No ai? :)
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Mostly no AI. I use it to review doc because I make a lot of typo / spelling error as English is not my first language. Recently I also used it to accelerate writing test cases but that's all.
This is not a recent or "fast" projet, I have been slowly improving it for 3 years now :-D
This is the kind of nuanced usage of AI I like to see. Some would argue it's not ideal to use any AI at all, and I agree, but we don't live in an ideal world and I think this is realistically fine. AI writes better tests and docs than the ones I never write. Sure, maybe they're not great objectively speaking, but they're not worse than nothing. It's better at keeping them up to date than I am too. Which is also probably not great, but strictly better than me.
I have no right to suggest this or ask it but I was thinking this would be cool to integrate into a home assistant dashboard and then I realized what would be really cool is a web server of sorts that you can program up an RSS feed in, and the system will refresh the feed at whatever interval and on the back end an agent would go to the whatever the source is, let’s use Reddit as an example. Takes the posts photo and content as well as summaries of top comments and parses them and then puts the content in its own system with a deep link to the original Reddit post if you need it or want it. Then the front end would show the items as a carousel of content with image thumbnails and titles and small content description and date and time posted. That way you can quickly see through content either on your phone or a smart dashboard without ever going to native pages or applications.
Sorry I’m high and also can’t program my own shit cause I’m a regard
I understand the appeal of your idea but tinyfeed was specifically designed to only be a list of link, I like reading on the original site ^^
Use Harper, instead. It runs locally, and gives nearly instant results.
What is harper exactly? I have tried to Google it but I am not found anything RSS related.
It is a grammar checker.
Commit history looks like that of a real programmer
Indeed I am human ! (That's what a bot would say 🤖)
checks out, he did pass the captcha tho
Yea I thought so too
What’s the difference? Bugs are bugs
Surely you can ask a better question about quality and craftsmanship. AI is not going away
Very nice. Simple, straight forward. Could be used as a homepage. Thank you!
I gave up on RSS a long time ago because Outlook basically just linked a bunch of news articles, didn't really good me anything to read without going externally.
Are you saying this would take those article details and organize into a usable proper website from multiple sources?
Check the demo: https://feed.lovergne.dev/demo
It links out to the source webpage, so this might not be what you're looking for.
Although this might inspire me to build a single page app generator using Astro that does that.
This still looks really good!!! Thank you!
Does it support marking as read/hiding read items?
Short answer is no. Long answer is you can add it by scripting. It's not easy if you are not a developer but you can open an issue on GitHub if you need any help.
This looks awesome, definitely gonna try this out! Any plans to add images/thumbnails? Looks like gofeed already returns them.
I don’t plan on adding thumbnails, as they go against my initial vision for tinyfeed as a text-first UI like lobste.rs. However! one of tinyfeed’s core tenets is flexibility and customization, so if you want thumbnails, you can simply create your own template. If you need help you can open an issue, I would gladly help.
I got it working, thanks! I think I found a minor bug though. I could only get the --template flag to work when the file is in the current working directory. Subdirectories and absolute directories didn't work. I worked around this by simply cding into where my template was stored before running tinyfeed.
Even tinyfeed -i feeds.txt -o index.html -t ./template.html (with ./) results in:
fail to output HTML: fail to render HTML template: template: "./template.html" is an incomplete or empty template
Feel the same way about favicons?
I have thought about it but I don't think it's possible because of CORS. Every site would need to have Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on there favicon for it to work. Usually this would be sidestep by a proxy in the backend but the goal of tinyfeed is to be a static page generator, not a full HTTP server. Sorry 😔.
Makes sense.