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80% of what is on his blog is worth a read. The entries are terse, insightful, and nostalgic without being sappy.

karterk 15y ago
Dang, I wish it had a RSS feed! I now have a bunch of really good plain HTML sites which I have to check manually for post updates.
- lordgilman 15y ago
  There's an atom feed linked on the side. http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml
- 1000110101 15y ago
  manually? so you're saying you're incapable or just too lazy to write your own "rss". the second s is for simple. you have all the tools you need in any base unix installation to automate this. it would take you minutes to do. perhaps this is precisely the point of the recovering programmer comment. there is a reluctance to doing anything for oneself. fear of implementing something for yourself, your own way, because someone else has implemented it their way, placed it in a repository and it's managed to gain a following of users. god bless the people who still enjoy diy and writing negative code.
  - bad_user 15y ago
    Jesus, kid, you created an account 5 hours ago and already have -16 karma. Get a grip, do not insult people unless you have a pretty good argument (and even then try not to), don't assume you're smarter, don't assume you're more hardcore or hard working, don't reply unless you've got something worthwhile to say and just be nice in general. And implementing your own script that fetches content from the web and compiles a RSS feed is nice and all that, but you cannot make a generic crawler unless you want your feed filled with junk, so you'll have to customize it for each website in particular ... and why bother? I mean, it's a privilege for a website to be read by me, the reader and this relationship rarely works both ways. And for valuable content that I might miss, that's why I'm still on Hacker News.
- Sukotto 15y ago
  No feed? No problem. My go-to tool for sites without rss is http://feed43.com http://feed43.com which I find easy to set up. Also important to point out that it plays nice with the sites it scrapes. Example... Problem: I love lurking in ask.metafilter but only want to see threads that have a "best answer" marked. No official feed for that. Solution: http://feed43.com/2602451534003772.xml http://feed43.com/2602451534003772.xml Problem: I really like the PS238 comic but there's no direct feed Solution: http://feed43.com/ps238-link-only.xml http://feed43.com/ps238-link-only.xml Another tool that looks promising but I haven't really dug into yet is http://scraperwiki.com http://scraperwiki.com (pardon the pun)
  - lordgilman 15y ago
    I'm also a huge fan of feed43 but I've managed to hit my head more than a few times on its limitations. Coincidentally just this weekend I wrote a teeny program as a replacement for feed43. I've got all my scrapers working with XPath (which I prefer for this situation) but it's very straightforward to add a new site. https://github.com/dgilman/atom_maker https://github.com/dgilman/atom_maker
- sjs 15y ago
  I've been subscribed to this feed for a while now: http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml edit: It is indeed linked in the HTML if you view source. Not sure why your browser or whatever isn't picking it up. Looks like this: <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom feed" href="atom.xml"/> and the RSS extension I use for Chrome detects it. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lojpenhmoajbiciapkjkiekmobleogjc https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lojpenhmoajbiciapk...

Dang, I wish it had a RSS feed! I now have a bunch of really good plain HTML sites which I have to check manually for post updates.

lordgilman 15y ago
There's an atom feed linked on the side. http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml
1000110101 15y ago
manually? so you're saying you're incapable or just too lazy to write your own "rss". the second s is for simple. you have all the tools you need in any base unix installation to automate this. it would take you minutes to do. perhaps this is precisely the point of the recovering programmer comment. there is a reluctance to doing anything for oneself. fear of implementing something for yourself, your own way, because someone else has implemented it their way, placed it in a repository and it's managed to gain a following of users. god bless the people who still enjoy diy and writing negative code.
- bad_user 15y ago
  Jesus, kid, you created an account 5 hours ago and already have -16 karma. Get a grip, do not insult people unless you have a pretty good argument (and even then try not to), don't assume you're smarter, don't assume you're more hardcore or hard working, don't reply unless you've got something worthwhile to say and just be nice in general. And implementing your own script that fetches content from the web and compiles a RSS feed is nice and all that, but you cannot make a generic crawler unless you want your feed filled with junk, so you'll have to customize it for each website in particular ... and why bother? I mean, it's a privilege for a website to be read by me, the reader and this relationship rarely works both ways. And for valuable content that I might miss, that's why I'm still on Hacker News.
Sukotto 15y ago
No feed? No problem. My go-to tool for sites without rss is http://feed43.com http://feed43.com which I find easy to set up. Also important to point out that it plays nice with the sites it scrapes. Example... Problem: I love lurking in ask.metafilter but only want to see threads that have a "best answer" marked. No official feed for that. Solution: http://feed43.com/2602451534003772.xml http://feed43.com/2602451534003772.xml Problem: I really like the PS238 comic but there's no direct feed Solution: http://feed43.com/ps238-link-only.xml http://feed43.com/ps238-link-only.xml Another tool that looks promising but I haven't really dug into yet is http://scraperwiki.com http://scraperwiki.com (pardon the pun)
- lordgilman 15y ago
  I'm also a huge fan of feed43 but I've managed to hit my head more than a few times on its limitations. Coincidentally just this weekend I wrote a teeny program as a replacement for feed43. I've got all my scrapers working with XPath (which I prefer for this situation) but it's very straightforward to add a new site. https://github.com/dgilman/atom_maker https://github.com/dgilman/atom_maker
sjs 15y ago
I've been subscribed to this feed for a while now: http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml edit: It is indeed linked in the HTML if you view source. Not sure why your browser or whatever isn't picking it up. Looks like this: <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom feed" href="atom.xml"/> and the RSS extension I use for Chrome detects it. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lojpenhmoajbiciapkjkiekmobleogjc https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lojpenhmoajbiciapk...