{"id":4419,"date":"2022-12-27T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2022-12-27T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:14:04","slug":"the-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/12\/the-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feed is everywhere. It\u2019s very convenient: a list of interesting things that you scroll through, at your own pace. Great design.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in social media, in group chats, in RSS.<\/p>\n

Slack is essentially used as a feed by most people.<\/p>\n

IRC is a feed, podcasts, Twitch and Discord as well. You get the point.<\/p>\n

Email isn\u2019t a feed though! Email is that thing where for every item you need to make a decision for. The feed isn\u2019t like that. The feed flows.<\/p>\n

I know a lot is going on right now with social media slowing down. Dave Winer<\/a>, RSS godfather has a vision for the feed that I don\u2019t really share. There\u2019s Mastodon<\/a> that I don\u2019t really want to get into. There\u2019s ActivityPub<\/a> which seems to be overly-complicated, a feature of all new software since the 2010s.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

This is how the feed should be, based on RSS<\/a> of course.<\/p>\n

It should be yours<\/h5>\n

The feed should be your own carefully crafted curation of what you want to keep around you. The feed shouldn\u2019t be shared, the same way you don\u2019t share your clothes even though you could. I recommend having things to try out, people with different opinions or maybe aesthetics that you\u2019re curious about. Be curious, subscribe and grow<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It should be used with one app only<\/h5>\n

And the app should be extremely simple: one left pane with the feeds, a right pane with the content of the feeds. I\u2019ve tried all the feed systems. The two-pane paradigm is by far the best, allowing you to move quickly and effortlessly through your curation.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t sync shit<\/h5>\n

Synchronization of feeds between devices is unnecessary. Don\u2019t pretend that you have 2 minutes to kill waiting in line somewhere, and that this is why you need to know exactly where you are in your feed consumption. If you\u2019re like that, seek help. Consume your feed responsibly by checking it a few times a day, not every single second when you idle. Idling has big value in that it lets your brain \u201cprint\u201d what you\u2019re learning.<\/p>\n

Do not have news in your feed<\/h5>\n

Completely avoid general news in your feed. Think about your feed as something to inspire and motivate you. News ain\u2019t it. They will make you depressed and quit your feed. Don\u2019t add them.<\/p>\n

Use this service<\/a> to convert newsletters to RSS feeds. Remember, your inbox doesn\u2019t flow. Don\u2019t mix those things up.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been so good to me this way.<\/p>\n

All I\u2019d need is a new feedreader with sqlite, chromium rendering and full client-side styling (if I want to read your stuff in Times New Roman or Segoe UI, I should be able to do so).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The feed is everywhere. It\u2019s very convenient: a list of interesting things that you scroll through, at your own pace. Great design. It\u2019s in social media, in group chats, in RSS. Slack is essentially used as a feed by most people. IRC is a feed, podcasts, Twitch and Discord as well. You get the point. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}