Casual reminder: It’s perfectly fine to only keep the most recent 20 or so posts in your RSS feed. No need to go back all the way to 2009. (Looking at you, SSG folk.)
Tag: web feeds
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In the process of adding true mf2 support …
In the process of adding true mf2 support to Feed Reader.
Random observation: a lot of RSS and Atom feeds are served up with a
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https://fstop.cloud is able to fetch full articles even …
https://fstop.cloud is able to fetch full articles even for summary-only feeds. It looks for either the
mainelement or the firstarticleon the page, but you can also hand it a (feed-specific) XPath selector indicating what you want to keep.Either way, maybe I should give https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php a try.
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(Very slowly) resumed work on https://feedreader.site.
(Very slowly) resumed work on https://feedreader.site.
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False Positive
It’s been exactly 3 days since I released the Feed Reader plugin for WordPress, and a first vulnerability has already been discovered … in 2007.
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Submitted https://github.com/janboddez/feed-reader for inclusion in the WP.org plugin …
Submitted https://github.com/janboddez/feed-reader for inclusion in the WP.org plugin directory. See what that brings. Thing I’m most “worried” about is that somehow the “image proxy” is frowned upon, or the way I set up the various “admin routes.” Or a glaring security issue. I mean, I’m fairly sure I sanitize all imported HTML and ensure that anything that’s ever touched does in fact belong to the logged-in user. (Heck, I make sure to fetch records—all
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Bookmarked https://nolanlawson.com/2022/11/22/thoughts-on-mastodon/. > I like my RSS feed. …
Bookmarked https://nolanlawson.com/2022/11/22/thoughts-on-mastodon/.
I like my RSS feed. The signal-to-noise ratio is high, the timeline is slow, and there are no notifications. That’s about the right speed of social media for me.
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My feed reader seems to strip `alt` attributes …
My feed reader seems to strip
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Feed reader now shows avatars—well, favicons—for non-microformats feeds …
Feed reader now shows avatars—well, favicons—for non-microformats feeds as well.
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So, after you’ve carefully thought about the different …
So, after you’ve carefully thought about the different feeds and feed formats you’re going to offer potential subscribers, please help aggregators find them by adding a
link rel=alternatetag to your site’shead.
