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Check Kev Quirk blog post about Pure Commons
🔗 https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/25/looking-for-a-clean-and-simple
@z428eu @kalivene How could a ragtag team of part time volunteer contributors from 6 continents submit to the legal undertaking of becoming a financial enterprise?
There's #Liberapay, #OpenCollective, #ko-fi, #BuyMeACoffee, #Patreon, #Github Sponsors, #SEPA etc and crypto coins. If your favorite app developer does not yet support the one you like... feel free to ask them.
/PS: Keep an eye on #Taler and subscribe to our news via #RSS 😉
When I launched Today on iOS last October, it was born out of that same Google Reader-shaped hole that never quite healed. A few months later, I kept finding myself reaching for it on my Mac — opening feeds on my phone while sitting in front of a perfectly good laptop. So I did something about it.
Today – An RSS Reader is now available on the Mac App Store.
The easy path would have been to ship the iPad version with Mac Catalyst and call it a day. But that never feels right. A Mac app should feel like a Mac app — keyboard shortcuts, proper window management, menus in the menu bar.
Today on Mac uses a three-column layout: your feeds in the sidebar, articles in the middle, and the full article on the right. It’s the kind of layout that just makes sense when you have the screen real estate, and it makes triaging a busy morning of feeds feel effortless.
This is the feature I keep coming back to. You can navigate the entire app without lifting your hands off the keyboard:
It’s the kind of flow where you can rip through 50 articles before your coffee gets cold.
On iOS, the Now Playing view is a sheet that slides up. On Mac, it felt wrong — you’d lose your article context. So podcasts open in their own dedicated window that you can move, resize, or tuck into a corner. It opens automatically when you start a podcast and supports chapter navigation, playback speed controls, and keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys to skip, space to pause).
Bringing an iOS SwiftUI app to macOS is about 80% magical and 20% “why is this happening.” The data layer, most views, and the navigation structure just work. But then you discover that app-level menu commands silently swallow keyboard events before your views ever see them, and suddenly you’re routing key presses through NotificationCenter like it’s 2009. Window management was its own adventure — WindowGroup and @Environment(\.openWindow) are genuinely elegant once you crack the incantation.
The 80% that just works is remarkable, though. SwiftData, async/await, the entire service layer — zero changes between platforms. That’s the promise of SwiftUI actually delivering.
Today – An RSS Reader is free on the Mac App Store. If you’ve been using Today on your phone, you’ll feel right at home. If you’re new — welcome. RSS is alive and well.
P.S. — The iOS version continues to get updates (just landed iPad support) alongside the Mac release. Same codebase, same SwiftData store, same love for the open web.
#development #iOS #MacOS #NerdyStuff #RSS #Swift #Todayhaving fun with @scripting #feedland self-hosted https://feedland.rmendes.net #rss #opml #blogroll
widget visible here : https://rmendes.net/content/articles/2026-02-14-deploying-your-own-indieweb-site/ (scroll down)
Deploying Your Own IndieWeb Site with Indiekit + Eleventy (Docker Compose based)
Mensen tips voor RSS-readers op Ubuntu? Wil de draad weer oppakken!
When I launched Today on iOS last October, it was born out of that same Google Reader-shaped hole that never quite healed. A few months later, I kept finding myself reaching for it on my Mac — opening feeds on my phone while sitting in front of a perfectly good laptop. So I did something about it.
Today – An RSS Reader is now available on the Mac App Store.
The easy path would have been to ship the iPad version with Mac Catalyst and call it a day. But that never feels right. A Mac app should feel like a Mac app — keyboard shortcuts, proper window management, menus in the menu bar.
Today on Mac uses a three-column layout: your feeds in the sidebar, articles in the middle, and the full article on the right. It’s the kind of layout that just makes sense when you have the screen real estate, and it makes triaging a busy morning of feeds feel effortless.
This is the feature I keep coming back to. You can navigate the entire app without lifting your hands off the keyboard:
It’s the kind of flow where you can rip through 50 articles before your coffee gets cold.
On iOS, the Now Playing view is a sheet that slides up. On Mac, it felt wrong — you’d lose your article context. So podcasts open in their own dedicated window that you can move, resize, or tuck into a corner. It opens automatically when you start a podcast and supports chapter navigation, playback speed controls, and keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys to skip, space to pause).
Bringing an iOS SwiftUI app to macOS is about 80% magical and 20% “why is this happening.” The data layer, most views, and the navigation structure just work. But then you discover that app-level menu commands silently swallow keyboard events before your views ever see them, and suddenly you’re routing key presses through NotificationCenter like it’s 2009. Window management was its own adventure — WindowGroup and @Environment(\.openWindow) are genuinely elegant once you crack the incantation.
The 80% that just works is remarkable, though. SwiftData, async/await, the entire service layer — zero changes between platforms. That’s the promise of SwiftUI actually delivering.
