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Wednesday 2023-02-08 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-02-08

08-Feb-2023 – SPIRITED AWAY: Live On Stage Coming to U.S. Theaters This Spring

Brief Summary: ”
Not everyone can be in Japan to see SPIRITED AWAY: Live On Stage, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t see it at all! GKIDS, which also distributes S”

08-Feb-2023 – Professor Layton and The New World of Steam announced

Brief Summary: “Nintendo and Level 5 have solved the mystery of where Professor Layton went with his latest game Professor Layton and The New World of Steam. The game”

08-Feb-2023 – Twitter users experience a “daily limit” error, causing widespread disruption

Brief Summary: “Many users of the social media site Twitter have been unable to post since approximately mid-afternoon in the United States. Users who attempted to po”

08-Feb-2023 – Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC Launches This March

Brief Summary: “Reading Time: 2 minutes Dead Cells is back and the hero of Dead Cells will need all the help he can get when “Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania” laun”

08-Feb-2023 – ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

Brief Summary: “Two researchers have discovered a cluster of strange keywords that will break ChatGPT, OpenAI’s convincing machine-learning chatbot, and nobody’s quit”

08-Feb-2023 – OnePlus 11 review: rapid Android with long battery life

Brief Summary: “Top-performing phone has great screen, superfast charging and solid camera but lacks pizazzThe OnePlus 11 is one of the first smartphones with the lat”

08-Feb-2023 – Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

Brief Summary: “There’s been this weird series of articles lately, trying to frame the rapid growth of the fediverse (mainly Mastodon), as somehow now failing. It sta”

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Programming Projects

Code Project: Fresh RSS to WordPress Digest

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I actually briefly mentioned this project when I write about moving from TinyTinyRSS to FreshRSS. This has become a bit of an evolving and ongoing project however, so I’ve decided to catalogue it in it’s own page. This little script worked out much better than I expected, and I’ve modified it a bit over time, and have ideas to modify it going forward even more. Starting off, the code can be found here in this Github GIST.

I’ve left a bit of commented out code that i might use later for troubleshooting or adding additional features. The general gist of the code, it pulls the last 24 hours worth of news stories I have favorited from my FreshRSS install, then formats them into a digest format and posts it here, in this blog. They get sorted into their own category, you can find them here.

This is basically a thing I’ve seen others do that I’ve wanted to do for a while. It’s also partially just for my reference more than anything, it’s sort of a log of everything I have found interesting on a particular day more than anything. Others may or may not find it interest, which is why I also filter that category out of the home page feed.

Originally, it was just a list of URLs and titles. I realized that it might be useful to have SOME idea what the link was about before clicking it, so I have been playing with the summary as well. My first attempt was a bit dodgy because it actually posted the entire article as the summary. Currently, it just arbitrarily chops it off at a few hundred characters. I want to improve it even farther at some point by pushing it through some summarizing AI and getting an actual proper summary but I have not gotten there yet.

There re a few other things I want to add but I’m not sure they re easily possible. Firstly, I would love to be able to parse some sort of categories into the digest. So say, all the “Video Game” links are together and Music links are together. FreshRSS has categories but they don’t seem to show up in the feed anywhere.

This would also allow me to split these posts between this blog and my other blog, Lameazoid. I do share interesting video games news from FreshRSS, but I mostly don’t share Toy related articles, because it feels a little TOO FAR out there for what I want to post to this blog. If there were a way to have the categories, I could easily have the script split the feed by categories and post a digest to each blog.

I also wish there was a way to add my own notes and commentary occasionally. I don’t think it showed up in the feed either, but TinyTinyRSS had a notes feature. I am not sure if FreshRSS has that as well. I probably should try to at least suggest these features to the creators on GitHub, or maybe get really adventurous and create my own plug-ins for FreshRSS to accomplish these tasks.

Ramen Junkie

Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.

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Link List

Tuesday 2023-02-07 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2023-02-07

06-Feb-2023 – Morrowind-inspired Zine Month RPG Electrum Archive explores a desert city in newest edition

Brief Summary: ”
Plunge into Elder ruins searching for inks, shop the dusty markets or simply get lost in the desert with the The Electrum Archive – Issue 2, a scienc”

07-Feb-2023 – Lego returns to The Lord of the Rings with a $500 Rivendell set

Brief Summary: “Image: LegoFrodo, Samwise, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, Aragon, plus Elrond, Arwen, Bilbo, and more — there’s room in Lego’s just-“

07-Feb-2023 – THE EXPANSE Gets New Comic Series From BOOM! Studios

Brief Summary: ”
The epic story continues. BOOM! Studios is producing a new comic book series that expands the space saga as told in Prime Video’s critically lauded a”

07-Feb-2023 – Overwatch 2 is getting a dating sim and a One Punch Man crossover in Season 3

Brief Summary: ”
Overwatch 2’s third season is beginning later today and it looks to be the most substantial season yet. Blizzard have released a brand new trailer al”

07-Feb-2023 – HBO Presents Mario Kart

Brief Summary: ”

Pedro Pascal is earning accolades for his performance in HBO’s The Last of Us based on the Sony PlayStation games from Naughty Dog, but Saturday “

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Link List

Sunday 2023-02-05 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-02-05

05-Feb-2023 – We try the new Asian Juicy burgers from McDonald’s Japan

Brief Summary: ”
Cute on the outside, but are they good on the inside too?

Last week, McDonald’s raised eyebrows with the announcement that they would be adding a ne”

05-Feb-2023 – How to Write a Story in ChatGPT – Prompt Engineering

Brief Summary: “Are you ready to level up your prompt engineering game? This blog post will give you the inside scoop on the 5 best tips for beginners in prompt engin”

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Link List

Saturday 2023-02-04 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Saturday 2023-02-04

03-Feb-2023 – PSA: Twitter’s API changes may make it difficult to log in to your favorite games

Brief Summary: “Image: MihoyoElon’s messing up the game — literally. Two extremely popular online games, Arknights and Genshin Impact, have warned that players who us”

04-Feb-2023 – The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included

Brief Summary: “A computing platform is never really dead unless people stop developing new software for it. By that measure, the Commodore 64 is alive and well: new “

04-Feb-2023 – LEGO Ideas Twilight: Cullen House Achieves 10,000 Supporters

Brief Summary: ”
The Twilight: Cullen House by LobsterThermidor is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,995 piece build features a mod”

04-Feb-2023 – LEGO Final Fantasy VII Contest Announced

Brief Summary: ”
Square Enix has announced that they are doing a LEGO contest to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII. They are asking what Final Fanta”

03-Feb-2023 – WordPress Plugin Developers Alerted Ahead of Twitter API Changes

Brief Summary: “Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic tier”

03-Feb-2023 – Groundhog Day Continues in These Time-Looping Anime

Brief Summary: ”
You thought Groundhog Day was over? Think again. These days, the holiday is less about meteorological predictions and more about an existential karmi”

02-Feb-2023 – Burger King Japan’s Cheeseburger Gelände — exceptional in taste, size and… paper napkins?

Brief Summary: ”
Burger King’s latest offering leaves Mr. Sato stunned not once, not twice but three times!

If you’re looking for a fast food burger that comes in ge”

03-Feb-2023 – Daytona USA was one of the miracles of the XBLA era, so grab it while you can

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Sometimes you really don’t know how good you’ve got it. Just over a decade ago Sega dropped a batch of Model 2 ports on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, “

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