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The author built feedpaper, a macOS tool that converts RSS feeds into an e-pub 'newspaper' for a pocket e-ink reader, helping them read blogs away from their phone.

atomstr is a service that bridges RSS/Atom feeds to Nostr, letting users follow traditional feeds via Nostr clients.

robot.villas is a tool that bridges RSS feeds to Mastodon, allowing automated posting of feed updates to the social network.

A technical blog post argues that Atom is technically superior to RSS, particularly in title encoding semantics, and encourages preferring Atom over RSS for web feeds.

handwritten.blog is a blogging platform that encourages slower, authentic writing by hand, with RSS feeds and no algorithmic feed or likes.

Folo is an AI-native RSS client built by @DIYgod, with 38,400 GitHub stars, aiming to revive RSS with a modern, intelligent interface.

BestBlogs has compiled 375 WeChat Official Account RSS feeds that are still being updated, covering multiple fields such as artificial intelligence, software programming, and business technology. It also provides an OPML file for import into RSS readers, aiming to help users independently select information sources and combine them with AI for filtering.

RSS feeds, long used for podcasts, are becoming essential for AI agents that need deterministic, structured access to content without algorithmic interference or rate limits.

The article argues that using CDATA sections in RSS/Atom feeds is problematic due to the special case of escaping the ']]>' sequence, and recommends using standard XML escaping instead for simplicity and uniformity.

Announcing feed-repeat v1.0, a self-hostable tool that reposts old articles from RSS/Atom feeds into a new feed for spaced repetition.

Horizon is an open-source tool that generates daily AI briefings by aggregating and summarizing news from Hacker News, Reddit, RSS, and other sources, using AI models like Claude and GPT.

The author examines the decline of RSS feeds due to scraping and interference, arguing that modern feed readers must integrate alternative syndication methods to remain relevant.

A survey analyzing over 300,000 web feeds on the top 500k sites reveals that while feeds remain prevalent, most are abandoned or low quality due to automatic CMS generation. The author used AI agents to process Common Crawl data and calls for better feed management practices.

TrendRadar is an open-source hot-topic aggregator that uses AI to filter content based on interests and generate briefings, supporting Docker deployment and multi-platform notifications.

Simon Willison discusses the need for RSS feeds to distribute rapidly developed 'vibe-coded' apps, noting that he has added Atom feed support to his personal tools page to facilitate this.

TrendRadar is a lightweight, 30-second-deploy tool that aggregates and AI-filters trending news from RSS feeds and pushes alerts to 10+ platforms.