So after a couple of days there are issues that need resolving:

• One of the feeds keeps coming up with hundreds of old headlines presented as new (nrc.nl)
• The Nextnews iOS app appears to have it's own administration of read and unread items

One of the feeds keeps coming …

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I've been using Feedly in the past and Inoreader for the last couple of years. Both are great webbased ways to manage my news consumption based on RSS feeds. The functionality is great, and the costs are OK to me. But the idea that someone, somewhere, is keeping track of …

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De huidige infra setup van mastodon.nl is gebaseerd op een flink aantal virtual machines met Debian 11 als operating system. Daarboven is deels met de hand en deels met ansible automation de benodigde applicatie en middleware uitgerold. In november 2022 is in een lange nacht de grootste set uitgerold …

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Vanmorgen was het tijd om mastodon.nl ook te voorzien van Mastodon versie 4.2.0, welke o.a. full text search gaat bieden in de toots van mensen welke deze opt-in setting zelf aanzetten in hun profiel instellingen.

Met de ervaringen van een aantal mastodon.nl upgrades over de …

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While I've been using kubernetes for years now, I never dived into building my own cluster. I was always focused on delivering value on top of that via the kubernetes API. I just wanted to work with that API and not worry about the underlying infra. For real deployments I …

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