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New comment by jenkings in "A better streams API is possible for JavaScript"

jenkings — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:53:14 +0000

As I’m sure many have, I wrote a wrapper around AyncIterables so I could use them more succinctly. However I wasn’t concerned with performance as I was using it in a lambda handling small batches or scanning items from a DB and streaming pages back.

https://github.com/juliantcook/fluent-async-iterator

I had hoped we would have a better API by now.

It was also very useful for CLI tools utilising unix pipes.

New comment by jenkings in "I ditched the algorithm for RSS"

jenkings — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:09:44 +0000

To stop myself scrolling hacker news multiple times a day I created https://rssby.email and I’ve been using it successfully since 2020.

New comment by jenkings in "Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email"

jenkings — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:58:31 +0000

What do you use to consume RSS?

New comment by jenkings in "Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email"

jenkings — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:57:54 +0000

rssby.email :D (sorry)

New comment by jenkings in "Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email"

jenkings — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:56:43 +0000

I'm starting to not like the send time part of my design. I'm considering removing it and having it send whenever suits the server. Especially as my feeds go into a email folder and I only check them when I have free time anyway.

New comment by jenkings in "Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email"

jenkings — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:54:03 +0000

Thank you. Now I need to tell some front-end dev friends that someone has complimented my HTML!

New comment by jenkings in "Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email"

jenkings — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:52:02 +0000

I'm glad you like it. I considered creating an elaborate SaaS style page, but then I thought, I'll most likely be the only user of this, I'll add a basic page in case anyone else wants to use it.

New comment by jenkings in "Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email"

jenkings — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:46:21 +0000

It sends an email when you have been unsubscribed containing the rss link, if you wanted to subscribe for another 90 days you can reply to the email and it should subcribe again.

I had initially set it to 30 days but that got annoying. Before I set it to 90 I was considering making it more intelligent as you mentioned, an exponential backoff retry mechanism, but then I decided I was overcomplicating things and the server usage is almost nothing at the moment. :)

As for your other question, it only sends what is available via the RSS feed, I've been considering adding the ability for it to pull in more content, but I think that would be a separate service, like an RSS proxy which created another RSS feed containing more contents, people could then subscribe via that link or the original. Maybe that already exists?

New comment by jenkings in "Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email"

jenkings — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:35:09 +0000

As the creator of this, it excited me to see this post in my inbox today.

I created rssby.email purely for myself, because I used to read articles from interesting blogs (via Hacker News) whilst commuting to work and wanted to subscribe to them, but I didn't have signal on the tube, so I would email the link to myself, then have to log into Feedly or whatever RSS reader I was using at the time and add it when I had signal, but then I would be at work so had other things to do :)

I'm glad to see a few people find it useful.

Side note: It would be interesting to know how people discover rssby.email as it doesn't seem to show up on Google.

New comment by jenkings in "In praise of property-based testing (2019)"

jenkings — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 17:28:34 +0000

Is there an example of how many function executions property based testing causes?

New comment by jenkings in "Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?"

jenkings — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:42:47 +0000

I used to use Feedly, but found I didn't check it often and lost track of things, I wanted a way of getting RSS by email so created https://rssby.email/ during lockdown.

New comment by jenkings in "Ask HN: Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?"

jenkings — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:21:31 +0000

I highly recommend improv courses. The primary thing it helped me with was talking without having fear of saying the wrong thing or having people judge me, but it also taught me the importance of _how_ you say things. Even if someone didn't do the courses I would still recommend they read Impro by Keith Johnstone.