Feeds feeds feeds
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I was so focus this morning that I forgot I had a coffee brewing
within the aeropress. In general, that's not a problem, I even
prefer when it sits there for a while. But this time it stayed so
long that it got a little cold... That's what happens when you are
focused! And mild-cold coffee is still coffee. If it's coffee, then
it's good. It's still a great addition to the overal coziness of a
sunday morning. To add to that coziness, I could have taken the
thinkpad outside but there's no thunderstorm right now! And
although I love my machine, its screen is terrible. Add that to the
sun and it makes it close to impossible to write outside. Until I
change the screen, I'll just stay in! But I'm digressing.
Yesterday I started writing a simple feed aggregator inspired by
capcom [1] to keep track of all the people I enjoy reading on the
small net, but also on the web. I love the simple layout capcom
has. I think that's how I like to read feeds the most. There's no
notion of "unread", there's no number that change. We just see the
latest posts by date. So I wanted the same for people I follow!
The way it works is the following: I start the reader (I called it
smolreader) passing it a file containing a list of feed urls (rss
or atom) - one per line. Smolreader fetches the 10 most recent
entries from each feed, and presents them the capcom way (a header
for the day, and links from each posts within that day), then
starts a gemini server locally to serve the page. And that's it.
I'll probably write more about smolreader soon, and release the
source so that anyone can use.
