askI really like the idea of rethinking "obvious" designs and making software better than it is now.
tg (@[email protected])
Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients. @brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 — and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different. That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback). https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation #rss