---
title: "My Reader Project"
description: "In 2024 I built my own reader after years of being bitter about google killing reader more than a decade prior."
date: 2024-07-07
published: false
tags:
  - catalytic
  - markata
template: blog-post
---


In 2024 I built my own reader after years of being bitter about google killing
reader more than a decade prior.

!!! seealso
  All the way back in 2020 I made a post on what I wanted to build into my own
  reader.  It went long forgotten until I tried to make this post and slugs
  clashed. <a href="/reader-2020/" class="wikilink" data-title="Reader-2020" data-description="Notes about my reader idea" data-date="2020-07-12">Reader-2020</a>

## Built on markata

I built it on top of my own static site generator <a href="/markata/" class="wikilink" data-title="markata" data-description="This post is a work in progress." data-date="2024-05-30">markata</a>, feedparser (<a href="/parsing-rss-python/" class="wikilink" data-title="🐍 Parsing RSS feeds with Python" data-description="I am looking into a way to replace my google reader experience that I had back in 2013 before google took it from us. I am starting by learning how to parse..." data-date="2020-07-13">🐍 Parsing RSS feeds with Python</a>), some jinja templating, and tailwind.

After putting all the work I have into markata, it makes projects like this
fairly easy to build out with just a custom loader to load new posts in.