This is something I've been meaning to write for some time, but I kept stopping myself time and again. The times we live in may seem especially challenging for those of us who identify themselves with their work (or the content they create). It may seem as if a machine has been set in motion that will deprive us of all of out work and financial stabiility. But hear me out - you are not your content. You are ... you, and no #AI in the world can change that.
I hacked together a small service in #golang It allows me to post youtube links, which it would then parse, and add autio streams to a private #RSS feed. Works like a charm, so I am happy 😊
For obvious reasons (legal, etc.), I don't plan to open-source the code and can't make a service out of it. However, if anyone is interested, let me know, I may eventually share the code on a per-request basis.
@preslavrachev Nope, can’t use it because, ahem, it is only for certain regions/countries (IIRC Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States).
Blog Update: I have successfully migrated email sending away from ButtonDown Email to a self-hosted Ghost instance. Nothing bad with ButtonDown - simply, Ghost has by far a better editing and publishing experience (and can be self-hosted, of course).
Speaking of newsletters, one reason to migrate was because I want to explore email communication a bit further. So, if newsletters are your thing, be my guest and add your email here: https://preslav.me/subscribe/#via-email I won't spam!
None of that would have been so easy, if it wasn for @andrasbacsai and his monstrous work on Coolify! If you have a spare server and want to turn it into a self-hosted #PaaS without #Kubernetes and all the jazz, Coolify is absolutely the best!
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It's now just 1.99/m instead o 4.99/m. Help us justify it by giving Murmel a try: https://murmel.social
Here is what I’m looking for - a self-hostable service that accepts YouTube URLs, downloads their audio versions, and appends those to a never-ending podcast RSS feed that one can hook to their podcast player.
It should be trivial to hack something like this on my own, but I’d rather ask than reinvent the wheel yet again.