Just the other day I noticed that none other than Tim Bray was talking about RSS, and mentioned “The Problem of Being Away from Your Home Machine”. I’ve solved that for myself with a server-based RSS client. Any time I’m at an Internet connected machine, I can load up a page, and see what’s new since the last time I checked in. Once an hour, a cron job on my server goes out and updates all my feeds, and the news is ready for me to read when I feel like checking in. It keeps track of what I’ve read already and can show me just what’s new, or I can display all the cached items a bunch of different ways.

I’m not quite ready to release the source code, though. I’d like to sand down a few sharp corners people might cut themselves on first. Here’s how the control panel currently looks:

For now, if you like the sites I like, you can use this static view. It’s updated every hour at the half hour mark, and shows all items for today. It rolls over to a fresh page at midnight, EST. (maybe it would be better to just show the last N hours of stuff?)