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Unrelated, bit it's fascinating that the Google Reader API (which is super weird I think) is still the status quo for interacting with feed readers (https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/06_GoogleR...)

lire is great. Ditched my Feedly lifetime sub for self-hosted FreshRSS and lire and I'm reading my RSS feeds again.

I've got an old Mac-Mini 2012 laying around. It was a gift. I never wanted to switch to Mac on this solid, but not very powerful machine. Over xmas last year I booted the thing, and it was unbearable slow, even with the original version of the OS on it. After an macOS update, it was unusable. I put an SSD in (thanks YouTube for the guidance) and booted it with Debian and on top of that installed CasaOS (web-based home server OS/UI). Now I can access my music (thanks Navidrome) from on the road (thanks Wireguard). Docker is still a mystery to me, but I already learned a lot (mapping paths)

Zen Browser (FF) on Win and Firefox on iOS (for sync) works well for me. Edge for all M365 related stuff. Still use Chrome for web dev. Not sure what to move on in that regard...

Is it easier to build a browser for MacOS? Arc was Mac only for the longest time, until they released a crippled Windows version. DuckDuckGo browser started Mac only.

I put that on our website, since I love RSS. We are not a tech company, though, so none of the potential applicants use it. I think some scraper/job boards consume it, but that's it. I built it mainly for fun and to signal virtue :)

It's still working for me. Maybe because I'm also using uMatrix?

No transparency of who is running this service. Mighty weird and sus.

I'm using Huffduffer for a while and it's really good, since I can create a podcast feed from any available audio on the web and it extracts audio from several (video) platforms and stores it for a month.

Huffduffer takes the pain out of podcasting found sounds.

https://huffduffer.com/about

The website is a bit dated but overall it works well with a bookmarklet.

I just love how natural the voice sounds (don't even need other voices) and that it shows up in my podcast player so I don't have to switch to another app.

The voices in pocket are not as good I think.

I guess what's missing in the podcast feed, is a direct link to the source article. But else, it's perfect.

Thank you!

This is perfect. I love that it fits seamless in my audio/podcast flow. I was listening to articles via Pocket before, but it's not as good as your product.

I suspect this will cost money sooner or later (text2speech and audio storage) - what are the plans here?

Unpoly is pretty good and complete. What I don't like is loading page specific JS/CSS via javascript. Turbolinks manages that for me and turbolink still executes inline JS.

Turbolinks falls short in providing a "framework" in how to use third party libraries - how to initialize them and how to tear them down. I finally glued together a mini-framework with hints from stack overflow, but Unpoly and their concept of compilers[1] is much more consistent.

[1] https://unpoly.com/up.compiler

Great work. This should be extended to podcasts and images would be nice as well. At the end, maybe there is no way anymore to get non-technical people interested into these technologies if they can get their news from a preinstalled "news-app" and "podcasts" from spotify.

I myself just wrote a little script to turn youtube channels, playlists and searches into video feeds that I can subscribe to in my podcast player. I love rss.

And then there was VSCode Memo[1] on Show HN 2 weeks ago (but got no love[2]) - what's the reason that these similar tools are showing up?

[1] https://github.com/svsool/vscode-memo [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23752195

Great write up for a problem I'm thinking about myself a lot (https://marcus-obst.de/wiki/Notetaking)

Thanks also for using the Yak Shaving - for one, I got curious what was first, the term or the Ren & Stimpy episode illustrating the term and second, I found a description of most of my modus operandi.

Can't use it on my iPhone 5s, which is a bummer. Going to be interesting what the acceptance will be.

Topic extraction is a very good idea (for public notes) using something like this: https://www.textrazor.com/ ?

(I knew I bookmarked this page, but couldn't find it and had to use google :D and 5 iterations of search terms to find it again - I need to improve that...)

I think you are looking for Webmentions? https://indieweb.org/Webmention

This is a well designed product. I really like it.

The last days I was working on my personal wiki/notetaking/knowledge management because it was bugging me, that everything needs a subscription and offered too much or not enough[1].

The biggest problem I have is finding/discovering my notes or snippets, especially if its scattered across services. For public notes it's easy, using `site:domain.com searchterm` in a search engine. For private notes/services it's harder.

Especially the discovery feature is quite important for me, to randomly find notes I forgot about (at the end, all notes are work in progress).

I tried to collect my thoughts about it here: https://marcus-obst.de/wiki/Notetaking

[1] It's based on Markdown Files in a Dropbox folder hooked into Pico Flatfile CMS, I pay for webhosting anyway and dropbox is still free. Else I would use Nextcloud to replace it. Sublime Text on desktop and Drafts o iA writer are doin g exactly what I need

This reminds me a bit of mdwiki http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md which was just an index.html in a folder of markdown files.

htmx looks like the perfect thing between UnpolyJS and AlpineJS. In Unpoly I miss the optional clientside templating which htmx seems to support as extension. AlpineJS lacks the http stuff (headers, requests). Really exciting times for using old school html without downloading 5000 js files via npm.

Tumblr is imho still the best blogging platform. Wonderful posting experience on mobile. Great API. Actively development. Great inspiration (scroll through vintage photos, art, music, funny stuff and nudes on one dashboard). The only thing that sucks is that public blogs are hidden behind that cookie consent wall. For that I built my blog with php and just query their API. Works well!

Interesting you posted this a few days ago, because I think it's relevant with yesterdays news of tumblr banning adult content and as a result, lots of images of trivial content (beaches etc) got flagged as porn. See also: https://www.jakeelwes.com/project-MLPorn.html

Anybody remembers the AI generated porn? Yahoo's experimental porn filter is the basis of beaches and dunes getting flagged as adult content.

https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io

I'm using it as a music blog. Posting audio/video etc. was easy, but I also enjoyed getting from cat pics to pussy to dumb funny things in one second. Also, their posting tools (app and web) are pretty good I think and their api.

I use both in parallel and sometimes it's annoying to make a video player work (or captcha). I don't know how a video player can rely on 5000 injected dependencies from 5000 different domains.

exactly. if everyone is just in "absorbing" mode, who to listen to.

https://www.zoho.com/ has a lot to offer. I use nextcloud for calendar and contacts.

I see this recommendation quite often and wonder if you get in trouble sooner or later, at least if you want to travel to the US. I would think the purpose of a passport is a single identification with a track record. Everything else is cheating. Not?

The podcast I'm looking most forward to is The David Feldman Show [1] His guests are comedians (the brilliant Aaron Berg) and politicians/activists (left). He asks good questions, talks about current events and I learned a lot about American politics. As a counterweight, I'm listening to Joe Walsh (Teaparty guy) and his neolithic point of view (back to the good ol' days). His anti trump rants are sometimes good and it's super cringey when some real conspiracy theorists are calling in and he has to cut them off. But I barely make it through a whole episode, because it's just too much repetition.

[1] https://davidfeldmanshow.com/