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17th June 2026 - Link Blog

NetNewsWire Status (via) I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, really good - free from any commercial pressure.

The software is NetNewsWire - "it's like podcasts, but for reading" - first released in 2002 and made open source in 2018.

I've been using it on Mac and iPhone for several years now and I'm finding it indispensable.

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 17th June 2026.

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