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The giftarticles feed is now a simple RSS 2.0 feed. It's not pretty, that would require some work with Masotdon, but it does work.

The thing about tech, you have to start out small and simple, and carefully add features based on actual real-world-now use cases. Otherwise you end up missing the target, and have to go back and patch it, and it never gets simple. The only way to have a chance is if you start small, learn, and evolve carefully.

Imho -- the smartest thing facebook could do is find all the places where it's a silo and start desiloizing them..

AI is a miracle of human science, it took generations to get to the point we're at now, and the rate of development building software on top of it is imho the basis for a revolution. We use computers in all aspects of our lives, and the UI of the software is nowhere near as g...

The World Cup is underway, watching football takes my mind off the pain, insomnia, and helps the passing of time… cannot remember the key details post match, but that’s not really a problem here - no skin in the game. WWDC 26, I liked the focus on incremental improvement an...

ASCII Aquarium turns your Cheap Yellow Display into an tiny animated ASCII fish tank. It renders a live aquarium scene with animated fish, bubbles, swaying seaweed, tap-to-feed food flakes, occasional octopus & seahorse visitors, selectable backgrounds, preferences, optional Wi-Fi clock sync, & More!

Seems like a good use of under $20.

    ▶ Beastie Boys – Jimmy James     ▶ Beastie Boys – Namaste     ▶ Beastie Boys – Intergalactic     ▶ Beastie Boys – Dr Lee, PhD        

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Saturday, 13 June 2026 The average temperature today is 13.22˚C, With highs of 13.73˚C and lows of 13.15˚C, It may feel like 12.48˚C with clear sky The wind speed is 3.13m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure is...

A year after it happened, I saw they had put bollards in where the car hit him. I stopped to give them a shove, a shake, a kick. I wanted them to break loose. I wanted them to crumble into powder. If they stayed standing under my bloody knuckles it

Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports that his A...

    ▶ Kunstmachine 1 by Horst Pommerenke   ▶ Kunstmachine 2 by Horst Pommerenke     ▶ so interesting to see the process: Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis     ▶ ‘Obsession’ Art Director Calls for Industry…

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effe...

The portmanteau is overdue

There's an account on Mastodon containing a flow of gift articles.

Because Mastodon supports outbound RSS, you can subscribe to it in any RSS reader.

But the RSS is not very good. Have a look.

So I built a little app in my new scripting language, with the help of Claude, and boom now I can read the output of the mangled feed.

I don't know what is responsible, probably has something to do with the account, and something to do with how Mastodon. But the information is being communicated.

https://giftarticles.feedland.org/

This is not finished, it needs some css and the normal structure of an HTML page. We will come back to it.

Sensible GitHub will change npm’s defaults so the install command no longer runs scripts automatically, disabling a feature commonly exploited by malicious packages such as the notorious Shai-Hulud worm. Maintainer Leo Balter said “Install-time lifecycle scripts are t...

One of the two creatures depicted above is Garmegula, a giant lizard I made up many years ago because I wanted to write some very short allegories about…

I want to keep my podcast subscriptions in a single OPML file so I can subscribe in three different clients using the same list.

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I am using Claude Code to create a toolset that makes it easy to write internet scripts at the same high level as Frontier. I was looking for a little project it could do, and came up with this. I like Wikipedia, but I know it has trouble with transparency. In areas I kno...

One of the things that sucks about the tech industry is that the assumption is that creative work is done by employees. Imagine if music or movies worked like that. And the employees will resist the company working with individual outsiders, the equiv of musicians in this a...