Newsboat for quiet reading
I have started working on a little personal project I like to call, computing like its 1999. Part of this is moving a lot of the things that I do from a browser to a local app, and when possible to a TUI/CLI interface to further reduce distraction and force single tasking.
A couple weeks ago I wrote about my RSS workflow and today when I went to configure newsboat it didn't want to play nice. The error I was getting indicated that the version of newsboat I was using didn't recognize a freshrss connection, but there was no notice about this that I could find from my searching.
I'm not surprised, internet search is completely broken.
Then I remembered that I can use those OPML files that I published directly with newsboat, I don't even need to use freshRSS (I will keep FreshRSS because I still like reading my news and blogs conveniently from my phone/tablet) I can just check on everything from my terminal.
My config file for newsboat is really simple:
urls-source "opml"
opml-url "jeffmackinnon.com/docs/news.opml" "jeffmackinnon.com/docs/blogs.opml" "jeffmackinnon.com/docs/politics.opml" "jeffmackinnon.com/docs/NovaScotiaBlogs.opml"
There are a lot other configuration options but that is enough to get me started.
Do you have any great, clean, TUI/CLI tools for reading RSS, or finding interesting people with active (at least a post every couple months) please share.