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Tag: rss

  • Logo: "Welcome to the underground", in black and red.

    The Underground Blog

    Chris McLeod's started a blog that's ONLY available via a feed reader. How cool is that?

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    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 1 comment
    • posted 14 December, 2023
  • Screenshot from a web-based RSS reader application, showing recent repost "Groundhog Day". The final line contains a link with the text "I ❀️ FreshRSS", but the red heart emoji seems to be enormous compared to the next adjacent to it.

    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.

    Read more (441 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 4 September, 2023
  • Partial comic frame showing a groundhog popping its head out of a hole and shouting "RUN!".

    Groundhog Day

    After a break of nine and a half years, webcomic Octopuns is back!

    Read more (118 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 3 comments
    • posted 4 September, 2023
  • .well-known/feeds

    .well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think?

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    • Note
    • 12 comments
    • posted 23 August, 2023
  • A cardboard box labelled "RSS reader", out of which sunbeams emanate.

    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 β€œunread” list.
    Your πŸ‘ feed πŸ‘ reader πŸ‘ is πŸ‘ not πŸ‘ an πŸ‘ email πŸ‘ client. πŸ‘

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1365 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 29 July, 2023
  • Screenshot of DanQ.me's RSS feed as viewed in Firefox, showing a "Q" logo and three recent posts.

    Better WordPress RSS Feeds

    I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them?

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1184 words)

    • Article
    • posted 28 July, 2023
  • Image representing post: Note #21487

    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.
    Both seem equally likely, if I'm honest.

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    • Note
    • 3 comments
    • posted 14 June, 2023
  • Screenshot showing new content from The Far Side in my FreshRSS reader.

    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.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (646 words)

    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 29 March, 2023
  • Screenshot showing RSS feed items: recent Forward episodes including their numbers, titles, and publication dates.

    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.

    Read more (347 words)

    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 28 March, 2023
  • Image representing post: Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun.

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    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 15 March, 2023
  • Illustration showing a web application using MailChimp to send an email newsletter to OpenTrashMail, to which FreshRSS is subscribed.

    Email newsletters via RSS

    No, I won't subscribe to your newsletter... except by using my RSS reader (and a clever feature of OpenTrashMail)!

    Read more - about 3 minutes (572 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 14 December, 2022
  • Far Side comic #12326, from 23 November 2022, shown in FreshRSS. The comic shows two bulls dressed in trenchcoats and hats browsing a china shop; one staff member says to the other "I got a bad feeling about this, Harriet."

    The Far Side in FreshRSS

    The proxy I implemented to bypass The Far Side's lack of an RSS feed is now unnecessary, because FreshRSS is better than ever.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (907 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 23 November, 2022
  • Beverley's blog post "Setting up an Accessibility Book Club" in FreshRSS.

    XPath Scraping with FreshRSS

    The latest version of FreshRSS's killer feature is XPath scraping. Dan demonstrates how to use it.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1173 words)

    • Article
    • 30 comments
    • posted 27 September, 2022
  • Screenshot of YOURLS interface showing Dan Q's list of shortened links. Six are shown of 1,939 total.

    Making an RSS feed of YOURLS shortlinks

    After switching his personal shortlinks from S.2 to YOURLS, Dan dusts off his XSLT experience to make himself an RSS feed of his shortlinks!

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1663 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 5 October, 2021
  • My @FreshRSS installation is the first, last, and sometimes only place I go on the Internet. When a site doesn't have a feed but I wish it did, I add one using middleware (e.g. danq.me/far-side-rss).
    Here's to the next 20 years of my #RSS addiction.

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    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 29 September, 2021

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