RSS adventures

I have been so bad at reading my RSS feeds and I had to finally admit to myself that it is partially due to the fact that I have just been overwhelmed by how many of them I had subscribed. It was not helpful. I read RSS through a TT-RSS instance ran on one of my Hetzner boxes (i talk about those a bit more in this post if you're curious). TT-RSS is a pretty good piece of software. It still does not do one specific thing that I want but I can live without that. Well, actually, come to think of it, that particular being missing was one of my biggest problems with it. I am an inbox zero kind of guy. I don't like having Notifications. I like things to fade away from my mental view if they aren't important. So TT-RSS having this… ongoing pile-up of Posts was not helpful to my brain. I did a couple things to clean this up. First, I just mass-unsubscribed from a lot of RSS feeds. If you're reading this, it was probably not your blog — I'm talking stuff like news websites that post like 14…