Hack & Tell: Ugly Reader

My Google Reader replacement as presented at Hack & Tell. https://reader.dfm.io

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1. Hi. I'm Dan Foreman-Mackey    dfm.io dfm exoplaneteer
2. I'm an astrophysicist.
3. Aside…
4. Remember when this happened?
5. that SUCKED
6. No problem. There are alternatives?
7. I'm an astrophysicist.
8. I'm an astrophysicist. ENGINEER
9. I'm an astrophysicist. ENGINEER Translation: anything that I didn't make SUCKS.
10. I don't want a new social network fucking Twitter bootstrap CSS animations an iPad app
11. I do want an ugly-ass interface
13. Shut up. You're at Hack & Tell. You understand.
14. Where do I spend most of my time? Chrome iTerm2 60 % 40 % (approximately) I need to get a lyfe.
16. ugly add github "https://github.com/blog.atom" ugly update ugly next github ...
17. Join [@jonmagic](https://github.com/jonmagic) and me Wednesday night at [Warszawa Buffet](https://foursquare.com/v/warszawa- buffet/4f6b57d8e4b07199a92eabb1) for some drinks on GitHub  We're in Saint Petersburg for [ESEC/FSE](http://esec-fse.inf.ethz.ch/), but you don't need to attend the conference to come to the drinkup. [](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/123345/979625/c1288976 -071b-11e3-816f-fbe8fd74c8c5.jpg) **The Facts:** * **When:** This Wednesday, August 21st, at 7:00pm. * **Where:** [Warszawa Buffet](https://foursquare.com/v/warszawa-buffet/4f6b57d8e4b07199a92eabb1) at [Kazanskaya, 11](http://goo.gl/maps/T6PvH) in Saint Petersburg, Russia [](http://goo.gl/maps/T6PvH) giving something like: nice.
18. Ugly. Fast. Easy?
19. Ugly. Fast. Easy? Useless piece of shit.
20. reader.dfm.io
21. Logo reader.dfm.io
22. Logo List of Feeds reader.dfm.io
23. search for stuff here... button Logo List of Feeds reader.dfm.io
24. search for stuff here... button Some post title Awesome blog post bout stuff... Another pretentious title Some bullshit... Lightly disguised advertising It's a big day... Look... Fishing for HN votes Look at me & my cool stuff... Productivity tips You certainly shouldn't be reading... ... Logo List of Feeds reader.dfm.io
25. search for stuff here... button Some post title Awesome blog post bout stuff... Another pretentious title Some bullshit... Lightly disguised advertising It's a big day... Look... Fishing for HN votes Look at me & my cool stuff... Productivity tips You certainly shouldn't be reading... ... Logo List of Feeds reader.dfm.io Awesome! You've recreated every website on the internet.
26. wait.
27. search for stuff here... button Some post title Awesome blog post bout stuff... Another pretentious title Some bullshit... Lightly disguised advertising It's a big day... Look... Fishing for HN votes Look at me & my cool stuff... Productivity tips You certainly shouldn't be reading... ... Logo List of Feeds reader.dfm.io
29. + so… …amirite?
30. turns out that it takes exactly 7 clicks & 2 searches on two different services to make this "work"
31. there's gotta be A Better Way™
33. Can I haz API?
34. Can I haz API?
35. hacked ass
36. So. This is what I came up with…
37. So. This is what I came up with…
38. Live Demo. wish me luck.
39.  reader.dfm.io  dfm/ugly Yes. It obviously has an API.
40. Dan Foreman-Mackey    dfm.io dfm exoplaneteer