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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers
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Ronalds Vilciņš ☛ How I Check My RSS Subscriber Count
Counting requests to /atom.xml would give me the wrong number.
A service can fetch the feed on behalf of multiple subscribers. Repeated requests can also come from the same reader checking for updates. Neither case tells me how many people read an article.
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Cédric Bonhomme ☛ Keeping My XSLT-Styled Feed Alive After Chrome Drops It
The trick, which I had already used for the feeds of Vulnerability-Lookup, is simple: if the browser no longer wants to run the XSLT, run it yourself and send the result. Same stylesheet, different place.
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Mozilla
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[Old] Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso ☛ Exercising software freedom on Firefox – The Scribbler of the Rueful Countenance
I’m so gung-ho about Emacs keybindings that I made them the default keybinding of GTK+, which means that any application that uses GTK+ will respect Emacs keybindings for motion. They also work in anything that uses readline or readline-like input, like bash, python, or psql (postgresql’s default CLI client). Being used to Emacs keys has paid off for me. I have a consistent interface across the software that matters to me.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Kev Quirk ☛ How I Customised Pure Blog for This Site
A few people have reached out to me to ask how I did X, or Y with my site, so I thought I'd talk about the customisations I've made to this site, and how they work.
Firstly, this site runs on Pure Blog, a CMS that I've been building over the last year or so. As it's matured, I've added features that allow more advanced users to do clever things without having to fiddle with the core platform. This means that people generally shouldn't have to fork the project and should continue to get all the new goodness as I release it.
This site is no different. I haven't done anything clever that Pure Blog can't do out of the box - everything is documented so by reading the docs and using a bit of creativity, you can do quite a lot with this plucky little CMS. I'll link out to the appropriate docs as we go through this post.
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