Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Some of my favorite tricks for finding RSS Feeds to follow:
Reddit Get the feed for the top posts of the month for a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com//r/simpsonsshitposting/top/.rss?t=month (Replace simpsonsshitposting with a subreddit you want to monitor)
This gives you the top posts from the month, so it’s not a firehose of stuff flooding your reader–just about a post a day. The downside is that sometimes you see posts late. This is my number one tip for monitoring noisy subreddits where I don’t want to miss out on the best posts.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025
I’m trying out Micro.blog for blogging. I’ve been looking for a new platform to use, and when I saw Tantek’s post about micro.one offering $1/month blogging, I decided to give it a shot. Plus I have this great new domain that I’ve been wanting to use, since the .ing TLD rolled out a year ago.
My main requirements for a blogging platform are ActivityPub support and not being a hassle, either technically or financially.
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Thursday, May 5, 2022
My friend Adam recently asked me about the RSS feeds I consume, so I thought it was a good time to do the equivalent of a 2022 blogroll post. The orange RSS icons in this post link directly to RSS feeds you can subscribe to.
If you don't have a way to follow RSS feeds, a site like Feedly or Newsblur will get you started for free. For my own setup, I self-host FreshRSS in a Docker container on my NAS, and then I mostly use NetNewsWire to read the feeds from FreshRSS.
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Friday, December 3, 2021
Just in time for the shortest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), my solar panels are live!
First off, solar panels make financial sense right now. I would see solar panels on people's houses and wonder how much more people are spending just to lower their "carbon footprint" (a term made up by fossil fuel marketing to push individual responsibility for a shared problem). But it turns out panels are cheap.
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