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Tuesday, April 3, 2018
It's good that people are discussing the Google Reader debacle. Important to not let Google repeat their bad behavior with whole web.#
Lots of responses to yesterday's query about backing up the feedBase MySQL database. I posed another question in the thread just now. How do you all feel about writing JSON files from Node.js code? Backing up is a prerequisite to all adventures that might risk the data in the database. #
Braintrust question: Re MySQL and Unicode. I assumed the text would all be UTF-8, but apparently not so. I can use help/advice from the MySQL mentors. Thanks! :-)#
Demo of new feedBase feature: "Sometimes you have the URL of a feed, and don't want to go to the trouble of adding it to an OPML file so you can upload it. This command lets you just enter the URL to feedBase and it processes it as if it were part of an OPML file."#
So it follows from Trump's desperate tweeting re Bezos that the Washington Post must have him nailed but good.#
An experiment. I changed the text font on Scripting News today to Georgia 20. It had been Ubuntu 18. A little bigger and a serif font. I think this is easier to read. I always planned to take another look at this after things settled in on the new design. (Update: I undid the change. I prefer the more compact format.)#
Re the change I made yesterday to subscriber counts on user-feed-lists in feedBase, I changed it per this feature request. Now we sort by name but include the subscriber count. An example. I think this is the more rational approach. It's useful to see the subscriber counts. Note that the counts are not the combined counts, so you'll only see the counts for the specific feed URL you're subscribed to, not the combination of all the aliases.#
Watch this. #

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