An RSS file is a plain text, computer readable file that you add to your website, containing a list of all recent posts that you want to promote.

Anytime I add a post to my blog, I update my RSS file. (Well, a piece of automation does, I could hand edit it, but I’m lla lazy programmer.) Then a service I registered with shares any new posts (posts with today’s date) to services line Mastodon or Lemmy through bot accounts that I set up.

People can also subscribe directly to the RSS feed (file), using various news reading apps. (But I think following RSS through Mastodon and Lemmy bots is becoming more popular, lately?)

You can learn a lot more about the RSS through the RSS Specification, but you may not need to.

I find that WordPress and other blog solutions mostly just make good default assumptions whenever I have turned on the RSS feature or plugin.

Yes.

First, yes, WordPress can be federated with a plugin.

If you’re looking for the easiest, most developed, option, it’s usually WordPress.

Alternately, there are many ways to join anything that produces RSS to the Fediverse.

(And of course WordPress also supports RSS)

(And lots of other hosted options support RSS!)

Static site generators like Jekyl and 11ty are particularly well suited to building a website to share comics.

Both can also produce an RSS feed, with the correct plugin.

Are you saying we Americans do things in objectively worse ways, just to remind everyone what we have the freedom to be confidently wrong?

Because I can confidently tell you there’s no examples of us doing that. (This is sarcasm, intended to amuse you.)

But each to our own :)

Exactly.

And it seems we, on average, decided to part ways with Stack Overflow.

I don’t know what the best answer is, but I’m not terribly surprised that Stack Overflow didn’t turn out to be it.

ring ring: This is your upcoming Steam Deck purchase calling from the near future.

:)

Over on programmer.dev, we’re allowed to use AI, as long as we occasionally complain about how bad it still is.

It counts.

“It’s an older Star Trek meme, but it checks out.”

• Admiral Adama

“Three.”

Thank you for this.

“Jesus looks away while you masturbate.” is going to pop into my head each time I see one of these classic portraits.

This is definitely going to lead to an awkward moment, for me, at some point.

Edit, because tone doesn’t work in text: I’m delighted. Genuinely thank you. This is hilarious.

I would participate, but with my face blurred.

Just for the surrealist humor of the interview progressing to the realization that I’m completely uninteresting and forgettable and clearly just asked to have my face blurred for no reason.

You can assured that I’m not a bot because I would never sell out. I prefer keeping it real with Pepsi brand cola and Doritos brand chips.

(Shamelessly lifted from Wayne’s World II)

Yes. I have various ways I check, including reading the source code, looking for open known vulnerabilities, and reviewing recent commit history to see if it’s still actively maintained.

And…Looking at the other replies here - you’re all welcome, I guess. Yes. I am that part of the community. We exist. There may be dozens of usm…

Anyway. Thank you all for all you do in the community, too. High fives all around.

PowerShell actually does uphold the Linux philosophy pretty well. Most functions are in modules that can be imported, disabled or swapped out as appropriate.

Which is why to this day, I have not watched a single Terminator film after T2.

I don’t want to spoil anything, but you might be interested in knowing that some of us feel that Terminator: Dark Fate avoids the issues you mention, and works as a direct and worthy sequel to T2.

And since I learn so fucking much I cannot leave.

I nervously chose to stay and learn instead of raking in cash in some of my early developer jobs.

I told myself I would make more later after my skills were established.

Now it is later, and I am, indeed, making good money.

In hindsight, it was the right call, for me.

When detecting duplicates gets expensive, the secret is to process them anyway, but in a way that de-duplicates the result of processing them.

Usually, that means writing the next processing step into a (new) table whose primary key contains every detail that could make a record a duplicate.

Then, as all the records are processed, just let it overwrite that same record with each duplicate.

The resulting table is a list of keys containing no duplicates.

(Tip: This can be a good process to run overnight.)

(Tip: be sure the job also marks each original record as processed/deduped, so the overnight job only ever has to look at new unprocessed/un-deduped records.)

Then, we drive all future processing steps from that new de-duplicated table, joining back to only whichever of the duplicate records was processed last for the other record details. (Since they’re duplicates anyway, we don’t care which one wins, as long as only one does.)

This tends to result in a first single pass through the full data to process to create the de-duplicated list, and then a second pass through the de-duplicated list for all remaining steps. So roughly 2n processing time.

(But the first n can be a long running background job, and the second n can be optimized by indexes supporting the needs of each future processing step.)

I am on Lemmy and I hate communism (historical reasons) so maybe Doom is the true God.

IDDQD

I also believe in both this Lemmy user and Sasquatch.

If you do post them, let me know. I’ll spin up an emulator and give them a try!