@Brent Simmons
Writes NetNewsWire, a free and open source RSS reader for Mac and iOS.
He/him.
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- wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write
Recent Notes
From open web champion Manton Reece comes a new RSS reader Inkwell:
"Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for the latest blog posts. Recent is for posts yesterday or the day before. And Fading is for posts up to a week old. After a week, posts fade out of Inkwell, so you’ll never be overwhelmed with unread posts. If you missed them, it’s okay."
It already syncs with Unread and we’d like to ... https://ranchero.com/2026/03/09/inkwell-new-rss-reader.html
"Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for the latest blog posts. Recent is for posts yesterday or the day before. And Fading is for posts up to a week old. After a week, posts fade out of Inkwell, so you’ll never be overwhelmed with unread posts. If you missed them, it’s okay."
It already syncs with Unread and we’d like to ... https://ranchero.com/2026/03/09/inkwell-new-rss-reader.html
Fuck this translucency shit. Not sure how this has made my content front and center.
Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.
What breaks my heart about LLMs is that when I teach it something about coding, I’m not teaching a person. And the LLM is going to fucking forget anyway.
People:
2014: OMG RSS is still around!
2015: OMG RSS is still around!
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2024: OMG RSS is still around!
2025: OMG RSS is still around!
2026: OMG RSS is still around!
Maybe in 2027 we’ll stop being surprised!
2014: OMG RSS is still around!
2015: OMG RSS is still around!
2016: OMG RSS is still around!
2017: OMG RSS is still around!
2018: OMG RSS is still around!
2019: OMG RSS is still around!
2020: OMG RSS is still around!
2021: OMG RSS is still around!
2022: OMG RSS is still around!
2023: OMG RSS is still around!
2024: OMG RSS is still around!
2025: OMG RSS is still around!
2026: OMG RSS is still around!
Maybe in 2027 we’ll stop being surprised!
NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS has finally passed through the review process. It may take a few hours to propagate — but it should be on the App Store now or soon-ish 🎸
@nprofile1q... I know the answer, or at least part of it. I wrote the first one of these — NetNewsWire Lite 1.0 was released in 2002, and it was the first RSS reader to resemble an email app.
I was actually thinking about Usenet, not email, but whatever — the question I asked myself then was how would I design a Usenet app for (then-new) Mac OS X in the year 2002? The answer was pretty clear to me: instead of multiple windows, a single window with a sidebar, list of posts, and detail view.
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I was actually thinking about Usenet, not email, but whatever — the question I asked myself then was how would I design a Usenet app for (then-new) Mac OS X in the year 2002? The answer was pretty clear to me: instead of multiple windows, a single window with a sidebar, list of posts, and detail view.
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There is no CEO of RSS.
On my blog — Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html
“I still bristle, after all these years (now more than ever), at having to publish NetNewsWire for iOS through the App Store.”
“I still bristle, after all these years (now more than ever), at having to publish NetNewsWire for iOS through the App Store.”
On my blog: “I seriously dislike the experience of using a Mac with Liquid Glass. The UI has become the star, but the drunken star, blurry, illegible, and physically unstable.”
https://inessential.com/2025/08/25/tough-season.html
https://inessential.com/2025/08/25/tough-season.html
This is a pretty niche question, but maybe somebody has an answer…
I have a 2020 Intel MacBookAir (MacBookAir9,1) and I’m trying to install Linux in a partition.
I’ve tried two distros (current Ubuntu LTS and latest Manjaro Gnome) and neither of them recognize the keyboard and trackpad.
Do you know — as a matter of fact and not a guess — of a distro that will work with this laptop, that will recognize the keyboard and trackpad?
I have a 2020 Intel MacBookAir (MacBookAir9,1) and I’m trying to install Linux in a partition.
I’ve tried two distros (current Ubuntu LTS and latest Manjaro Gnome) and neither of them recognize the keyboard and trackpad.
Do you know — as a matter of fact and not a guess — of a distro that will work with this laptop, that will recognize the keyboard and trackpad?