Turning an RSS Reader Into an Intelligence Pipeline

Introduction I consume far more feeds than I can reasonably examine with sustained attention, which means that the substantive difficulty lies not in volume alone but in the profoundly uneven distribution of relevance within that volume. On an active day, a hundred articles may arrive in rapid succession; perhaps four contain a development warranting action, while the remaining ninety-six obscure those few consequential pieces beneath a familiar and relentless accumulation of headlines, summaries, reposts, and derivative commentary. ...

August 16, 2026 · 10 min · Robert D. White
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Politics Dashboard: A Self-Hosted, AI-Summarized News & X Feed Reader

Politics Dashboard: A Self-Hosted, AI-Summarized News & X Feed Reader I built and open-sourced a self-hosted news dashboard that aggregates political news from RSS or FreshRSS, summarizes individual articles with a configurable large language model (LLM), generates a 24-hour thematic digest, and presents X posts with per-account summaries through a self-hosted Nitter instance. The repository is github.com/RobertDWhite/politics-dashboard; it is MIT-licensed, and multi-architecture images are available at ghcr.io/robertdwhite/politics-{api,ui}. The production image is the same image GitHub Actions builds from main. ...

May 6, 2026 · 8 min · Robert D. White
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