For my sins, I follow lots of people on Medium.

For their sins, I never check Medium to see what they're writing.

The link below is a bookmarklet which will export the list of people you are following on Medium as an OPML file so that you can import it into your feed reader.

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Summary: I extracted a load of old blog content from the feeds archived on the Wayback Machine and converted it into markdown files suitable for posting on my blog, and got AI to write all the code for me. The generated code is all here in github.

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This is from the web-based RSS reader I use, which apparently does not always escape content quite right. Gotta love that <marquee> tag! With thanks to

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I spent some time in April and May making a toy cross-platform desktop RSS reader which uses Yarr as its backend. It's called Yaffle. It looks like this on Windows: It's absolu...

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You can go and download Yarr, unzip and it and (for the windows version) double-click the .exe. Straight away you will have a working web-based RSS reader.

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I follow Steve Messer’s blog – he’s a product manager in the UK Civil Service, making land and housing data easier to find, use and trust. And he writes weeknotes which I enjoy reading. He mentioned this week that his team’s blog doesn’t prod...

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We are at 12 months since the first Coronavirus Lockdown in the UK. What an absolute joy. I have started reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis on my Kindle. It is about pandemics. It is rattling along very nicely thank you (later addition: finished it! Really liked it). I have again been searching for a...

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One of the highlights of my week is Alice Bartlett’s weeknotes. Two years of reading later and I am going to shamelessly steal her format. I do still read RSS feeds, and I use Newsfold to do so, with the feeds managed by

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8 years ago The Guardian proudly announced that they were providing full-text feeds of, well, everything: Today guardian.co.uk rolled out a major upgrade to the RSS feeds. Our feeds now contain the full content of each article so that you can take guardian.co.uk with you where...

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When Google Reader went away I raged and sulked and tried half a dozen services touted as replacements, but eventually I installed FeedDemon on the computer I used the most often and read my feeds daily, there. A few weeks ago I found the

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