[anthk]

I used to use Emacs for everything, even Telega and SICP. But... elfeed and GNU's are damn slow compared to the opposite approach: Unix, sfeed, lynx -dump for inline HTML info, castget, mutt, msmtp, isync, slrn and amused/mpv. MuPDF and sxiv for media. That's it, plus some CLI gemini/gopher browser.

And, yes, I managed to bind slrnpull with GNU's avoiding a huge chunk of time. And, SLRN was much faster. On hackability, I don't care, awk/sed/sh it's my glue, and perl+CPAN for a big task.

In the end, it's being run on a batch basis with cron, so I have the ultimate Unix tools: let the tools do the hard work themselves with scripts, so you just ignore anything else and focus on your current task. Mails, news posts and RSS's are currently managed in the background, a single script will download and upload all the data.