Timeline
Every post and feed across this instance
-
My First Blog
Looking back to my almost first ever website build for Blaugust.
I first decided that it would be useful to have my own website at the beginning of 2004 when I started heading out into the mountains with West Bromwich Mountaineering Club. I wrote my first post about a walk in the snow up Raise, near Helvellyn, from Patterdale in the Lake District in February of that year. I can still remember the small of the sausages cooking in the Helvellyn YHA as we walked past that morning.
You can still read my very first entry on this site right here.
I spent the next 8 months messing around with various free hosting providers, who were prevalent at the time, but vanished just as quickly, before obtaining my lee-perry.co.uk domain and buying my first hosting plan from macoman, who became Ariotek before later being procured by Krystal.io when their server architecture began to fail. I have had spells hosting my own server and on site ground before heading back to Krystal probably around 8 years ago.
Prior to buying the domain there also used to be a free .co.nr registrar who I had registered lee-perry.co.nr with, but thankfully no images of that design persisted into the Wayback Machine! I seem to remember writing pages of html and css, with garish granite backed image buttons for navigation.
On 19 December 2004 I uploaded a site that I had built using a gallery generator. The software set galleries into an html framework that I had built, with a number of hand rolled front and index pages, and obviously mountain lists for ticking hills on. Despite its clear agedness now, the design persisted quite well, and remained on the site for around 4 years before I began experimenting with Joomla. Though mobile responsively was not a thing back then, I seem to be able to remember being able to look at this site quite well in a mobile phone browser at mountaineering club evenings at the Globe in Reform Street, West Bromwich.
I used to spend hours poring over photographs and writing what today would just be alt-text. Somewhere I still have a full copy of this four years of my online life, that will still have all of those descriptions.
Not quite my first design then, but the earliest that I can lay my hands on. I didn't miss having to manually update and move the four cards on the right of the homepage each time I update the site and, as you did back in 2004, uploaded it to my hosting via FTP. These things go full circle, again pushing design updates to my hosting using FileZilla again now - but at least Pure Blog produces my site dynamically on the server.
After a couple decades of explaining what a hyphen was, I shortened my domain name to prry.uk this year, having consolidated all of my various projects into it. lee-perry.co.uk will be reborn shortly as my profile page on omg.lol.
-
In recent years, science has been learning more and more...
In recent years, science has been learning more and more about how central the role of inflammation is to our health. “The paradox that often makes treating chronic inflammation so difficult: It can be vital and harmful at the same time.”
-
The feed for this subreddit appears on RSC, a social/micro-blogging type site that runs on rss.
It has timelines for local posts, federated instances, people and feeds you follow, and remote feeds added to the server.
submitted by /u/pauladams_red
[link] [comments] -
The feed for this Lemmy community appears on RSC, a social/micro-blogging type site that runs on rss.
submitted by Paul_lem to rss
10 points | 3 comments
https://rsc.rmdes.be/It has timelines for local posts, federated instances, people and feeds you follow, and remote feeds added to the server.
-
Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of...
Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of sorts) of the second X-Files movie (called I Want to Believe, orig. released in 2008) that, per Wikipedia, “will restore horror elements that were previously removed”.
-
The Antifa Terrorism Threat Trump Describes Does Not Exist
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial on the resurgence of left-wing political terrorism. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited representatives from more than 60 countries to Washington to hear an argument that many of them appear not to […] -
Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?
I don’t know what sort of neurodiverse bucket this puts me in, but I think a lot about mowing the lawn1 relative to how much time I actually spend mowing lawns (~6-7 hours per year). And so I was completely fascinated by The Pudding’s latest post on optimal lawn mowing paths and “why some people mow a lawn better than others”.
They built several digital lawns for people to mow and recorded all of their moves, how often they paused at certain times, and who mowed an optimal path.
Solving the lawn mowing problem is formally called Coverage Path Planning, and is related to one of the most famous path planning problems in computer science: The Traveling Salesman Problem.
Humans turn out to be pretty good mowers, especially those who take their time and have played some video games (including, one would assume, Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Mr. Do!, and any other game where you need to worry about dead-ends).
