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by conesus 14y ago
There is a mention of `json.dumps` being too naive to be used in an API, and there's good reason for that. If you want a more advanced JSON serializer for Django, here's what I use on NewsBlur. From https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/b
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by conesus 14y ago
NewsBlur (social feed reader) uses Redis pubsub for real-time as well: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/20371256202/building-real-time... . Now I'll have up to 500 concurrent clients, but I couldn't be happier with how utterly simple it was t
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by conesus 14y ago
I do the dishes. Since I can go into automatic mode, the hot water loosens me up and I get to daydream. More often than not these dreams can turn into future features for my project. Any chance I can take to daydream I take. It's a lucid dr
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by conesus 14y ago
There's a Feed view, which is what you're referring to, as well as an Original view. There is also a Story view, which shows you the click-through of the story, which is convenient for some feeds, like Hacker News. The majority of sites tha
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by conesus 14y ago
The new social features will. I've been posting about the beta on Twitter, and because the beta is still buggy as sin, I wanted only less invested users (like on a random tread) and highly invested users (twitter followers) to be the cataly
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by conesus 14y ago
You only spent 2 minutes learning about a product that has many moving parts. I spend a lot of time working on the flow and design of NewsBlur. I think if you give it it's proper due, you'll find yourself astounded by all the attention to d
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by conesus 14y ago
Well, it's also entirely open-source, from the front-end to the distributed feed fetchers on the backend, as well as the iOS app: http://github.com/samuelclay
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by conesus 14y ago
I think the biggest problem with RSS is that you divorce the content from the context. Both from the publisher's standpoint, when their ads aren't being served or they decide to truncate their RSS feed so they can get ad revenue back from c
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by conesus 15y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say there was a high demand for real-time. But some users asked for it by name, and generally, increasing speed (lowering latency) correlates strongly with increased usage. If I can make page loads faster, and fee
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by conesus 15y ago
Nope, just Express.js, redis, and socket.io: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/node
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Building real-time feed updates for NewsBlur with Redis and WebSockets(blog.newsblur.com)
58 points by conesus 15y ago|8 comments
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by conesus 15y ago
Originally this blog post was going to be a "and so can you" type post. I thought it was kind of important to set the tone to say that I'm a schlub who just pushed hard enough on the persistence/patience/perseverance/perspiration mix. It en
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by conesus 15y ago
Yeah, I noticed that my Stack Overflow profile was outdated, as well as GitHub and others. In fact, my personal blog still says I'm working on DocumentCloud. This is a problem needing solving. Or not.
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by conesus 15y ago
I don't see NewsBlur as competing with other RSS feed readers, many of which are seeing declining use and are either folding or are in the process of folding. NewsBlur, on the other hand, is doing very well because I'm charging people and c
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by conesus 15y ago
Love the idea, but it wouldn't work for NewsBlur. While Pinboard charges once for being able to store bookmarks and all of the associated meta-data, he actually charges $25/year for the archival subscription, which is where a whole lot more
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From project to profession: going indie on NewsBlur(blog.newsblur.com)
100 points by conesus 15y ago|24 comments
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by conesus 15y ago
Yup: http://github.com/samuelclay . And the hosted option is at www.newsblur.com, but you can host your own. It's a buck a month to have me host it for you (and do all the necessary feed fetching).
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by conesus 15y ago
Just look at the examples of what was built using Backbone.js vs. Knockout.js. http://backbonejs.org/#examples vs. http://knockoutjs.com/examples/ . Backbone.js has many more real-world examples that demonstrate it's flexibility and ease
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by conesus 15y ago
One of the patterns looks like it requires more processing power than necessary. The rendering of a template should be fast, since you will likely be doing it many times on a page. ContactView = Backbone.View.extend({ template:
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by conesus 15y ago
Yup. I'm the only person from NewsBlur. Got an RSS feed url that has full text? I'd love to use that. Otherwise, I'm planning on building a Text view that effectively extracts the article text. It's not highly prioritized, but it will be af
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by conesus 15y ago
Heard about this on Twitter, and in under 3 minutes had this: http://samuelclay.github.com/NewsBlur . Gorgeous and very easy to install. Kudos!
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by conesus 15y ago
@scorpioxy -- I can't reply to you directly, but you've been [dead] for a few months now. I see you've posted quality comments, but you posted what could be perceived as a spam post 138 days ago and so you got marked as a spambot. But you'r
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by conesus 15y ago
You might be interested in postgresql's hstore: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/hstore.html It's a key-value store that allows querying, which is what I think you are lamenting in your comment. Here's a bit more about how to que
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by conesus 15y ago
Favorite quote is from the pricing page, http://ycombinator.com/viaweb/pric.html : "The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money." — Henry Ford I also find it fascinating how so m
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by conesus 15y ago
Just emailed you. I think NewsBlur would be a valuable enough immediate addition that it would be worthwhile. I know I have plenty of demand on my side.
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by conesus 15y ago
I was on the phone and he only had a minute, so what would've have been a perfect alignment of planets turned into a near miss.
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by conesus 15y ago
This is an awesome service. I reached out trying to get a channel for NewsBlur, since Google Reader is there, but they said that there's an API coming and I should just wait for that. Kind of unfortunate since this is one of those services
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by conesus 15y ago
Also open-source ( http://github.com/samuelclay ), actively developed, and social features coming soon (within the next 2 months). And of course, a history of shipping.
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by conesus 15y ago
Have you tried it? NewsBlur isn't your average feed reader. Also, Flipboard et al serve different use cases. NewsBlur is a writer's reader. Flipboard is a news reader. NewsBlur, with its intelligence, helps you follow authors, and on the we
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The Social Graph is Neither(blog.pinboard.in)
434 points by conesus 15y ago|60 comments

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