About five years ago I posted about using the TUI RSS reader newsboat to follow updates to repos on github. Now that I’ve resurrected my blog, I thought I’d repost it.

This also gives me a chance to try out using a mastodon thread as a comment section.

Comments go here.

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June 14th, 2020

I was recently looking for a handy way to keep track of updates to Github projects I use, and one that didn’t involve me getting bunches of email. I hit on what I think is a pretty handy way to do it. I already use the terminal RSS client newsboat to do most of my news reading and stuff so why not press it into service monitoring Github projects too?

I’m planning on reposting some old posts with useful content, so first is…

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I saw a nifty trick on Mastodon the other day. Someone pointed out that you can use the SoX library to generate sounds like you get from the bedside sleep aids. I’d forgotten SoX even has synthesizers, but it does. So you can use play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth 0 0 0 10 10 40 trapezium amod 0.1 30 to make ocean surf sounds. It’s super simple, lag free, etc.

Just a second test post. I thiiiiiink I have this all set to go again, but I expect there to be breakage here and there.

I restarted this blog for a few reasons:

• I wanted to dabble in POSSE post syndication because I’d like to reduce reliance on any one third party service, like a particular mastodon instance, or even an entire social media platform.

• I’ve gotten the ‘urge to blog’ bug again and well, here we are…

This is a thing.

Blah blah fucking blah.

A second thing.

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