500 days of rdigest
rdigest is a small CLI-based tool I made in late 2024. It began as a way to manage my daily reading (online digital consumption) because YouTube’s UI was distracting, RSS feed readers and their infinitely-scrolling pages were overwhelming and I had cut out social media from life eons ago. TL;DR, digital content consumption was at some unmanageable crossroads in life and I had to find a way to deal with it. I’ve been using rdigest for 500+ days now. Of the handful of side-projects I built to scratch my own itch, this remains a powerful daily-driver. — Contents A quick brief of what rdigest is Learning by building Hand-crafting software and LLMs Scratching an itch vs. building for others Sporadicity — I. Now, this part about what rdigest is (and why) is for the accidental…
