Antigravity on D'Arcy Norman, PhD

Experimenting with RSS Reader Interfaces

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:33:12 -0700

I’ve been using RSS readers for over 20 years. Most of that time has been spent using the excellent NetNewsWire application, but I’ve used others (including Google Reader, Fever˚, etc.).

After reading Terry Godier’s post on RSS readers being stuck in the email metaphor, I wanted to experiment with some ideas for a “non-email” metaphor for a feed reader interface. The most interesting and useful version of this that I’ve used was the “Hot” view from Shaun Inman’s Fever˚ application. What would it look like to integrate something like that into my NetNewsWire database?

experimental RSS interface

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0700

experimental RSS interface

Photo by D'Arcy Norman

After a recent post by Terry Godier (and some responses from Brent Simmons and Dave Winer etc. on Mastodon), I started thinking about RSS interfaces. I’d REALLY appreciated Fever˚’s “Hot” view and wondered if it was possible to replicate something like that¹. So I burned through a week’s worth of Antigravity Gemini tokens to build a prototype experimental app to try an idea for a different RSS interface. The app reads (a copy of) my NetNewsWire SQLite database, and uses a weighting algorithm to calculate a “score” to determine which posts are more interesting and/or relevant.

on building an Obsidian Related Notes plugin using Google's Antigravity IDE

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:13:36 -0700

TL;DR:

I built an AI/LLM-powered “related notes” plugin for Obsidian. It seems to work, but who knows? There’s a video tour, and the code is in a GitHub repository.

I’ve been using Obsidian for a few years now, and have always wanted a good “Related Notes” plugin to help me find things that overlap with what I’m working on - based on the content itself, not metadata or links. Haven’t had any luck so I kind of gave up.