aggrss

aggrss is a graphical RSS/Atom feed aggregator for Linux.

Compile and Install

aggrss depends on SDL2, FreeType, OpenGL, SQLite3, and OpenSSL. It also relies on the standard C library and POSIX as well, primarly for threading.

Run the following command on Ubuntu to install the dependencies.

# apt install libsdl2-dev libfreetype-dev libgl-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev build-essential

Then, run the install script.

$ ./install.sh

Resources and References

• General

  • Allen Webster's Template
    • I referenced this heavily for font rendering.
    • Allen also provides brief and clear explanations of different parts of his codebase on YouTube. Plus, he posts some fun instrumental soundtracks occassionally.

• Data Structures and Shared Memory

  • Chris Wellon's null program
    • I referenced two blog posts for this project in particular.
      1. C11 Lock-free Stack
      2. The quick and practical "MSI" hash table
  • In Defense of Linked Lists on Ryan Fleury's Hidden Grove
    • Ryan explains why linked lists are simple, flexible, and fast -- especially in combination with arena allocators.
    • The RSS parsing code path produces a tree structure that also uses a linked list to store errors. It's based on the code Ryan provides in the section titled The Power of Discontiguity.
  • Jeff Preshing's Blog
    • I read several posts from his blog to begin to develop my understanding of multithreaded applications and their synchronization using locks and atomic load and store primitives.

• Graphics and OpenGL

  • microui
    • I originally used microui as the UI library for this project until I wrote a custom one, but the one I built is heavily inspired by microui -- even if it's much, much messier.
  • Sol on Immediate Mode GUIs (IMGUI)
  • docs.GL for OpenGL API Documentation
  • Loading OpenGL without GLEW

Then there are RFCs and specs for various formats/protocols and docs for all the libraries I used, but those are easy to find.