Just spent a couple of days working with FeedLand in Claude Code. I want to do some work on features, but first, we're looking at performance issues. There had been a longtime problem with categories that didn't have many feeds that were viewed through the news pages. Examples, the podcasts category, or the NYT category. #
You can test it yourself. I was using the categories in news page on feedland.org for the test.#
When I checked, on feedland.org all my categories on the news page displayed slowly except for All, which we had put an optimization in for in October 2025. So I worked with Claude on this yesterday, did a set of tests, and realized that the optimization we did last year, made categories with very few feeds much slower. So we put in an exception, installed the new software on feedland.org and I'm happy to report that all my tabs are fast now.#
Now all the tabs are fast enough. I'd always like them to be faster, but all load in less than 2 seconds, most in less than 1. #
The new version is not installed on feedland.com or feedland.social yet. #
You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)