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If you like Julia Evans style you may also like Charity Majors aka @mipsytipsy on twitter https://charity.wtf/ Also I use the open source Django project Newsblur as my RSS reader, and follow Samuel's blog: http://blog.newsblur.com/ A couple others I like: https://watirmelon.blog https://martinfowler.com

RSS readers that manage mailing lists: Inoreader: https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2020/02/declutter-your-inbox-subscribe-… Newsblur: https://blog.newsblur.com/2016/07/01/newsletters-in-your-newsblur/ (open source and self-hostable) Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/pro Also, Kill the Newsletter (https://kill-the-newsletter.com/) converts newsletters to RSS feeds, and is open source/self-hostable.

NewsBlur has an organizer that provides this exact info. Just sort of last update (or even stories per month) and mass delete. It's somewhat new but it makes a world of a difference. The organizer is on web and just launched on iOS. See http://blog.newsblur.com.

I am very excited to see how you grow NewsBlur. It's a really great looking take on RSS feeds. As someone who had a large social group sharing items on Reader before their last round of changes, I would love to hear what your plans/timeline on adding social features are. (fyi, Samuel mentioned adding social features in his 2011 year-in-review blog post, http://blog.newsblur.com/post/15993667293/2011-year-in-review, and there is a social branch on github, https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/social)

"RSS industry"?! I thought the whole point of RSS is that it's decentralized. Feeds don't have to come from a single source and no one client is needed to view them. One could argue that the demise of Reader is the best thing to happen to RSS in along time as this supposedly decentralized and decentralizing standard became too reliant on one vendor. Is it really Google's fault that RSS was overshadowed by the emergence of social networks to the point that it doesn't make economic sense for them to keep maintaining it?! I don't’ think so. Neither is it a commentary on standards, it’s merely a company that is acting in its own perceived interests, something companies are wont to do. As for the “Industry” part, last I checked those who are actually building a Reader replacement are delighted with opportunity: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/23/an-awesome-skin-list-view-with-full-… http://blog.newsblur.com/post/45632737156/three-months-to-scale-newsbl… http://blog.digg.com/post/45355701332/were-building-a-reader When a writer this associated with Microsoft starts framing this situation as yet another flimsy accusation of anti-competitive behaviour, I tend to be skeptic.

I'm not sure what you're missing from all the existing discover features in other products, but NewsBlur has a feature that sounds like that. https://blog.newsblur.com/2025/02/02/discover-related-stories-and-site…

Newsblur was offering a decent alternative free layer. https://blog.newsblur.com/2013/03/17/three-months-to-scale-newsblur/ https://blog.newsblur.com/2014/03/13/google-reader-announced-its-shutd…

NewsBlur has an email forwarding feature[0]. (Disclosure: Happy NewsBlur user for 7 years.) [0]: https://blog.newsblur.com/2016/07/01/newsletters-in-your-newsblur/

You can with NewsBlur: https://blog.newsblur.com/2016/07/01/newsletters-in-your-newsblur/

Calling docker battle tested is an extremely long stretch. It has several security issues[0], many of which are ignored by upstream as "working as intended". [0]: https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/

I'm not entirely sure how the Newsblur youtube feeds work, but here's an older blog post on switching to API v2, https://blog.newsblur.com/post/117767869761/a-real-solution-to-the-dep… I have about 20 youtube channels in Newsblur and watch them almost always within Newsblur itself, so it works well enough. For regex filtering, Newsblur has training features. You can curate a feed based off specific attributes, like author, topic, keywords, etc.

Since I'm a fan of these low-volume but high-value things, also of NewsBlur: https://blog.newsblur.com/post/168429041705/infrequent-site-stories-is… NewsBlur has a nice feature called "infrequent site stories" that holds items like this. It's so much more useful to me than popularity-based measures.

This! NewsBlur is awesome. For newsletters: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/146752875548/newsletters-in-your-newsblu… NewsBlur even has support for Twitter: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/145256277160/twitters-back-baby

NewsBlur was funded as part of YCombinator Summer '12 http://blog.ycombinator.com/newsblur-yc-s12-takes-feed-reading-back-to… http://blog.newsblur.com/post/27033939756/introducing-blurblogs-roy-an…

I mean, there was this story[0] ("How a Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database") about how the Docker rules allowed a hacker to delete someone's database. >Turns out the ufw firewall I enabled and diligently kept on a strict allowlist with only my internal servers didn’t work on a new server because of Docker. When I containerized MongoDB, Docker helpfully inserted an allow rule into iptables, opening up MongoDB to the world. So while my firewall was “active”, doing a sudo iptables -L | grep 27017 showed that MongoDB was open the world. This has been a Docker footgun since 2014. Story was previously discussed on HN[1]. Sure, you could argue the author should have done more to secure the endpoint, but this was 100% a failure mode due to how Docker prioritizes convenience over security. [0] https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27670058