If you want to archive your Mastodon or other app/site feed posts into Obsidian as separate post entries, I wrote a post about how to use the Simple RSS plugin to do that. I cover Mastodon and Grav RSS feeds. I've done the best I can do for now with instructions and a big thank you goes out to simple rss dev Monnier Antoine for being super helpful.
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.
Prob an #rss reader is what you want. Most sites have feeds that send alerts like that if you subscribe - lots of free “rss readers” serviceable for use case.
"But the real tragedy of Reader was that it had all the signs of being something big, and Google just couldn’t see it. Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects; you can see in Reader shades of everything from Twitter to the newsletter boom to the rising social web."
Spent a week trying to improve the RSS on my new test Hugo site, because the one they give you is second class, and I had no luck. I broke it 3 times, made it worse twice, somehow erased it completely, so I finally thought hey there's far better nerds than me out there so I looked around, found this, and forked it! https://gist.github.com/LorenDB/2faa2bb78885806c8d4c914d01130e1e#Hugo#RSS
I am at the steadily rebuilding a nice rss feed collection phase, but still pre “omg I need to organize these into folders or something” phase. You? #rss#netnewswire
#askfedi I remember someone posting awhile back about a #Firefox extension that collected #RSS feeds as you browsed, but I can't seem to find it anymore in the mastodon search or in Firefox's extension search. Anyone know of such an extension?
To follow through on my pledge to do more of my #internet reading on the #indieweb, I've been visiting random blogs using this site and adding any interesting ones to an #RSS feed.
My intention is to browse this feed much the same way I would the news -call it a self-care practice. I want to spend more time in reflection and less in panic. I also want to get ideas for, perhaps, my own blog someday.
Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔
So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯
It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️
👉 We could call them: textcasts!
And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here: https://rys.io/en/feed.rss
The sound is pretty involved, so this week I'm talking about just the glitchy looper part. I will make a part 2 soon, to talk about combining the looper with radio noises.
✍️ New post! I realised after mentioning the title case web page earlier today that I had not written about the other projects on my projects domain, 7bit.org. This post remedies that covering the following:
Dew Point Forecast — 7 day weather forecasts that include the dew point
Everyone keeps talking about bringing back the old web, and honestly maybe I'm missing something, but it never went away. I'm still using it thanks to an RSS reader and a personal website.
Granted, it's way less popular than it was when it was in its hayday, but it's still here. So go use it.
@acarson I self-host #Yarr (yet another rss reader), which is like a minimal #Feedly and I have perhaps 3 dozen feeds I follow. Between that and Mastodon I get my #news, my trending etc.
Down with paywalls and subscribe to our mailing list and mashing subcribe button bullshit! Bring back the #RSS
@itsfoss
I've been using it for a while and it's pretty awesome. The one feature that I really miss though is being able to 🔍 search for specific articles and texts. That's a deal breaker for me so stick with 🍮 Handy News Reader.