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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may ...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program #Environment #Farming #Science #UKnews #Soil #Food

@Paulatics George Monbiot writes about soilsmology - seismology to soil

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may ...

Very shallow geophysics for farming: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may ...

Very shallow geophysics for farming: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may ...

Happy World Soil Day!
Soil is the foundation of agriculture, forests, grassy plains, tundra flora, etc! We even need soil in cities!
Soil ecology and science rule!
#Ecology #SoilScience #Conservation #Restoration #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

"Instead of extrapolating the peat depth from point samples, they could see the wavy line where the peat met the subsoil..."
#Seismology #soildata #collaborativescience
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

Why don't politicians see the problems that over-dependence on cars causes for Britain (and England particularly)?

Because in London, where they spend much of their time such a problem has been addressed by massive expenditure on public transport... only in London can the majority of the population conduct their lives without owning a car.

As so often the Westminster Village's political myopia pushes social costs onto the regions!

#cars #PublicTransport #politics

https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

Why don't politicians see the problems that over-dependence on cars causes for Britain (and England particularly)?

Because in London, where they spend much of their time such a problem has been addressed by massive expenditure on public transport... only in London can the majority of the population conduct their lives without owning a car.

As so often the Westminster Village's political myopia pushes social costs onto the regions!

#cars #PublicTransport #politics

https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy
https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

It is time that decision makes woke up to the fact that we have a serious car problem, and started to make the alternatives much more attractive... Added to which, cars are literally killing the planet

#FuckCars

How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy
https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

It is time that decision makes woke up to the fact that we have a serious car problem, and started to make the alternatives much more attractive... Added to which, cars are literally killing the planet

#FuckCars

How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy
https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

It is time that decision makes woke up to the fact that we have a serious car problem, and started to make the alternatives much more attractive... Added to which, cars are literally killing the planet

#FuckCars

Why don't politicians see the problems that over-dependence on cars causes for Britain (and England particularly)?

Because in London, where they spend much of their time such a problem has been addressed by massive expenditure on public transport... only in London can the majority of the population conduct their lives without owning a car.

As so often the Westminster Village's political myopia pushes social costs onto the regions!

#cars #PublicTransport #politics

https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

Why don't politicians see the problems that over-dependence on cars causes for Britain (and England particularly)?

Because in London, where they spend much of their time such a problem has been addressed by massive expenditure on public transport... only in London can the majority of the population conduct their lives without owning a car.

As so often the Westminster Village's political myopia pushes social costs onto the regions!

#cars #PublicTransport #politics

https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

Why don't politicians see the problems that over-dependence on cars causes for Britain (and England particularly)?

Because in London, where they spend much of their time such a problem has been addressed by massive expenditure on public transport... only in London can the majority of the population conduct their lives without owning a car.

As so often the Westminster Village's political myopia pushes social costs onto the regions!

#cars #PublicTransport #politics

https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

Why don't politicians see the problems that over-dependence on cars causes for Britain (and England particularly)?

Because in London, where they spend much of their time such a problem has been addressed by massive expenditure on public transport... only in London can the majority of the population conduct their lives without owning a car.

As so often the Westminster Village's political myopia pushes social costs onto the regions!

#cars #PublicTransport #politics

https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

Why don't politicians see the problems that over-dependence on cars causes for Britain (and England particularly)?

Because in London, where they spend much of their time such a problem has been addressed by massive expenditure on public transport... only in London can the majority of the population conduct their lives without owning a car.

As so often the Westminster Village's political myopia pushes social costs onto the regions!

#cars #PublicTransport #politics

https://theconversation.com/how-the-uks-dependency-on-cars-slows-down-the-economy-270393

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder
/1

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

New in PN: A war criminal without a war

"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder
/1

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

New in PN: A war criminal without a war

"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

New in PN: A war criminal without a war

"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p16#a251205p16

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

New in PN: A war criminal without a war

"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegseth-war-criminal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

#javascript #eich

Happy birthday, JavaScript!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

#InternetHistory #ThirtyYearsLater #GlueOfTheWeb #InteractiveWeb #WebDevelopment

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
L: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151607
posted on 2025.12.04 at 14:20:09 (c=2, p=4)

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet https://arstechni.ca/AF5s #softwaredevelopment #Sunmicrosystems #talesoftechlore #browserhistory #webdevelopment #brendaneich #Programming #techhistory #ECMAScript #JavaScript #typescript #retrotech #trademark #Netscape #techlore #BillJoy #Node.js #oracle #Tech #1995

The descendants of Eich’s initial 10-day hack now run on approximately 98.9 percent of all websites with client-side code, making JavaScript the dominant programming language of the web
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

🧵 …in addition to the above toot, the history of JavaScript and how it was cobbled together in a short time as well as named in marketing terms.

