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Is the blog author on here?

I discovered this site a few weeks ago and then spent days reading every post. I found the electronic asset tagging article very interesting and now notice every sensor tower at stores. The one about alarm wiring was also very interesting.

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I love this writer. Terrific writer and excellent sense of obscure yet fascinating topics. My only complaint is that the posts don’t seem to timely appear in my RSS reader - not sure I’ve ever seen a new post show up in my feed despite being subscribed.

I'll check on the RSS. It's not very well generated and I've had issues with some clients not liking it before.

I hope it was clear that no criticism was intended toward you. I take some (well, all) responsibility for lashing my content consumption to an early 2000s technology and all the corresponding drawbacks.

I mean, the script that generates the RSS feed deserves all the criticism it gets. Looking into it again the main thing I remember is that I didn't put GUIDs on each post which is "recommended" but not "required" by the spec. That turned out to be easy to fix so I just did it.

I just got all your entries back in my reader (rss2email) so I assumed you did some work on it. :D

Hopefully this makes a difference for NetNewsWire. Thanks so much, and nice talking with you!

For what it's worth, I found this post via my RSS reader.

Which article is that? Sounds interesting but my rudimentary search of the archive turned up nothing.

The electronic asset article (part 1 of 2) is at

https://computer.rip/2022-07-21-preventing-loss-dot-jpeg.htm...

(love the title)

The alarm one should be be obviously named.

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