Reddit to Stop Providing RSS feeds: https://ranchero.com/2026/09/30/reddit-to-stop-providing-rss.html
Brent Simmons
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NetNewsWire person. https://netnewswire.com/ https://inessential.com/ https://micro.inessential.com/
That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI: https://inessential.com/2026/09/22/that-about-wraps-it-up-for.html
Now that we’re a year (and two OSes) into Liquid Glass, I’m curious about how Mac apps have adapted to it. What are some of the current best-looking and best-designed apps on macOS 27?
The open source xsukax X RSS Generator is a “lightweight, self-hosted RSS 2.0 feed generator for public X (formerly Twitter) profiles, built entirely as a single PHP application with SQLite caching.”
Fread is an open source “decentralized microblogging client that seamlessly integrates Mastodon, Bluesky, and RSS” for Android.
Reminder: Apple is not your friend, even with a new CEO. Apple will continue to do some good things and some very bad things. Any feelings of love you have toward Apple is not reciprocated: Apple has no feelings. It’s a mult... https://micro.inessential.com/2026/09/02/reminder-apple-is-not-your.html
In Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users, the Open RSS folks explain how CloudFlare’s bot blockers stop RSS readers from reading feeds. (This article is a couple years old, but I saw it again on Mastodon today and it’s still relevant.)
Sander van Dragt’s DailyFeed is an RSS reader that brings you the news once a day. Sander explains: "A reader that updates all day is never done with you. There is always one more item, so you check again, and again, and the rea... https://ranchero.com/2026/09/02/sander-van-dragts-dailyfeed-is.html
Matt Birchler’s new browser-based RSS reader Birchfeed works with NetNewsWire, Unread, Reader Classic, and other native apps. Matt writes: "The place I feel most RSS apps fall down is in the web reader experience. Sure, you can read... https://ranchero.com/2026/08/31/matt-birchlers-new-browser.html
Brett Terpstra’s new Marked Share is a "free online publishing service designed to give your Markdown a beautiful, permanent home on the web. And while it integrates seamlessly into Marked 3, it also works completely standalone in any browser.
Feedecho, inspired by EchoFeed (which is shutting down), is an open source self-hosted cross-poster — you can route items from feeds to “Mastodon, Bluesky, micro.blog, and email using configurable templates.” There’s a hosted version at feedecho.net.
Yesterday I thought it might be fun to get more into neovim — I’d downloaded and tried it a bit previously, and it seemed interesting. Anyway, I went to its home page to see if I could learn something useful there, and I saw a DHH quote. Nope. The DHH rule says nope. brew uninstall neovim
Very happy to have the combined docs site public and building with a pipeline of PR to publication. if you’re interested in the details and where it’s going, swing by the Swift Forums: forums.swift.org/t/swifts-new...
Swift's New Documentation Site
The Swift project has new hosted documentation, now live. The tl;dr: latest release (canonical) docs (built from release/6.4.x branch): https://docs.swift.org/latest/documentation/ main branch docs...
forums.swift.org
Swift Language@swift.org · last mo.At last: a unified home for Swift documentation, pulling together the language reference, core libraries and tooling, and platform specifics into a single central home, no matter what you're building! Check it out and give us feedback: docs.swift.org
Mt. Rainier and cool cloud as seen from the air this past July.
Xcoders Social July 16: https://xcoders.org/2026/07/08/xcoders-social-july.html
Jeff Johnson writes, in If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate?: "The iPhone seems to have engendered a culture of anti-intellectualism and learned helplessness so pervasive that users ha... https://ranchero.com/2026/03/11/learned-helplessness.html
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 ... https://ranchero.com/2026/03/09/inkwell-new-rss-reader.html
Different corner radiuses: https://ranchero.com/2026/03/04/different-corner-radiuses.html
I Tried to Explain What I Do: https://inessential.com/2026/03/03/i-tried-to-explain-what-i-do.html
Gazette: newsletter to RSS: https://ranchero.com/2026/03/03/gazette-newsletter-to-rss.html
Seattle Xcoders Talks This Week Considered Unmissable: https://inessential.com/2026/03/02/seattle-xcoders-talks.html
Stress-free RSS reader FeedCity debuted last year: https://ranchero.com/2026/02/19/stress-free-rss-reader-feedcity.html