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An aggregator dashboard,
in the data-rich Tufte tradition.

Below is a single page covering five feeds, twenty-four hours of polling activity, the active subscription form, and the full settings inventory. Every figure is sized to fit the prose; nothing is enlarged for emphasis. Above all else, show the data.Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983. The data-ink ratio: maximise the share of ink devoted to non-redundant data, erase the rest.

Each feed below carries a sparkline — a word-sized graph of new-item counts across the last fourteen days — sized at 14 pixels tall so it sits inline with the surrounding text. The intent is that you can read the table the way you read prose, glancing at the trend without breaking flow.

Feeds · last 14 days

Table 1. Active subscriptions, new-item counts and 14-day trend. Sparklines are 14 px tall, share a y-axis range of 0–15 items/day.

Today's queue

3 items, sorted by feed cadence. Each item rendered in one line of metadata + one line of summary; click the title to read or download.

1. Tariff truce; a town's last newspaper; what's next for the housing bill

   NPR Up First · 26 Apr · 12 min · podcast · download · mark read

   The morning's three biggest stories in twelve minutes, hosted by Steve Inskeep and Leila Fadel.

2. A reporter's notebook from the southern border

   The Daily · 26 Apr · 28 min · podcast · download · mark read

   Miriam Jordan returns from a week in Nogales with field recordings and a longer view.

3. The aggregation of taste

   Stratechery · 25 Apr · 9 min · article · read · mark read

   Ben Thompson on the next layer of platform consolidation, and what it means for independent publishers.

Add a feed

Polling status · Settings · Recent runs (small multiples)

Three small panels of the same width: status chips, key/value settings, and the last five poll attempts. Sized to compare side by side.

Notice (inline dialog)

Configuration · storage.toml

[storage]
endpoint = "https://storage.cc.dsbx.cc"
bucket   = "feeds-archive"
ttl_days = 90

Empty state

no items. new items will appear here, in poll order.

Palette

Cream paper, near-black ink, one warm-red rule, three muted status hues. Restraint over saturation.

Typography