Another great Sunday afternoon golfing with Drew.
I’m pre-ordering two new iPhone 16s today and giving my old iPhone 14 Pro to my youngest. This is my first time pre-ordering an iPhone.
Still scrolling through Reddit’s /r/coolguides group thanks to @Annie’s earlier post. So many good guides!
It’s that wonderful time of year when I can golf in the afternoon with the boys, head home for a Sunday roast dinner, and watch a couple of NFL games in the evening.
Office for this morning. Refereeing the junior club championship.
TIL, there is no sensible way to transport helium-filled balloons in the back seat of your car when you’re the only one in the car.
The new Reeder app probably isn't for me
Sadly, Reeder no longer supports other RSS feed clients like Feedbin and Feedly.
Why doesn’t this version of Reeder support third-party sync services?
With the new Reeder, tracking what you’ve read is based on your scroll position rather than traditional read/unread states. This design makes integration with most third-party sync services non-trivial, so support for these services is not currently planned.
This change away from unread/read states on posts is probably my biggest concern with the new Reeder app. Scroll positions have been used in similar applications to determine how much you read. From my memory, I didn’t use this feature in the applications that implemented it. I was happy to start scrolling from the latest posts and scan back as far as I wanted. It’s early days, though, and I haven’t even added any significant number of feeds to Reeder to see how effective this will work.
That is the beauty of unread/read states, though. Minimal thinking is required to determine what’s left to read. I know from a glance what I need to catch up on. Scroll positions require me to scroll to catch up to the point where there’s nothing left in my timeline to see. I would much rather click through collections of feeds and see precisely what’s left to read.
For now, though, I’ll keep Reeder Classic on my iPhone, but I can see myself using Feedbin’s iOS app instead of Reeder Classic over time. I imagine there will come a time when Reeder Classic won’t be supported. When that time comes, I would prefer to use an alternative to Reeder Classic daily rather than be forced to make the change away from it.
This week, I learned how to build my own reporter for Minitest and rolled my own feature flag manager. I love programming in Ruby!
I’m unsure how I feel about the AI Chatbot feature in the latest Firefox release. Granted, it’s part of Firefox Labs, an optional experimental feature, but I still don’t see a real need for it.