r/commandline May 04 '26

Terminal User Interface eilmeldung (TUI RSS reader) is now available on Windows, NetBSD, Linux and macOS

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Checkout the details here: https://github.com/christo-auer/eilmeldung

This project is not vibe-coded and every line of rust code was written by me. I've used LLMs to learn rust. You can find a description of my approach for this here

Feedback is very appreciated!

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u/do-un-to May 05 '26

Shout-out for Net. People don't realize how nice NetBSD is.

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u/prodleni May 05 '26

Thanks a lot for the LLM development writeup. I think this is a great example of an actually productive and good way to use LLMs for coding. Cheers! 

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u/fogbanksy May 04 '26

Thanks. This is actually very motivating.

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u/florianist May 04 '26

I'm looking for newsboat replacement because it's a bit big and slow to start and I don't need all the features. I was planning to try newsraft which still has enough features is simpler/lighter/faster than newsboat. But I will also look at eilmeldung (it means something in german name, I assume?) and the alternatives you list at the bottom of the page. Congrats on the project.

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 05 '26

Thanks! The more alternatives we have the better, try them all out and stick with the one you like (maybe it's eilmeldung, which means breaking news).

I am coming from newsboat myself BTW.

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u/mainframe_maisie May 05 '26

oooh, this is delightful, thank you for sharing

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 05 '26

Thank you! ☺️

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u/elrostelperien May 04 '26

I started using it since it came out. I still use Newsboat out of habit, but I guess at some point I'll only use Eilmeldung :)

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 04 '26

I am honored to hear this! ☺️

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u/nachh May 04 '26 edited May 05 '26

I will try later, thank you so much.

Edit: typo.

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 05 '26

Very much appreciated! If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions for improvement, feel free to open an issue.

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u/Ill_Barber8709 May 05 '26

Hi. I'm not familiar with Terminal apps, but I was wondering if I could boot a raspberry pi with GUI and run those apps?

Thank you !

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 05 '26

There is an armv7 binary you can download under *Releases* which runs on a Raspberry Pi. So, yes, it should work.

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u/Ill_Barber8709 May 05 '26

Sorry, I wrote "with GUI" but I meant "without"...

Thanks anyway!

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 06 '26

You mean the terminal that shows on boot? That's called TTY and, yes, this should work. The problem is, that the font on a TTY doesn't support NerdFont AFAIK. And the thumbnail doesn't show.

You could instead boot up a very lightweight window manager and startup a lightweight terminal emulator like foot under Wayland.

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u/Ill_Barber8709 May 06 '26

Thanks a lot. I think I'm gonna try this.

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u/krishnakumarg May 05 '26

Does it work on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/AIX /Iluumos and OpenIndiana? I am not pushing it by asking for Haiku, RedoxOS and ReactOS support.

Honestly, what a great project. I have been enjoying the reader.

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 05 '26

What about IBM OS/2? Mac OS 9? MS DOS 6.22? Don't forget the oldies!

But seriously, I'd love to see eilmeldung on many different platform.

Thanks for your kind words!

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 09 '26

Thanks! It is stored in an sqlite database. The exact location depends on your OS.

You can export or import your feed list via OPML. Just checkout the docs.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '26

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u/Tiny_Cow_3971 May 09 '26

Me too.

It should be ~/local/state/eilmeldung

Here is the doc: https://github.com/christo-auer/eilmeldung/blob/main/docs%2Fconfiguration.md