Inside Out

I have a problem with RSS. Not RSS itself, RSS is great! The problem is that I subscribe to more feeds than I can possibly read, so the unread count in FreshRSS climbs faster than I can bring it down. Some days I skim titles, declare bankruptcy, and mark everything as read. Other days I let it pile up and feel guilty. I’ve tried to using newer tools like Current which was definitely an improvement, but still didn’t quite do it. My friend Dan has been working on a new RSS tool that works a bit like a personal newspaper, that seems like it could be extremely helpful, and I’m keeping my eye on it. But meanwhile the list of unread posts grows… Now, I’ve been very reluctant and slow to introduce LLMs into my daily work. But even from under my rock, in a cave, down by the river, I’ve heard that LLMs are good at text summarization. I thought maybe, just maybe, I could try using one to summarize my unread posts? It seemed like a good fit for an experiment since the impact of getting things…