Terry Godier

Mea Culpa - Dark Hours blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/m...

Browsers have standards, the App Store has judgment blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/b...

Just FYI - hit a delay on the new app that was supposed to launch this week. I submitted a last minute small change and Apple has rejected the app. So I'm stuck in paperwork-land for now. I remain optimistic that I can get this pushed through.

Been working on this little hobby project for several weekends. It's ready to show my friends. Most sky apps tell you what's up. Dark Hours tells you the truth: whether tonight is worth it, when, and which way to look. Free, no account, go nuts! darkhours.io #astronomy #stargazing

I have a new app coming out next week.: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/07/30/i-have-a-new-app.html

Current Now Supports Feedly in v1.0.15: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/07/30/current-now-supports-feedly-in.html

This is a short film about A/B testing, algorithmic optimization, and the small act of ignoring both. About what it means to make something by hand in a world that can tell you, with a number, exactly what would have worked better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Frn...

The Winning Variant: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/06/26/the-winning-variant.html

Your music library became endless. Something quiet disappeared when it did. A short documentary about formats, streaming, and trying to work out whether the music changed, or I did. My first video essay. Had a blast and it would be so fun to make more of these! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzzN...

A Room You Can’t See: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/06/22/a-room-you-cant-see.html

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I’ve been a little distant lately, just super head down on something worth it. A short list of what it entails: FX3, A7, Misc Aputure rigs, an iPod, lots of black paper, a few paperclips, and a hell of a story. 👀 Be back soon.

Why do standards created in the 1970s continue to power the modern internet? According to @terrygodier.com, it’s because they’re “too useful to disappear, too uncool to hype, too federated to acquire, and too awkward to turn cleanly into a platform.” www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i...

Just added an OPML to the Sourcefeed discover page. This little service continues to grow by leaps and bounds and there’s a real culture developing here. It’s been inspiring and heartwarming and interesting to see how it develops!

I’ve been experimenting with a flagship Android device for the past few days. Can anyone point me to some incredible paid up front / commercial indie apps for Android? I want to see the best of the best. Bonus points if it’s something crafted by one person.

I've linked to Terry Godier a few times lately (primarily with regards to being influenced by Current, his RSS // feed reader) and am going to do so again.

Listen, friends. I love Linux, but I can’t, in good faith, deliver software with the level of information density you seem to require. But I love you anyway <3

😅 you're gonna break it! That station is broadcasting from a $5/mo box!

What I want to build are things that work the old fashioned way, on protocols that give users sovereignty and agency, but with modern thinking applied to the UI and UX. That’s it. That’s my whole shtick. Thanks!

All I want in life is a modern version of Yojimbo that re-imagines Finder as a surface to drag and drop and save and recall and organize various things. Text snippets, memes, contacts, dmgs, webpage archives, bookmarks, json files, whatever. Persistent, visual, spatial, wonderful. Too much?

Current v1.0.14 is rolling out now.: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/05/05/current-v-is-rolling-out.html

Exceptional thinking, once again courtesy of Gruber. daringfireball.net/2026/05/s…

The Boring Internet: www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i...

@tg's latest essay is inspiring and hopeful. https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

API in progress as we speak. 🫡

This post hit me in my soul.

This is incredible.

I think we've had enough of shiny apps that provide "a personalized experience" in return of our attention and identity. I hope we return to a simpler mode of internet soon.

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

My plan with RSS: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/05/04/my-plan-with-rss.html

there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

A little UI design tip for engineers: If your app has broken, unfinished features that management forced you to include for business reasons, you can just use this handy little icon to let users know where not to click

Introducing Tags for Sourcefeed: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/05/02/intoducing-tags-for-sourcefeed.html

Really interesting to see how sourcefeed is working in several ways. It’s a quasi social network for some, responding to each other and coordinating topics, a niche stream of links, daily journals, and software changelogs. Inspiring!

What a great use case! 🙏

Two new features for Sourcefeed: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/05/01/two-new-features-for-sourcefeed.html

If they launched full-time goblin mode, I’d use it openai.com/index/whe…

Love the way web pages scroll all the way to the top of the screen in Safari on iOS 26? But totally despise Liquid Glass? Quiche Browser's full screen browsing is now available in Classic theme! Maximum screen real estate for reading, all without floating glass stuff clashing with the web page.

AI bots are now blocked on Sourcefeed. Being RSS-only there’s not really much to scrape, so the surface area is small, but now they’re explicitly blocked from the feeds. If they ignore robots.txt there’s still a proxy/middleware that will blackhole them. www.sourcefeed.app/robots.tx…

Gratitude, honor, and anger: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/04/29/gratitude-honor-and-anger.html

Sourcefeed creates standalone RSS feeds: No website, no newsletter. Just your words, delivered to your readers’ rss reader. It’s an appealing, if eccentric idea, explained more in a blog post. https://ift.tt/3CRsqEm

Ok, this has been unbelievably fun to see what everyone is writing about (publicly) and the crazy, zany ideas you have for the api! 🙏🙏🙏 www.sourcefeed.app/discover

Neat new service called Sourcefeed from Terry Godier to publish RSS feeds: "RSS-only. No website, no inbox, no algorithm. Subscribers read it where they choose, in whatever reader they already trust." My first feature request: let the title field be blank for short posts. 🙂

Today I'm launching Sourcefeed - a pop-up RSS service: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/04/28/today-im-launching-sourcefeed-a.html

This is a really thoughtful response by Max Obermeier to my “the last quiet thing” essay: maxobermeier.eu/Owning%20…

Decided to switch up my RSS flow a little bit. Trying out Current. www.terrygodier.com/current

Me too!