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   me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:08:58 JST me

   • henry ✷
   @henry I've thought about it, but there are soooooo many variations on the protocol. It turns out that Really Simple Syndication is not actually that simple.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:08:57 JST silverwizard

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     • henry ✷
     @me @henry Yeah - but there's like 4 required items - it's trivial to just support those. You can also take some of the really simple ones which generate you a boring html and then style it yourself and make a wrapper incredibly trivially.
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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:30:13 JST Darcy Casselman

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     • henry ✷

     @silverwizard @me @henry Sure, but there's a lot of broken-ass RSS/Atom out there. Is it hard to make it fault tolerant enough to get what you need? Probably not. Is this really what I want to spend my limited time on earth futzing with? No, it turns out.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:30:31 JST silverwizard

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     • Darcy Casselman
     • henry ✷
     @flyingsquirrel @me @henry Listen - writing the RSS reader is its own reward
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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:36:57 JST Darcy Casselman

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     • henry ✷

     @silverwizard @me @henry For me, it was writing a central podcast server that could continue to listen to my podcast from a variety of devices. Which is something I'm pretty sure still doesn't exist. But it turns out I can just use my phone and it's fine.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:37:07 JST silverwizard

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     • Darcy Casselman
     @flyingsquirrel @me Oh hey! I did that! What did you use?
     I have a little nightly script that deletes the items not in my MPC playlist, then use castget to grab all my feeds, and then it takes everything not in the MPC playlist and then adds it to the end of the MPC playlist, then there's an icecast server to listen to it from everywhere! MPC is running in consume mode, so when a podcast episode ends, it gets removed from the playlist.
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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:44:40 JST Darcy Casselman

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     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard @me I was writing it from scratch in python. Which was my first mistake. Also, this was a decade ago.

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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:44:49 JST Darcy Casselman

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     @silverwizard @me (Come to think of it, I gave up on it right before my wedding. That'll do it...)

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:49:14 JST silverwizard

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     • Darcy Casselman

     @flyingsquirrel @me When in doubt, cron and shell. It's all glue!
     

     podcasts$ cat nightly.sh #!/bin/ksh MPD_HOST='REDACTED@podcasts.obscuritus.ca' cd /home/silverwizard/Podcasts /home/silverwizard/remove.sh /usr/local/bin/castget /home/silverwizard/add.sh podcasts$ podcasts$ cat add.sh #!/bin/sh cd /home/silverwizard /usr/local/bin/mpc update --wait IFS=' ' for file in `./prune` do echo "Adding " $file echo $file | /usr/local/bin/mpc add done podcasts$ cat remove.sh #!/bin/sh cd /home/silverwizard IFS=' ' for file in `./prune` do rm -v Podcasts/$file done podcasts$ cat prune #!/bin/ksh ls /home/silverwizard/Podcasts | sort > /home/silverwizard/current mpc -f %file% playlist|sort | diff /home/silverwizard/current -|grep "[ogg|mp3|m4a|opus]"|grep "^<"|sed -e "s/^< //" podcasts$
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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 03:56:46 JST Darcy Casselman

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     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard @me That is a much more sensible approach, yes.

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