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Ancient code drifting down the newsRiver

So, while working through some writing blockages last weekend, I started doing some hacking on Dave Winer’s newsRiver running on the OPML Editor platform. (Oh, and it is a platform, maybe more so than even emacs—don’t let the moniker ‘editor’ fool you.) Here’s the thing: It was a lot of addictive fun, and it [...]

A bit of newsRiver hackery

Update: I moved this code over to my space over at hosting.opml.org and added some updater code from Nicholas Riley’s webdav tool, so that you should be able to just “Get Latest Code…” once you’ve got this installed. (Or reinstalled, if you grabbed last night’s version.) Also, I fixed a bug or two. So, [...]