Building With Intent

I'm working on a new application called TinyFeeds, it's a native RSS feed reader. Sure there's thousands of those, but this one is mine and as such I'm being extremely intentional about how it's built. I believe constraints breed innovation, and as such I've outlined a few constraints for myself in this project. First off, the file size has to be 5MB or under for the shipped binary. This is inspired by Matt's Fits on a Floppy manifesto. I'm also inspired by the Palm Pilot apps I use on a daily basis, many of which are under 5MB. Maintaining a small file size makes you second guess the need for features, libraries, graphics, etc. In a world where Google Chrome secretly downloads an extra 4GB for a local LLM, I feel like small apps are sorely needed. Second, the application is to be built in Rust and Iced. This constraint has forced me to finally dig in and learn Rust. The result is a fast, native application that has a high level of stability thanks to the tools used to build it.…