When Google Reader died, so did a large part of me, and the web.

That said, I'm recently back on RSS and this is another good feed:

https://servo.org/blog/feed.xml

I have similar emotions about google.com no longer working in w3m and other no-JS browsers, something that happened this year seemingly to very little fanfare, or whatever the antonym to fanfare is.

(Oh! I wonder if Servo will bring about a new, JS enabled, TUI browser?)

This is something I want to make possible! There was an early experiment in https://github.com/mcclure/cuervo/ which helped identify some ways that our embedding APIs would need to change to support that use case.

yeah very sad, had a tmux shortcut for quickly "googling" things.. However, https://www.startpage.com/ does not complain and supposedly sports the same search index..

For modern sites and if your terminal toolchain does not support sixel, https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl is a neat hack that gives you a text-rendered blink engine, i.e. supporting all the same sites as those pesky GUI browsers. With sixel/kitty graphics, there was another option which slipped my mind.. [edit: maybe chawan as in sibling comment, but that also is "not supported" by google with the default user agent.]

As for modern TUI browsers, there are already: Chawan, Browsh, Carbonyl.

I wish I had a RSS reader to feed this to...

Miniflux is pretty good and easy to self-host:

https://github.com/miniflux/v2

https://miniflux.app/docs/docker.html

One of my favorite RSS readers is https://vore.website - river of news, no unread indicators, simple. It's a website, as the domain suggests, so no need to install anything.

> as the domain suggests

It suggests a couple of things...

Yeah, after the appropriate layers of VPN/Incognito/Tor/muted phone/etc I braved the link, and it turns out it's actually real, but that is still not a hostname I want connected to me in anyone's access logs more than once.

Good news, you can grab the source code and host it yourself on a less troubling domain:

https://git.j3s.sh/vore

It's under the NON-VIOLENT PUBLIC LICENSE v5, which is probably not open source, but should be fine for personal use if you're not an arms dealer or prison warden.

There's more RSS readers than you can count. No need to pick a proprietary one with a sketchy license when there are tons of great open-source options.

If you're on iOS/MacOS, try https://netnewswire.com. Old-school high-quality free macOS app.

I'm happy with FreshRSS

Servo also publishes weekly reports on Mastodon: https://floss.social/@servo