For a bit of fun the other day I sat down and added Atom support to Syndirella using the Atom.NET library. This was just as much a learning experience for me, since I’ve never used C# before, nor got into the nitty-gritty of writing applications for Atom, despite following all the conversations around it.

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In between looking at Sauce Reader, Sharpreader and Syndirella, I looked at pretty much all the other desktop aggregators in the weblog compendium and none of them were as good as these, by a large margin. All in all, what I’d like from an aggregator is just about covered by these three, but not by any one. The startup speed of the .NE...

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The Wildgrape NewsDesk is good. Very good, and it looks better than Syndirella, too. But here’s why I won’t be making the switch: ...

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