goread VS desktop

Exactly, Google Reader was a pretty straight forward RSS reader, and there are a bunch of other ones that existed then as they do now. Literally a week after it went down, someone wrote an exact alternative in Go you could host on AppEngine [1]. It was nearly identical. Many other similar project sprung up too, which goes to show how basic and non-special Reader really was.

People love to put it on a pedestal and circlejerk to the nostalgia, but an app that any engineer worth their salt can code in a weekend isn't really something worth Google's time and Google-scale.

https://github.com/mjibson/goread

Here: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop

sudo wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-2.9.0-linux2/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux2.deb

thank me later

I'm using GitHub Desktop.

Should have just gone with my gut before posting - it was one of my external repos. In my case it was the repo for https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop but for anyone else reading I would recommend temporarily disabling all non-Pop OS sources (whether you do that via the Pop Shop/Gnome Software or through the terminal with something like sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d/temp/ && sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/temp/) and then slowly re-enabling repos one by one and running updates until you find the problematic one.

GitHub is a popular code repository hosting service, and provides source control through a Web-based interface or desktop application. GitHub Desktop for Linux is not available from the app's primary download page, but it is available under the Assets section of each release.

This package is: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop