The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds
Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)
I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.
Tim Sweeney on Twitter / X
Google is opening up Android all the way with robust support for competing stores, competing payments, and a better deal for all developers. So, we've settled all of our disputes worldwide. THANKS GOOGLE! https://t.co/Dq6eXNnZd0— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) March 4, 2026
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational decisions. Do not…
Readwise Reader: The first read-it-later app built for power readers.
Save everything to one place to overcome content overload, search instantly, and highlight like a pro.
Publishing apps | at-store
Writing, newsletters, blogging, and reader-growth tools built to help creators publish on the open web and keep direct relationships with their audience.
Google is building an experimental new browser and a new kind of web app
Meet the GenTab, nothing like the plain ol’ browser tab.
Apps are too complex so maybe features should be ownable and tradable
Posted on Friday 29 Apr 2022. 1,955 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’
Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."
@zeens.app feed is looking particularly beautiful today 😍 The IOS app is still work-in-progress. working out some issues on my developer account with Apple's support. But honestly, at this point it feels like Apple support doesn't really help. They just copy-paste the same email again and again :(
I made a reader for standard.site called "Standard Reader" Partially inspired by Google Reader (or what i remember of it) it provides a place to browse, discover, read and subscribe to standard site publications Also has some cool features like article dictation (I like to listen to longform)
Standard Reader
Introducing Standard Reader: a calm, text-first home for long-form writing on the Atmosphere. Read standard.site publications, follow the writers you love, and find new voices across the network. standard-reader.app
〈7 Reasons Why Standard Reader Is My Choice〉 「Standard Reader is the Google Reader of the ATmosphere network.」 standard-reader.app/a/did:plc:io4jy6p7yv6xrlz4rp5… #StandardReader
Lexicon suggestions for reader apps on AT Proto (such as @leaflet.pub Reader and @skyreader.app): - storing the reading status of a given URL - “liking” or “recommending” an URL - public (and when permissioned data will be out, private, or access controlled) folders to organize subscriptions
