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RSS Chat explained(twowavesandadot.blog)
1 points by tjansen 20d ago|0 comments
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by tjansen 1mo ago
Thanks for the feedback. I’m already working on an interactive landing page but it’s not ready yet.
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by tjansen 1mo ago
I’ve always used RSS readers for this. It’s just the most efficient way to read. [shameless plug coming] In the last year I have developed an RSS reader optimised for people like me who read MANY feeds, which supports things like auto-expir
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by tjansen 1mo ago
It looks like it solves a problem I have, but how does it do that? Just disable sleep? Or does it actually detect activity (and if yes, how and which apps are supported)?
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by tjansen 1mo ago
Interesting. I tried it with two real-life tasks that I usually would use Claude Code for (I prefer using it with the VSCode extension, not CLI). 1. First thing I noticed was the lack of autocompletion when entering @<filename> (or #&
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by tjansen 2mo ago
I agree that it makes sense on that page. But only because the rendering of the page is completely under the control of the author, and the page shows only that one page. It's different if the text is rendered by an RSS reader in a dif
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by tjansen 2mo ago
> We accept that sentences can have formatting, and headings can have formatting, so why shouldn’t titles? 1. Because there are things you can obviously not put in a headline. Like a large image, a YouTube video, or a paragraph. Defining
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by tjansen 2mo ago
I guess it's like you can't transform XML with JSON-T :) Seriously, yes, the really old XSLT does not support JSON. But these days it is much easier to find tools that read or write JSON than to find decent XML support.
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by tjansen 2mo ago
I agree that Atom is easier to use and better defined in some ways. But why on earth would you want to put unrestricted HTML in the title in the first place? How is a reader supposed to handle that? It's just a weird thing to allow. In
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by tjansen 2mo ago
As far as I know, only Downread (disclaimer: my beta app) has that: https://feeds.downread.com/signup?i=hn-c-32513232 You can select a max number of posts per feed, max age and enable/disable tracking of unread posts o
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by tjansen 2mo ago
This looks great. Installed it because I may need something like this soon. And at that price, I wouldn't think twice about buying it if it does what I need (record iPhone apps and show screen recordings of desktop apps in vertical vid
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by tjansen 3mo ago
I have also thought about things like that. I'm currently working on a mainstream-focused RSS reader that comes with a large feed catalog and a feed-spider mechanism: when a site like Hacker News posts a link to a yet-unknown site, it
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by tjansen 3mo ago
I keep hearing that "the web is broken". But how exactly? What parts are broken in a way that makes it worse than it used to be at some point? I think people who write this just glorify the past. I don't want to go back. Not
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by tjansen 4mo ago
I have recently begun starting emails with "human here"...
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by tjansen 4mo ago
You can use a more nuanced approach. What I did in the last systems I created: 1. The JWT expiration depends on the user. Admins get only 1 minute or so, but regular users 1 hour. If I had an SaaS for enterprise customers, I would use very
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by tjansen 4mo ago
I wouldn't be here if I hadn't somehow obtained and read Accidental Empires as a kid. Still no empire of my own though :(
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by tjansen 4mo ago
I wonder whether there is any tool that can prevent npm from downloading any package that has been published in the last month. While I miss out on possible fixes, this would prevent downloading some 3rd level dep that takes over my machine
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by tjansen 4mo ago
They probably didn't even think about that. Admittedly, 4GB is quite big, but if I were in their shoes, I would have expected that people are thrilled about using a local LLM instead of sending data to a cloud-based LLM. I am still stu
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by tjansen 4mo ago
Why? The AI assistance in Chrome dev tools is really useful. And I also use Google AI mode all the time.
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by tjansen 6mo ago
> You want to grab all you can during excess production/very low prices periods and then use that for the rest of the day. Batteries help, but even that is limited in northern countries like the UK. If you look at the data, in July
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by tjansen 6mo ago
As soon as everybody is paying spot prices, balcony power stations are not economically viable anymore. Even today, on a sunny day, spot prices for electricity are either very low or even negative. The more solar power is available, the low
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by tjansen 7mo ago
Over the last 12 months, AI agents have become dramatically better. And in the last 3 months, they have reached a point where, with some light guidance, they can write 100% of the code. Most skeptics have been convinced and are now realizin
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by tjansen 7mo ago
> People figure shit out. True, but junior developers used to provide a lot of value while doing this. Now their value, while they are still figuring it out, has gone down immensely. For a company, there is no value in letting a junior d
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by tjansen 7mo ago
The ST had some awesome productivity programs. Tempus Word, Papyrus, Calamus... All running on a 8 Mhz computer with 1 or 2 MB, but with feature sets that do not need to hide from today's software.
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by tjansen 7mo ago
That's more in the range of dozens or even hundreds of conventional man-years.
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by tjansen 7mo ago
> What’s your differentiator over Readwise? Simplicity. I can get you reading your first feed in under a minute. Also, I am not really thinking about monetization right now, but I am building a feed reader I want to use. I wouldn't
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by tjansen 7mo ago
> I think you're in a tough market, but I'll agree that Feedly hasn't gotten much love, and is clearly aiming for a more enterprise market. Yes, enterprise is certainly where the money is (Feedly's plans start at $160
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by tjansen 7mo ago
I am not familiar with Nextcloud News. In the first version, it probably won't offer much for you, besides having a catalog of feeds, the ability to search them, and subscribe with one click, which is usually not offered by non-cloud R
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by tjansen 7mo ago
Mainly, a friendly and simple UI. Feedly looks like it hasn't gotten much love recently. Inoreader is too cluttered for my taste, though it has a feature set I can't match any time soon. I have plenty of other ideas for what to bu
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by tjansen 7mo ago
A cloud-based RSS reader (like Google Reader, Feedly, Inoreader...).

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