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<h1>Welcome to Senders' homepage</h1>
<p>This is my personal site for my projects and other random stuff I feel
like uploading. A lot of it comes in the form of micro-blogs and stream
of consciousness ramblings.</p>
<p>You can subscribe to my extremely infrequent blog via RSS: <a href=
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<h1>Recent Post - 2023-01-06</h1>
<h2>How I Generate My RSS Feed</h2>
<p>I only just now started supplying an RSS feed to you fine people! You
can subscribe to it at <a href=
"/blog/feed.rss">www.senders.io/blog/feed.rss</a>!</p>
<p>I decided rather than manually generating the file contents I’d hook
into my pre-existing publish scripts to be able to generate the RSS
file.</p>
<h3>Publishing blog posts - shell scripts ftw</h3>
<p>In <a href="/blog/2022-11-06/">My Markdown -> HTML Setup</a> I
touch on how I publish my markdown files into HTML for this blog. But
what I don’t <em>really</em> touch on is the shell scripts that tie the
whole process together.</p>
<p>What I have is two, now three, scripts that feed the whole
process:</p>
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<li><code>publish-blog.sh</code> - the main script</li>
<li><code>compile-md.sh</code> - generates the HTML output</li>
<li><code>update-feed.sh</code> - generates/appends the RSS feed</li>
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<p>The <code>update-feed.sh</code> script is the new one I just
added.</p>
<p><code>publish-blog.sh</code> is the primary interface, I supply the
date of the post and the path to the md file and that calls compile and
update to automate the entire process.</p>
<p>Without going into TOO much detail you can view the latest versions of
the scripts at <a rel="external noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank"
href=
"https://git.senders.io/senders/senders-io/tree/">git.senders.io/senders/senders-io/tree/</a>.</p>
<p>But the gist of the scripts is I parse out the necessary details,
find/replace some tokens in template files I have setup for headers and
footers, and concat the outputs into the final output HTML files, and now
RSS feed.</p>
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<h1>Recent Post - 2022-12-31</h1>
<h2>RSS - A Follow-up</h2>
<p>Get an RSS reader and connect everything to it!</p>
<p>Between switching to Mastodon for my social media allowance, and using
a dedicated RSS reader has really cut down my overall consumption and
wasted PC time.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>this blogpost is originally posted to my gemini gemlog: <a href=
"gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2022-12-31-rss-a-follow-up.gmi">gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2022-12-31-rss-a-follow-up.gmi</a>
which is where I do most of my writing, converting some useful to share
things over here. It is also where the original RSS gemlog this is a
follow-up to was posted. For context, I wanted to cutback on a lot of
my web consumption, wasting time and just being mindless online. So I
looked to RSS to help centralize and solve this issue.</p>
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<h3>Recap</h3>
<p>So I am using <a rel="external noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank"
href="https://tt-rss.org">https://tt-rss.org/</a> as my RSS
aggregator. It’s a self-hosted RSS aggregator that, using profiles,
allows you to subscribe to multiple feeds and have them “synced”
between multiple devices (they’re not synced, you’re connecting to a
central server). I like this because I don’t ever have to worry about
dismissing, reading, or marking anything on my phone to have it still
present on my PC. And I don’t have to worry about feed subscriptions
or my phone pinging a bunch of feeds, or obviously, any third-party
hosting.</p>
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