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Do you have a recommended iOS RSS feed reader?
NetNewsWire is great on iOS and OS X. Use the share sheet to subscribe to blogs.
It’s by far the best I’ve tried. Most other macOS readers aren’t memory managing their webviews properly which leads to really bad memory leaks when they’re open for long periods.
I just started building my own website today with Django. I’m doing it because I just enjoy doing it. Most of my work is in data and ML infrastructure and it is just killing me. Working on the front end has opened my mind to possibility and given me new inspiration. I love hn and was inspired by all the devs who have their own site. I was drowning in work, but put the Django architecture together on vacation, started…
What features did you want for your personal site that lead to choosing Django (or a backend framework at all) instead of a static site generator?
Has anybody written about adapting POSSE for videos?
Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little games became moderately popular because someone found it in my RSS feed and shared it on HN. [1] From the referer (sic) data in my web server logs (which is not completely reliable but s…
Now that browser developers did their best to kill RSS/Atom... Does a Web site practically need to do anything to advertise their feed to the diehard RSS/Atom users, other than use the `link` element? Is there a worthwhile convention for advertising RSS/Atom visually in the page, too? (On one site, I tried adding an "RSS" icon, linking to the Atom feed XML, alongside all the usual awful social media site icons. But t…
I really wish Bsky/mastodon has something like RSS so I can static host them for both publishing and aggregating .
For example: This is rss for Simon Willison: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/rss
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What features did you want for your personal site that lead to choosing Django (or a backend framework at all) instead of a static site generator?
I just wanted to learn how to create an enterprise grade web application. I read a book on Django last year and did a few tutorials and enjoyed it. I also deploy infra on gcp and it works well there. It cost about $60/month for baseline hosting with light traffic/storage. I will probably use it for an interface for some of my ml projects. I was also looking into dart/flutter a much steeper learning curve for me perso…
It could easily have been a static website, but I happened to stumble across PWS, which came bundled with a default ASP website. That is how I got started. I replaced the default index.asp with my own and began building from there. A nice bonus of this approach was that the default website included a server-side guestbook application that stored comments in an MS Access database. Reading through its source code taught me server-side scripting. I used that newfound knowledge to write my own server-side applications.
Of course, this was a long time ago. That website still exists but today most of it is just a collection of static HTML files generated by a Common Lisp program I wrote for myself. The only parts that are not static are the guestbook and comment forms, which are implemented in CL using Hunchentoot.
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The question is, do you have this traffic because of RSS client crawlers that pre-loaded the content or from real users. I'm not pro killing RSS by the way, but genuinely doubtful.
> The question is, do you have this traffic because of RSS client crawlers that pre-loaded the content or from real users. I have never seen RSS clients or crawlers preload actual HTML pages. I've only seen them fetching the XML feed and present its contents to the users. When I talk about visitors arriving at my website from RSS feeds, I am not counting requests from feed aggregators or readers identified by their '…
Some setups like ttrss with the mercury plugin will do that to restore full articles to the feed, but its either on-demand or manually enabled per feed. Personally I dont run it on many other than a few more commercial platforms that heavily limit their feed's default contents.
Presumably some the more app based rss readers have such a feature, but I wouldnt know for certain.
A lot of people have been following indieweb POSSE principles for almost 15 years: publishing on their own site and syndicating elsewhere. I built my own platform for it that I used for 11 years, but you can use just about anything.
What's superb about the indieweb principles is that they're as simple as the web itself. It's worth digging into microformats, webmention, micropub, and the other lightweight standards the community has nurtured. It's all really good work that will become even more useful as more people turn away from centralized social media and AI-saturated services towards human websites. The indieweb is a slow burn but a really vibrant, growing, human community.