and aggregators are very rich already. The pain point for ordinary users is to have easy way to generate RSS feeds for websites that don't provide organic one.

There are few options but mostly proprietary and expensive. And no normal person will want to play the CSS tricks to extract feed that something like FreshRSS support.

And a little thought to Aaron. We still miss you.

I love RSS but I didn't find good enough online reader that can be customized to my liking, so I built my own: https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/

I have many more ideas, but I don't have that much free time to implement all of it (even with Claude Code). But it serves me very well for now

I'd like to share a preview of my RSS (&other sources) feed aggregator: https://aggly.com (designed to look better on desktops)

It’s still a work in progress, so treat this as an early preview before I submit it to Show HN. Feedback and criticism are welcome.

Also built my own rss reader https://gmnz.xyz/projects/ember-feed/ with an emphasis on code block themes because I mostly follow engineering and developer blogs.

I’ve always thought RSS seemed cool. Hope it has a renaissance with people leaving social media