Sarah, one of the best mowers, spent her attention unevenly on purpose. She had a theory about why.
“The bigger spaces have more cognitive load for you to figure out what the best path is. Whereas the smaller spaces…there are fewer decisions to make.”
She planned the tight, trap-prone sections carefully and winged it on the open ones.
So it’s not about thinking more or faster, but when thinking happens. That’s what a good heuristic does: it spends your attention on the decisions that matter and nothing on the ones that don’t.
The piece is interactive so you get to try your hand at digital mowing as well.
My actual lawn is very irregularly shaped with a few dead-ends & choke points and an added wrinkle that I can’t blow grass clippings into the flower beds (so I can only go one-way the “wrong way” in those areas). So every time I mow, I’m trying to figure out the optimal path so I don’t end up backtracking too much. I probably end up saving about 45 seconds of actual time but boy is it fun from an intellectual standpoint.
See my post on Tidying Up from more than 20 years ago. ↩
Tags: infoviz · science · The Pudding
-
👁️ oh no … not Airtable.
-
“ poetry camera is a new way to see your world....
“poetry camera is a new way to see your world. take a photo with the camera… poetry camera thinks… and prints out a poem about the scene.”
-
We're still socialists
I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that the Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can't believe how stupid the adults are. The teens are right about that, the adults have no idea wtf they're doing. Never did. And yet somehow the world can support most of the humans. And the reason that works is we build systems iteratively to meet the needs for everyone and when things change, they change. We're a species-oriented animal. And that means unfortunately for the dreamers among us, we are socialists because the world is socialist All of us. Even the people who say they aren't. -
eBay And Former Execs Agree To Pay $56 Million For Trying To ‘Crush’ A Journalist
For much of Techdirt’s nearly three decades in existence we’ve covered attacks on the media by the rich and powerful. And sometimes we’ve been on the receiving end of such attacks ourselves. But I have never seen or heard of anything quite as extreme as what happened to Ina and David Steiner, proprietors of the […] -
The Phone in Your Hand . “A layer-by-layer teardown of...
The Phone in Your Hand. “A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate object you’ve ever held.”
-
Daily Deal: Curiosity Stream Standard Plan
Explore the incredible world of documentaries with a Curiosity Stream Standard Plan subscription. This top-tier streaming service offers unlimited access to thousands of films, series, and shows to satisfy your thirst for knowledge. Whether you’re a science enthusiast, history buff, or technology geek, Curiosity Stream has something for everyone. Unleash the power of on-demand streaming […] -
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025. -
OpenAI shared some text messages and emails to support their side of the Apple lawsuit. OpenAI opens with this:
Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details. This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.
Apple is clearly worried about OpenAI's upcoming device. I remain skeptical of any company of Apple's size using lawyers to stop a competitor.
-
An 8K Cinematic Tribute to the Artemis II Mission
Using high-definition open source videos and photos from NASA and his own music, John Boswell (aka Melodysheep) created this mesmerizing eight-minute video recap of the Artemis II mission that enchanted us all back in the spring. Like all of his videos I’ve featured on KDO, this one is really well done.
See also Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth and Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers. (via colossal)
Tags: artemis · astronomy · Earth · John Boswell · mesmerizing · Moon · NASA · photography · space · video
-
Capital One Says Money Laundering, Not January 6 Riot, Led To Shutdown Of Trump Accounts
I don’t know but when your best argument is “we got locked out of our accounts for supporting violent insurrectionists,” maybe it’s time to stop arguing. But if there’s anything Trump likes, it’s being a plaintiff in a lawsuit. So, that’s exactly what the Trump Organization argued, in hopes of pressuring Capital One into a […] -
Lots of recent work on the apps is rolling out. A new version of Sunlit today that has a bunch of design improvements and fixes. And the brand new Wavelength (our app for podcasting) is ready on Android, with iOS hopefully to follow soon.
Micro.blog includes podcast hosting at all plans. Crazy.
-
Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’
Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company. -
The Past Catalog Archive is a throwback to fun & modest...
The Past Catalog Archive is a throwback to fun & modest personal projects on the web. “There is no reason to keep these old catalogs to myself, or only allow them to be viewed. Share them and let everyone take a trip down memory lane.”
