Stephen Downes

What I love about the arrival of AI-supported coding is that now people can create their own flavours of old standards. Take RSS readers, for example. Take Current, for example. "Each article has a velocity, a measure of how quickly it ages. Breaking news burns bright for three hours. A daily article stays relevant for eighteen. An essay lingers for three days. An evergreen tutorial might sit in your river for a week. As items age, they dim. Eventually they're gone, carried downstream. You don't mark them as read. You don't file them. They simply pass, the way water passes under a bridge." My needs are different; I wanted to surface unread voices, so I wrote a reader that displays those who post least frequently first. I also wanted itto run locally, but sync across instances. So that's what I wrote. Each person gets their own version, their own flavour, of what they want.