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alexpls

496 karmajoined 12 years ago
Web developer in Brisbane, Australia

https://alexplescan.com

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Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

all-things-andy-gavin.com
16 points·by alexpls·1 hour ago·0 comments

MagSafe Ice Packs

justin.searls.co
3 points·by alexpls·10 months ago·1 comments

Animating a Mosaic of 90s GIFs

alexplescan.com
2 points·by alexpls·10 months ago·0 comments

Okay, I Like WezTerm

alexplescan.com
488 points·by alexpls·2 years ago·275 comments

GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

alexplescan.com
448 points·by alexpls·3 years ago·262 comments

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alexpls
·6 months ago·discuss
Neat! Generating PDFs from RSS feeds is a great idea. Some thoughts:

I have a Kindle - something I'd find valuable would be having a digest of "Today's top stories" sent to my kindle's email address as an epub so I can check it out each day. But on Kindle, I think the 3 column layout would be too narrow to read - it makes sense on A4, but not smaller. How do you do your daily sync to ReMarkable?

btw, it looks like if I enter a direct link to an RSS feed it doesn't work (e.g. when testing it for my site, https://alexplescan.com/index.xml results in a blank page, but https://alexplescan.com works well)

> curious how others handle the "too many newsletters" problem

I like to have everything funnelled into my RSS reader, pick a few things that sound interesting each day, and archive the rest. For the getting everything into RSS part, I'm building https://mailgrip.io to help (it gets email newsletters into RSS feeds).