Introducing Cruxwire: a personal news digest that runs on your own hardware

Introducing Cruxwire: a personal news digest that runs on your own hardware
I read too much news, badly. A dozen RSS feeds, three "read it later" apps I never went back to, and the creeping sense that the algorithm-driven version of all this was optimizing for someone else's goals, not mine. So I built the thing I actually wanted, a personal news digest that runs on my own hardware, ranks stories with a model I control, and never phones home. It's called Cruxwire, and it's open source.…

I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed

I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed
A few weeks ago I stopped using Reddit. Not because the content was bad. There's genuinely useful stuff there, but because I had no control over it. I was just overwhelmed with irrelevant content, negative content and constant suggestion of threads I have no interest in. I was full on doom scrolling daily, with a very bad signal to noise ratio. The problem is that once you identify doom scrolling for what it is, you…