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-title:
-  How I read things on the Internet now (no, of course I don't leave the
-  terminal!)
-description: >-
-  I've been sprucing up how I follow what's happening on the Internet. I can now
-  read all the things I want to read pretty efficiently, and enjoy doing it,
-  which is exciting.
-pubDate: 2025-01-19
----
-
-## The problem
-
-I like to read things on the Internet sometimes. Or listen to things. Or watch
-things.
-
-Some interesting people write blog posts. Some beautiful people make music. Some
-silly people make comedy sketches. Sometimes my friends are sharing stuff with
-their friends, which means me (WIP on that front: I'll get back to that).
-
-I want to know about it. I want to read interesting things that will educate me.
-I want to hear beautiful music. I want to hear about what my friends are up to.
-
-I can't read everything as it comes in, it's too much: I'll need to sift a lot
-of it out quickly. I'll need to sift through it regularly to stay on top of it:
-like, several times a week, if not daily. And sometimes, while I'm doing my
-daily sifting, I'll find something I really want to read, but I haven't got time
-right now: I'll save this for the weekend.
-
-For a while, I've been hosting [CommaFeed][commafeed] on [PikaPods][pikapods].
-This has been OK ([OMG, RSS is cool][rss]), but the interface is just clunky
-enough to make it a chore to use. That means I don't sift through stuff
-regularly, and that means my feed piles hundreds of unread posts high.
-
-It also hasn't been any good for distinguishing between stuff I don't want to
-read _ever_, and stuff I don't want to read _right now_ but will get round to
-later. I could in theory use the bookmarking feature built-in to my browser, but
-removing things after I've read them is too clunky, so I don't do it.
-
-## The solution
-
-Every morning, I open my terminal and run [newsboat][newsboat].
-
-![newsboat showing how many unread posts I have at a glance in the opening view](./2025-01-19_newsboat.webp)
-
-I know the unread count is pretty fresh, because I've set up a systemd service
-to run newsboat at startup to fetch the feeds.
-
-I press `l` twice to open a post. Then I press `n` to navigate to the next
-unread post until I run out of unread posts.
-
-![newsboat displaying a post](./2025-01-19_newsboat-post.webp)
-
-If I encounter something I want to read later, but don't have time right now, I
-press `b`, which runs a home-made bookmarking script. Here it is:
-
-```bash
-### readlater.sh ###
-
-# newsboat passes a few arguments:
-# the first one is the post URL
-url="$1"
-
-# I turn the URL into a suitable filename
-filename=$( \
-  echo $url | \
-  sed "s/.*:\/\///" | \
-  sed "s/\//./g" | \
-  sed "s/\.html\$//g" \
-)
-filename="$filename".html
-
-# If I've already got this in my reading list,
-# I don't add it again
-if [[ -a "$HOME/readlist/unread/$filename" ]]
-then
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-# Otherwise, I download the post with curl
-# and pipe it to a file in my reading list
-# folder, ~/readlist/unread
-curl "$url" > "$HOME/readlist/unread/$filename"
-```
-
-I can also run this script manually and pass it a URL of my choice at any time,
-say, if I find an interesting article while browsing the Web.
-
-When I want to read from my reading list, I run `readnow.sh`, which simply opens
-my reading list folder, `~/readlist/unread`, in my terminal file browser of
-choice: namely, [ranger][ranger].
-
-![ranger showing the contents of my reading list with a preview](./2025-01-19_ranger.webp)
-
-Although ranger has a preview, I'll typically open the file up in my terminal
-web browser of choice, which is [w3m][w3m] (plus a couple of custom
-key-bindings). I've configured this to be my preferred web browser in ranger by
-shifting it to the top of the list of HTML browsers in
-`~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf`.
-
-```conf
-### ~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf ###
-
-...
-
-ext x?html?, has w3m,               terminal = w3m "$@"
-ext x?html?, ...
-
-...
-```
-
-Having configured my default web browser in my ranger config, all I need to do
-is press `l`.
-
-![A post displaying in w3m](./2025-01-19_w3m.webp)
-
-No ads, no cookie popups, no giant banner images taking 2 seconds to load and
-shifting the content all over the place: just the text I want to read. Isn't it
-beautiful?
-
-Once I'm finished reading the post, I'll press `q` to quit w3m and return to
-ranger. Assuming I don't need to read it again, I'll press `dm` to move the post
-to `~/readlist/read` - my way of marking a post as 'read'.
-
-I've done this by writing a super simple script, `markread.sh`:
-
-```bash
-### markread.sh ###
-
-filename="$(basename $1)"
-
-if [[ -a "$HOME/readlist/unread/$filename" ]]
-then
-  mv "$HOME/readlist/unread/$filename" "$HOME/readlist/read/$filename"
-  echo "Marked $filename as read."
-else
-  echo "I couldn't find a file in ~/readlist/unread with the name: $filename"
-fi
-```
-
-...and hooking it onto the custom keybinding, `dm`, in ranger:
-
-```conf
-### ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf ###
-
-...
-
-# map `dm` to run markread.sh in the shell, providing the active filename
-# as the first and only argument
-map dm shell markread.sh %f
-
-...
-```
-
-## The result
-
-I can now keep up to date, and I enjoy doing it.
-
-I get not everyone likes to live in the terminal. I think the key takeaways are:
-
-- Make it really easy to sift through new posts
-- When you sift, sift through every post, and for each one, either read it
-  straight away, or add it to your reading list
-- Sift daily
-- Make it really easy to add things to your reading list
-- Make it really easy to browse, read things, and mark things read in your
-  reading list
-- Set aside time to catch up on your reading list
-- Make the whole thing joyful (both because joy is good, and because you won't
-  do it otherwise)
-
-## Next steps
-
-I still haven't really figured out social media. I'd like to stay up to date
-with what my friends are doing, especially the ones I don't see very often. If
-my friends are posting stuff on the Internet, I'd love to see it.
-
-I still need to know:
-
-- Are my friends posting stuff on the Internet?
-- If so, where?
-- What's the best way of subscribing to their posts - even if they live on
-  different websites and in different formats?
-- What's the best way of sending and receiving comments/replies/reactions?
-
-TBC. Answers on a postcard please.
-
-[commafeed]: https://www.commafeed.com
-[pikapods]: https://www.pikapods.com
-[newsboat]: https://newsboat.org
-[ranger]: https://ranger.github.io
-[rss]: /blog/2024/05/02/no_more_youtube
-[w3m]: https://w3m.sourceforge.net