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Is there any RSS reader that is also able to subscribe to newsletters in some way? There are lot of contents that are only provided as newsletters nowadays and I wanted to be able to read my feed and newsletters in the same app, without going into my mail inbox.
RSS is terrible as a format (Atom is much better), but RSS is awesome as an idea. If your web site were a database, RSS would be like WAL. If your website were differentiable, it would be like its derivative, or rather a Lagrangian, taken at the moment of last update. (BTW all serious static site generators know how to produce an RSS/Atom feed.)
Also that blog has some other good related articles:
- What is RSS: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-rss
- What is Atom: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-atom
- What is JSON feed: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-json-feed
- What are feed readers: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-are-feed-readers
- What is OPML: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/what-is-opml
RSS/Atom is great to follow blogs, news and some social network such as hackernews and reddit. I hope X/Twitter back to this functionality, but that's a low probability.
RSS is terrible as a format (Atom is much better), but RSS is awesome as an idea. If your web site were a database, RSS would be like WAL. If your website were differentiable, it would be like its derivative, or rather a Lagrangian, taken at the moment of last update. (BTW all serious static site generators know how to produce an RSS/Atom feed.)
We should popularize a JSON-based alternative, we'll call it "Absurdly Simple Syndication."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The parent comment raises a valid distinction. > In contrast, a heuristic is an approach to solving problems without well-defined correct or optimal results.[2] For example, although social media recommender systems are commonly called "algorithms", they actually rely on heuristics as there is no truly "correct" recommendation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm What are the consequences of conflating the two te…
> The parent comment raises a valid distinction. Not really, as described in the quote you shared, it is common to refer to "recommendation systems" as "algorithms", even if its not actually such a thing. There are plenty of examples of well-known aliases to concepts that obfuscate actual meaning in the English language, but they aren't wrong , as language is usage.
Ironically just told the founder of my company that it was mission critical our blog had RSS. He had never used it before somehow and didn't know why it would be a big deal lol.
Ironically just told the founder of my company that it was mission critical our blog had RSS. He had never used it before somehow and didn't know why it would be a big deal lol.
How is it mission critical for the company to have an rss feed?
RSS is terrible as a format (Atom is much better), but RSS is awesome as an idea. If your web site were a database, RSS would be like WAL. If your website were differentiable, it would be like its derivative, or rather a Lagrangian, taken at the moment of last update. (BTW all serious static site generators know how to produce an RSS/Atom feed.)
We should popularize a JSON-based alternative, we'll call it "Absurdly Simple Syndication."