Wasting my RAM

As my long term followers, fans, admirers, and disciples no doubt know, I don't believe in using RSS aggregators. Or news readers. Whatever you - or the Landed Gentry of Mac Development™ - choose to call these apps these days. Just like I don't need a ridiculous program like MarsEdit to publish my beautiful prose to this blog (I just use hand crafted HTML and I manually write the XML for the RSS feed), I don't need some stupid app like NetNewsWire or Cyndicate wasting several hundred kilobytes (or, as you will see shortly, even megabytes) of my disk space.

So how do I stay abreast of my favorite blog feeds, you ask? Well, it's quite simple. I have a text file that I edit using emacs (a UNIX tool for advanced professionals like myself - something the Landed Gentry of Mac Development™ has no clue about). In this advanced text file I keep a list of all the RSS feed URLs of the blogs I like to read. This is my list of subscriptions. Whenever I want to check what's new, I open my list and then use wget (another advanced professional UNIX tool) to download the latest RSS or Atom feed file. Then I simply check what's new. Presto. Simple. Using only advanced UNIX tools for Apple professionals.

Yet, the assclowns who make up the Landed Gentry of Mac Development™ would have you believe that you need a feed reader to accomplish this task. That would be fine and dandy if these feed reader applications weren't such utter steaming piles of shite.

An entire loaf of burnt toast

So I downloaded "the most popular Mac RSS reader" to review it. Of course, as usual, I didn't even have to bother running it to know that it's total utter CRAP. Just who does this ranch cowboy guy think he is, anyway?

First off, I used Xfile to find out the file size of this "app." 29 megabytes. Holy crap. That's just about 0.0037% of my 750 GB harddisk, dude. Unbelievable. Absolutely unacceptable.

But that's not the end of it. Not only is this "RSS reader" hogging 29 MBs of my precious disk space, it needlessly wastes my RAM as well! This idiot uses a bunch of colored toolbar icons, seemingly without any rational reason for doing so. Why do we need to load 7 useless graphics into memory when the same tasks can be accomplished via the menu bar and contextual menus? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. DO NOT ACCEPT THIS KIND OF CRAP FROM THE LANDED GENTRY OF MAC DEVELOPMENT™.

Sorry, but that's an emphatic 5 out of 5 burnt toasts for this excuse of an application. What a steaming pile of bullshite. Freakin' assholes releasing this stuff. Ridiculous.