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A pleasant feed reader

9 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-07-26 · latest 2023-06-22

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2021 (4)
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  1. …an option anymore. So I built Brook, it's pretty simple and hangs out in your sidebar on Firefox: https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook
    comment by netghost · 2023-06-22 · in RSS Autodiscovery (2006)
  2. …it works well enough for me that I often forget I built it, or that it isn't just part of Firefox: https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook Bonus: If anyone uses it, you'll increase the global user base by several percent.
    comment by netghost · 2021-10-24 · in RSS is wonderful
  3. …source, locally run RSS client, I built a reader that should be able to support this fairly easily. https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook I could imagine adding a collector feed or folder that just watches for keywords in the title or…
    comment by netghost · 2021-10-24 · in RSS is wonderful
  4. I wrote an RSS reader named Brook that's open source, runs on Firefox, and keeps all your data local, so you don't need to rely on a service that might disappear. There's little or no keyboard support at the moment, but if you're…
    comment by netghost · 2021-09-08 · in Built to Last – RSS, HTTP (2015)
  5. …content in a sidebar. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re... [2] http://github.com/adamsanderson/brook
    comment by netghost · 2021-02-03 · in I Still Use RSS
  6. …how it works, or you just want a simple way to browse your favorite sites in your browser. Source: https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re... (Okay, now let's get back to…
    comment by netghost · 2019-12-28 · in Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
  7. …while avoiding the myriad of ways folks bungle feeds. I wrote an open source one for Firefox here: http://github.com/adamsanderson/brook It's certainly not the only option though, so try a few things.
  8. …especially if you don't try to get too fancy. If you're curious, the source is available on github. https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook
  9. …is here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re... The full source is here: https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook Even if you don't fancy using it, you may find the source handy if you want to build an extension…