I have this blog set up and ready for writing using a bare, classic web stack with no framework, no static site generator, just html/css files and some short scripts in JS and OCaml.
The only thing I feel is missing is an RSS feed. Presently I am feeling very inclined to just rolling my own RSS using the very same stack (a text editor and scripts) instead of switching to some SSG just to get an RSS feed. Something tells me that this is a sinful, heretic thought.
Ideas welcome on how to avoid such heresy. Encouragement to just do it also welcome.
📢Sehenswerte Reportage über die umstrittene Erweiterung der #Atom-Fabrik #Lingen, bei der Mitarbeiter von #Rosatom vor Ort sein werden. Es drohen Sabotage, Spionage & Desinformation. Landes- & BuReg müssen jetzt einschreiten und die Genehmigung stoppen!
Czyli wyborcom rządzącej koalicji pozostaje zacisnąć zęby i udawać że nic się nie stało? Szkoda, że tak wpatrzony w rząd w Berlinie Donald Tusk nie uczy się od Niemców. Tam projekty przeciwników politycznych są kontynuowane o ile są korzystne dla społeczeństwa. Widać to zwłaszcza w samorządach. Czyli Polska ma być uśmiechnięta i przeciętna… #rzad#polityka#cpk#atom
> Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage.
In case you have been wondering why I have kept quiet -- I've been experimenting reading feeds on a FreshRSS instance as an alternative to social media. Hope it sticks.
For centuries, goldsmiths have sought ways to flatten gold into ever finer forms. An approach based in modern chemistry has finally created a gold material that literally can't get any thinner, consisting of a single layer of atoms. Researchers have named this new two-dimensional material 'goldene', Science Alert reports: https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-new-form-of-gold-exists-as-a-sheet-thats-just-one-atom-thick
📰 "To prowadzi mnie do spostrzeżenia zasadniczego: sprawa dotyczy czegoś więcej niż pomocy Ukrainie w przetrwaniu. Prawdziwy problem polega na tym, że choć na rozwiniętym Zachodzie doskonale wiemy o grożącym nam wszystkim kryzysie, nikt nie zachowuje się adekwatnie do sytuacji."
I've added a new tool to my collection of RSS tools. It's called rssfind.py, and it enables the discovery of Atom or RSS feeds from a specified URL. The tool utilizes two techniques: one involves searching for feed references in link references, and the other employs brute-forcing to check all well-known paths for RSS or Atom feeds
I updated the way my #RSS feed works by adding a reply via #email and fediverse link (some may have noticed). While I was at it, I also made the feed human readable with #XSLT!
As 2024 marks the resurgence of RSS and Atom, I decided to update my rudimentary RSS tools from 2007 to make them contemporary and works under Python 3. The release v1.0 marks this step and allow everyone to use and improve the RSS toolset.
Physicists just learned something major about the proton.
@Gizmodo reports that "by exploiting decades-old data and a 50-year-old prediction about gravity’s import on subatomic particles, a team of physicists has teased out a measurement for a second mechanical property in the proton."
I remember when the primary definition of an online "feed" was an RSS or ATOM XML file published by a website to provide automated access to recent updates on that website or potentially some other site. We subscribed to feeds by actively choosing to add a feed to the feed reader of our choice, as one might (still) subscribe to a magazine or newsletter these days. We could recommend blogs or news sites to our friends or other people who "followed" us online by linking to their URLs on our own blogs or via email.
Let's reclaim that sense of a feed as a consciously chosen online diet – not a synthetic mashup generated by opaque algorithms.
I'm really turning into "old woman yells at cloud", aren't I?
Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
Is there a standard way to declare that your Atom/RSS feed contains full articles and not just partials/summaries? I’ve noticed that the https://webfeeds.org/rss/1.0 namespace defines a webfeeds:partial element but I have never seen it used (I searched all the code forges and search engines. Not one example).
This is unrelated to feed pagination and archive feeds; I’m talking about having a way to say that each entry contains the full-text of each article.