-
Dave Winer on how we'll be remembered (2019)
“This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy as we inflicted chaos on others.”
– Dave Winer
-
Reading Maps : Journeys from books & films (Moby-Dick,...
Reading Maps: Journeys from books & films (Moby-Dick, Murder on the Orient Express, The Hunt for Red October, The Muppet Movie, etc.) plotted on a map.
-
📝 2026-08-04 15:43: Thinking about selling the 64GB RAM from my laptop and paying off my mortgage...
Thinking about selling the 64GB RAM from my laptop and paying off my mortgage...
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
-
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT." -
The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide
The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data. -
Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI...
Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI for a task. “At the gym, it makes no sense for that robot to lift weights for you. The point of weightlifting isn’t to move heavy things across the room; it’s to actually lift those heavy things.”
-
A versatile RSS app design
Article URL: https://expenses.github.io/notes/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168524
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
-
How to create a standard, 2026 addition
TL;DR: What developers need. Enough examples, a validator, and decent docs that value explaining over mathematical elegance. We assume developers can read and think, and if there's doubt look to the examples for guidance.
It's worth noting we did not take the RSS.chat project to a standards body like the W3C or the IETF. I develop the software first, make sure I'm happy with it, then open it up for other developers to try out, either building something compatible (a reader) or competitive (a writing environment). Hopefully we won't find major problems, but if we do, there's still time to address them.
I find that most standards that come out of the standards bodies aren't developed by implementors or with them in mind. They avoid trying to solve any specific problem, rather focusing on the elegance and flexibility of the format. This makes interop much less likely.
I saw the differences several times as the web standards were growing up. The ones that were taken over by the W3C ended up missing the point. They could still be used, but they often did anti-interop things in their design. But if they get popular we will build on them anyway. A great example was XML-RPC vs SOAP. We didn't need another way to do RPC on the web, we already had a good one. We didn't need another syndication format, RSS was growing like a weed. We didn't need an alterative to rssCloud, but we got one anyway.
It's as if they forgot that the internet and web were not build by big corporations, who were busy fighting over Windows vs Mac OS. Lotus vs Excel. The internet was built mostly by individuals at universities. The internet caught the tech industry by surprise. So it's no wonder the formats they built were anti-internet. Long story, the point is we're building stuff is mimimalist yet still does a lot of great things. And there won't be a lot of long mathematical sounding definitions, but there will be plenty of examples and a validator, the tools developers need to create interop.
PS: This piece was added to Rules for Standards-makers (2017).
-
Is Education About Native American Heritage & History Required by Your State Constitution?
Montana’s Indian Education for All, commonly shortened to IEFA, is unusual because it rests on both the state constitution and ordinary legislation. Article X, Section 1(2) of Montana’s 1972 Constitution states: “The state recognizes the distinct and unique cultural heritage of the American Indians and is committed in its educational goals to the preservation of […] -
Last week along with a lot of other stuff, we shipped a validator for lists and feeds that want to be compatible with RSS.chat. It works best for standards to stay strong and a validator helps that. So here are a few examples, validating one user's feed, validating the everyone feed for RSS.chat, which is interesting because this feed starts a lot of threads, so we navigate through that tree and check those feeds too. And validating the user list on RSS.chat, which is an OPML file. And a simple feed with a few interop isses.
-
Gavin Newsom Makes An Ass Of Himself On Antitrust, Paramount Merger
It’s hard to not have noticed that a key enabler of U.S. authoritarianism was our consolidated corporate media, which (with scattered exception) was more than happy to throw the entirety of journalistic integrity in the toilet for a chance to please a mad, idiot king. In large part because our press is increasingly owned by […] -
Plume A browser extension to Post to your IndieWeb blog from any page — toolbar...
Plume A browser extension to Post to your IndieWeb blog from any page — toolbar composer or right-click capture. Cross-browser, multi-account, no telemetry.
-
From Pirro to Zero
Trump trashes Jeanine Pirro — and may be on the brink of firing her — for admitting in court that his narrative about "vandalism" in the Reflecting Pool is a lie. Todd Blanche secures his path to confirmation after offering holdout Senators a meaningless written assurance on the weaponization slush fund.
