Last Tuesday, I completed my latest PACT: Committing at least once a day to the Morgenblau repo (the RSS reader I’m building) and posting about it over on Bluesky for 30 days.
Whilst I’m nowhere near a finished product, I did make significant progress:
- Moved off TanStack Start to Laravel + React
- Eventually also moved off Laravel to the current stack: Go + React (mainly for the better ATproto package ecosystem)
- Built the pipeline that fetches feeds
- Added the “add subscription” flow
- Designed and created the minimal reader view
- Published my own ATproto lexicon
- …and so much more
As you can see, progress was not really linear (sometimes even circular). But I enjoy the state the app is in right now, including the new Go-based stack. There is still polish waiting to happen, but I can definitely see the vision of my own social RSS reader coming to life.
Of course I will continue working on Morgenblau and updating you on how it’s going (just maybe not daily). The best way to keep up to date with the development is to subscribe to my newsletter (via email but also RSS of course) where I post devlogs that go a bit more in-depth.
To close this PACT, here are a couple of screenshots of the current version of Morgenblau:
