• 79 // Read-later apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon

  • May 18 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
  • Podcast

79 // Read-later apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon

  • Summary

  • How can software improve the practice of reading? Tristan and Dan are the founders of Readwise. They join Adam to talk about the history of read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper; the difference between reading for betterment and reading for entertainment; and the cat-and-mouse game of web parsing. Plus: how the personal knowledge management explosion in 2020 affected digital reading.

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    Show notes
    • Tristan Homsi @homsIT
    • Dan Doyon @deadly_onion
    • falconry
    • My Side of the Mountain
    • Readwise
    • Anki
    • Dan and Tristan meeting on Hacker News
    • Reader
    • Pocket, Marco Arment, Instapaper
    • Mozilla acquires Pocket
    • Why We’re Bootstrapping Readwise
    • Alan Kay on computer science as pop culture
    • Readability.js
    • web standards acid test
    • Reader browser extension
    • RSS
    • Explorable Explanations
    • offline first
    • JSON Patch
    • Second Brain
    • commonplace book, marginalia
    • etymology of “document”
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