Just today I learned who is currently my province's Premier. Five months after one retired from politics. That's how little attention I pay to politics and news now, and how great my Mastodon timeline is at sheltering me. I should ask the local paper for a RSS feed. Who has links to tutorials for setting these up?
I used to be more attentive, but that was another nation ago that left me with residual outrage burnout.
Well my friend that's a great question! I'm happy to help out too :)
First, one must decide on a particular #Reader, and there are many to choose from, but here's one that really looks nice and is #SuperDuperEasyPeasy to use...
I hope you find it worthwhile, but be really careful - people who are new to reading their news via #RSS, #Atom, etc., are often overwhelmed with the addiction - it can be more compelling than that #tictak thang.
Other than looking at server logs, is there any way to tell how many people subscribe to an #RSS feed?
Are there any big aggregators which give out that information?
@JohannessNilsson personally, I just wanted to beat #Floppinux and actually make something that is more practical than just existing and spitting out text on screen.
OFC long-term I do want to expand this further and make something that is still smaller than #TinyCore yet also practical to run on my #Atom#Z520-powered #VaioP11Z or any of those shitty #StickPC's and #Trash-#Tablets that have a #Z8300 and just 1GB of RAM and that already felt painfully slow on #Windows8 when they got released.
I've been a little quiet about #Emissary - in between moving and refactoring one of the core libraries, it's honestly been pretty broken for a little bit.
But my desk is set back up and I'm excited at making some progress again. Now, two libraries that power emissary are also nearing completion, so others can build on this work without having to implement the whole server.
Sherlock converts HTML pages into #ActivityStreams documents using any and all meta-data available: #JSONLD, #WebFinger, #MicroFormats, #RSS, #Atom, #JSONFeeds (with more coming soon). Any format it can identify gets parsed and normalized into a standard-looking ActivityStreams doc, which gets passed up the toolchain to Hannibal.
I'm so excited to see this stack start to deliver real results soon.
@baldur A lot has been said about the supposed decline in RSS/Atom feeds but I would argue that, because WordPress produces RSS and Atom by default, there have never been as many feeds available as there are today. Often even without the site owner knowing about them.
My son is into magnets now. One of the books we got him (Janice VanCleave’s Magnets, 1993) had this to say. I don’t know if this is a case of simplifying to the point of absurdity, or pure ignorance on the part of the author.
Alt text: image of text from a book, explaining how materials are made out of atoms. It says “the smallest part of a glass marble is an atom of glass.”
@jimmylittle@Green_Footballs If the full post fits in an #RSS / #Atom#webfeed reader and you've got such a feed setup, there might be no reason for anyone to visit the site directly for them which would skew the statistics.
Anyone got tips or advice on replacing #Atom as a text-editor? I very infrequently #code, with html, css, and a tiny bit of js (and tbh, had mostly been using it to post new blog things by pushing to my git repo).
Is it possible to watch all edits/changes in a #GitHub#wiki, e.g. via #RSS? I know the ".atom" ending to the /wiki page, but this only gives me the new pages added and not all changes.