It's even worse than it appears..
Friday June 12, 2026; 7:18 PM EDT
  • There's an account on Mastodon containing a flow of gift articles. #
  • Because Mastodon supports outbound RSS, you can subscribe to it in any RSS reader.#
  • But the RSS is not very good. Have a look. #
  • So I built a little app in my new scripting language, with the help of Claude, and boom now I can read the output of the mangled feed.#
  • I don't know what is responsible, probably has something to do with the account, and something to do with how Mastodon. But the information is being communicated. #
  • https://giftarticles.feedland.org/#
  • This is not finished, it needs some css and the normal structure of an HTML page. We will come back to it. #

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Last update: Friday June 12, 2026; 7:24 PM EDT.

You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)