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- my personal news aggregator, fed by dozens of different sources, branching out to hundreds.

- Google

The rest varies from day to day, depending on what i'm working on. It can be anything from Github to Sci-Hub and everything in between. I'm currently restoring and expanding a 17th century farm house so add sites about swapping rotten logs in a log house to the mix ('just lift the house, remove the rotten bits and put fresh logs in'. Which works fine, task accomplished using 2 €40 20 ton capacity hydraulic bottle jacks and some logs I had lying around).



I'd be interested to see your personal news aggregator – I too made myself a personally customised one – https://readspike.com – anyone else make their own after the death of Google reader?


The software is nothing special and can be installed by anyone: Nextcloud [1] running the News [2] app. The virtue of the thing is that you can point it at any RSS/Atom feed you want and have the result appear in categories of your choice. This is not limited to 'news' of course, any type of feed will work. I use it to keep up with activities on selected Github repos, commits show up as news items in the feed. There are accompanying apps for mobile devices but I tend to rely on the web interface even when using something mobile.

[1] https://nextcloud.com/

[2] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news


Oh that is nice, I'll try testing that out locally, thanks!


I wrote one a simple php script to pull in some rss feeds and present. It also loads a link by get request and strips out ads and other unwanted junk. Nothing special, but it does the job


Super neat! Is it open source?


Sure it is: https://github.com/nextcloud

Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud: https://github.com/owncloud


Thanks! I thought about it, but I'm ashamed of how poor my coding is :) It's really just a php script that converts rss/json feeds to html


Is it possible to rearrange the feeds?


No, there's not much functionality, just a site for my own amusement really. One day I'd like to, and also make it so you can add your own feeds


how do you organize and rank with hundreds of sources? I suppose you can't read it all :)




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