<story><title>I Still Use RSS</title><url>https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects.&lt;p&gt;It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you something. I changed jobs before fixing it and by the time I cared about such things again pipes was gone.</text></item><item><author>jamesponddotco</author><text>I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed.&lt;p&gt;While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that[3], so I know when I get a reply. I also have a separate feed for Ask HN[4] and Show HN[5], so I never miss anything that may interest me, even if other people do not care about it. Heck, I found this post because it showed up on my feed reader!&lt;p&gt;As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date with security issues in Ubuntu Server[6], WordPress[7], and CVEs in general, but also to follow commits in SourceHut repositories[8] and releases for pieces of software I use daily, but do not have repositories for my Linux distribution.&lt;p&gt;I sure as heck hope it never go away.&lt;p&gt;[1] In the YouTube case, with RSS, mpv, and youtube-dl, I never even have to see their web interface.&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;feedbin.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;feedbin.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;ask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;usn&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;usn&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[7] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[8] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;git.sr.ht&amp;#x2F;~${USERNAME}&amp;#x2F;${REPO}&amp;#x2F;log&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;git.sr.ht&amp;#x2F;~${USERNAME}&amp;#x2F;${REPO}&amp;#x2F;log&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onli</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t want to spam the project, but since you mention Pipes like that: I tried to bring it back with &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pipes.digital&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pipes.digital&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. Can&amp;#x27;t do everything the original could and some things it just does differently, but merging RSS feeds and filtering them is exactly the main thing I use it for myself.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Still Use RSS</title><url>https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects.&lt;p&gt;It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you something. I changed jobs before fixing it and by the time I cared about such things again pipes was gone.</text></item><item><author>jamesponddotco</author><text>I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed.&lt;p&gt;While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that[3], so I know when I get a reply. I also have a separate feed for Ask HN[4] and Show HN[5], so I never miss anything that may interest me, even if other people do not care about it. Heck, I found this post because it showed up on my feed reader!&lt;p&gt;As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date with security issues in Ubuntu Server[6], WordPress[7], and CVEs in general, but also to follow commits in SourceHut repositories[8] and releases for pieces of software I use daily, but do not have repositories for my Linux distribution.&lt;p&gt;I sure as heck hope it never go away.&lt;p&gt;[1] In the YouTube case, with RSS, mpv, and youtube-dl, I never even have to see their web interface.&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;feedbin.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;feedbin.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;ask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hnrss.org&amp;#x2F;show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;usn&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;usn&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[7] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[8] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;git.sr.ht&amp;#x2F;~${USERNAME}&amp;#x2F;${REPO}&amp;#x2F;log&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;git.sr.ht&amp;#x2F;~${USERNAME}&amp;#x2F;${REPO}&amp;#x2F;log&amp;#x2F;rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cecida</author><text>God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.</text></comment>