Clojurians Log v2

I have an RSS reader and wrote a simple blog in Clojure that produces an RSS feed. Why do you ask?

I wrote a harness and changes happen everyday in the ecosystems. Plugins, updates, improvements, fixes. And I wanted to know if people do use it or not. Because there an RSS feed for the ecossystem https://store.hive-mcp.com/feed

I use RSS all the time. No reasonable alternative if you want to keep track of other people's works.

Yes, in Apple Podcasts

AntennaPod :)

I'd say publishing a well-known XML/RSS feed (e.g. ) is table stakes for web publishing. Personally, I source my reading/listening almost exclusively from RSS/Atom sources, because that helps me stay sane. Reasons include: • 100% opt-in and, crucially, not algorithmically-mediated... ◦ if it's in a feed I have subscribed to, it will reach me ◦ if it is not in the subscription set, I will never see it ◦ if I want to find out "more like this", it is up to me to go search and discover • 100% pull-based: I can pause/unpause/remove fetches at any time. • Generally better for my privacy because feed readers, like email clients, can stop tracking pixels, javascript embeds etc... plaintext feeds FTW. • Locally organised and curated per my requirements; viz. feed sources, within those sources topics of interest subscribed to, fetch frequency, local categories and content filters, marking read/unread/archived etc... • Split by specific type of device for specific type of media, to protect my attention system, and for some safety of my eyes (read / view in large format, listen in pocket format). What I use for feeds: • To publish: The site-maker I use auto-generates / auto-updates my blog's RSS feed (and auto-validates its format) before I publish material. My newsletter software also provides an RSS feed. • To read: Thunderbird on desktop (in addition to mail and calendar). Reading material is deliberately confined to the desktop environment. • To listen: Antennapod on my Android device. Audio content is deliberately confined to the mobile phone. • To watch: Strictly no feeds of any sort, because videos are the most addictive form of passive consumption for me. Thus, video viewing is strictly "i-need-to-know-this" basis. Most of this stuff is in the "education and tutorials" category, and is found on youtube or vimeo. I yt-dl selected stuff for offline viewing. Addendum: Microformats. Similar to XML/RSS feeds, "Microformats" are also well-known structured representations of all kinds of published content, including blog posts. https://indieweb.org/microformats ... give these a dekko. Been my site-maker TODO list since forever (probably because having the RSS feed alone is plenty good enough).

I see. So, It seems to be worth it to maintain a RSS feed... Like, test it thoroughly. Improve formatting etc. Thanks a lot for the feedback!

To test / validate your RSS feed: • You won't have to, if you are using a site builder or blogging service. It should be able to generate a correct feed. You may not even need to configure it. • If you are rolling your own site builder, then plenty of tools (online, included) and libraries are available, to integrate into your code. I use xmllint in my site builder. And I referred to these resources: ◦ The feed XML structure explained: https://www.scriptol.com/rss/rss-tutorial.php ◦ One of the online validators: https://validator.w3.org/feed/

rules (especially those endorsed by 🟧 hivemind) are meant to be broken!

I can't (at all) say I disagree, respatialized :D I read the post and had to (absolutely had to) reply with a set of my own posts that encompass all the stated anti-patterns, and then some: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997394 The ones I listed are absolutely ginormous posts, with about equal amounts of salty footnotes that are often tangential to the body, and sometimes totally out of context. Why? Because, I think it's okay (perhaps imperative) to make up one's own "rules" about what one writes about, and more so, what one chooses to publish and why. Like, barring common law and constitutional rights+duties, who else ought to "set editorial policy" for the website I own and operate? Where "whimsy" and "just because" absolutely and inviolably belong to set of "editorial policies" [0]. To my delight and everlasting gratitude, a small double-digit number of people (in total, over the last five-ish years since my first post) have taken the trouble to voluntarily email me, saying that those posts have helped, or at least entertained them. A substantial fraction of those turned into ongoing conversations, and even Internet Pen-pal-ships. I live for that kind of happenstance... no amount of trafficmaxxing and likes-gaming comes even close (hence, no analytics, no tracking, no clickbaiting, in fact, no javascript whatsoever). [0] The Onion? XKCD? Existential Comics? etc... All make incisive and thought-provoking commentary on some of the most deeply technical subjects, be they mathematics, philosophy, economics, computers etc...