August 2025 – The Idea Place

I’ve been dabbling further with AI-driven development and have another app for exploration. This time it is a basic RSS Reader for Windows I’m calling RSS Quick. Get the full details and program from Release RSS Quick 1.0 – Initial Release · kellylford/rssquick or my alternative download location.

The name RSS Quick reflects the intent of the app to be a simple and fast way to quickly browse RSS feeds. The program does not handle feed management at this time but will allow you to import an existing OPML file and quickly browse the feeds. RSS Quick includes a default OPML file named RSS.OPML that will be put in the default folder where you unzip the software package. It has dozens of feeds from a wide range of sources already included. Even if you don’t use the app, the OPML file may be handy as another source of feeds.

To use RSS Quick, you need to download the .ZIP file for your computer. In most cases this will be the X64 version. If you are using ARM hardware with Windows, you’ll want the ARM version. Extract all the files to any location on your computer and run RSSQuick.EXE. The program will load the default OPML file that has been included. If you do not have the necessary version of .NET, you will be prompted to download that first.

You can learn more about RSS Quick from the readme for the program. Give it a try and consider getting involved or submitting issues on the GitHub page.

RSS Quick is one of three projects I have available. I also have my Sports Scores app and an Image Description Toolkit. available. All projects can also be downloaded from my separate release archive.

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I’ve gone back to the AI workbench, much like I did with my Image Description Toolkit, to create another app. This time it is to address the goal to make sports scores and play-by-play information easier to read and avoid some of the long-standing accessibility challenges on leading sports web sites.

I’m calling this app a preview release because not everything is working yet but I have enough functionality available that I wanted to share it now.

I have an audio demo of the app along with a transcript of the demo. The release page with notes and links to download the Windows program are at Release Sports Scores 0.5 Preview Release · kellylford/Scores.

The program uses lists, trees and tables to show things like game scores, play-by-play action, box scores and standings. The info itself comes from APIs made available by leading sports providers. I’m just showing it in ways that work better in my opinion with screen readers and other assistive technology.

Perhaps the most interesting feature I have so far is the ability to hear baseball pitch location and speed by converting pitch data to audio sounds. The demo has a sample of this and within the app you can press Alt+p to hear the location of any pitch when you are on that pitch in the play-by-play details. Press Alt+s to hear the entire pitch sequence. Bring up the context menu on a pitch for these options plus a Pitch Explorer feature to get a sense of how the sounds for different locations and pitches will be presented.

In addition to the release page, the GitHub project has a readme with full details on the app. An issue list where you can report new issues or discover what’s already known is available.

Give the app a try and if you are interested in contributing to the project, please do so.

Month: August 2025

RSS Quick, A Basic RSS Reader for Windows 1.0 Available

Making Sports Information More Accessible: A Preview of the Sports Scores App”