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Author: Andrew Shell

Little Outliner and rssCloud?

Idea: Could we include a cloud tag in an OPML headline and have Little Outliner ping an rssCloud server with the public OPML url when it's updated? That way if we wanted to use an OPML file as a data source (blogging for instance) the consumers could subscribe to the file. Dave...

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Rethinking Blogs

My site has been a blog since at least 2006. It literally uses the blog subdomain. I don't know how much I like that anymore. End of last year, I changed the homepage from a list of posts to a more curated experience inspired by Derek Sivers, including a Now page. Joel Hooks...

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Music, Media, and Mood

When I was in high school and early college, I suffered from depression. Since then, I've relapsed from time to time but overall have been much better. Currently, a lot of people are struggling with mental health. Between the fear of COVID-19 and self-isolation, people are...

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Updating rssCloud Server

I've been slowly but surely working on version 2.0 of the rssCloud server I built back in 2015. When I originally built it, it was my first real node app, and the node landscape was very different from what it is today. Now that my full-time job is building node based APIs...

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Feeling School Nostalgia

My daughter started 4K back in September. This school year is her first year going to elementary school. When I'm visiting her classroom for conferences and such, I'm overwhelmed by feelings of nostalgia. The classrooms, although not 100% like what I remember, have things like...

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Understanding Javascript Object References

Today I was in a class learning about Kinvey and my instructor was stuck on a problem in a node.js app he was working on. He wanted to use map on an array of rows but pass an additional parameter to the callback. I knew that one way to handle that was with bind like...

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What is the best way to inject a logger?

I'm working on several projects right now that I'd like to be able to generate logs from. The problem is that logging isn't required for the code to work, so how do I configure it? I see three possibilities: Required in Constructor use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface; class MyClass...

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Introducing Cadre.Module

Today I published a new component Cadre.Module. This component was born out of my side project that's using Radar. Stock Radar Radar is built around Aura.Di which is a very nice dependency injection container. If you're interested in learning more about Radar check out Radar...

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