»In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet.
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.«

🟨 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

#javascript #webdev #netscape #coding #js #web #code #internet

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/

Microsoft finally has a better looking Run dialog for Windows 11 https://www.theverge.com/news/838798/microsoft-windows-11-run-dialog-new-ui-dark-mode

Microsoft finally has a better looking Run dialog for Windows 11 https://www.theverge.com/news/838798/microsoft-windows-11-run-dialog-new-ui-dark-mode

Microsoft finally has a better looking Run dialog for Windows 11 https://thever.ge/UKR8 #Microsoft #Windows #News #Tech

Microsoft finally has a better looking Run dialog for Windows 11 https://www.theverge.com/news/838798/microsoft-windows-11-run-dialog-new-ui-dark-mode #news #Microsoft #Windows #News #Tech

🚨 Microsoft finally has a better looking Run dialog for Windows 11 🚨 the new Run design looks a lot more like a launcher, and I really hope Microsoft goes all the way into making this like its Command Palette and PowerToys Run efforts. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/838798/...

Microsoft finally has a better...

Three Apple executive retirement or departure stories on the @macstories home page in one week. Times are changing...

The latest retirements: Kate Adams, Apple's GC and Lisa Jackson, head of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives. More on MacStories here:

https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-that-kate-adams-its-general-counsel-and-lisa-jackson-head-of-environment-policy-and-social-initiatives-are-retiring/

Apple Announces That Kate Adams, Its General Counsel, and Lisa Jackson, Head of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, Are Retiring https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-that-kate-adams-its-general-counsel-and-lisa-jackson-head-of-environment-policy-and-social-initiatives-are-retiring/

Apple Announces That Kate Adams, Its General Counsel, and Lisa Jackson, Head of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, Are Retiring https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-that-kate-adams-its-general-counsel-and-lisa-jackson-head-of-environment-policy-and-social-initiatives-are-retiring/

Apple Announces That Kate Adams, Its General Counsel, and Lisa Jackson, Head of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, Are Retiring https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-that-kate-adams-its-general-counsel-and-lisa-jackson-head-of-environment-policy-and-social-initiatives-are-retiring/

Apple Announces That Kate Adams, Its General Counsel, and Lisa Jackson, Head of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, Are Retiring https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-that-kate-adams-its-general-counsel-and-lisa-jackson-head-of-environment-policy-and-social-initiatives-are-retiring/

Making RSS More Fun
L: https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160698
posted on 2025.12.05 at 08:00:28 (c=0, p=3)

I made a #firefox extension for finding random new small independent websites. I made it mostly for myself as something to do while waiting for meetings to start, but if you liked #stumbleupon back in the day give it a try. Or don’t, I’m not your boss.

https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/

Making RSS More Fun
https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160698

Making RSS More Fun: https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
#rss #llm #fun

Link: https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160698

#rss

https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/

#HackerNews #MakingRSSFun #RSSFeed #Innovation #DigitalTrends #TechNews

🌗 從 JSON 到滿版體驗：打造個人化網路內容推薦系統
➤ 告別資訊焦慮，擁抱隨機探索的小網樂趣
✤ https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
作者對現有的 RSS 閱讀器感到不滿，認為其訊息堆積且缺乏彈性。為瞭解決這個問題，他開發了一個類似 TikTok 的系統，讓使用者能被動且隨機地接收來自小型網站的內容。使用者可以透過按讚或舉報來影響演算法，進而提升「高品質」內容的曝光率。這個專案採用 FastAPI 和 SQLite，並設計了簡單的帳號註冊和評分機制，旨在提供一個輕鬆、無廣告、不追蹤個人資料的內容探索體驗。作者使用了 CSS 系統來呈現復古風格，並在後端透過爬取 RSS feed 建立內容庫，再根據使用者互動進行推薦。
+ 這想法太棒了！我一直覺得 RSS 閱讀器很壓迫，也懷念 StumbleUpon 的感覺。期待這個專案能穩定發展。
+ FastAPI 和 SQLite 的組合聽起來很適合這種規模的專案，CSS 的復古風格也很有意思。希望作者能分享更多開發細節。
#網頁開發 #RSS #內容推薦 #個人化體驗 #小型網站

Making RSS More Fun
https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
#ycombinator