Author: Enver Haase-Beer
I came to RSS about twenty years late. When I finally went looking for a good reader, one beloved old Eclipse desktop app kept turning up on every "best of" list—RSSOwl—and it wouldn't even launch on my Mac. I'm a developer, so instead of shrugging I got nosy: how hard would it actually be to rebuild its main screen for the browser? Here's what I found, what came across in an afternoon, what fought me, and what turned out to be impossible.
