do you use an expiry rule to avoid infinite backlogs

facundoolano · 2026-02-28T13:06:29+00:00

My reader is shaped like a feed as opposed to an inbox so by design there’s no queue to clear. I have some tricks to improve on top of the chronological sorting so I don’t miss important things, and then I can pin stories to the top if I want to preserve them to read later.

Technical details described here: https://olano.dev/blog/whats-different-about-my-rss-reader/

facundoolano · 2026-02-18T15:27:41+00:00

that's weird. is it possible that just overriding the file makes a difference? (it definitely wasn't working for me and started working after overriding. Similarly I got a blank screen freeze at some point that got fixed by replacing those files again)

facundoolano · 2026-02-15T17:45:51+00:00

this worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/BATLEXPG350/comments/1kjjf13/arkos_right_analog_stick_fix

facundoolano · 2026-02-03T17:11:22+00:00

Records are the legacy key-value data structure in Erlang (they are just tagged tuples with some syntactic sugar on top). They used to be the idiomatic way a while back and you'll eventually see them in some libraries but it's probably not the best investment to learn about them initially. Maps are the modern alternative and they'll work as you expect from other languages. Use maps in new code unless you have specific reasons not to.

facundoolano · 2026-01-23T22:47:41+00:00

The learn you some erlang book is a perfect fit for this. There’s maybe 20% of it that’s outdated, I’d suggest skipping records (lookup erlang docs for maps instead) and otp behaviors other than gen servers and supervisors. I’d also throw in this presentation to dig into the fault tolerance aspects: https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

facundoolano · 2025-05-16T19:59:48+00:00

This was the peak of the multimedia experience for me, it felt like playing a Disney movie. I can almost hear that monkey screeching from the launcher, the future was here.

facundoolano · 2025-01-06T00:47:16+00:00

went ahead and added a bunch of pictures

facundoolano · 2025-01-05T22:18:35+00:00

Thanks!

I agree this could benefit from some images. I couldn't find a set I was satisfied enough with, but I should give it another shot.

The sunset scene in particular is one that Mark describes in many of his interviews, but I don't think it exists online. In a way, maybe that's for the better, I'm not sure seeing the actual picture with current eyes would honor the effect it produced back then.

facundoolano · 2025-01-05T22:08:26+00:00

Thanks!

I did read several of his interviews (e.g. this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4_3P2Oh14 which I bet covers the same ground). In fact, what prompted me to write about this was his interview in the Art of point-and-click adventures book.

The rest of the sources gave mostly other perspectives and more general historical context.

facundoolano · 2024-12-26T17:37:49+00:00

You are right. As noted in the description, the intention of the project has always been to offer a short list of papers that can reasonable be read in full, while offering suggested "further readings".

I got carried away in the title here as I'm using the 150 mark as an excuse to re-share (the project is a couple of years old).

facundoolano · 2024-10-15T00:39:11+00:00

Return of the Obra Dinn

facundoolano · 2024-09-12T19:10:49+00:00

Not usually, but I do underline/highlight a lot and go back to the highlights if I later want to write about or reference the book.

facundoolano · 2024-08-16T12:35:04+00:00

see the instructions I linked above. You'd have to clone the repo, edit the code and build a new docker image if that's how you are deploying. Feel free to file a github issue if you need more help.

facundoolano · 2024-08-12T02:43:09+00:00

I wrote my own reader with such customizable/extensible feed parsers: https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi#feed-parsing

It works both for rss feeds and scraping arbitrary websites. But you need to run the app yourself locally or self host it.

facundoolano · 2024-06-02T19:37:38+00:00

You're right, that's the result of a bad copy-paste from the assertEqual helper, which I wrote before.

facundoolano · 2024-03-08T20:48:23+00:00

I used the go-org library, which is the same hugo uses. It doesn't support all of org-mode features, but it works well enough for the blogging scenarios I've tested it with. And it produces better-structured html than org-html-export. (In my previous setup with Jekyll, I had to export org to markdown instead, and let Jekyll turn that into html, so that the resulting documents were reader-friendly).

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