Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

Feeds

Translations: Feeds

Almost all post lists on this blog have a feed that can be accessed by adding .rss, .atom or .json to the path of the page. This feed can then be subscribed to with any feed reader. Here are a few examples:

All posts: https://jlelse.blog/.rss
Only posts from the section “Posts”: https://jlelse.blog/posts.rss
Posts tagged with “Impressions”: https://jlelse.blog/tags/impressions.rss

Alternatively, there are also more minimal feed types without text-to-speech audio: .min.rss, .min.atom or .min.json.

A few feed readers:

Feedly (Web, Android, iOS)
Inoreader (Web, Android, iOS)
Miniflux (Web, self hosted)
NetNewsWire (Mac, iOS)
and many more …

Alternatively, you can follow this blog with Mastodon or other ActivityPub-compatible software using the username @en@jlelse.blog or this simple form.

Or follow this blog on Telegram.

Interactions & Comments

Jan-Lukas Else Things I noticed and a thank you!
- https://commentpara.de/comment/692.htm Hello! Feed-follower (Feedbin + NetNewsWire) checking in here. I’m a software developer in Chicago, and I love the frequent & short posts of your blog. So thank you for writing!
- https://commentpara.de/comment/693.htm Hi, we read you. :) rss Kind regards
- Bascht Bascht: "@en@jlelse.blog now that webmentions work again I…" - The olde Yakshed
- Beko Pharm Beko Pharm: "@bascht@social.yakshed.org @en@jlelse.blog ssssam…" - Mastodon
- Jan-Lukas Else No analytics Since moving my blog to my new CMS, I don’t count visits to this website anymore. Previously I used my own view counter named KISSS or kis3. It served me quite well. But to be honest, I don’t even miss the numbers, now that I can’t see them anymore.What motivates me to blog is not the number of hits – as I recently found out, most people follow my blog via full-text feeds or ActivityPub anyway, so often they probably don’t even open the blog page – but the feedback I get. Since I …
Jan-Lukas Else "Why I still use RSS" Marc reminds why RSS is still a great solution, especially during this difficult times.However it wasn’t until I began working from home and everything in my life moved online that I really began to notice how beneficial RSS could be with relation to Digital Wellbeing. By selecting only the sites, blogs, creators etc. that I had a serious interest in, I could effectively remove the negative effects of social media and excessive online usage from my life.Having only the content I want to see…
- spaetz A comment by spaetz - jlelse's Blog RSS has been no success because it prevents website's opportunities to track users, display ads and keep them engaged on their turf for longer than planned. So firms have no interest in pushing it. Losing control and letting users escape from the garden walls... I never understood why users are not more find of the technology (besides the complexity to set things up). It give them direct control.
Jan-Lukas Else RSS by email Today I learned about RSS by email, a service that let’s you subscribe to RSS feeds by email.I have already considered several times, if I should create a way that people can follow my blog also via email. But I have encountered several problems:My email provider has (legitimately) a limit on emails that can be sent per minute / hour / day, I should probably not exhaust that, I need email also for other things as well.Services that offer such features (like Mailchimp) are not privacy friend…
- Don H. A comment by Don H. Or, you can self-host rss2email, which is how I consume your blog...
- Tomaž A comment by Tomaž Hosting your own mail server and sending any kind of automated mail is a whole new can of worms. I used to run a RSS-to-email for my blog using Mailchimp's free service. It was limited to at most once-per-week mail with a summary of any new blog posts and not pushed onto readers by any kind of obtrusive pop-ups or annoying stuff like that. Mail was sent through Mailchimp's servers, but signed with my own personal domain's DKIM key. I started getting delivery problems when sending personal (no…
- Kevin Carmody Kevin Carmody: "@en@jlelse.blog I guess the inverse of th… @en I guess the inverse of this is https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
- Jan-Lukas Else Micro.blog’s new newsletter feature I think the new micro.blog feature for newsletters is the right approach. Blog first, newsletter second. But newsletters are not difficult to set up, they only need to be activated by a checkbox. Sometimes I think about adding something like that to GoBlog as well, but I always come to the conclusion that it’s a lot of work to send emails that arrive reliably. Many email sending services prohibit sending newsletters and only allow transactional emails. In addition, there is the data protectio…
- Kevin rssby.email is cool, and I like the simplicity. However I have found that it has a huge downside, feeds are removed after 90 days which can be pretty severe. I guess if you know that your blog is active it won't be a huge issue but it is pretty harsh to lose all of your subscribers for 90 days of inactivity. Now I am biased because I run FeedMail, but let me give a quick review of some popular RSS-to-Email services from a blog-author point of view. FeedMail - Preserves most styles from your R…
Jan-Lukas Else I deleted my Twitter account I finally did what I thought about a few months ago: I finally deleted my Twitter account (or rather deactivated it, it will be deleted if I do not log in for another 30 days).I am done with Twitter. I realized that I often only open Twitter when I want to be distracted or procrastinate. I typed “twitter.com” in the address bar of my browser, just to scroll a little and then close the tab again. A waste of time. Sometimes I still want to do that, but now I can’t because I have deactivat…
- Jan-Lukas Else Things I noticed and a thank you!
- Jan-Lukas Else The Verge's executive editor left Twitter Yey, I’m not the only person who is happy to quit using Twitter. The Verge executive editor T.C. Sottek left Twitter as well.This past weekend, a thought passed through my mind in the shape of a tweet and I felt the urge to tweet it. But I couldn’t, so I didn’t. And as the thought drifted away from me, I felt lighter. It wasn’t put on a permanent record. I didn’t stop to watch my phone and see if anyone else would acknowledge it. I let it go, closed my eyes, and felt the sun on my f…
- Jan-Lukas Else Just for the record: I left Twitter before it was cool to do so. 😊 But seriously, it was the right decision back then and I have no regrets.
- Jan-Lukas Else “Nitter Redirect” add-on to redirect Twitter to Nitter It’s not that uncommon to come across a link to Twitter. But when opening the link in the browser, I am often told that the tweet has failed to load. This may be due to my Firefox settings, uBlock Origin or something else, but it was so annoying to have to click on “try again” that I installed an add-on that automatically redirects me from Twitter to Nitter. (See all my installed add-ons here.) Nitter is an alternative frontend for Twitter. Much faster, without unnecessary and slow JavaScript…
- Jan-Lukas Else “Why I started microblogging” Bryan Sebesta shares his reasons for microblogging: I often run across things that I’d like to share but don’t deserve their own post. Outside of Twitter, how do I share it? A microblog creates a space for that.. It becomes […] “a way for me to put everything I do online that is visually small — anything small enough not to require scrolling: quotes, links, images, audio files — in one place, and a place on my own site.” I have quite similar reasons for microblogging and blogging in general. …