Trump backs down from yet another threat to completely destroy Iran, RFK Jr. lashes out at CNN's Dana Bash, and DNC Chairman Ken Martin faces new allegations of mishandling the infamous 2024 autopsy.
Plus, the launch of Vote Save America's Crooked Dozen, updates on the disgusting Max Miller saga, and a conversation with surging Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong.
Hate listening to ads? Become a Friends of the Pod subscriber for ad-free episodes of Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave It, Runaway Country, Offline with Jon Favreau, and more—plus exclusive content, including bonus episodes of Pod Save America. Subscribe now at crooked.com/friends, on Apple Podcasts, or through the Pod Save America YouTube channel.
To watch this episode with subtitles, click here and turn on closed captions (CC).
You can also request a transcript by emailing transcripts@crooked.com. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.
clrtpod.com -
World News Reader - TTS & RSS v. 1.3.0
✨ What's New:
• 🤖 AI Summaries: Quick 1-tap article summaries.
• 🎧 Listening Queue: Queue articles for continuous text-to-speech listening.
• 🖼️ Visual Quote Cards: Create & share beautiful quote images.
• 🌐 Custom RSS Feeds: Add your own sources & propose to global directory.
• ☁️ Google Cloud Sync: Backup & sync followed sources across all devices.
• 📖 Offline Reading & In-App Browser: Custom fonts, text sizes & reader themes.
• ⚡ Performance, security & UI fixes.Download from playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.merpower.worldnewsreader
submitted by /u/Nearby-Mix-7175
[link] [comments] -
The White House Is Feeding Russia’s Information War Against Europe How the Ceuta...
The White House Is Feeding Russia’s Information War Against Europe
How the Ceuta migrant crisis exposed a transatlantic propaganda pipeline flowing from the White House.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/the-white-house-is-feeding-russias
-
Where Do EVs Go From Here? with Patrick George
This was the first summer that Chris and his family took their annual road trip in an electric vehicle through the Midwest. It was doable, but not without some challenges. Where are we with regards to EVs in the U.S. and where do we go from here? Patrick George is the Detroit Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal. He joins WITHpod to discuss the logistics, policy and infrastructure hurdles that still stand in the way of broader EV adoption.
As the 2026 midterm elections heat up, MS NOW is headed to the Lone Star State. Join more than a dozen of your favorite hosts - including Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jen Psaki, Michael Steele, Ali Velshi and more - in Arlington, Texas on September 26 for a day of community and conversation about the issues that matter most to you. Get your tickets at ms.now/together.Sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads. You'll also get exclusive bonus content from this and other shows.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
dts.podtrac.com -
The Cult of Sister Wives
This week, Chelsea, Reese, and Iman dive into The Cult of Sister Wives. Join us as we entice you with a little TLC chatter, before diving a bit deeper into the actual belief system that inspired it. We chat with Calvin Wayman (@calvinwayman), who grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon polygamist family with one dad, four moms, and 44 siblings, to unpack why plural marriage is tied to the highest level of heaven and what it actually takes to leave a community where your entire life exists inside the bubble. From wife rankings to celestial kingdoms, church arranged marriages, and the staggering cost of starting over, this episode straddles the line between reality TV guilty pleasure and actually living in this reality. One thing's for sure: if an angel shows up demanding your husband collect more wives... maybe ask a few follow up questions first. Subscribe to Sounds Like A Cult on Youtube!Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod, @amanda_montell, @reesaronii, @chelseaxcharles, @imanharirikia. Pre-order Iman's new book, Once in a Timeline, here! Your pre-order helps make more books possible! Thank you to our sponsors! To Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain, Head to https://www.squarespace.com/CULT If your glasses are overdue for a refresh, now is the time. Use code PODCAST15 for fifteen percent off your first order Thanks to Article for sponsoring this podcast! Article is offering our listeners $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. To claim, visit https://www.article.com/discount/cult and the discount will be automatically applied at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicespdst.fm -
[Github] Free news APIs differ significantly in historical coverage, languages and search filters
-
Sony Gives Its Disc-Loving Customers A Giant Middle Finger
Just a few weeks ago, Sony announced that it would stop producing games on physical media starting in 2028 and a very loud portion of Sony’s customers lost their freaking minds. And, in this writer’s opinion, for very good reason. Having no physical media option for your games is going to make game preservation efforts […] -
La paternité engagée
Rediffusion - Cédric est un papa engagé, qui s'affranchit du schéma patriarcal. Plus connu sous le pseudo de Papatriarcat, celui qui assume pleinement son rôle de père se trouve être pour beaucoup, le porte-parole d’une parentalité éclairée et positive.
