RSS

Hacker News had an entry today on Text Only News WebSites - a fast way to get to the meat of the matter.

I wish it was RSS like, but there are alternatives for summaries (independent of anything yahoo/google/facebook might produce):

• The Brutalist Report - snapshot of of what is happening across various news sources
• skimfeed - snapshot of what is happening across various news sources
• github: awesome console services - meta link to find more console stuff
• Another take on from the seeing impaired, something we can learn: "I’ve been getting a lot mileage out of safari’s and brave’s reader mode"
• markets.sh - meh, summaries might be ok, but can't copy text for stuff I want to keep
• teddit worldnews - kinda like a reddit thingy, but not sure how it works

Now if I could find something that scrolled as stuff changes, .... oh wait, the closest would be irc.libera.chat with ##hntop (hackernews), ##news (world news), ##alerts (earthquakes, electrical, ...)

RSS feeds have been and still are my primary ways of reviewing current events. I made significant use of Google's RSS Reader, that is, I was subscribed to quite a few feeds through their service. Then Google decided to tear down the service. At least they gave warning and provided a means of getting at the raw data. I was able download my configuration files, which included feed names, categories, as well as starred items. Continue reading "Migrating From Google Reader to Tiny Tiny RSS" »