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Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by blakesterz »

simonw wrote: post #7
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #4

RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…

Google Reader shut down nearly 12 years ago. Its legacy now is that there are still people who are pissed off about that, and I get the impression that a surprising amount of them are now in positions where they get to make purchasing decisions over whether or not to buy Google Cloud. (Being a Mac+iPhone person I've settled in quite happily with NetNewsWire now, but it took me a few years to get there.)

My distrust of Google certainly started with the shutdown of Reader. Everything they've done since has made it worse. I was in the position to choose a cloud provider several years ago and would not even consider GCP. I seriously doubt they'll kill GCP, but I see no reason to take a chance on anything Google does outside of search, docs, mail and the core things.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by Fnoord »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #8
rpmisms wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cron expressions aren't bad. Now regex.... nope.

I can't even remember tar or find options reliably.

Try tldr find or tldr tar for examples. Use fzf on history to find past success. Consider a toollike ouch [1] or fd instead of find.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/ouch

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by anonymousiam »

fartfeatures wrote: post #3
rpmisms wrote: post #2

OK but not writing your own Cron expressions is just sad.

Not everyone knows how to use Cron, the comment is a good tip for those that don't. The target audience for a solution like this might be less technical than the average Github user.

I'll assume that your comment was not intended to reflect on the average Bluesky user, but there might also be something there too.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by foolswisdom »

blakesterz wrote: post #11
simonw wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Reader shut down nearly 12 years ago. Its legacy now is that there are still people who are pissed off about that, and I get the impression that a surprising amount of them are now in positions where they get to make purchasing decisions over whether or not to buy Google Cloud. (Being a Mac+iPhone person I've settled in quite happily with NetNewsWire now, but it took me a few years to get there.)

My distrust of Google certainly started with the shutdown of Reader. Everything they've done since has made it worse. I was in the position to choose a cloud provider several years ago and would not even consider GCP. I seriously doubt they'll kill GCP, but I see no reason to take a chance on anything Google does outside of search, docs, mail and the core things.

The fact that they shut down Google domains (and cloud domains now uses squarespace, who bought Google domains) shows that you can't necessarily trust they won't shut down critical GCP services either.
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