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
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scatmania
Sep 27, 2022 13:45
I've been spending a while running on reduced brain capacity lately so, to ease myself back into thinking like a programmer, I upgraded my preferred feed reader FreshRSS to version 1.20.0 - which was released a couple of weeks ago - and tried out what I believe is its killer new feature: HTML +
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scatmania
Oct 05, 2021 15:51
As you might know if you were paying close attention in Summer 2019, I run a "URL shortener" for my personal use. You may be familiar with public URL shorteners like TinyURL and Bit.ly: my personal URL shortener is basically the same thing, except that only I am able to make short-links with it.
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scatmania
Mar 01, 2020 11:44
I use the Post Kinds plugin to streamline the management of the different types of posts I make on my blog, based on the IndieWeb post types list: articles, like this one, are "conventional" blog posts, but I also publish notes (which are analogous to "tweets"), reposts ("shares" of things I've
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scatmania
Oct 01, 2019 14:22
Are you still reading my blog and getting updates via LiveJournal? Keeping it oldschool, man! If you'd like to drag yourself from circa 2001 up to circa 2006, you can subscribe by email instead. No pressure, just if it's right for you:
https://danq.me/2019/10/01/email/
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scatmania
Jul 25, 2019 06:03
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
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