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paulcuth

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Software engineer, maker of things at Monzo, Hitchin Web & Hitchin Hackspace. 🌱

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stephaniewalter, to random
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Some people asked "when do I get time to read articles?!"
Here's the secret: folding and gluing is very boring on its own so I'm basically listening to them while I craft.
Latest piece: a lampshade prototype with the most exquisite paper 💜

I've a strange relationship with the paper: I collect a lot of them but then, if I use them, they are gone. So, making a lamp means it's still quite intact and I get to enjoy it. Win win.
#StefCraft

Cut borders for the lamp devided in 2 sets
Test of the paper loosely put together with the borders but not glued yet
The green floral paper getting glued on the dark borders

paulcuth,
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@stephaniewalter Oh wow, that looks amazing! I don’t suppose a template for the borders is available to download anywhere?

paulcuth,
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@stephaniewalter Sorry for the slow reply... that would be very awesome, if you find a moment. I love working with paper, but geometry is really not my strength. ☺️

paulcuth, to random
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Happy JS Naked Day!

To celebrate https://rss-is-dead.lol, a site that usually leans on JavaScript for async data fetching, is today demonstrating how a reduced experience is better than a broken one. 😊

paulcuth, to random
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My first ever ride in an ambulance was the highlight of my day. The 3 hour wait on the forecourt of A&E and the 5 hour wait to be seen once inside were not.

paulcuth, to random
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You can now generate an OPML file of all your connections' feeds on https://rss-is-dead.lol, so you can open them in your fav feed reader 🙌

paulcuth, to random
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I'm loving all the feedback for https://rss-is-dead.lol, thank you! 💛

Really looking forward to implementing some of your fantastic ideas... but I'm full-time parenting this weekend, so it's gonna have to go on the back-burner for a few days.

paulcuth, to RSS
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I made a thing to help me find RSS feeds, and I really liked it. So I made it prettier so you can use it too, if RSS feeds are your thing.

As it turns out, in my corner of the fediverse there’s a ton of them…

https://rss-is-dead.lol

paulcuth,
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@Chancerubbage Hi 👋

The aim is to address that discovery issue... you can quickly see which of your connections have RSS feeds, view a preview of those feeds, and then subscribe by opening the page in your usual feed reader app.

I wanted to find feeds closer to home; it's not really meant to be a reader. I certainly could do a better job of explaining that on the site.

//cc @mastodonmigration

paulcuth,
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@robb Hi Robb 👋

It looks like some readers display the page title in the "Subscribe to feed?" prompt, rather than the feed title. They seem to use the feed title once subscribed, but I agree it's confusing.

I've now removed the site title from the page, so hopefully that will help. (Pages are cached for an hour, so you may still see it for a little bit.)

paulcuth,
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@robb As for proxying the feed, there's a few reasons I thought it might be better…

Some blogs have quite verbose index pages, and what I really wanted was to get a quick overview of what to expect in the feed, if I were to subscribe.

Some feeds don't link to the blog index, and some don't link to pages that link back to the feed, which can be slow and an awkward experience.

paulcuth,
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@robb I'm not sure why subscribing to your own feed didn't work though, it should be exactly the same experience as subscribing directly on the page linked in the profile.

Fwiw, I subscribed to your feed fine using Inoreader. What reader are you using?

paulcuth,
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@robb It's all good... I'm learning a lot about other feed readers today 😆

paulcuth,
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@tomayac Hi Thomas 👋 I've now added a button to generate OPML files on https://rss-is-dead.lol ✨ Let me know how it goes!

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