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Re: Modern feed readers · Flameeyes's Weblog

Samuel Clay — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:57:03 -0000

NewsBlur does support If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers: https://github.com/samuelcl...

Re: Bayview Opera House Reeling After Burglar Steals Computers

Samuel Clay — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:52:39 -0000

This reminds me of the 2012 theft of BAYCAT's laptops. They also serve the Bayview and had a break in that stole 15 MacBook Pros from young students learning video production. They raised $51k on Indiegogo. BAYCAT would be a great resource to talk to about bouncing back successfully after a computer theft.

https://www.indiegogo.com/p...

Re: Turn Touch, a Wooden 4 Button Smart Remote! ➟

Samuel Clay — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:49:37 -0000

Thank you Alexandre! This was a wonderful writeup and I'm glad you backed the campaign.

Re: Seeed Micro BLE Module w/ Cortex-M0 Based nRF51822 SoC

Samuel Clay — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:45:22 -0000

What is the accuracy of the 32 kHz crystal? Take a look at the ppm options on Nordic's site: https://devzone.nordicsemi....

I need to know which calibration setting to use, so do you have the datasheet for the 32 kHz crystal?

Re: Superfeedr : Who fetches our blog feed

Samuel Clay — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:25:12 -0000

Here's a screenshot of NewsBlur's UA for those interested. Also found at https://github.com/samuelcl...

Re: Superfeedr : Who fetches our blog feed

Samuel Clay — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:22:24 -0000

Hey Julien, the reason NewsBlur's UA is so long is because that's the combination that gets the most feeds talking to it. I've discovered that some publishers will not serve you feeds if you don't have a browser-like user agent.

NewsBlur gives you an identifier (NewsBlur Feed/Content/Site Fetcher), information about the feed (subscribers), and a decoy browser string. It's a mouthful, but it also works.

Re: Newsblur launches iPad app, aims to compete with Google Reader (exclusive)

Samuel Clay — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:47:38 -0000

To echo Chris's point about how little NewsBlur actually knows about you, NewsBlur is a new model of running a business. There is a level of transparency that you don't see elsewhere.

Consider that NewsBlur is open-source. That tells you that if you were technically able and wanted to know exactly what happens to your data, you can find out reasonably easily. Beyond that, most privacy policies are legal gibberish and only serve to cover the ass of the website itself. If I had to write a privacy policy, it would largely talk about how I don't double dip. In other words, I've already charged you for a subscription. That's why the first-class apps are all free, and why your data won't be sold to advertisers or marketers. You have an expectation that you can control your data, and if you wanted to leave NewsBlur, with the API you can take your data with you.

Re: Newsblur launches iPad app, aims to compete with Google Reader (exclusive)

Samuel Clay — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:47:24 -0000

This is a big release and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. That said, the next big launch coming up will involve a design refresh for both web and mobile. I'm meeting with our designers later today and hope to ship the best looking, most intuitive news reader within the next couple months.

Re: NewsBlur, mon alternative à Google Reader

Samuel Clay — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:22:21 -0000

Merci pour l'article!

Re: Knight News Challenge on networks - moving to the next round

Samuel Clay — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:45:57 -0000

I did some screen scraping and compiled a list of entries, sorted by # of likes, and then updated today to show the winners.

https://gist.github.com/215...

This shows the distribution of winners based on the amount of support they received in the form of likes. It shows that more popular projects did well, and there were a number of winners from the long tail.

Re: NewsBlur

Samuel Clay — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:16:39 -0000

I wrote a small Python script to effectively generate the rankings of all entries in the Knight News Challenge, sorted by votes/hearts. As of right now, NewsBlur is at #28: https://gist.github.com/215...

Re: So long

Samuel Clay — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:14:28 -0000

Mike and Dan, sorry to see you guys shutting Fiesta down, but I enjoyed the many, many detailed and technical blog posts. They were a great resource and I just loved watching for new stories in the Fiesta blog RSS feed. Too bad you weren't able to monetize the service. I found that people paying for services tend to also be more vocal about them, making word-of-mouth just a bit stronger.

Best of luck to both you. I'm excited to see what you come up with next.

Re: Daily Wrap-Up: No Alternatives to Google Reader and More

Samuel Clay — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:55:27 -0000

Want to see the mobile interface? Check out this screenshot of the upcoming update to the NewsBlur iPhone app: http://cl.ly/BRUY.

I haven't publicly launched the iPhone app yet because I don't think it's good enough. I just have to finish the River of News and add in training and then it'll be a solid version 1. It is, however, available on the App Store now as a beta.

Re: 8 Google Reader alternatives

Samuel Clay — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:56:40 -0000

Sebastian, thanks so much for the write-up of NewsBlur. There's an iPhone app about 2 weeks away from release, and the future has a lot of goodies planned. NewsBlur is also open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay. There's a lot to be said about developing in the open, taking in contributions from the community, and having a fully supported API.

Re: 8 Google Reader alternatives

Samuel Clay — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:54:16 -0000

In NewsBlur, you can move the panes as well as hide them. (Hit 'u' to hide the feed pane, and the story titles pane can be moved in Preferences.)

It's only $12 / year and you get all of your feeds. The 64 restriction is so you can try it out before you buy. And as Sebastian mentioned, it goes a long way towards improving the service, as I'm an indie developer.

Re: Latest Central Subway Controversy: Commissioned Sculptor Once Shot a Dog

Samuel Clay — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:50:12 -0000

Cause: Shoot a rescue dog on film. Effect: Ruin your art career. 25 years ago and you say you're sorry? Hard cheese.

Re: RSS Is Dead, But Reeder For Mac Makes It A Beautiful Corpse [Preview]

Samuel Clay — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:49:17 -0000

For folks who want to read the original site in their RSS feed reader, you can try using NewsBlur.

I built NewsBlur. It's a new RSS feed reader that is trying to change the way you feel about RSS. It does two things really, really well:

1) Shows you the original site instead of a context-less feed. Read the original and NewsBlur marks the stories you've read.
2) Filters stories you like and dislike. A three-stop slider goes between dislike, neutral, and like (red, yellow, and green). Training is super-easy and all click-based (as opposed to writing out what you like in a site, NewsBlur gives recommendations on what to rate).

Try it out at: http://www.newsblur.com. It imports from Google Reader through OAuth. (It also supports OPML importing.) Plus it's open-source: http://github.com/samuelcla....

Re: NewsBlur: The Intelligent Feed Reader

Samuel Clay — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:07:41 -0000

Amani, a hearty thanks for the write-up! The features that you requested are on the priority list. Unfortunately, I have about a half-dozen other tasks (fixing feed fetching for some feeds, the iPhone app, parallel feed fetching to make importing and refreshing *much* faster) first.

But rest assured, I too think those are important features worth building.

Sam

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Samuel Clay — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:08:50 -0000

This is for readability. The one-liner provided above, when using a .split()[0] would get all of the above except for the top entry. 3 lines of code would give the ability to group the keywords together, as well as be able to take keywords as input.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Samuel Clay — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:38:36 -0000

You can make the album picker line (Poland or Vienna) easier to read by writing:

albums = [a for a in albums if a['name'].lower().split()[0] in ['poland', 'vienna']]

That way you get all the names without repeating yourself.

Re: DailyJS: The Four Cs of JavaScript

Samuel Clay — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:18:06 -0000

Cascading is chaining.