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The dictionary was started in 1898 and completed in 2023(!)

No AI slop, luckily. And a lot of fun.

I used to run 2:230/149 on Fidonet. Can't remember my AmiNet address.

Around the time that abbreviation became fashionable using a lot of DIV elements also did, but that wasn't what the "D" stood for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML

(Shameless plug: I made Feedbase.)

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Copyright (c) 2014 Lucian Marin"

· https://github.com/lucianmarin/subreply/blob/master/LICENSE

The latter is annoying, I agree.

¹ It is an NNTP interface so the article is superseded; https://feedbase.org/about/ - if you don't want to see updates, you can configure your newsreader to skip supersedes.

TL;DR: readers should not poll more often than once and hour, use ETag and If-Modified-Since to determine whether to download the full feed again.

Which items you have seen previously is something the feed reader keeps track of.

:-)

I was surprised by the sounds while trying "Little Computer People" for a nostalgia trip after reading "Hacking Little Computer People on the Amiga" (http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/hacking-little-computer-people-o...) last summer.

> the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB.

· https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.h...

See also: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/limits.html

Where do you have the 64KB number from?

A small test:

    test=# create table test_table (test_field text);
    CREATE TABLE
    test=# insert into test_table select string_agg('x', '') from generate_series(1, 128*1024);
    INSERT 0 1
    test=# select length(test_field) from test_table;
     length 
    --------
     131072
    (1 row)

However when I started working on Feedbase (2015) I wasn't really good enough at Haskell to accomplish the task before I giving up in frustration, so I fell back to my usual preferred scripting language, Perl, for the part that fetches the feeds and updates the database and for the nntp server - I only implemented the (quite simple) website in Haskell.

I've gotten a little better since then, so my little blog-engine, Lantern, which also uses nntp as the main "interface", is written completely in (beginner) Haskell.

It would be fun if you could post comments to the original blogs through Feedbase, alas, that would probably means custom integration for each and every one, and would be prone to abuse. So comments (follow ups) on Feedbase are local to Feedbase (and not used much).

You can use more old school clients such as slrn, tin, and nn - but usually displaying HTML takes some work.

Pan is another GUI client, I don't remember if it renders HTML.

I don't know if you would define it as "modern".

I like Gnus so much that I try to put an nntp interface on most things, but the servers that come out of that are specialized, like Feedbase or my little blog-engine, Lantern.

How do you keep up with 1000+ feeds now? I feel using Gnus is quite efficient, but of the 664 feeds on Feedbase currently I'm subscribed to "only" 304.