Ross

keyboard-driven RSS reader for macOS.

ross.mp4

known issues

• will only support continuous polling when single feed is defined
• poll will stop when machine sleeps

install

n.b. assumes you have hammerspoon installed.

n.b. hammerspoon timer uses a macOS API which will pause on sleep; accounting for this remains an open issue

• clone this repo
• move it to ~/.hammerspoon/Spoons/Ross.spoon
• edit ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua to have the following:

hs.loadSpoon("Ross"):bindHotKeys({
    showReader = { { "cmd", "alt" }, "h" },
}):start()

• create ~/.hammerspoon/Spoons/Ross.spoon/config.toml
• add the RSS feeds you want to track:

[hackernews]
url = "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
poll = 120 # seconds

• reload your hammerspoon config
• cmd+opt+h to open the reader
• esc to close the reader