Reading Log #1

I used to use Feedly for a long time to keep up to date with my favorite blogs. Six months back, one fine day, I started working on my own RSS feed reader in my free time. It went somewhere but my rea

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Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

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The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software

LLMs made software cheaper to build, but not free. A look at the new buy-vs-build math of the LLM age, and the pricing zone where small software businesses can still survive.

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Rho Reader

Read and manage RSS feeds.

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Avoiding n+1 with the expand pattern

You might have heard of the n+1 problem in API design. I have taken GraphQL for granted to avoid that problem in the past (and the present). Today, I came across a way to avoid it in REST APIs while w

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Accepted proposal: UUID in the Go standard library

Notes on Go's newly accepted uuid proposal and the tradeoffs behind the API.

rednafi.com

Prompting 101 | Code w/ Claude

YouTube video by Anthropic

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Counting zeros

I have been giving myself the freedom and excuse to explore various software systems in my free time this summer. I am calling this: “Systems Summer”, just so that I take it more seriously, and if any

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Stacked log lines considered harmful

Why logging at every layer of a service produces noise, and how to log only at the handler level while propagating context from below.

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Using `oasdiff` for rich Git diffs of OpenAPI spec changes · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

How to configure `git diff` to use `oasdiff`'s rich changelog on changes to OpenAPI specs.

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A Fast Immutable Map in Go

Consider the following problem. You have a large set of strings, maybe millions. You need to map these strings to 8-byte integers (uint64). These integers are given to you. If you are working in Go, t...

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GitHub - AlexanderVanhee/Gradia: Make your screenshots ready for all

Make your screenshots ready for all. Contribute to AlexanderVanhee/Gradia development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Go-lfing: Bracket Validator

Go-lfing (verb): Code golf[0]-ing in Go. An oasis in desert I’m a month into my sabbatical right now and I’m realising that doing nothing gets boring pretty fast. I love coding challenges where I nee...

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Coding Agents in Feb 2026

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Use Claude Code with Chrome (beta) - Claude Code Docs

Connect Claude Code to your Chrome browser to test web apps, debug with console logs, automate form filling, and extract data from web pages.

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Release v0.3.1 · scriptnull/rho-reader

This release fixes the following bug 🐛 rho_unread_posts property was set to a negative number in certain cases. This was happening when the server returned a 200 with an HTML error page, a CAPTCHA,...

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Release v0.3.0 · scriptnull/rho-reader

A few things that have been bugging me 🐛 for a while. Features OPML Import UI: Added a modal preview showing new feeds vs. already-imported feeds. Contextual status messages: Status bar toolti...

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Release v0.2.0 · scriptnull/rho-reader

Second release of Rho Reader 🌸 Expect some rough edges 🙏 Import OPML There is a new "Import OPML" button in the getting started pane. This can be used to import RSS feeds from other feed readers. ...

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GitHub - scriptnull/rho-reader: A Reading Companion for Obsidian 🌸📚

A Reading Companion for Obsidian 🌸📚. Contribute to scriptnull/rho-reader development by creating an account on GitHub.

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2025: Year in review

I’ve always wanted to write a “year in review” blog post, and it’s finally happening here! BooksI read 10 books this year. How to Take Smart Notes - The first book I read this year. It helped me form

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