Your RSS Feeds Are Broken and This Rust Tool Fixes Them
RSS is still the best way to follow the internet without an algorithm deciding what you see. But it has a problem nobody talks about: most feeds are garbage. Not the content. The actual XML. Truncated posts that force you to click through. No images because the publisher strips them. Feeds with 200 entries when you only care about ones matching a keyword. Two separate blogs you wish were one feed. The protocol works fine. The feeds people publish are another story. You can fix this. You can run a proxy that sits between the source feed and your reader, transforming it on the way through. Full-text extraction, filtering, merging, reformatting. The concept isn’t new. Yahoo Pipes did it fifteen years ago before Yahoo killed it, because Yahoo kills everything. Since then the options have…
