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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06hello moto.
Fan of all things mobile. Currently developing #capyreader.
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I split out the core of Capy Reader to run directly on the JVM. This has let me benchmark integrations via the CLI. I was able to decrease cold start refreshes by 50% over 10k unread articles. The FreshRSS improvements have already shipped. I'm hoping to ship the Miniflux ones soon.
The latest nightly for Capy is out. Usually I'd say you can sleep on a nightly release, but it's worth being awake for this one.
I've been informally thinking of this as a v2 release. It's all the big features I've been unsure about releasing incrementally like a "Spotlight" widget or reworking unread filters. There's more to do before an official release, but if you want a sneak peak, try it out and let me know how it goes!
https://github.com/jocmp/capyreader/releases/tag/2026.04.08-nightly
It's been a rough day, but learning that "Capybara" literally translates to "water pig" in English has made it better.
Capys that didn't make the cut (yet)
RE: https://social.coop/@dajb/116277465929913751
Really cool to see momentum around this concept. Open source too!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_jocmp/116310173550929528
And it's live! The Miniflux refresh improvements are available in v2026.04.1204. Eager to hear if it speeds things up for you.
RE: https://indieweb.social/@brentsimmons/116166430152234330
"Coding’s the easy part — making a useful app that people like is the challenge and is such a reward when it works." True now more than ever.
F-Droid releases have been so snappy that I've decided to remove dev releases from Capy Reader. I had introduced them as a way to get releases faster but now the build server is super fast on its own.
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Feedbin users have already had access to the first revision of this feature. But thanks to the same tech built by Feedbin, it now makes sense to add for local accounts too.
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@svenjacobs@androiddev.social there were a few bindings to the Android Runtime, specifically Android's context object. That meant it could only run on an Android device. Now the core at least - not the UI - can run anywhere you can run Java. Which is a lot of places!
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116086401953523135
I tried this out, it's a fresh take on RSS with a lot of neat ideas. Worth a shot if you're on iOS!
I started self-hosting RSSHub to use with Threads and it works great. How did I sleep on this for so long?
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@fcrozat@mastodon.social absolutely. Capy started more or less as a Feedbin/NNW clone. But even as I've built it, I've found myself wishing it was simpler. The Stream approach is much simpler, and Current has shown that there's real interest in it too.
And I thought Twitch comment streams were chaotic. Just proof that there are still unique UI patterns out there to explore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danmaku_subtitling
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@stuarticus@indieweb.social thanks for writing this up. Do you think you'd add special handling to Gobbler? I'm considering something around a content hash for my own reader, but I'm wary of doing all of this just for the BBC.
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@perdido@role.social.br that's my hope. My biggest challenge is how to explain in the UI that these would be local-only. FreshRSS doesn't have a sync mechanism for ad-hoc articles like Feedbin does.