Today – An RSS Reader is free on the Mac App Store. If you’ve been using Today on your phone, you’ll feel right at home. If you’re new — welcome. RSS is alive and well.
P.S. — The iOS version continues to get updates (just landed iPad support) alongside the Mac release. Same codebase, same SwiftData store, same love for the open web.
#development #iOS #MacOS #NerdyStuff #RSS #Swift #TodayFreshly Pressed is back!
We've just relaunched "Freshly Pressed," a curated collection of notable blog posts from the WordPress.com and Jetpack community, originally launched 16 years ago.Go check those authors out, and get them in your Reader of choice!
Freshly Pressed is back!
We've just relaunched "Freshly Pressed," a curated collection of notable blog posts from the WordPress.com and Jetpack community, originally launched 16 years ago.Go check those authors out, and get them in your Reader of choice!
Blogs are Back: easily follow website and blog RSS feeds with one-click
Subscribing to RSS feeds is my preferred option for following websites, but for people unfamiliar with the really simple syndication system, doing so can be daunting.
I've long thought subscribing to a website needs to be as easy as following someone on a social network. Tap the follow button to follow, and you're following.
But following a RSS feed — doubtless something anyone reading this post could do in their sleep — isn't necessarily straightforward. People first require a […]
On Open Web Conversations on OpenChannels.fm
https://openchannels.fm/exploring-wordpress-textcasting-and-open-web-standards/
In this episode of the Fediverse Flows series, host Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms.
These weeks in #FDroid (TWIF) is live and updated. If you saw it an hour earlier via #RSS, look again:
* #AntennaPod timers
* #AuroraStore #MaterialDesign3, you're still tied to #BigTech and #Google? 🙄
* #FairScan good "intents"
* #Fennec redesign
* #LibreCamera better support
* #Meshtastic comms freedom
* #NeoStore rotates mirrors
* #NewPipe #Litube fixes
* #Syncthing Fork verify update
* #WebLibre backup
+ 40 new apps
& 295 updates
- 6 archived
...and more, here: https://f-droid.org/2026/01/16/twif.html
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Aujourd'hui dimanche 11 janvier 2026 hommage à Aaron Swartz (né le 8 novembre 1986 à Highland Park, près de Chicago, et mort le 11 janvier 2013 à New York) fervent partisan de la liberté numérique, il consacre sa vie à la défense de la « culture libre », convaincu que l'accès à la connaissance est un moyen d'émancipation et de justice.
- http://www.aaronsw.com/
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
- https://mastodon.social/@AaronSwartzDay
- https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/03/one-of-you/
- https://www.aaronswartzday.org/
- https://github.com/aaronsw
- https://www.youtube.com/@aaronswartzday4568/videos
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Aujourd'hui dimanche 11 janvier 2026 hommage à Aaron Swartz (né le 8 novembre 1986 à Highland Park, près de Chicago, et mort le 11 janvier 2013 à New York) fervent partisan de la liberté numérique, il consacre sa vie à la défense de la « culture libre », convaincu que l'accès à la connaissance est un moyen d'émancipation et de justice.
- http://www.aaronsw.com/
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
- https://mastodon.social/@AaronSwartzDay
- https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/03/one-of-you/
- https://www.aaronswartzday.org/
- https://github.com/aaronsw
- https://www.youtube.com/@aaronswartzday4568/videos
Between cheers and chores, last week in #FDroid (LWIF) was live last year:
* #AFWall modernized
* more #FadCam performance
* #FLOSS device benchmarking
* #kitshn 2 for #Tandoor 2
* #NWS 2 redesign
* #ShotsStudio w/ #MaterialDesign
+ 11 new apps
& 176 updates
If you've not read it by #RSS, you can here: https://f-droid.org/2025/12/26/twif.html
Recommend blogs in the WordPress.com Reader
Over at WordPress.com, we recently added a new feature to the WordPress.com Reader. You can now build a list of blogs you like, and recommend them to others.
Here is how one can access recommended blogs, on the web and via the WordPress.com REST API
I must admit that I’ve known about Reader, which is the WordPress.com tool for following blogs, for years now, but never realised it worked for sites that were not hosted on WordPress infrastructure. It actually allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and import OPML files.
When you follow as many sites and blogs as I do, a good RSS Reader is the only way to fly.
I only discovered this functionality today when I decided to have a poke around after spying a post about a new feature called “Recommended Blogs”. It’s essentially a blogroll for your Reader profile.
Now I feel like a bit of an idiot for ignoring Reader for the past few years. Not only can I import all of my subscriptions from my current RSS reader, but I can easily reblog (republish or quote) parts of them on my own blog directly from within the interface, and can even write a post from within the feed.
I don’t have to switch to another service to find content to write about, and it’s all available on the web and in the Jetpack app on my phone.
I’m going to have to spend a few days actually using it as my main RSS reader to decide if the convenience is worth jumping ship for, but for now, I’m pretty impressed.
It needs a dark mode, though.
