- Adactio: Journal—Battle for the planet of the APIs
Superb article on the importance of a technology that most users don't care about, and never use – RSS. It's only really important to developers. But that, in itself, can be indicative. Modified quote: "It might be that RSS is the canary in the coal mine for my data on the web. If [a service doesn’t] trust me enough to give me an RSS feed [of my own data], why should I trust them with my data?"
Tag: rss
Bookmarks for September 26, 2012
- Bash script to parse Apache log for a count of RSS subscribers and email it to you — Gist
Exactly what it says. I use feedburner to provide me those numbers at the moment, and need to stop. Well, when I say "need to stop" what I mean is "it's evaporating in the next month".
Bookmarks for February 22, 2009
- Tabbloid
Well, this is going to make my little auto-printing app a lot simpler. Set up a fistful of RSS feeds, get them delivered as a formatted newspaper thing in PDF form overnight. Aces!
Bookmarks for January 6, 2009
- ljdump – livejournal archive
Quick and dirty tool to grab an LJ archive on any system that has python available, which includes OS X.
- LiveJournal: The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
SUP have knocked the american tech staff on the head. I don't believe they're going to fuck off tomorrow, or anything, but any way you slice it, this is bad news, and I'm going to have to find a good LJ archiving tool for OS X just so I do have a decent archive somewhere that isn't on LJ, but I should have done that anyway. Still, most of the public content over the least few years is already in databases on my own servers, anyway, but I'd like to get the private/friends locked stuff saved, too. I may also flip back to blogging on my own domain, and just mirroring the content into LJ, just in case.
- Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists – Joe Lazarus
I may want to take this apart and rebuild it for other services since my tumblr account is used for my not-a-photoblog-honest. Or since the blog is called Dead Air, I might just pipe it in regardless, as it does kind of fit with the theme.
- Baby twitters via kicks – Hack a Day
I blog this mostly because I want to use the phrase "spime child", which is agreeably SF sounding. And because, well, it's an interesting application of the technology.