FeedCity

I had to find out which domains being served by a problem server were still mapping to its domain. This server had been running for six years, and I was pretty sure some of the apps had moved.

So I wrote a script in Frontier, it was the best tool available to me, and got my answer in 20 minutes, code written from scratch.

The script visited each subfolder, the filename is the domain of the folder, finds out which server it's supposed to be running on, based on a DNS lookup, and adds a line to a list.

Here's a screen shot of the domains folder.

Here's the script as a screen shot and GitHub doc.

This is just a way to preserve a little of the Frontier culture. Hard to explain in words. Easier to show as screen shots.

The 300 char limit here has as much suckage as Claude pretending you want to know what it thinks you're trying to do. It's another freaking algorithm. Bluesky assumes you can say whatever you have to say in 300 characters. It's a fucking machine, how could it possibly know....

You can't really use Claude to do research. It always assumes you're trying to do something. If you don't tell it what you're trying to do it guesses, and then starts telling you what to do. Its guesses are always wildly wrong. How do you tell it to stop telling you what to do? It totally disrupts your train of thought. But it makes me miss the days of Stack Exchange and Google search.

HT Josh Sherman

The study, led by researchers at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, examined survey data from more than 9,000 people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) across ten European countries. They found an early onset peak at an average of ag...

What I’ve been listening to this month. Cry Yourself to Sleep - The Charlatans go steady - TENDER Forever and Ever - Boogie Belgique De la part des copains - The Limiñanas 4 Minute Warning - Radiohead I Know It’s Over - The Smiths It’s the End of the World ...

By adding a new collection called ways to my _config.yml and a _ways folder to my repo and ensuring it’s included in the build. I have essentially added a different post type. Those familiar with WordPress will understand what this means. Effectively a new taxonomy for other...

Video demo: Using categories in FeedLand for dynamic OPML lists.

Happy to report there are FeedLand users who want to edit OPML lists there so they can subscribe to them in another feed reader that has support for dynamic OPML lists. I am happy because this is a very cool feature that will be so much more fun if other people use it. If you want to set it up so you have a list on feedland.com that you want to subscribe to in another reader, instead of subscribing to all your feeds, like this -- create a category for each list you want to hook up to another reader. It will be much easier to manage down the road. Categories in FeedLand are very simple, but if you use them carefully, they really help. Here's a screen shot of my Cats menu to give you an idea. I really use FeedLand in the most powerful ways, but it'll really click when others do the same. We might be there now.

There's a problem with one of my Digital Ocean servers today, it turns out it's a problem with Caddy, not sure why -- but it doesn't seem to be on the computer any longer. I can figure out how to re-install it, but it always is a bit tricky, and I wish I didn't have to do it...

Continued From Part 2

I wanted to subscribe to the GiftArticles feed from Mastodon. It makes it possible to read news on paywalled sites. I found the feed by going to the site the feed comes from and tacking a .rss at the end. You can read the feed in a browser, and my feeder test app can read it as well. But for some reason FeedLand won't subscribe to it. Have to dig into that soon. I'm looking forward to doing some long-overdue work on FeedLand before doing the next push.

My weekly blog post. Links this week include the history of tarot cards, a game you play in a font and and some tips on how to be less awkward. My kitty visitor is still here but he'll be leaving on Saturday and I talk about news - what I read, how I judge the quality of the source and its bias and I give some links if you're looking for independent journalism. The Link Lagniappe is still going strong! Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

Decent outline of ME here and the devastating impact it can have. Yet, nothing new here for anyone who has read others. still little to no action. Tomos is one of thousands with the condition in Wales who campaigners say are “invisible”, with healthcare services describ...

A bit of history. Read this post from 20 years ago by Phil Jones. That's what I was trying to do back then, just as Twitter came online. I didn't know it then but was the moment when the web stopped growing. When the VCs took over, and monetized the hell out of it. What we got in the end was Trump and Musk. We would have been smart, as a civilization, to hedge against the monopolies. If we get another chance what are we going to do with it? Will we work together this time? It's worth one more shot. My comments on the Jones piece in 2006 and 2026.

Good read. Learned that I don't need chalk if I want fancy colors in my console output.

i’m writing this in amsterdam. i’ll be in the city for kubecon till friday. let me know if you want to meet! it’s been almost a month since i wrote that i’m yearning for a digital community that runs preferably on irc. guess what, there’s now the dealgorithmed irc server. ...

The developers who build this should be ashamed.

Free the web. RSS forever.

A whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads.

We’re lucky to have so many good RSS readers that cut through this nonsense

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Was casually browsing the indie web clicking from link to link and came across a green slash page in the wild.

It made me smile, having been the creator of such on my site and getting it on to Slash Pages

Note: this is a secret rss only item.

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TIL XSLT support ends November 2026

Chromium has officially deprecated XSLT, including the XSLTProcessor JavaScript API and the XSLT processing instruction. We intend to remove support from version 158 (November 17, 2026). The Firefox and WebKit projects have also indicated plans to remove XSLT from their browser engines.

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