It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Feedbin is the RSS reader I'm using at the moment. I was reading one of Harry's blog posts on it the other day, and I noticed a nice little interactive touch right inside Feedbin. There was a button-looking element with the number one which, as it turned out, was a footnote. I hovered over it, and it revealed the note.… Read article
Welcome to Part 2 of this mini-series on building a RSS viewer with Vue. In the last post, I walked through how I built my demo using Vue.js and Vuetify on the front end and Webtask on the back end. When I built that initial version, I knew it was exactly thatmdash;an "initial" version. I took some time to work on a few updates, and while I won't dare call this a "perfect" version, I do think I've made … Read article
As I explore, learn, and most importantly, play with Vue.js, I've been building different types of apps as a way to get practice with and improve my use of it. A few weeks ago, I was reading about the shut down of Digg's RSS Reader and while great alternatives exist, I thought it would be fun to build my own with Vue. In this article, I'm going to explain how I put it together and also what's wrong with … Read article
Brian Barrett:
Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to RSS.
I'm an RSS reader lover, so I hate to admit it, but RSS ain't going mainstream. It was too nerdy 20 years ago and it's too nerdy now. RSS is still incredibly useful technology, but I can't see it taking off alone.
For RSS to take off, it needs some kind of abstraction. Like Flipboard, where you can get started reading stuff right away and … Read article
Manton Reece and Brent Simmons have just published their thoughts on JSON Feed which is a new standard for making a feed, like a collection of blog posts. The format itself is similar to RSS and Atom but since it's in JSON it's easier to read and a lot more familiar to developers:
… Read articleFor most developers, JSON is far easier to read and write than XML. Developers may groan at picking up an XML parser, but decoding JSON is often
A lot of us around here have blogs and a lot of us use FeedBurner to "host" our RSS feeds. I thought it was worth talking about what might happen if we lose FeedBurner, which seems especially likely these days with the impending doom of Google Reader. … Read article
I've recently been trying RSS advertising here on CSS-Tricks through BuySellAds. Three or four advertisers have tried it and none have stuck around. Not a total loss from my perspective, but certainly not great. … Read article