Updates, tips, and thoughts on building a better reading experience.
Most real-time notification systems rely on Redis pub/sub or a full message broker. We went a different direction — here's what we learned building Pulse's live feed on long-lived HTTP connections and why it turned out simpler than we expected.
Read more →Not all feeds are equal. Some publish a dozen low-effort posts per day; others publish one essay per week that's worth every word. Here are five we've been following that consistently clear that bar.
Read more →The hardest part of staying informed is that the story you care about is scattered across a dozen different sites. Topic tracking pulls every matching item from across your entire feed into one place automatically.
Read more →We started Pulse because we were frustrated with how hard it had become to follow topics we cared about without surrendering our attention to an algorithm. This is the story of the first six months — including the ideas that didn't work.
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