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As a silly concept, I approve.

As a blogging platform, please don't do this. It breaks all SEO, microformats, RSS feed discovery, rel=me ties, and much, much more.

HTML is great. Please use it for your websites.

source: runs a open-web friendly microblogging platform

From my conversations with app developers, and my own experience, this is incredibly common for aggregators. App Reviews are either really unfamiliar with the concept or they aren't trained to understand them and how they differ from silos.

I've had this issue before. I run a feed reader called Pine.blog and App Review has rejected me in the past for content in the feeds the test account was set up to follow. These feeds don't originate on my site or service.

I had to schedule a call with app review and almost needed to escalate the call. It seems like App Reviewers aren't familiar with these kinds of apps anymore. They're used to silos where the app developer could simply ban or reject the content. You need to explain to a human that you're not providing a silo. This is a reader app for another community's site.

Hey all developer here,

I wish more services would consider the impact of their software on the environment and that more hosting platforms would make tools available for sites to display this information to users. Climate Change will become a more dominant factor in business on the Web as time goes on. Our websites are virtual, but our servers aren't.

Creator here!

I've been playing D&D for years and whenever I've run a campaign it's always been a struggle to find good images to use that evoke the feeling I'm going for. And for those who are trying to write and sell their campaigns and stories, finding free-to-use images can be incredibly challenging. That's where d20.photos comes in.

I built this site to help everyone who makes and plays D&D, Pathfinder, or other TTRPG games (or even those writing fantasy novels) find great, free images, characters, story hooks, and more. d20.photos is open for anyone to submit a photo, and the site is curated by me to ensure that it stays true to its goal.

The abstract images are generated using the amazing work of Michael Fogleman and his Primitive library. d20.photos has a full, read-only REST API complete with search for developers and more, there's RSS feeds so you can follow the newest featured or submitted items, and everything is free.

d20.photos is donation supported, so if you like what you see, please consider donating to keep the site running. Go forth and create great stories.

Hey all! I built this site after seeing Apple's WWDC Keynote this morning. Apple is announcing new Privacy Disclosures in iOS 14 and I thought it was such a great idea that I adopted it for the Web.

I added in the environmental impact because it's important to me and I think more sites should start thinking about it. I myself have recently started migrating my services over to renewable-powered hosting.

Edit: typos

Developer here!

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I use RSS for Twitter, YouTube, Blogs, News, HN, and Reddit. It’s my main way of keeping up with goings on these days.

As a plug: I run Pine.blog. A feed reader and blogging app. It’s basically a Social Network built on RSS and Blogging. If anyone is interested, I’d love feedback on it. It hasn’t gotten much HN attention in the past.

https://pine.blog

I typically say “feed” since JSON Feed, Atom, and more fit into that category.

Widespread RSS support is crucial to pushing the open web forward and allowing the ecosystem to compete with mainstream social networks.

RSS isn’t perfect and can be fairly technical but the majority of the issues with it can be mitigated with tooling.

Regular people can use RSS; Podcasts have proven this. One thing feeds don’t have is an ITunes style directory.

I run Pine.blog, a Twitter-like, easy to use Feed Reader for iOS and the web that’s trying do do exactly these things: make Feeds easy to consume and discover so the open web can flourish.

Pine.blog has a free feed directory that helps users discover new sites and feeds to follow. The directory is human curated and moderated and it has an API for other developers to use for free (as well as a paid version for commercial applications).

Feedback always welcome!

Feed Reader https://pine.blog

Feed Directory https://pine.blog/search

I run Pine.blog, a niche feed reader and blogging app and I’d love for it to get more attention:

https://pine.blog

It’s got more of a Twitter-like feel (timelines instead of folders) and a human curated directory of blogs and feeds to follow. If you’ve ever used Tweetbot, that’s what I’m going for.

Its available on the web or on iOS. And there’s a premium tier if you want more advanced features (and unlimited access to the API).

A major release is in the works that will add the ability to start a blog from Pine.blog so that you can quickly and easily contribute back to the open web on your own site. Right now you can post to a Wordpress blog if you have one.

I've been using Linode for ~5 years on the Fremont DC and this is the first time I've had issues.

Thank you Pingdom for detecting the outage before even Linode saw it.

I've been using GoAccess for a year now as a traffic analysis tool on my blog. It's been great. Easy to use, and great for real-time analysis using the command-line interface.

This is really sad. I love and use TableTop Audio weekly for my D&D sessions. I'm also a Patreon subscriber, and If you can, you should become one too. It's a great site; I would hate to see it go.

Speaking as an SD native, and a 25 year old developer, I've definitely felt the urge to move to San Francisco at times, but I could totally see SD becoming a huge hub for the tech industry if given the chance. SD would need some huge transit changes (it would be great if it actually worked), and having companies move downtown would relieve a lot of the hassle of commuting.

The north county areas of SD, where the tech jobs are, feel a lot like Silicon Valley, and I don't think that's a good thing. Leaving Mira Mesa for SV is not a win in my book. SF proper is an amazing place, much like SD, with lots of culture and stuff to do, but unlike SF, SD doesn't have the clout with the tech culture. Personally, I'm always excited when people say they're creating tech startups here, and I hope more people do.

Plus we're always on vacation here :P

EDIT: I agree that most people I meet are not interested in working for Intuit and Qualcomm.

The WebSocket->XMPP gateway is a great one. Of course encryption. I probably should have mentioned that, but I was more focused on the data than the transport.

> [Re: Type Safety] It may not feel like much, but it is huge. Here I can only ask you to believe me.

That was the part I agreed with you the most.

After playing with Asyncio more, I certainly see your point. I guess my larger point was that, even with the new async/await syntax, Python's general multitasking is still rough and incomplete imo. I thought async/await was a solution, but it's not. I just imagine it being so much simpler.

I hadn't seen Dask before this. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions!

From what I see, the community keeps changing its mind every few years. We need to pick a multitasking method and really embrace it. If we want to keep the GIL, then we need to go whole hog on some other approach.

I mentioned iOS because Apple's Grand Central Dispatch API is something I wish Python had. Python's multitasking is so complicated while Apple's GCD is so elegant. It's sad really.

I think the limitations of the GIL are not all in all a bad thing, but I do think that the Python community needs to seriously look at making Asynchronous execution a priority in future versions. Asyncio is really complicated and provides very little in terms of performance.

Multitasking is the most important issue that Python faces today (and maybe PyPy is the answer).

I really wanted to take a look to how PyPy handles this. Now I'm even more so. Thanks!

As a recent newcomer to OSMC: It's awesome once it's set up. Finding some of the options though can be tricksy.