Accidental Technologist

Musings about Entrepreneurship, Technology and Software Development

  • Home
  • About
  • Still River Software
  • Privacy Policy

Powered by Genesis

You are here: Home / Technology / Feed Wrangler is My Go To RSS Reader Platform

Feed Wrangler is My Go To RSS Reader Platform

June 27, 2013 by Rob Bazinet Leave a Comment

Tweet

Colorbanner 2x

July 1 is fast approaching and Google Reader is shutting down. ?Many people in the world use this service to read and sync their RSS feeds. ?When I heard it was shutting down I was a bit annoyed but not surprised, but today I am anxious for it to shut down so people will stop talking about it. ?Google Reader, it’s been nice but not real nice. ?Goodbye!

I have found a paid service I am happy to pay for and support, Feed Wrangler by David Smith. ?Feed Wrangler costs $19 per year and it developed by someone I believe will do his best to be around tomorrow. ? I have officially dumped Google Reader about a month ago and been using Feed Wrangler ever since, and I could not be more happy.

The Apps

Out of the gate Feed Wrangler has a web site that can be used to read posts, mark them read/unread and add to Instapaper. ?It works very similar to Google Reader but with *much* cleaner interface. ?I never used Google Reader this way, I always used some third-party apps in my Mac, iPhone or iPad.

I have used a handful of client applications for Google Reader over the years and settled on a couple that worked really well on my Mac and iPad. ?When I heard about Google Reader shutting down my first concern was what I would use for applications.

Feed Wrangler has free applications for the iPhone and the iPad that work really well. ?I found a few little UI bugs or inconsistencies that I needed to get used to, but nothing I was unable to live with.

Thanks to the great API, third-party apps are starting to pop-up with Feed Wrangler support. ?Mr. Reeder for the iPad, and most important to me is ReadKit for the Mac. ?Both of these applications are fantastic and I am using them now.

The Syncing

The main part of what I consider the syncing platform is the backend web site and API which helps keeps the applications knowing what’s read and what has yet to be read. ?This is transparent and should be, I don’t need to know the details nor do I care. ?I just want to be able to go from device to device and not have to miss an article or mark something read more than once.

So far, it just works.

The API

One beautiful part of this platform is the open API for developers so they can create any number of client applications. ?Did I mention this is a supported and nicely documented API? ?Unlike what Google Reader had offered, this will be a pleasure to write application for.

As someone who consumes API’s for a living, the style of the documentation and examples is a lesson other developers should follow.

Finally

You have more choice popping up now that Google Reader is shutting down but David Smith has done some really nice work so far and I can only suspect he will new features all the time.

I am very happy and think Feed Wrangler is worth checking out.

Share this:

  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Pocket
  • Reddit

Related

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Feed Wrangler, google reader, RSS

Care about your privacy? I do and use Fathom Analytics on this site.

Fathom Analytics

Recent Posts

  • Social Media Times Are Changing
  • It has certainly been a long time…
  • How to Fix Rails Flash Rendering When Using Hotwire
  • Hotwire Fix for CORS Error when using Omniauth
  • Fix Installation of Ruby using rbenv on macOS Big Sur

Categories

Services I Love

HatchBox - Easy Rails Deploys Fathom Analytics
Follow @rbazinet

Rob Bazinet
@rbazinet

  • Everything I read these days mentions ChatGPT or AI as the answer to everything. So many red flags. I hate trends l… https://t.co/ITLxsfAvd9
    about 1 week ago
  • If anyone knows any projects looking for some dev help, mainly Rails, as a lead who can manage small teams…I’d love… https://t.co/u0ClZ8x5wB
    about 3 weeks ago
  • This is such the truth…Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices https://t.co/0zK9YVMdrj
    about 4 weeks ago
  • I’m not sure I’d subscribe to content on Twitter when I already follow someone. Maybe I’m missing something.
    about 1 month ago
  • This looks really cool and a great real world use of AI. https://t.co/DzX5BbgDdY
    about 1 month ago
  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments
Find me on Mastodon