TITLE: Happy in my App
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: July 01, 2013 11:10 AM
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In
<A HREF="http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/06/google-reader-apocalypse-extremely-fucking-nigh/">
 a typically salty post</A>,
Jamie Zawinski expresses succinctly one of the tenets of my
personal code:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 I have no interest in reading my feeds through a web site
 (no more than I would tolerate reading my email that way,
 like an animal).
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Living by this code means that, while many of my friends
and readers are gnashing their teeth on this first of July,
my life goes on uninterrupted.  I remain a happy long-time
user of NetNewsWire (currently, v3.1.6).

Keeping my feeds in sync with NetNewsWire has always been
a minor issue, as I run the app on at least two different
computers.  Long ago, I wrote a couple of extremely simple
scripts -- long <TT>scp</TT> commands, really -- that do a
pretty good job.  They don't give me thought-free syncing,
but that's okay.

A lot of people tell me that apps are dead, that the
HTML5-powered web is the future.  I do know that
<A HREF="http://www.planningforaliens.com/blog/2013/06/11/mac-pro/">
   we're very quickly running out of stuff
   we can't do in the browser</A>
and applaud the people who are making that happen.  If I
were a habitual smartphone-and-tablet user, I suspect that
I would be miffed if web sites made me download an app just
to read their web content.  All that said, though, I still
like what a clean, simple app gives me.
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