seems like the rate at which everything is going, websites may soon be dead.
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NetNewsWire is great on iOS and OS X. Use the share sheet to subscribe to blogs.
This is what I use. It’s on macOS too and amazing on both. Super fast, focused, and efficient. 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.
+1 for NetNewsWire. I wish there was a version for Linux.
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What about Google killing XSLT? https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-x...
Browsers really should have embraced XSLT rather that abandoned it. Now we're stuck trying yet again to reinvent solutions already handled by REST [1]. [1] https://tonysull.co/articles/mcp-is-the-wrong-answer/
XSLT is the solution domain specialists and philosophers. Abandoning it is the vote of the market and market interests, the wisdom of crowds at work. This is the era of scale not expertise, enjoy the fruits.
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It’s hard to believe now, but Facebook was a good product for a while there.
That's why I wonder if, deep down, Zuck realizes the walled slop garden he's ultimately created instead of what it looked like he'd set out to create 18-20 years ago.
Facebook came after FaceSmash, a site for rating the attractiveness of women at Harvard who did not consent to being put on the site with photos.
He was always like this and never intended to create something actually valuable.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I wonder if, deep down, Zuck realizes the walled slop garden he's ultimately created instead of what it looked like he'd set out to create 18-20 years ago.
Facebook came after FaceSmash, a site for rating the attractiveness of women at Harvard who did not consent to being put on the site with photos. He was always like this and never intended to create something actually valuable.
The problem is, despite all of the slop and garbage and surveillance and everything, Facebook is still actually valuable for many people.
People use it to keep in contact with relatives and friends, I follow work groups, my mother took COPD therapy through Facebook and chatted with relatives in other countries. I think Hacker News has been so radicalized against social media and "algorithms" that they forget most people's relationship with social media is entirely mundane.
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#216I 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?
SSGs are good for static sites with no interactivity or feedback. If you want interactivity or feedback, someone (you or a 3rd party service provider) is going to have to run a server.
If you're running a server anyway, it seems trivial to serve content dynamically generated from markdown - all an SSG pipeline adds is more dependencies and stuff to break.
I know there's a fair few big nerd blogs powered by static sites, but when you really consider the full stack and frequency of work that's being done or the number of 3rd party external services they're having to depend on, they'd have been better by many metrics if the nerds had just written themselves a custom backend from the start.
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Do you have a recommended iOS RSS feed reader?
Same question, but for Android and desktop / laptop too. Never used RSS much before, hardly, in fact, I don't know why, even though I first knew about it many years ago, but after reading this thread, I want to.
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Same question, but for Android and desktop / laptop too. Never used RSS much before, hardly, in fact, I don't know why, even though I first knew about it many years ago, but after reading this thread, I want to.
I like RSS Guard a lot on desktop. It’s reasonably featureful, while being snappy and having options to slim down the interface. https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
Thanks.
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Same question, but for Android and desktop / laptop too. Never used RSS much before, hardly, in fact, I don't know why, even though I first knew about it many years ago, but after reading this thread, I want to.
desktop only: https://fraidyc.at/
Thanks.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Browsers really should have embraced XSLT rather that abandoned it. Now we're stuck trying yet again to reinvent solutions already handled by REST [1]. [1] https://tonysull.co/articles/mcp-is-the-wrong-answer/
XSLT is the solution domain specialists and philosophers. Abandoning it is the vote of the market and market interests, the wisdom of crowds at work. This is the era of scale not expertise, enjoy the fruits.
Its more the market makers that made the vote rather than the market itself.