Someone should keep an eye on Linus.

Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.

https://hnrss.github.io/

I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.

https://brr.fyi

• Nethack

Yes the interface is a mess. But it’s ridiculously deep once you get into it.

Not an app, but for the ones interested in following specific hacker news posts, there’s the unofficial Hacker News RSS feeds.

It’s been a while since I’ve set up my pi hole, but you shouldn’t need a monitor, the initial configuration should be done through the command line.

Once it’s set up, you’ll have a webpage inside your network that you can visit to monitor / configure further.

That being said, you can connect any HDMI monitor to a raspberry pi, and it should work.

On the design side:

• I like that profiles do not show the total karma count. I feel like that just incentivises mindless posting just to get that counter up (some people love seeing their numbers going up).

• I don’t think the “hot” sorting algorithm is very good yet. A lot of old posts were showing up (haven’t seen those lately, maybe it has been fixed), but the algorithm is still not great.

• Would be nice to auto hide posts that I already upvoted or downvoted. That option exists on Reddit

You’re welcome!

Had no idea that thunderbird didn’t do it, sounds like a pretty basic feature to me.

I’m not sure I understand… I thought all readers did this.

Doesn’t liferea do it? (It’s also gtk iirc)

https://github.com/LinuxCafeFederation/awesome-android

Same.

I actually feel that my stubbornness has made my life better in this case.

I’ve been to Reddit since, but I no longer feel the need to scroll it. I just use it when I went to find a genuine human recommendation on a topic.

You can still use programming to leverage your current position.

If you work admin in an office and are able to automate a bunch of workflows with some simple scripts, you’ll have more leverage when salary raises start to get discussed.

Will your code be at the level a professional programmer would produce? Probably not, but you’re not competing with one.

Because I refuse to install the Reddit official app.

If you don’t want to fully host it yourself (which I think it’s wise), then it’s a good solution.

If privacy is important to you, ProtonMail has a good reputation, but I haven’t been keeping up with the latest developments in the area (there might be other providers that suit your needs / budget).

Do you mean buying your own domain, and forward email sent to it to an email provider?

A lot of email providers have that option (with paid plans). For example

https://proton.me/support/custom-domain

Mainly not giving out information about me on all these threads that keep cropping up asking age and where you are from.

I drive whichever vehicle doesn’t get my data harvested.

• ls / cd for basic stuff

• fzf if I want to find my way through the history

• broot if I want to search for a file

• ripgrep if I want to find a file with specific contents.

I know that the last 3 are not available by default, but they are good pieces of software, so I’m just going to install them.

Basically, an RSS feed is a link that gets updated when there’s an update to a website (here’s an example from my medium page). Anytime I post something, it gets updated.

An RSS feed reader is an app that you can use to list out which websites you’re interested in, and pulls up any new articles that get published.

RSS feeds are everywhere, but often hidden beneath the surface. For example, in the youtube page for Reuters you can’t see any link to an RSS feed, but if you right-click and press “inspect page source”, and then Ctrl+f for the word “rss”, you can find the link hidden there: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UChqUTb7kYRX8-EiaN3XFrSQ

Most RSS feed readers would be able to find that hidden link for you (you’d just have to give it the normal youtube page link). This is how I “subscribe” to things, I just have one central app where I get updates on everything I’m interested in following (blogs, news, videos, etc).

If a youtuber has both an Odyssey and a Youtube channel with the same content, I subscribe to the RSS feed from Odyssey.

If a youtuber I’m interested in mirrors their videos somewhere else, I’ll subscribe to that source via RSS. But that’s just to divert traffic from YouTube, not because I have a preference either way regarding community interactions (I never read comments on videos).

This is not inside any application, just a simple bashrc alias if I want to connect to a database to do some quick checks on my terminal.

I have proper secrets managers when dealing with credentials inside code.