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Incredible Doom
I just finished reading Incredible Doom volumes 1 and 2, by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden, and man... that was a heartwarming and nostalgic tale!
Set in the early-to-mid-1990s world in which the BBS is still alive and kicking, and the Internet's gaining traction but still lacks the books, computers, history, nostalgia, geek, review, reviews, published on gemini, technology, comic, geeky, bbsesNew Far Side in FreshRSS
I got some great feedback to yesterday's post about using FreshRSS + XPath to subscribe to Forward, including helpful comments from FreshRSS developer Alexandre Alapetite and from somebody who appreciated it and my Far Side "Daily Dose" recipe and wondered if it was possible to get the new Far xml, published on gemini, freshrss, rss, comicSubscribing to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping
As I've mentioned before, I'm a fan of Tailsteak's Forward comic. I'm not a fan of the author's weird aversion to RSS, so I hacked a way around it first using an exploit in webcomic reader app Comic Chameleon (accidentally getting access to comics weeks in advance of their publication as a xml, published on gemini, freshrss, rss, comic, technologyThe Far Side in FreshRSS
A few yeras ago, I wanted to subscribe to The Far Side's "Daily Dose" via my RSS reader. The Far Side doesn't have an RSS feed, so I implemented a proxy/middleware to bridge the two.
The release of version 1.20.0 of my favourite RSS reader FreshRSS provided a new mechanism for subscribing to xml, published on gemini, freshrss, rss, comicLABS Comic RSS Archive
Yesterday I recommended that you go read Aaron Uglum's webcomic LABS which had just completed its final strip. I'm a big fan of "completed" webcomics - they feel binge-able in the same way as a complete Netflix series does! - but Spencer quickly pointed out that it's annoying for we enlightened ruby, rss, comic, open sourceLeak in Comic Chameleon (app API hacking)
I recently discovered a minor security vulnerability in mobile webcomic reading app Comic Chameleon, and I thought that it was interesting (and tame) enough to share as a learning example of (a) how to find security vulnerabilities in an app like this, and (b) more importantly, how to write an app web development, hacking, web, security, rss, comic, technology