Django: Web framework written in Python, used to serve all pages.
Celery & RabbitMQ: Asynchronous queueing server, used to fetch and parse RSS feeds.
MongoDB, Pymongo, & Mongoengine: Non-relational database, used to store stories, read stories, feed/page fetch histories, and proxied sites.
PostgreSQL: Relational database, used to store feeds, subscriptions, and user accounts.
How:Client-side and design
jQuery: Cross-browser compliant JavaScript code. IE works without effort.
Underscore.js: Functional programming for JavaScript. Indispensible.
Miscellaneous jQuery Plugins: Everything from resizable layouts, to progress bars, sortables, date handling, colors, corners, JSON, animations. See the complete list on NewsBlur's GitHub repository
Why:What's the point of another RSS feed reader?
To prove that I could do it.
I wanted something better.
Where there's a will, there's an empty git repository.
