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@johnbrayton.com In Unread Cloud and Local accounts, Unread deletes an article after 90 days regardless of whether it was read. If an article is explicitly saved, it is kept indefinitely.

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If you are syncing with a service like Feedly or Feedbin, it is service-dependent. But they generally age out old articles too.

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@manton Thank you, Manton!

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@johnbrayton.com I am considering an option to use the system fonts rather than the Whitney fonts that Unread uses.

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I released Unread 5.0, adding improvements to article list thumbnails, syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux, and more.

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Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2026/09/u…

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@manton @danielpunkass 🎉

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@johnbrayton.com Thank you!

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Waiting for Review

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@manton It’s not new, but the Young Sheldon spinoff is really good as well.

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@manton It would be funny if they called if Phonebook.

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Seen in Salem, Massachusetts:

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I have been using Shareshot 2 for some time, and highly recommend it.\nshareshot.app/blog/Rele…

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It was a good day, but also a long day, working at the polls.

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And the most noteworthy race result is in: Ed Markey won the primary.

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I voted early for the Massachusetts state primary.

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@JohnPhilpin Haha, that is very likely.

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A visitor in my yard.

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FB24286690: In macOS 27 developer beta 5, components of NSSearchToolbarItem are vertically off-center\nwww.virtualsanity.com/202608/ve…

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Yesterday’s beta of macOS 27 introduces a bug: an NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem in a toolbar causes a bar to appear under the toolbar, overlaying the content.

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www.virtualsanity.com/202608/ns…

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@jean ❤️

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For folks in the Worcester, MA, area, Gabriel Todaro is starting a CocoaHeads Worcester group. Its first meeting is tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. Check it out at:

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www.meetup.com/cocoahead…

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@manton I am sorry to see this coming up again. For what it’s worth, I am deeply skeptical that the person launching personal attacks against you believes what he is saying.

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A good (really!) AI video:\nwww.youtube.com/shorts/Uu…

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FB23827858 describes a bug with NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem on the macOS 27 beta:

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virtualsanity.com/202607/ns…

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At the New Hampshire Fisher Cats vs. Portland Sea Dogs game in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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@fahrni @manton Manton based the Inkwell API on Feedbin’s. That made syncing with Inkwell easier.

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But I agree. The Google Reader API serves as a standard, but it is dated and was not intended to be a public API.

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I am game for working on a modern standard API with you and/or other folks.

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CocoaHeads Boston will meet this evening via Zoom at 7:00 PM Boston time. New participants and folks outside the Boston area are always welcome.

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www.meetup.com/cocoahead…

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I released Unread 4.9, adding:

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• Syncing with Gobbler

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• Improvements to the Matter article action

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• Improved display of Reddit posts

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• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images

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Details at:\nwww.goldenhillsoftware.com/2026/05/u…

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I had a 266-day streak of walking at least 10,000 steps per day. I lost that streak yesterday. Today is day 1 of my new streak.

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@fahrni Nothing else, I was just being a little dramatic about Colbert ending.

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CBS was founded in 1927. 99 years is quite a run. RIP.

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Manton Reece details the obstacles Apple has thrown in his way while he tries to release Inkwell for iOS:

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www.manton.org/2026/05/1…

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Dealing with the App Store is the worst part of developing for Apple platforms. I hope that Apple approves Inkwell for iOS soon.

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I am seeing a bug involving keyboard shortcuts for menu items that have no modifier keys on macOS 26.5. I wrote it up at:\nwww.virtualsanity.com/202605/bu…

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A palette cleanser:

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youtu.be/okd5J5642…

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@manton Nice!

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@vincent Nice work!

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@manton I agree, this is just going to create confusion. I also strongly dislike showing a calculated monthly rate on an annual subscription.

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Celebrity sighting.

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This sign made me laugh.

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Good crowd for the No Kings protest in Boston.

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@manton When I first started working on Unread for Mac in 2023, I initially tried to do everything I could using SwiftUI. That mistake cost me a solid month. AppKit FTW.

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@robertbreen Oh good, I am glad that helps!

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@robertbreen Honestly I am not going to get to highlighting in the near future, although Unread does let you send selected text to a shortcut. You could potentially write a shortcut that creates a draft of a blog post.

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@manton Congratulations! 🎉

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@cheesemaker Congratulations on the release of Silverleaf!

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@robertbreen Thank you so much, Robert!

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@patrickrhone That is a fair question/observation, for sure.

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@patrickrhone I see lots of Christian church buildings with pride flags and messages about welcoming immigrants. So my impression is that many, perhaps even a majority, do.

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@vincode Zavala 4.0 looks great. Congratulations!

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@patrickrhone Be safe.

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