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I'd really like a pure RSS browser. Just nice articles in a standard format, no ads, no clickbait.

RSS readers are cool but the discovery is still tedious - looking for feeds isn't much fun.

I did just discover feedle though, which looks like halfway toward what I want! https://feedle.world/

I want feedle in a nice native app.


This made me think of this popular RSS reader that Google had that they shutdown. I bet you could just vibe the same RSS reader back into existence.

If you use the regression-suite I already setup (https://github.com/embedding-shapes/one-agent-one-browser/bl...) for my tiny toy browser experiment, I bet you could build it by just adding more and more "HTML > .png" examples and prompt something like "Make regression suite pass by fixing the implementation, refactor as needed", and end up with something usable.

Feedle looks useful, I've already found one blog I wasn't aware of. Thanks for recommending it!

I wonder if Feedle will provide an API (even a paid API)? Could be nice to plug this into a metasearch engine as an additional data source. And I guess that might be necessary to add Feedle search to an RSS reader or native app as well.


> There's a lot of value in having direct manipulation and visual introspection of UIs, data, and logic

Yes. In the GIS industry for example, nothing has fundamentally changed with the introduction of LLMs. They may make the same processes more efficient e.g. though automated building of workflows. AI has significantly improved classification work of course but it's still using the same principles (we've been doing ML longer than most industries). Geocoding will get cheaper and easier but it's still geocoding.

GIS software allowing standard visualisation, export and map production will bet a lot better because of LLMs. It's an area where the sheer complexity and number of formats was overwhelming, but now a GeoTiff parser can be built in a day or two.

The article was making a bit of a sweeping statement based on a single datapoint: they didn't need Retool anymore.


WEB MERCATOR DOES NOT PRESERVE ANGLES.

I know. But they mentioned Mercator, not Web Mercator.

They were talking about Web Mercator but didn’t know they were!

It's an important discussion because it's abundantly clear that almost nobody on this thread has a clue what they're talking about.

Web Mercator != Mercator.

I suggest most people on this thread need to go away ask the question "What's the difference between Web Mercator and Mercator".


For most uses of web maps (navigation on foot, by bicycle or by car) the angles seem to be close enough with Web Mercator, and the map is zoomed in to a small area so there's no concern about the area.

No-one is zooming out the "Find your nearest Tesco" map to see Greenland.


Web Mercator does not preserve angles.

We're currently forced to use a projection that is strictly worse than what it was based on, the Mercator projection, created in 1569.

Everyone on this thread needs to read this presentation entitled "Use Literally Anything But Web Mercator":

https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/events/conf...

Let's say that a bit louder shall we:

USE LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT WEB MERCATOR.


Thanks for that, I wasn't even aware that "web Mercator" was a thing.

Another thing worth mentioning is it's very similar to the structure of columnar formats like Arrow and Parquet. Anyone with familiarity with these formats could build a decoder in a couple of days. If they don't use FastPFOR.

I really wish they hadn't used FastPFOR. It's a research library and has an incredibly opaque algorithm:

https://ayende.com/blog/199523-C/integer-compression-underst...


FSST is similar in terms of underlying complexity. You need this complexity to get good performance though, it seems from the research.

If there were something better than FastPFOR, we would use it. If something comes up, we can always use a new tag and add it in the future.

There is still a lot to do, for example one can do like-operators on FSST without decompressing it.


This comment is inaccurate! Web Mercator causes such large errors in geolocation that the NGA had to issue an advisory about it [1].

There is a whole science behind map projections and Google ignored it entirely when they created Web Mercator, which was a hack to divide the world into a quad tree. It was vaguely clever and utterly stupid at the same time.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140607003201/http://earth-info...


> Accuracy where it matters is why

Why the downvotes for correcting this laughable statement? Web Mercator is well documented as being extremely inaccurate.


Hi - I understand you feel strongly; your Web Mercator input is interesting. I would just focus on the intellectually interesting part - people might not get it; you can't control that or compel them to.

You've been repeating essentially the same comment, writing in all caps (in some comments), complaining about downvotes, telling everyone they are idiots one way or another. None of those things are likely to be welcome.


Almost every commenter here repeated the same misconception, and I corrected them each time.

I feel justified in shouting in this case.


It's actually worse than that because the Web Mercator projection is unusable for navigation too - it doesn't preserve angles or area! (Angles are nearly preserved).

Well done Google. Slow handclap.

The NGA advised it's likely to cause geolocation errors of up to 40km near the poles:

https://www.gpsworld.com/nga-issues-advisory-notice-on-web-m...


I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again.

Please someone create a linux laptop that:

1. Just works out of the box.

2. Has really good keychain management.

3. Comes with no bundled AI.

4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff).

5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework.

Apple and Microsoft have lost the plot and there's a gaping wide space to fill here.


SteamDeck, System76, Pine64, Slimbook, Tuxedo, etc there are PLENTY of Linux devices to buy in all form factors.

Source : I'm using at least 2 of these and use Linux on my desktop daily, for years. Spent maximum 15min total caring about drivers and yes I do also game.


Lenovo will sell you a Thinkpad today bundled with Linux

I can't speak to the default install but Thinkpads have what I would consider perfect hardware support. Absolutely everything works, fingerprint reader, tpm, nvidia card, and all.

Sadly people can't do much with an OS that doesn't run the applications they want. Until that becomes a reality no one is paying for Linux.

Gaming works well on Linux, probably because people pay for games.

There's already tons of power software for Linux (e.g. Blender) but it's not always easy to use.

I don't see why the App Store model wouldn't work on Linux too.


Given how well windows games now run on linux through proton, it just made me think - surely, Outlook/Word etc should run easily?

That would be strange firing up Word from Steam though.

Companies seem completely dependent on the Word/Outlook ecosystem. I hope this will change in the future, and not just for some other US tech oligopoly.


Which is crazy because Outlook the actual application has got to be one of the worst email clients in existence. The only email client that I've dealt with that had more problems was the one guy who insisted on still using pine.

M$ is doing all to press them into cloud services and browser based usage of this tools. So, just wait some years and this is not a issue anymore.

I think for most people the apps either have equivalent web versions (because they are already electron/similar on OSX/Win) or have linux native versions (basically all software engineering tools like IDE:s, compilers).

Sure, there are professions where that is not true (adobe, xcode, etc.), but I think most people on this forum could switch to linux without problems.


Great now multiply that bullet point list by 1000, because everyone wants different things and has different hardware, and you'll see that even the current state of Linux is a miracle. We're at the point where 90% of the time you can install a modern Gnome distro on a laptop and it'll work. Completely for free.

> everyone wants different things and has different hardware

Did you read my post?

> Please someone create a linux laptop

That means the hardware is alreaty there. I'm talking about the macOS model for Linux.

What would be top of your 5000 bullet point list?


I'm really surprised they don't attempt to make the Mac a more work-focused machine.

Try building a graphics editor in SwiftUI. This is not really possible in 2026 in SwiftUI. I build a zoomable pannable page setup was incredibly difficult but possible.

Then try adding WYSIWG text editing to that. I got halfway to building one using CoreText to render to Canvas which works but then there's this fight with their NSAttributedString which is opaque and horrible, making it impossible to store CMYK colours alongside the text runs. There's also no way to capture iPad keyboard input in SwiftUI.

In the end, I have to build things that fit within platform constraints if I want to use SwiftUI.

The fact that e.g. Canva and Figma bypass almost all their APIs and draw to canvas should be a wake-up call for them.

Also PDF generation is painful enough that I'm considering a Java based web-service for document export on macOS.


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