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Announcing my latest project: Feedlynx
Feedlynx, is a self-hosted tool that helps you collect links to read or watch later in an RSS feed. There's a Firefox extension and iOS Shotcuts workflow to make adding links easy. Plus it has an adorable mascot!
Read the blog post for more details: https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/announcing-feedlynx/
@wezm ok this is very rad. thanks for sharing!
@wezm this is a good idea
@eric Thanks!
@wezm I love it!
@wezm I love how minimal your software is!
@wezm this is cool. Is there any way you can publish the source for the shortcut? I was hoping the app might generate the link to it itself but it doesn't look like Apple make that possible.
@voltagex No I don’t think there is the concept of source in Shortcuts. If you tap the iCloud link to the shortcut in the README you can examine the steps there I think.
@wezm aha! Only on an Apple machine. Thanks.
@voltagex Yes afraid so.
@wezm cool project. From the blog post I still don't fully understand whether this "just results" in a custom RSS that you then have to subscribe to with an RSS reader, or if this tool also has a web app of sorts
@alexkalopsia Yes just the RSS feed for you to subscribe to.
@wezm gotcha, thanks for the clarification!
@wezm This is great and exactly what I need. May I ask you to make the number of max entries in the feed configurable for people like me who like to buffer up hundreds of them before finally finding time to read.
@abnv I considered this but figured that RSS readers will fetch the items so even if some age out of the feed they will stick around in the reader. Is there a scenario for you where that doesn’t work?
@wezm My thought process is this: Since I don't control the feed reader software, and it may drop the item cache because of whatever reasons, I'd prefer Feedlynx, the software I control in this case, to cache the items. Also space is cheap.
But I understand your reasoning and I'd be fine if you choose to not make the item count configurable.
@abnv That makes sense. The reason I added the limit is that RSS readers have to download the feed and process all the items looking for new entries each time the file is changed. I picked the current limit to trade off the size of the feed and the number of stored entries. I think I'll leave it as-is for now but I'm not 100% opposed to your request. I'll keep it in mind.
@wezm nice! Now I need an Android Client... Do I have time for this?! Hmmm
@wezm Any chance for installing it through docker?
@nikolasdi Should be straightforward to install the binary in docker. Or do you mean you’d like me to publish a docker image so you don’t have to build one yourself?
@wezm Thank you, I will look into it.
@abnv Excellent! Depending on how many tens of links you added be aware that the feed is currently trimmed to 50 items max. The idea is that your RSS reader will have a copy of any that are pushed out by new entries. But if enough are pushed quickly enough this could be an issue. I might need to rethink the trimming a bit.
@abnv Oh sorry just realised you were the same person asking about changing the item limit.
@wezm this looks cool! I just started self hosting so I made a list of apps to replace and my read it later apps are first in the list. I'll check yours out because I just started to get back into RSS.