jenkings

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by jenkings 7mo ago
As I’m sure many have, I wrote a wrapper around AyncIterables so I could use them more succinctly. However I wasn’t concerned with performance as I was using it in a lambda handling small batches or scanning items from a DB and streaming pa
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by jenkings 2y ago
To stop myself scrolling hacker news multiple times a day I created https://rssby.email and I’ve been using it successfully since 2020.
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by jenkings 5y ago
What do you use to consume RSS?
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by jenkings 5y ago
rssby.email :D (sorry)
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by jenkings 5y ago
I'm starting to not like the send time part of my design. I'm considering removing it and having it send whenever suits the server. Especially as my feeds go into a email folder and I only check them when I have free time anyway.
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by jenkings 5y ago
Thank you. Now I need to tell some front-end dev friends that someone has complimented my HTML!
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by jenkings 5y ago
I'm glad you like it. I considered creating an elaborate SaaS style page, but then I thought, I'll most likely be the only user of this, I'll add a basic page in case anyone else wants to use it.
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by jenkings 5y ago
It sends an email when you have been unsubscribed containing the rss link, if you wanted to subscribe for another 90 days you can reply to the email and it should subcribe again. I had initially set it to 30 days but that got annoying. Befo
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by jenkings 5y ago
As the creator of this, it excited me to see this post in my inbox today. I created rssby.email purely for myself, because I used to read articles from interesting blogs (via Hacker News) whilst commuting to work and wanted to subscribe to
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by jenkings 5y ago
Is there an example of how many function executions property based testing causes?
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by jenkings 6y ago
I used to use Feedly, but found I didn't check it often and lost track of things, I wanted a way of getting RSS by email so created https://rssby.email/ during lockdown.
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by jenkings 8y ago
I highly recommend improv courses. The primary thing it helped me with was talking without having fear of saying the wrong thing or having people judge me, but it also taught me the importance of _how_ you say things. Even if someone didn&