Feeds: a Minimal RSS Aggregator and Client

This post is about a little app called Feeds, how it has evolved and fills all my RSS needs. The Reader I’ve tried many RSS readers, but the one that stuck for a while was NetNewsWire. It has such a simple no nonsense approach to collecting and reading feeds. At the time I used it in combination with FreshRSS, and that combination worked pretty well. Ironically I built my first RSS client, Alcove, as a response to a blog post by the author of NetNewsWire. Even still, I found myself discontent with the approach of reading the content in the reader itself. Yes its convenient, but I was missing the experience of reading the post in it’s original context. The majority of the feeds I follow are personal blogs, and I always appreciate the work people put into their personal sites. With that motivation, I made the first version of Feeds. This was a simple web app made with Bun that proxied a FreshRSS feed into a list of posts. No rendering, no read/unread marking, not even categories. I…