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@hollie I guess everyone’s terminal journey is slightly different. For me, it was lots of practice. And reading: operating system manuals, books, and (later on) resources on the web. Also, lots of practice. 😊

I have yet to read them, but macOS Terminal and Shell and Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal look similar to the books I learned from back in the day.

Julia Evans’ zines are lovely! Once you get the basics of the terminal down, Bite Size Command Line! and Bite Size Bash! might be interesting reads.

@maique Me too! It’s a lovely theme, @ines, and the slowly changing background color is mesmerizing to watch. 😍

@vincent Hallå! 👋

@Claudia 🥰 Thanks, it’s a String shelf.

@uncertainquark I’m experimenting with a third option: reply links in the feed.

@vincent Automatically authenticate on Micro.blog in the in-app browser. So when a person follows a book link, they can add it to their bookshelf. Or when following a link to a plug-in, they can read about it and tap install.

@gaelicWizard Well, nothing is really stopping you from doing that in theory. In practice, one usually wants to limit the number of items in an RSS feed. You don’t want it to contain every single post you ever made, as such a file can be pretty big. Some feed readers will have trouble reading such a file. That makes it inappropriate to use the feed as a substitute for your archive page.

@JohnAN Based on which username you put into the URL, you will get that user’s timeline as an RSS feed. For example, your timeline is available at https://micro.blog/feeds/JohnAN.xml.

@Mtt Yay! Let me know how it goes.

@manton I haven’t really told anyone before now. 😊 Thanks! It might be a nice feature to add officially. The feature could be opt-in by adding ?includeConversationLink=true or similar to feed URLs.

@joelhamill The JSON feed is https://micro.blog/posts/discover. It’s not RSS, but most modern feed readers can handle it. There’s a list of feeds over at the Help Center.

@g Hur var tomten? Och önskade du dig något?

@Burk Do you mean something like in the screenshot below? If so, you should check out my alternative feed for the Discover timeline. Ping @manton @jean @vincent @ericmwalk @Miraz @pratik @odd

@rickcogley The theme’s CSS overrides the CSS from the plug-in in your case. One workaround is to add the following to your Custom CSS. Ping @jokef and @kottkrig.

ul.bookshelf.bookshelf li { list-style-type: none !important; }

@pratik Annotating, taking notes & doodling is the primary use case and where it shines. Getting DRM-free ebooks and PDFs on the reMarkable is easy. On Apple devices, you install the app and get a send to reMarkable option in the share sheet.

For locked-down books, you must get rid of the DRM first. It’s relatively straightforward with Calibre and DeDRM_tools but much more involved than borrowing a book via Libby on an iPad. And you might commit a crime when circumventing the DRM protection, depending on the laws where you live. 🦹

@Mtt Yeah, I’m with your guy. A reMarkable will not add additional value if you’re solely reading novels. You’re better off with the Oasis.

@pimoore @Mtt 🥰

@pratik @odd @vincent Oh my, I already have a challenge finding time to work on my projects. 😅 Seriously, though, I hope they find someone to take over. Looks like a worthy project. Sustainable open source is hard to get right.

@manton Looks great!

@challenges @jean Nevermind my important question, @manton just answered it.

@challenges It was a lot of fun! Thanks for hosting the challenge, @jean. 🥰 Super important question: should I see the pin now? 😊

@Mtt Absolutely! If you define full-length as a piece with hundreds of pages. Mostly books suitable for the larger E Ink screen: rich in illustrations, tables, diagrams, and so on. Like programming literature and other non-fiction.

Science papers, magazines, comics, and manga also work well. For regular novels, I usually reach for my Kobo, which is closer to pocket format.

@vincent That doesn’t sound good. 😅 What is killing your machine, replaceState?

@pratik Sanna and I are happy reMarkable owners. It’s not for everyone, but an excellent tool for us. Sanna wrote down her impressions after using it for three months. The original text is in Swedish, but Google does an okay job with the translation.

@vincent Maybe this is fixable in the WebView/iOS end, but another solution could be to replaceState every time another post scrolls into view and when new posts have been successfully fetched.

So, at any point in time, the WebView’s url looks something like this:

https://micro.blog/hybrid/more?before_id=14512374#post_14512201

Then, if the view is reloaded, the timeline will look more or less the same.

@hollyhoneychurch What a treat! Do you like cocktails? The cognac would probably make a tasty Sidecar. 😋

@danielsantos Embarking on a pirate adventure around Christmas sounds like a great idea. 😊

@iltempo Oh, I’m jealous, then. Don’t rush it; the journey is the goal, etc. 😊

@Munish It was good! 😋 Coffee, eggs, energizing juice shot, and homemade granola.

