kickscondor

I've added these to https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple. Thank ya.

I track homemade weblogs and pages - there's actually a lot still going if you know where to look. https://kickscondor.com

Thank you for your links, I'll cover them soon in my next 'href hunt'.

Oh thank you and yes, link blogs - the biggest one for me right now is at imperica.com. The weekly 'web curios' roundup. I link this one a lot, so apologies if you've seen it already. (And I'm sure you mean Waxy in the 'usual' ones, right?)

I've also linked to these quite a lot, but hey:

* https://philosopher.life/ (see his 'link log' pages)

* https://www.gyford.com/

* http://tilde.club/~jonbell/

* https://thingstoclick.com

* http://fimoculous.com/recs/

The Internet is lacking good linkblogs - people don't run them nearly as much.

Oh hey - this is my dept. https://kickscondor.com

I cover what's happening in modern personal blogs and independent web weirdness. Rest assured, you can now put Buzzfeednooze safely behind you...

The problem with this stance is that it is very difficult to get a Show HN to the front page. You usually have about a half hour after submission to get four or five upvotes. (I watch /new and I've seen good projects submit over and over to try to get bites - with no luck.)

But also: self-promotion is a good thing. Or I should say: a better thing. If you can't promote your own project, then you are left to use advertising. This is why advertising is so hot right now. There aren't many avenues for self-promotion.

Let people post their links and let's see where the chips fall.

Not yet. I am hoping to work on this over the holiday.

Cool! Thanks for this - and the link to orangeduck’s work (which further points to Cello.)

There is. http://fraidyc.at/

Yeah, I'm pushing back hard on algorithms and ranking here. Not sure if that's what you mean. I like that it is a dumb tool that isn't doing any concealed magic. It's absolutely apparent how it ranks things. It's then up to the human to explore and curate and shape from there.

However, I do see a place for search. I would love to add search terms like 'Nicholas Cage' and any time his name comes up (or perhaps even a related topic) I can track that.

You're in regular Firefox? Are you logged in? If you can work with me here: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues I would really appreciate it!

Would love to talk to your brother or hear more about this tool. Fraidycat is definitely quite simple on the surface - which might be an advantage, but I am also curious what 'sophistications' could be brought in.

The two of us who work on this project do not feel deserving of this effusive praise. But it is very encouraging to hear. We will try to live up to this!

National Treasure 2 :) enjoy

Ok - I very much appreciate this!

Yes, strict tracking will still block extensions. I hate the way permissions work with Fraidycat - I shouldn't need access to your website data to do this, for instance - I just need the ability to access URLs without using your credentials. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a permission for that. (Admittedly, I doubt they had something like Fraidycat in mind when designing the web extension API.)

Totally agree. And I do have an issue for this: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/21

Just trying to sort out how to make it work, make it look.

Ok, great - yes, I imagine multi-word titles are the issue. Thanks for giving this a go!

I've thought about that - but have been hesitant until I'm sure it's to a level of quality that I can live with. (The project is only about a month old.)

Ahh, good points. I do have the ESP8266 in my list - I considered the RPi Zero, but I felt it was too difficult to get a hold of at its proper price.

Krikey - I'd be interested to know how close it is to your vision. Thank you for saying so.

Really? Wow. Did you import OPMLs from Feedly? I hope it went ok...

It might be that you have 'strict tracking' on in Firefox? That's the only issue I know of currently that can cause this.

Perhaps I should break out the central library so people can add whatever other interfaces on top of it.

Going to plug my project Fraidycat here. Feels like it satisfies many of these. http://fraidyc.at/

It compiles RSS feeds and YouTube, Twitter, etc into a dashboard-like view rather than a crowded timeline. No notifications, no algorithm. Just a tool for a human. Easy to “move into the periphery”. Very calm, even when I’m following 100s of people.

Here are some of the great things (IMO) from the Internet in this decade: https://href.cool/2010s

It would be cool to see a similar list of promising/essential software. I would personally list Julia, Elm and Redis, for instance. But I could see people putting Kubernetes or Mastodon. Breaker Browser, SSB, Webmentions are already on my list.

> The core of the problem is the fact that the incentives of these companies and their users are not aligned at all. Maximizing revenue at all costs is every news website's motto.

For further reading, see this one: (I presume this is a classic in HN circles, not sure) https://stratechery.com/2015/popping-the-publishing-bubble/

Always glad to hear your perspective on this. I am working on my own archival system for href.cool - I've already lost thewoodcutter.com and humdrum.life. (Been going for one year.)

My approach right now is to verify all of the links weekly by comparing last week's title tag on that page to this week's title tag. I've had to tweak this a bit - for PDF links or for pages that have dynamically generated titles - I can opt to use 'content-length' header or a meta tag. (Of course, the old title can be spoofed, so I'm going to improve my algorithm over time.)

I wish I had a way of seeding sites with you. I imagine we have some crossover on interests and would also love to contribute bandwidth - as would some of your other readers I'm sure.

Lol "it's programmable celery. It's cooler than non-programmable celery."

Instead of calling it 'piracy', call it 'archival work'. Done!

It's must be the page title - which is done in WebGL. Can you let me know your rough system specs? It could also be the amount of embedded stuff...