John Cox · Tagged rss

26 Aug 2026 How-To Geek

My morning RSS digest now runs on local AI, and I'll never go back to NotebookLM

The author built a local AI-powered RSS reader that automatically summarizes feeds using Gemma 4 running on Ollama, avoiding cloud services like NotebookLM while removing manual copy-paste steps and tier limits. The setup prioritizes privacy by processing everything locally, allows scheduled digest generation throughout the day, and can handle unlimited RSS sources, though it accepts the trade-off that smaller open-weight models won't match frontier AI reasoning capabilities. He plans to integrate it with his existing Discord bot and voice assistant to enable audio briefings and interactive questioning about the digests.

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9 Apr 2026 sixcolors.com

Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning

Reflecting on Terry Godier's newsreader app Current, the author explores why an app built to relieve "reading debt" and unread-count anxiety didn't work for them, despite agreeing with its premise. The piece traces this back to the author's own once-a-day, morning-newspaper-style reading ritual (via Feedbin and ReadKit), which led to a broader realization: newsletters that bundle stories into a single digest actually suit this habit better than raw RSS firehoses, prompting the idea of converting noisy feeds into newsletter-like summaries. It ends less as a review of Current and more as an open question about what the ideal reading app—something between mail client, RSS reader, and read-later service—would actually look like.

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12 Oct 2025 atthis.link

Why I Still Use RSS

The author describes using RSS to aggregate content, avoid algorithmic social feeds, improve focus and digital wellbeing, and manage collaborative project updates. The piece explains persistent RSS support on sites and recommends readers and tools.

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5 Jun 2014 GitHub

wantedly/swift-rss-sample · GitHub

An RSS reader app written in #Swift

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28 Mar 2013 feedbin.me

Feedbin

This is a marketing page for Feedbin, an RSS reader and content aggregation service that costs $7/month or $70/year after a free trial. It centralizes RSS feeds, email newsletters, podcasts, and YouTube channels in one interface with customizable reading modes, full-text extraction, search functionality, and syncing across devices. The service emphasizes distraction-free reading without algorithmic recommendations, letting users follow their chosen sources in chronological order.

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18 May 2011 madeatgloria.com