Notes

Shelving the new PC Build

Shelving the new PC Build

My rant at AI data centers for sending RAM, GPU, and storage prices soaring.

Pre-ordering the Nintendo Switch 2

How to add animated backgrounds to Google Meet

How I added an animated 'this is fine' background to Google Meet

Untagged filter in Readwise Reader

Creating a new filter view to find untagged items.

Mastodon Author Tags

Adding Mastodon author tags to my Hugo website

Secert Annual Spotify Trick

How to save £45 a year by paying for a 12 month subscription of Spotify
Automating My /Now Page

Automating My /Now Page

My post about automating my now page hit the front page of Hacker News!

Automating Now

The /now page is now automated!

Remove files from Git history

A quick how to guide on how to remove data from a repository's history

RSS Feeds

Paving the way to an open web using RSS feeds

An eSim database!

Compare eSims data plans with ease

A solar powered website

I found this awesome website last month and

Apple Watch Double Tap

How to get the double tap guesture without having to shell out for a new Apple Watch

Arc's secert reader mode

How to enable Arc's secert reading mode

Use an adblocker

Block those annoying scammers.

RSS Feeds

Planted January 12, 2024

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds.

There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do with RSS feeds. I read a post by Robb Knight, about how he automated his now page, which led to Sophie automating her now page as well. I was thinking of how I could do the same using services that offer RSS feeds.

I would love to be able to automate the Movies, TV Shows and Video Games sections of my now page. So far I’ve found that Letterboxd offers an RSS feed for movies and Backloggd offers an RSS feed for a user’s reviewed games but not for their ‘Currently playing’ games. I’m still exploring what would be the best solution to use for books and TV shows.

Currently, I use NetNewsWire as my RSS Reader app.

Another cool project I found recently was RSS Parrot by Gábor Ugray. RSS Parrot allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds directly via Mastodon.

In addition to that, it’s possible to also subscribe to Bluesky profiles using RSS parrot via Bluesky’s new RSS feeds feature that was introduced at the end of 2023 and with Meta’s plan to add ActivityPub integration to Threads, I might be able to finally follow all my friends across the internet via one account!

Twitter doesn’t have native RSS feed support but I’ve managed to find a workaround using Nitter (Note - RSS feeds are currently disabled on the main Nitter instance at the moment. There are other instances where RSS feeds are still enabled.)

Overall, the future for an open web is looking bright.