Building a Terminal Feed Reader for Hacker News, Reddit, and lobste.rs with Python & Textual

I spend too much time switching between browser tabs to keep up with tech news. Hacker News in one tab. A handful of subreddits in another. lobste.rs in a third. The context switching adds up. So I built grokfeed , a terminal feed reader that pulls all three into one scrollable feed, ranked by a time-decayed score. Why the terminal? A browser tab has infinite surface area for distraction. A terminal window has exactly as much as you give it. I also wanted something I could leave running in my te