Adding openring-rs to This Blog

I’ve added a webring (via openring-rs) to this blog. For those of you who remember the webring in the older days of the internet, openring is a kind of a modern take at webrings.

For those that don’t remember, webrings were pretty fun. They were nice, curated “rings” of sites. Each site could include a footer with articles or links to other sites in the ring, such that if you happened upon a site you really liked, you could find a nice curated set of sites similar to it. It was a great way to find a fun rabbit hole.

While many of those webrings used to have moderators and whatnot, openring just lets the user moderate a little webring themselves by adding a list of URLs to RSS/Atom feeds from sites they like, and generate a footer they can include to link to recent posts on those other sites they enjoy (like the one you’ll see at the bottom of this post).

Since openring was originally released by Drew DeVault (and met with a lot of discussion on HN), many people have adopted it in their blogs, which has been fun to see. Some examples include Jeff Kaufman, Adam Simpson, Brad Taunt, Dimitri Bohlender, Huy Ngo, Thedro Neely, and Eric Garcia.

Seeing that the original Go implementation was pretty short, I decided to make a port of it in Rust that does things a little faster by fetching feeds concurrently. Come join the fun, add a webring to your blog!

Posts from blogs I follow

I like Safari, but nobody should be required to use it

I've tried all the browsers (not Arc, but that's a big stack of nonsense dressing up Chromium) and I always return to Safari. I've been a longtime resident of Apple's walled garden/prison, my grandmother bought stock during Apple's IPO and my whole family …

via Cory Dransfeldt March 28, 2024

curl 8.7.0 and 8.7.1

Numbers the 255th and 256th releases5 changes56 days (total: 9,504)162 bug-fixes (total: 10,050)246 commits (total: 31,931)0 new public libcurl function (total: 93)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 304)0 new curl command line option (total: 258)92 co…

via daniel.haxx.se March 27, 2024

Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires

There was this team which was running a pretty complicated data storage, leader election and "discovery" service. They had something like 3200 machines and had something like 300 different clusters/cells/ensembles/...(*) running across them. This serv…

via Writing - rachelbythebay March 27, 2024

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