njr 3.0

I fixed a couple of problems with the CocoaDev RSS feed (broken URLs and ordering) today. Simone Bettini of eVectors responded to me very quickly regarding my bug fix in RssDistiller, but unfortunately he didn't fix the bug quite properly for my scripts to work.

In searching the Web to see if Simone had a home page or Weblog I could link to (he doesn't), I discovered Simone had been working on a WebDAV client tool for Radio! I didn't know about it! I can't believe we never crossed paths before, as I would have really liked to have seen his work before I started working on the WebDAV upstream driver. Oh well.

Once the remaining problem in RssDistiller is fixed, you can have your very own CocoaDev feed by installing my distiller into Radio, and the RssDistiller feed directly into RssDistiller itself through the Web interface.

2:24 AM | Radio
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I ran 'uptime' on one of the machines where I was doing some testing, and was rather surprised:

  2:31pm  up 1009 days, 23:21,  17 users,  load average: 1.18, 1.07, 1.07

So I was sad to read today that the machine is going down on Monday for some long-overdue hardware and kernel upgrades (it's currently running IRIX 6.5.6, which I guess was current the last time it was restarted…). Progress.

radio.weblogs.com is back! Yay!

4:32 PM | Radio
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UserLand's static server (or seemingly, Samba on it) is still broken, so this post won't show up for a while. Need to get a rsync-based upstream driver working again! I've been playing with eVectors' nice RssDistiller tool, and my first project was to create a RSS feed for CocoaDev, a Cocoa developers' Wiki. You can view the synthesized RSS feed, or, if you have Radio, subscribe to it. (I'd post the code but there are some bugs in RssDistiller that cause it not to work right now; I've reported them.)

3:48 AM | Radio
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Scoop's new dynamic modes for comment reading let you expand messages in place, just like a Radio outline which links to other outlines. This lets you explore a discussion asynchronously: while you wait for the message(s) you've requested to download, you can read the rest of the discussion in the page you're already on, instead of seeing partial Web pages load and losing your place in the new page. In Mozilla, I use tabbed browsing in very much the same way, Command-clicking links to load pages in new tabs while reading the page in the frontmost tab. Scoop's version is very nicely implemented, and extremely responsive. It's really sad that it's taken us this long to get Web browsers that will handle this kind of basic interface feature reasonably, though.

1:37 AM | Radio
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About 90% of the Internet radio stations I listen to are participating in a blackout today. For me, the advent of Internet radio has made my work, and life, so much more tolerable and enjoyable, introducing me to so many wonderful sounds. I listen around 10-12 hours a day, every day. If you listen, perhaps even if you don't, help to save Internet radio in the US from misguided and wrongheaded regulation.

8:53 AM | Radio
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