fred: feed reader extraordinaire

A project in Santa Clara, CA by Rachel Kroll
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fred lets you run your own RSS/Atom feed reader backend. Break free of external dependencies. No more rug-pulling by providers!
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Backers: 34
Average Pledge Per Backer: $146

Funded: $4,977 of $30,000
Dates: Jun 5th -> Jul 5th (30 days)
Project By: Rachel Kroll
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Latest News

Structure part 3: everything else

June 24th - via: kickstarter.com
In part 1, I talked about the web frontend.  Part 2 covered the fetcher which runs via cron to poll web sites for updates.  Now it's time to discuss that which remains: the web backend. There are a handful of "endpoints" which that web frontend... (Read More)

Structure part 2: the fetcher

June 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Continuing from update #1, here's more about how all of this code works. Last time, I talked about the frontend which is basically everything which goes on in the browser.  This time, I'm going to focus on the actual fetcher program which is... (Read More)

Date handling, and improving the world in general

June 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Today I'll share some more info about what goes on behind the scenes of a feed fetcher.  In order to be useful, it has to support both RSS and Atom.  They have completely different ideas about how things like dates should be stored.  When it comes... (Read More)

Structure

June 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone, and thanks for your support!  There's still a good distance to go, so I figured I'd post an update with some of the structural details of this project.  It's the product of a couple of years of tweaking already, and when open-sourced,... (Read More)

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