I DIY’d My Own Feed
FreshRSS
Hosted on my own bare-metal server, Nixos, w/caddy & podman
Custom theme inspired by windows 98/2000
custom htmx extension to make articles load snappy
Local, state, and national feeds
I started out by adding about 50 feeds on my own and then after some time I had Claude help me design a new stylesheet based on windows 98 / 2000s era ui. I really like how clean it came out. I actually used a lot of early apple human-interface-guideline ideas to inspire the stylesheet too. I ended up making a whole repo for all of the old apple hig docs in llms.txt format. A big focus for me was making sure that buttons had weight. Something material/flat uis lack is depth, and so I wanted to bring back the idea that when you press a button it can communicate that it’s been pressed in a unique and instinctual.
The stylesheet might display weird in mobile safari. I use it with Orion & request desktop site at 150% for mobile use.
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