ReadYou just released v0.15.0 this past week. I’ve been waiting to see their take on one very specific feature: large screen support. I tried it out. It’s great! There’s a subtle animation for article filters in the list column. There’s also an expand/collapse option to view the article in full screen. This is a new paradigm that Google has been pushing in Keep and Gmail. In the face of these…
Summer in the midwest is careening towards autumn, and version 2025.08.1153 of Capy Reader is in review for the Play Store. I haven’t been adding huge feature changes lately. Instead, I’ve been trying to pick apart the app and understand some underlying jank that exists. More on that later. While there aren’t huge changes in this release, I did get around to adding “Open in browser” as an option to…
One of the hardest problems with RSS feeds is displaying full content. It’s essentially an unsolvable problem given the complexity of webpages and the lack of adherence to a semantic layout for any given blog or news site. It would be nice if each page had a header tag, and an article tag, but it’s not that simple. Full content parsers attempt to solve this, but each has their own…