Displaying articles with tag rss

Annoying Web 2.0 Stuff

Posted by hank, Tue Jul 01 03:31:00 UTC 2008

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if no one ever upgraded to Web 2.0? I mean, really, what have we gained. Here’s a list of things that I personally find really stupid about the phenomenon…

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rssHugger and I

Posted by hank, Thu Nov 22 05:55:00 UTC 2007

So, on November 12th, rssHugger apparently went online. I just found it a few minutes ago and I think I might sign up. It’s a good idea - clump all the blogs together, have each one pay a small fee, and promote the entire collection. This post halfs the price of the service (it should now only cost me $10 for the next 10 years, which seems like a really good deal to me.)

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A Beer Atom Feed

Posted by hank, Sat Oct 13 03:10:00 UTC 2007

So, after reviewing over 50 beers on BeerAdvocate, I’ve come to the conclusion that them not having an RSS or Atom feed of my most recent reviews available is stupid. So, I decided to make my own by scraping their HTML today. I started off by pumping some random code into irb that included Hpricot and Builder. Ruby rocks for doing stuff like this.

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Timeline Typo Integration

Posted by hardwarehank, Fri Jan 05 05:03:37 UTC 2007

So, I made it so the Timeline project and javascript libs can now use my custom Typo RSS feed to make pretty timelines. Just did some very simple (but troublesome to debug) modifications of the Timeline and Typo codebases. Trouble was for a while that this…

                      
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…is apparently not parsable in the Timeline libs. And it throws some unclosed parenthetical exception. That took me a long time to figure out. Lame. Anyway, you can see the result of the integration between blog events and life events here.

Gotta start trading stocks in 30 minutes, then eventually go to bed. I’m such a night-owl.

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