VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Transitous - Get to places by public transport

   2025-06-14
   openstreetmap programming/c++ programming/python programming/typescript transportation

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   • Adding public transport data to Transitous
   • public-transport/transitous
   • GNOME Maps meets Transitous meets MOTIS (FOSDEM 2025)
   • motis-project/motis - Multimodal routing, geocoding, and map tiles
   • google/transit - General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
2. Re-Implementing the Google Reader API in 2025

   2025-05-09
   feed/rss google/reader network/http programming/elixir

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   • greader_api_controller.ex@42ec26f
   • FreshRSS - Google Reader compatible API implementation
   • mihaip/google-reader-api - Unofficial documentation for the unofficial Google Reader API
3. A different approach to blocking bad webbots by IP address

   2025-04-28
   feed network/autonomous-system network/http network/ip web/crawling web/scraping

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   • Now a bit about feed readers
   • A deeper dive into mapping web requests via ASN, not by IP address
   • Notes on blocking spam by filtering on ASN
4. How would I improve RSS? Three ideas

   2025-02-23
   feed/rss user-experience

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   • aboutfeeds.com - What is a feed?
5. Cloudflare is blocking NewsBlur RSS feed fetchers

   2025-02-08
   cloud-computing/cloudflare curl feed/rss network/http

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   • 403 using curl
   • Cloudflare Radar - Verified Bots
6. Internet Engineering Task Force - Groups

   2025-01-12
   ietf ietf/rfc

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   • Active IETF working groups
   • Guide to IETF Working Groups
   • RFC Editor
   • Recent RFCs - RSS Feed
7. NASA Public Lessons Learned System

   2024-12-30
   documentation nasa nasa/jet-propulsion-laboratory

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   The NASA Lessons Learned system provides access to official, reviewed lessons learned from NASA programs and projects. These lessons have been made available to the public by the NASA Office of the Chief Engineer and the NASA Engineering Network. Each lesson describes the original driving event and provides recommendations that feed into NASA’s continual improvement via training, best practices, policies, and procedures.

   • NASA Lessons Learned system
   • NASA's ADLR Framework for Lessons Learned
8. FreshRSS - #4220 - Implement Web scraping "HTML + XPath"

   2024-12-14
   feed/rss programming/html programming/php programming/xml/xpath web/scraping

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   Consume any Web site / HTML source, also when an RSS / Atom feed is not available.

   • XPath Scraping with FreshRSS
   • RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
9. jwzhacks

   2024-11-26
   feed/rss history jwz linux network/http programming/c programming/perl programming/php unix

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   I have written a lot of software. I used to do it for fun. Then I started getting paid for it. Then it stopped being fun. Then I stopped getting paid for it. And now I write software sometimes for fun, but mostly in self-defense.

10. Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr

    2024-11-19
    feed/rss personal-knowledge/bookmark

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    • nkanaev/yarr - yet another rss reader
    • Betula - A free federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software for the independent web
    • ~bouncepaw/betula
11. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay

    2024-10-26
    feed network/http network/http/header personal-knowledge/blog storage/cache web/syndication

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    Test feed:

    • feed reader score project
    • A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
    • Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
    • So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
    • The feed reader score service is now online

    RFCs:

    • RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 - If-Modified-Since
    • RFC 7232 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests - Entity Tag (ETag)
    • RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics

    Related:

    • Bret Simmons - NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
    • John Brayton - Feed Polling for Unread Cloud
    • Jeff Kaufman - Looking at RSS User-Agents
    • Chris Siebenmann - The case of the very old If-Modified-Since HTTP header
    • ETag and HTTP caching
    • HTTP Conditional Requests Explained
    • Caching - What takes precedence: the ETag or Last-Modified HTTP header?
12. /r/rss - Is there an open-source tool that converts emails into an RSS feed?

    2024-05-04
    email feed/atom feed/rss network/imap newsletter programming/node.js programming/python

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    • leafac/kill-the-newsletter - Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
    • remko/atomail - Convert (E-Mail) messages into RSS feeds
13. Leigh Dodds - How I use my RSS reader

    2024-04-01
    feed/atom feed/rss personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/xml web/syndication

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    • Long live RSS! How I manage my reading
    • The Rise and Demise of RSS
    • What using RSS feeds feels like (It feels good)
    • Stumbling
14. Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader

    2023-12-13
    feed programming/python self-hosting web/syndication

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    • facundoolano/feedi
15. RSS with “Reply via Email”

    2023-02-18
    email feed/atom feed/rss web/syndication

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    • https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/replyin/
    • https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/reply-links-in-rss-feeds/
    • https://hidde.blog/reply-via-email/
    • https://colly.com/stream/rss-reply-links
16. Feed The Beast

    2019-05-15
    game/minecraft sandbox survival

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17. Vaughan Hilts - Using Huginn for profit and fun; finding price errors on the Internet

    2019-01-05
    automation feed huginn network/http programming/ruby web/scraping web/syndication

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18. ActivityPub - a decentralized social networking protocol

    2018-05-23
    data feed network/activitypub programming/api protocol w3c web/syndication

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    • https://github.com/w3c/activitypub
19. Atom and RSS libraries for PHP

    2018-04-02
    feed feed/atom feed/rss programming/php validator web/syndication

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    FeedWriter, aka Universal Feed Generator:

    • https://github.com/mibe/FeedWriter
    • http://ajaxray.com/blog/php-universal-feed-generator-supports-rss-10-rss-20-and-atom/
    • https://www.phpclasses.org/package/4427-PHP-Generate-feeds-in-RSS-1-0-2-0-an-Atom-formats.html

    SimplePie:

    • http://simplepie.org/
    • https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie/

    Zend Feed:

    • https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-feed/
    • https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-feed/writer/
    • https://github.com/zendframework/zend-feed
20. Validating Atom and RSS feeds

    2018-04-02
    feed feed/atom feed/rss network/http validator w3c web web/syndication

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    Specifications:

    • Atom:
      • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
      • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6721
      • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8288 (obsoletes https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988)
    • RSS 2.0:
      • http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
      • http://www.rssboard.org/rss-history
      • https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
    • http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared

    W3C Validation services:

    • https://validator.w3.org/feed/
    • https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/
    • http://www.feedvalidator.org/
    • https://github.com/rubys/feedvalidator
    • https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/
    • https://groups.google.com/group/feedvalidator-users

    Literature:

    • https://feeder.co/knowledge-base/rss-feed-creation/how-to-validate-a-rss-feed/
    • http://www.rss-specifications.com/feed-validators.htm

    Threads:

    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7949456/good-resource-for-the-atom-and-rss-specification
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/758526/testing-rss-feeds
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7573060/any-existing-rss-feed-url-validators