Writing from FeedsBar: the Mac news ticker, the Signal 500, and how it is built. https://feeds.bar/feed.xml 2026-08-31T09:00:00Z FeedsBarhttps://feeds.bar/ https://feeds.bar/engineering/shazamkit-provisioning/ 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z

Our ShazamKit feature worked in every debug build and failed in every shipped one. Why Developer ID apps need an embedded provisioning profile for App Services, the two xcodebuild flags that fix it, and the zsh builtin that faked the logs.

https://feeds.bar/reading-the-news-2026/ 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z

We loaded 890 news and expert sites in a real browser and counted ad entities, third-party domains, layout shift and interstitials. Mass-reach sites run a median 39 third parties; the indie tier runs 8. Aggregates, distributions, and the cleanest sites named.

https://feeds.bar/best-mac-apps/ 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z

macOS is most of the way there; these ten apps finish it. Raycast, Ice, CleanShot X, Stats, Maccy, Things 3, NetNewsWire, iA Writer, Fantastical, and FeedsBar (ours, and the entry says so). No affiliate links, no paid placements.

https://feeds.bar/signal-500/method/ 2026-08-15T09:00:00Z 2026-08-31T09:00:00Z

How every Signal 500 source is scored: loaded in a real browser with the cookie banner accepted, ad entities and third parties counted, layout shift and reach measured. Which dimensions are measured, which are judgement, and the published weights.

https://feeds.bar/compare/ 2026-08-08T09:00:00Z 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z

How FeedsBar compares to menu bar RSS apps, full RSS readers and following news on X. A private, one-time-purchase macOS news ticker with topic orbs.

https://feeds.bar/ticker/ 2026-08-07T09:00:00Z 2026-08-08T09:00:00Z

The stock ticker, the Times Square zipper, the Nasdaq tower and the news crawl that never left after 2001, and what changes when you choose what runs across it.