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I distrust Cloudflare so much. I have been trying to get my RSS reader on their Verified Bots list for years, but their application form appears to go nowhere.

This is interesting. But I’ve never once even noticed a police officer touching my car’s tail lights when I have been stopped. I am wondering if I was just oblivious or if it does …

I am sure there are rewrites that were necessary or beneficial. But I think it’s fair to say that usually they are a mistake. And a lot of “bad code” comes from starting to write c…

Unread is now available for Mac as well. (Full disclosure: I am the developer.)

BTW feel free to send me feedback directly - support@goldenhillsoftware.com

I encourage you to try Unread and see if you still feel that way. NetNewsWire is a fantastic app, but the two apps are very different. Unread is also a free app. Premium features a…

Thank you for trying Unread. I am considering an option to use system standard fonts. Unread respects night mode, and lets you set one theme for light mode and another for dark mod…

I am seeing 404s for YouTube’s RSS feeds. I hope this is a temporary bug.

I do squash merges but keep the feature branches. So after determining that I made a change as part of a big pull request, I can then look at the commit/blame history for the pull …

I wish I did. My approach is that I have a ruby script that runs every five minutes and does a bunch of tests. The script takes a couple minutes to execute. It connects to servers …

Great article. While it mentions monitoring, it took me a long time to appreciate how beneficial it is to do monitoring really well. Things like: • Knowing when disk space, inode u…

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Ballot boxes that scan ballots are auditable because they keep the paper ballots. In my state, election workers have to ensure that the number of ballots is the same as the number …

Thank you both!

Does anyone know what whether the default apt repositories for Ubuntu 22.04 will be updated right away?

If you aren’t already doing this: keep customer support email out of your personal/business email. I access customer support email via Fastmail’s web interface. I check it several …

I mostly nodded as I was reading your advice. I particularly appreciate that you recommend including full article content in feeds, not changing entry IDs, and adding discovery `li…

I develop Unread ( https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/ ). I have some complex logic to find a hero image that is sometimes in a feed entry outside the HTML, and prepend it t…

I am not sure I agree with this for complex webapps. But I do see many brochure websites and news websites that incorporate megabytes of JavaScript and CSS to display text — and I …

Most also only ever go through a small number of real estate transactions in a lifetime. If it’s your first or second purchase or sale, the agent is worth it. On your third or four…

FWIW I offer a (paid) webpage content extraction API: https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/webpage-text-api/