Checked my 6,921 bookmarks on Pinboard.in: 3,462 hit dead ends with 404s or expired domains, and many of the 3,459 left show fake content or parking pages. Only 21% from the last 2 years still work as expected. The lifespan of URLs is definitely shrinking.
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
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.
On avait un petit club de lecture dans un groupe Signal et puis c’est devenu est un peu plus grand avec pas mal de critiques culturelles… Alors un site web avec nos critiques est maintenant disponible. Tout est libre, sans pub. On a aussi un compte Mastodon.