Éducation non-violente, impact de la masculinité ou encore droits de l’enfant, autant de sujets sur lesquels il nous livre son point de vue.
Si vous souhaitez prendre la parole dans le PodKatz, n'hésitez pas à m'écrire à juliette@lepodkatz.com en me racontant votre histoire, sans oublier votre numéro de téléphone !
Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
sphinx.acast.com -
Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives? -
🏗️⛑️ Interested to see an error suddenly pop up on my blog for a post that has been there for over three years. Never touched since.
I investigated - found the error - fixed.
I guess Micro.Blog is becoming less forgiving about amateur hour?
-
Judge To xAI: If This Law Is So Urgent, Why Did You Wait Three Months To Sue?
Last week we wrote about how Elon Musk’s xAI had filed a lawsuit to attempt to block Minnesota’s anti-nudify app law. As we tried to explain, even if you (reasonably, understandably) dislike both Elon and “nudify” apps, there were real problems with the Minnesota law. In particular, it was not narrowly tailored to just target […] -
Built a reader that writes me a briefing instead of showing me 500 unread
I've used RSS for fifteen years and what finally broke me wasn't the feeds, it was the unread counter. Five hundred items, all the same size, all shouting.
So I built the opposite: everything goes in, one written piece comes out. Feeds (paste any site URL and it finds the feed), newsletters — each topic inbox has a real email address you can subscribe with — scheduled Google searches, X profiles. Every morning an AI merges the lot into a single briefing: deduplicated, sponsor blocks stripped, with the link to every original under each story. When a feed only publishes a teaser, the full article gets fetched and read.
Two details this crowd usually asks about:
- When several of your sources cover the same fact, they're merged into one entry with a label saying how many told it. It's not an AI claiming something is important — it's your own sources agreeing, and you can see who.
- The digest is also a podcast on a private RSS feed, with show notes and source links, so it plays in any podcast app.
It's early. If you're the person with 200 feeds and a guilty conscience, I want to know where this falls apart: https://proofite.com
submitted by /u/Linda_Sairas
[link] [comments] -
I made a change today for new users to essentially require setting the "about me" text for a Micro.blog profile. After you confirm signing up, you'll get this page with some random profiles. I hope that it'll help with discovery in the future and also weeding out non-humans more easily.
-
What would it take to have a different interface to RSS chat and not rely on the scripting.com look? You know .. like .. RS Conversations.
in parallel? What would it take to have a login that doesn’t require me to login .. jump to email … click a link … come back …
asking for a friend -
“Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a...
“Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a modern jazz reinterpretation of the music from The Legend of Zelda”.
-
Reading reddit via rss (fiery feeds for ios) - popup banner
Been consuming reddit via rss for a while. After starting to get a bunch of 429 errors I dropped poling (by tt-rss) to about 4 hours.
I consume by a mix of tt-rss in browser, or fiery feeds, a tt-rss compatible rss reader.
I used to be logged in with fiery feeds to reddit, so I was able to reply comment, but recently found that I wasn't signed in and couldn't reply.
Now, after reading through the comments of one thread, I get this banner appear, and trying to see how to get rid of it. I have no problem being signed in, but dont want to push every article to their app as it means a lot of jumping back and forth.
I'm browsing, according to fiery feeds in it's own safari broser
submitted by /u/AssociateNo3312
[link] [comments] -
The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites
The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually explicit content. If this bill passes, it will force millions of adult internet users to give up their anonymity, privacy, and security before they […] -
💬 The problem isn't the advertising you see. It's the tracking you don't.