RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information

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  • awesome-nostr

    nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

  • rfcs

    The Nix community RFCs (by NixOS)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • hnrss

    Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News

  • It sounds interesting but I use https://hnrss.github.io/

    Unless it had most of the features of hnrss.org I would not be able to use it.

    Perhaps you could pivot your approach and submit a PR to hnrss for the feature?

  • linux

    Linux kernel source tree

  • Everything is a website these days.

    Even code commits. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits.atom

  • kill-the-newsletter.com

    Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

  • Completely agree. Like the parent poster, I never subscribe to newsletters and the sites that don't offer good ways to be updated of new content (e.g. RSS feeds) lose me as a visitor.

    There are, however, a few email to rss tools, a quick search brings this one as the top reasult: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter

    Might be a good workaround in case the content on the site is worth it.

  • nips

    Nostr Implementation Possibilities

  • https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md

    The TLDR is that when a Nostr client supports NIP-65, it broadcasts to all known relays (which is continually updated/expanded) the list of relays that User A posts their stuff to.

    This means that as long as User B is connected to at least one of those "all known relays", their client now knows what relays User A posts their stuff to, and will specifically fetch things from those relays when it needs to load User A's things.

    It's essentially the Nostr take on the Gossip protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol

  • feedparser

    Parse feeds in Python

  • There is JSON Feed¹ already. One of the spec writers is behind micro.blog, which is the first place I saw it(and also one of the few places I've seen it). I don't think it is a bad idea, and it doesn't take all that long to implement it.

    I have long hoped it would pick up with the JSON-ify everything crowd, just so I'd never see a non-Atom feed again. We perhaps wouldn't need sooo much of the magic that is wrapped up in packages like feedparser² to deal with all the brokeness of RSS in the wild then.

    ¹ https://www.jsonfeed.org/

    ² https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • servus

    Self-contained CMS & Personal Nostr Relay

  • Just a GitHub. [1]

    It's very early days still, but I use it myself.

    The marketplace [2] is much more advanced! You can already use it to buy and sell stuff over Nostr!

    [1] https://github.com/servuscms/servus

  • plebeian-market

    The Bitcoin-native self-sovereign marketplace

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