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robdelacruz

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About robdelacruz

Programmer, creator of nice and useful things.

https://github.com/robdelacruz/ https://twitter.com/robdelacruz

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41308119

    Check out my FreeRSS web-based portal I made a while back. Inspired by the defunct iGoogle. https://github.com/robdelacruz/freerss https://freerss.robdelacruz.xyz/ Unfortunately, i…

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    Comment #38598282

    Check out FreeRSS, it's an iGoogle clone, just Add Widget, paste in the url of the website, and it auto-detects any RSS feeds in the site. https://freerss.robdelacruz.xyz/

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    Comment #38277577

    "I am writing this by hand from a federal prison. It is a surreal experience, to say the least. When I arrived, I was stripped naked. They took my clothes, and then gave me what am…

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    Show HN: TxtPages – Create fast text webpages

    Create plain text webpages, blog posts, reference pages, or quick notes. The page you create will have a unique url which you can share with others. TxtPages is a clone of the popu…

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    Comment #35984824

    Love your project and enjoyed reading your extended README file. Perl and retrocomputing gives me a warm feeling inside.

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    Comment #35984807

    Confession: I write in C because it's fun and feels like you can do anything in it. Agree it's probably not the most practical or commercial-friendly solution. I like C!

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    Comment #35984782

    Thanks for this. Saw the bug you logged on github too. Agree that poll() should be used instead to avoid the FD_SETSIZE limitation. Maybe in the future when littlekitten webserver …

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    Comment #35984734

    Thanks, much of the asserts were scaffolding while I was programming the helper functions. They function similar to comments, reminding me of the internal conditions that should al…

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    Comment #35972414

    This site has a good tutorial for this. It recommends vultr (which is what I use), for $2.50 - $5 a month. https://landchad.net/

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    Show HN: A little web server in C

    A little web server written in C for Linux. Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy. Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).

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    Show HN: FreeRSS – RSS Viewer Portal

    FreeRSS was inspired by the former Google Personalized Homepage (iGoogle). Auto-detect RSS feeds from a url, drag to arrange widgets, add a new account (free) to remember your sett…

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    Comment #27235762

    Back then I loved UltraEdit. It was the fastest editor at the time and could open even the most humongous files. Since then, I've used notepad2 for quick editing. And even for codi…

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    Comment #26024962

    Big fan of RSS. Feel free to try out my RSS reader tool: http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ Drag/drop rearrange rss feeds in an album-like layout. Open source too.

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    Comment #26024957

    Agree 100% RSS was one of the best things in the open web. I use it everyday to browse through headlines on my favorite sites. Here's what I use to view my RSS feeds: http://freers…

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    Comment #24938402

    Customizable RSS Portal is here: http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ Source code: https://github.com/robdelacruz/freerss

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    FreeRSS – Keep the Internet open and free

    Remember the old days of the internet when we used open standards, had a free exchange of information without any of the gatekeepers? Subscribe to RSS feeds in a modern web interfa…

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    Comment #24289514

    You're right, there's no validation on the server. Need to fix those. As quick fix to get the site up and running again, I just trimmed off any overly long title or cat beyond a ce…

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    Comment #24283012

    Site is up again: http://newsboard.robdelacruz.com/

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    Comment #24278583

    (OP here) Hi guys, thanks for checking out newsboard. Source code is here https://github.com/robdelacruz/newsboard I will look into fixing the security bugs to get the site back up…

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    Comment #24278566

    OP here. Right, that's the source: https://github.com/robdelacruz/newsboard I used plain css from scratch to keep it small. I tried to copy the HackerNews look, but using Flex inst…

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    Comment #24278549

    Thanks for the bug reports. Much appreciated. Will take a look at these one by one. Hopefully to get the site back up and running. Source code is at: https://github.com/robdelacruz…

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