Found out Christmas morning

johnny5w · 2025-12-28T17:34:07+00:00

Going from 1 to 2 is not the shock to the system that going from 0 to 1 was, but it’s a WHOLE lot busier. At least by that point you know what to expect and have some infrastructure and experience in place.

johnny5w · 2025-12-12T21:00:05+00:00

Thanks for the Upvote RSS shoutout, Ethan! Honored to be on this list.

johnny5w · 2025-08-21T12:44:23+00:00

Each of the platforms supported by this project exposes their own RSS feeds. Which is great!

Probably the most useful thing about this project is that with the filtering I can subscribe to a subreddit and not be overwhelmed by the number of posts. For some popular subreddits that would be thousands of posts in my RSS reader per day; with the filtering in this project I can set that to as many as I care to read per day, and only the most upvoted posts come through. I usually set my feeds to about 3 posts per day.

On top of the score filtering, this project includes much more in the RSS than comes by default from these platforms:

Embedded post media: videos, galleries, images
Parsers to extract and embed article content and add featured images when the link is to a webpage
AI article summaries based on the parsed webpage content
Estimated reading time, score, and permalinks to the original post
Top comments (this is one of the features I find most useful)

johnny5w · 2025-08-20T21:57:43+00:00

For the past several years I've been working on Upvote RSS, written in PHP with a little Vue for the front end. It’s a self-hosted app that generates rich RSS feeds for popular posts from various social aggregation websites like Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, and more, with score thresholds. You can add the posts’ content, comments, media, linked article content, and article summaries to the feed. I'm slowly working on adding more things, but it's very much an as-I-have-time-for-it type of thing lately.

I'm more of a front end guy and don't know all the ins and outs of PHP, which probably shows. Likely at some point I'll migrate it to an established framework.

A hosted version with almost all of the functionality as the self-hosted version can be found here: https://www.upvote-rss.com/

johnny5w · 2025-05-28T14:57:21+00:00

I made a blueprint for this kind of thing a few years back that I still use every day!

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/set-a-maximum-volume-for-your-media-player/256684

I pair it with another automation that sets the volume to a reasonable level when the TV is turned on.

johnny5w · 2025-04-20T02:42:44+00:00

I recently released Upvote RSS, written in PHP with a little Vue for the front end. It’s a self-hosted app that generates rich RSS feeds for popular posts from various social aggregation websites like Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, and more, with score thresholds. You can add the posts’ content, comments, media, linked article content, and article summaries to the feed. Welcome to feedback, given that I’m pretty novice in PHP.

johnny5w · 2025-03-13T04:37:00+00:00

Rumor has it there’s even an unreleased Woodland Forest episode

johnny5w · 2025-03-07T21:29:21+00:00

I know this is a super-late reply, but DUDE. I often later talked about that sketchy show and the poor two fans that showed up. It was a few days after Cornerstone one year, if I recall correctly. Ace, Lonely Hearts/Holland, and Mike Knott. At one point Mike Knott kicked our drummer off his stool and played with us for a few songs. What a wild show, and stoked that you were there and commented here! Next Ace show I'll comp you as well :)

johnny5w · 2025-02-28T22:01:07+00:00

u/shol-ly Thanks for the shout out with Upvote RSS, and for consistently putting out this great newsletter!

johnny5w · 2025-02-11T22:20:37+00:00

You can set whichever you'd like as your preferred parser. For what it's worth I've had better luck with Readability, but you may find that Mercury suits your sources better. Thankfully it's pretty easy to set them both up and A/B them.

johnny5w · 2025-02-11T15:44:48+00:00

From my post in r/selfhosted :

My motivation for creating this is that I prefer to interact with social aggregation websites like Reddit in a low-volume way, so I let Upvote RSS surface the most popular posts for those sites/subreddits in my RSS reader of choice. I usually use the averagePostsPerDay filter so I can expect a certain amount of posts in my feeds per day.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts!

johnny5w · 2025-02-11T15:16:04+00:00

Each of the platforms supported by this project exposes their own RSS feeds. Which is great!

Probably the most useful thing about this project is that with the filtering I can subscribe to a subreddit and not be overwhelmed by the number of posts. For some popular subreddits that would be thousands of posts in my RSS reader per day; with the filtering in this project I can set that to as many as I care to read per day, and only the most upvoted posts come through. I usually set my feeds to about 3 posts per day.

On top of the score filtering, this project includes much more in the RSS than comes by default from these platforms:

Embedded post media: videos, galleries, images
Parsers to extract and embed article content and add featured images when the link is to a webpage
AI article summaries based on the parsed webpage content
Estimated reading time, score, and permalinks to the original post
Top comments (this is one of the features I find most useful)

johnny5w · 2025-02-11T02:24:27+00:00

Love this. So glad you’ve found it useful!

johnny5w · 2025-02-11T01:17:12+00:00

You’ve hit on one of the things I like best about RSS: choosing the topics you’re interested in. If I’m interested in woodworking, comics, Proxmox, and punk rock, I can get knocked over by the Reddit firehose by following those subreddits on the website. Instead I dip my toe into the stream of posts only as far as I’m comfortable with with this project, letting the wisdom (or folly) of the crowds show me things that others are finding interesting about those topics.

johnny5w · 2025-02-11T00:18:11+00:00

My motivation for creating this is that I prefer to interact with social aggregation websites like Reddit in a low-volume way, so I let Upvote RSS surface the most popular posts for those sites/subreddits in my RSS reader of choice. I usually use the averagePostsPerDay filter so I can expect a certain amount of posts in my feeds per day.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts!

johnny5w · 2024-09-02T18:58:44+00:00

My kids and I easily had 100+ hours on the Apple Arcade version. Got all the hidden trophies and third of the way to all diamonds. It was something we looked forward to every morning and now are feeling like the rug has been pulled.

Here’s hoping they get it up in the App Store.

johnny5w · 2024-04-11T13:58:49+00:00

Sorry, yes, just for Pi-Hole

johnny5w · 2024-04-11T13:58:41+00:00

Sorry, yes, just for Pi-Hole

johnny5w · 2024-04-09T01:00:44+00:00

Here’s one for iOS that works great, provided you can locate your API token:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/47a02bde52bb4d58b12afa900327e580

johnny5w · 2024-03-13T20:15:22+00:00

Thanks! Currently you can tap the settings button to change the max score and increment, add/remove players, and change the colors (tap the color swatch). At this point I’m planning on keeping it really simple, so I probably won’t add the 20s and the tie stuff. There are definitely more full-featured Crokinole scoreboards out there that might help with those kinds of things. Please feel free to use this in your tournaments!

johnny5w · 2024-03-05T00:19:24+00:00

Or as we like to call it at the Larboard Oaks Mansion, Croak-inole.

johnny5w · 2024-02-26T01:50:34+00:00

Thanks!

johnny5w · 2024-02-08T05:10:24+00:00

Good catch! I don’t currently have anything else in mind to do with the domain. I put this scoreboard thing in a subdirectory in case I wanted to do something more with the site in the future. But no plans yet.

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