Articles tagged as "rss"

This week, The Verge launched their subscription offering. For $7 (USD) a month or $50 (USD) a year, subscribers get access to all articles, including the newsletters and less ads. The best part of this offering is more subtle; full-text RSS feeds[1]. In a feed reader, there are no ads, and you can read the articles in whichever style you like. Furthermore, all your articles come to you in one chronological feed, so there is no need to hop between all your favourite websites. Even better, with the full-text available to your RSS reader, you can easily save the article to your favourite read-it-later app. You get complete control, support the journalism you value, and move the needle away from a web focused on advertising and algorithms. This is the future we should be pushing for.

I like reading blogs from around the web in either miniflux or russ and for a while I thought it was just because they both used catppuccin[1]. However, I now think that it is because the reading environment is less cluttered, and there is nothing between me and the text that the author wrote. The web has become so cluttered that reading just text in a quiet environment with no bells and whistles feels like relaxing on an island with a good book and a cool glass of ice water.

You wake up in a tizzy, barely cognizant of the day, and pick up your phone to silence that incessant alarm. Next, a quick glance at the notifications for the day. Congratulations, you’re already behind. Six emails (two of high importance), ten messages, and a gazillion news articles. Oh? What’s this? Ding! Congratulations, you just got 10% off your next Uber Eats order! Lucky you.