[AJ007]

I've been using newsboat for years. I've thought about trying out miniflux for a while, but a few days ago I got a different idea.

First, the newsboat DB is SQLlite so it's easy to access. I wrote a few scripts that built static HTML pages of all of the feeds along with a feed style page. I copied the HN page html/CSS, which to me feels like the maximum compact view while still being readable.

Now I have a bash script that will refresh all of the newsboat feeds and then open the static HTML page in the default web browser.

Thinking a lot about the impact of "vibe" coding recently made me wonder why anyone needs to be locked in to not just a set UI but any sort of rigid external control of how the user sees and interacts with information.

I want to see all my news chronologically. Now in a single place I have hn, lobste.rs, numerous twitter/x feeds, mastodon, and a lot of other blogs all visible chronologically. If someone was noisy I could apply keyword filters to the feeds and block certain things out. If I wanted to, I could put this on a server and access it through my phone.

This was definitely "the easy" way to do this. You could raise $1 million and do the same thing the hard way.