No AI slop, luckily. And a lot of fun.

I used to run 2:230/149 on Fidonet. Can't remember my AmiNet address.

Around the time that abbreviation became fashionable using a lot of DIV elements also did, but that wasn't what the "D" stood for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML

(Shameless plug: I made Feedbase.)

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Copyright (c) 2014 Lucian Marin"

· https://github.com/lucianmarin/subreply/blob/master/LICENSE

The latter is annoying, I agree.

¹ It is an NNTP interface so the article is superseded; https://feedbase.org/about/ - if you don't want to see updates, you can configure your newsreader to skip supersedes.

TL;DR: readers should not poll more often than once and hour, use ETag and If-Modified-Since to determine whether to download the full feed again.

Which items you have seen previously is something the feed reader keeps track of.

:-)

I was surprised by the sounds while trying "Little Computer People" for a nostalgia trip after reading "Hacking Little Computer People on the Amiga" (http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/hacking-little-computer-people-o...) last summer.

> the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB.

· https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.h...

See also: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/limits.html

Where do you have the 64KB number from?

A small test:

    test=# create table test_table (test_field text);
    CREATE TABLE
    test=# insert into test_table select string_agg('x', '') from generate_series(1, 128*1024);
    INSERT 0 1
    test=# select length(test_field) from test_table;
     length 
    --------
     131072
    (1 row)

However when I started working on Feedbase (2015) I wasn't really good enough at Haskell to accomplish the task before I giving up in frustration, so I fell back to my usual preferred scripting language, Perl, for the part that fetches the feeds and updates the database and for the nntp server - I only implemented the (quite simple) website in Haskell.

I've gotten a little better since then, so my little blog-engine, Lantern, which also uses nntp as the main "interface", is written completely in (beginner) Haskell.