@yatil @help Micro.blog supports following websites with feeds. But it assumes one (sub)domain = one feed. So, following website like yatil.net works fine. But you can’t follow any RSS feed. This one won’t work because it breaks the assumption: www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ. www.youtube.com offers more than one feed (many more).

fed.brid.gy is another domain that offers many feeds via redirects. So Micro.blog gets confused. How it decides what to include on the timeline when presented with a multi-feed domain is a bit of a mystery. Only @manton knows the answer. 😊

@ndreas Jo, jag förstår förstås det monetära intresset. Jag retas bara lite. 😉

Det är inte så jäkligt att ni mätte kundernas beteende innan DN rullade ut push? Om den rå-datan finns kvar kan du gå tillbaka och göra analys på den och förhoppningsvis få svar på dina funderingar.

@crumblingbiscuit As @help wrote earlier, you have to set up a DNS record for your root domain (zahr.koeln) as well. Follow the instructions on the page Custom Domains. The relevant parts:

> * If you want to use a root domain such as yourdomain.com, create an “A” record wherever your domain is registered and use the IP address value: “104.200.22.214”.
> * If you want both the root domain and www.yourdomain.com to work, you’ll need both an “A” record for the root domain and a “CNAME” record for the “www” version. You can enter either “yourdomain.com” or “www.yourdomain.com” in the Design page settings in Micro.blog.

@jemostrom @ndreas Den enes dröm är väl den andres mardröm, helt enkelt. 😊 Och jag är nog inte särskilt representativ, sett till befolkningen i stort. Jag vill ha så få avbrott i min vardag som möjligt men jag vet att många är tvärtom. Kan ha att göra med att jag är programmerare och är som mest produktiv när jag får sitta och arbeta i större sjok utan avbrott.

Men nu när jag skriver slår det mig att bara för att man har notiser aktivt så behöver det ju inte låta, vibrera eller blinka om telefonen. Det kan vara tysta notiser. Och det kanske är så nyhetsnotiser används? Alltså att en bara tittar till notiserna när man har en stund över. En RSS-liknande funktion. I så fall är det ju inte särskilt inkräktande.

@ndreas Lika intressant är vad det hade gjort för människors hälsa. 😊 När jag läste det här tänkte jag, lite naivt, att det kan väl inte vara många som frivilligt utsätter sig för något sådant. Men tydligen är vi svenskar unika där: uppemot 40 % får nyheter pushade till sig. 😱 Jag tycker det låter som en mardröm.

@vincent Maybe the resizer could have some kind of sanity check? If the photo has a reasonable file size already, only strip metadata. An interesting thing now is that my photos on the Micro.blog timeline sometimes gets heavier than the original. 😅

Take my latest photo post as an example. The original is 175 kB vs. the Micro.blog optimized one weighing in at 244 kB (and looking worse).

@Burk @canion Yeah, @manton is up to something when re-encoding images. 😅 Artifacts, like banding (vertical lines) are common as well.

@davidmarsden Thanks for checking out my plug-ins! 🎉 Adding Search Space and other plug-ins to the navigation is way too clunky, unfortunately, but I know @manton wants to make it easier.

Hopefully, it will just be a matter of ticking a checkbox in the future.

@jean @manton Well deserved. Happy Thanksgiving!

@vincent Oh, so cute! 😍 Made me think of @sailorhg’s frog-themed computer stuff.

@msnintendique64 This is a long shot, but could this be caused by the output balance setting being off? Or channel volume.

@kottkrig Äsch, det ser ju jättemysigt ut! 😊 Jag är sugen på att lämna Goodreads och skulle väl klara mig med Micro.blogs bokhyllefunktion men saknar att det inte går att lägga in datum för när boken lästes. Jag behöver ofta fräscha upp minnet när jag ska tipsa andra om böcker: “jag läste en bra sci-fi i våras, vad var det nu författaren hette?”.

Egentligen saknar jag nog sortering och filtrering överlag. När det är dags att välja nästa bok är det smidigt att kunna sortera att läsa-bokhyllan till exempel efter sidantal, när jag är sugen på något snabbläst. Eller filtrera efter genre.

Blir spännande att följa ditt experiment och se vad du landar i.

@jean You might be on something there! The Penguin Warrior Pose?

@manton Looks like Tumblr host some (new?) blogs from subdirectories instead of subdomain. Try visiting vancityreynolds.tumblr.com, and you will notice a redirect to www.tumblr.com/vancityreynolds instead. With no RSS present. 😢

@Mtt Wow, what a beauty! 😍

@vincent Stylish!

@jayeless Great post! There’s a lot of room for experimentation in this problem space. Fraidycat is a feed reader with an interesting approach:

> There is no news feed. Rather than showing you a massive inbox of new posts to sort through, you see a list of recently active individuals. No one can noisily take over this page, since every follow has a summary that takes up a mere two lines.

And speaking about algorithms, I absolutely love how transparent Bear is on their Discovery Feed. Scroll to the bottom to find the algorithm and explanation: Score = log10(U) + (S / D * 8600).

@odd Tack för att du delar! Var det möjligt att förstå vår svenska? 😅

@renevanbelzen What a lovely C64! 😍