Tag: freshrss
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I Am Experimenting with Blocking HTTP1.1
Andrew Stephens has added Caddy configuration to prohibit HTTP/1 clients from accessing most of the pages of his website. I decided to probe it and see how that works.
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Reducing Phantom Obligation in FreshRSS
Terry Godier's fantastic article last week introduced us to the term 'phantom obligation' and reiterated something I've been saying for years: that 'RSS zero', unlike 'inbox zero', is not an admirable goal. And that reminded me to share with you how I personally make my FreshRSS installation feel more like a tool that serves me, not the other way around.
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RSS readers rock. Having a single place you connect for a low-bandwidth bundle of everything you might want to read means it doesn't matter how slow the WiFi is on your aeroplane, you can get all the text content in one tap.
(I'm using Capy Reader to connect to FreshRSS, by the way.)
Time to catch up on some news, blogs, etc.!
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Inspired by a conversation with Elle (@e11e@mastodon.social), I expanded my FreshRSS-to-blogroll generator to support injecting 88×31 buttons (where I have them) for folks I follow.
There's still a way to go, but my blogroll's looking a little prettier as a result.
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Ten Pointless Facts About Me
A 'ten questions about yourself' quiz is circulating the blogosphere, and I figured I'd join in (and wear four different hats, in the process).
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Feed Readers Beat Doomscrolling
If you're dodging news media because the alternative is catastrophic doomscrolling... perhaps you ought to be using a feed reader? It's a much healthier way to keep up with the Web.
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XPath Scraping AdamKoszary.co.uk
My old colleague Adam's started blogging again, but his blog doesn't have an RSS feed. Which means it's time for some more XPath Scraping in FreshRSS, and an excuse for me to explain the testing and debugging process I use when making XPath Scraping rulesets!
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Digital Dustbusting
I've been doing a bit of tidying-up of the mess that is my personal Internet hosting. I've made a lot of progress, but the rest is probably going to have to wait until later in the year.
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Vmail via FreshRSS
It's been a while since I shared a recipe for enhancing your FreshRSS experience with some XPath Scraping, so I guess it's that time again! Today I'm fetching issues of Vmail, vole.wtf's community-driven newsletter.
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5 Cool Apps for your Unraid NAS
Some suggested starting apps for your Unraid NAS, inspired by a conversation this week with a teammate who's an aspiring Unraider. Selfhosting FTW!
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Stopping WordPress Emoji 'Images' in Feeds
By default, WordPress's RSS feeds replace emoji with externally-hosted images of emoji. Let's see if we can turn that off.
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RSS Zero isn't the path to RSS Joy
There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader.
It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your “unread” list.
Your 👏 feed 👏 reader 👏 is 👏 not 👏 an 👏 email 👏 client. 👏 -
I have minus 26 new articles in my RSS reader! Either I'm a time traveller, or there's a wraparound bug when you neglect your unreads for long enough.
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New Far Side in FreshRSS
In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too.
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Subscribing to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping
FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward.