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I am enjoying podcasts via RSS readers, but note that #emacs #elfeed does not have #FeatureParity with others but has #FeatureSuperiority . A couple notes:

- easy OPML import/export. Other good readers have this, but not all of them.
- Works without an account in the cloud -- just the RSS and my device.
- Multiple tags per entry. I have not found this on ANY other reader, where ultimately tags = directories. This is silly.
- Super-easy history and search. You would think this would be a given in this day and age, but I do not see it in other readers. For example, trying to find "spooky" in the title of a recently heard podcast was not possible outside elfeed. Further, "Which ones did I listen to this morning?" is hard, also not easy in elfeed. But at least I can search for keywords there.

I use feeder on android, which at least checks the first two boxes about good OPML support and being subscriptionless. Of course, going to my elfeed is a joy, but not when I am on the move and can't pull out my laptop.

#Defn #clojure has a new episode out. Apparently soundcloud doesn't make RSS links obvious for everything, so I grabbed theirs from reversed the URL from Apple Podcasts and plugged it into my readers. https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:220484243/sounds.rss

@rgm you are neglecting the cons of the thing about evolving syntax.

- You have to learn a new syntax to use the thing

- You can only pray that the documentation is up to date, because

- code readability suffers majorly from "language evolution"

- in modern dev (at least webdev) library-focus is the way to be a good citizen so your thing can be shared and integrated easily

- #Clojure , being hosted, is already heavily biased toward sharing things with the ecosystem, which macros make harder

- data-driven development aims to bypass this entirely, since data is more pure (stable, non-committal) than syntax

Your point makes a lot of sense for self-contained projects, of which I have several and should definitely explore syntax evolution with, but there is this other side. My ¢2

The language #Clojure and #ClojureScript languages are so stable, with breaking changes being frowned upon in the culture. But breaking in the (frankly, awesome!) tooling has been my difficulty as I maintain a dozen projects of varying ages. It is a real problem. #cider #nrepl #figwheel #piggyback

Sometimes, randomly, my #Firefox cannot connect to anything. I don't know if it's from my changing locations (wifi networks) or what; other things connect fine. I have to restart the FireFox process. I have no idea why. #Troubleshooting #Error #Problem

@daviwil @benoitj

I am painfully ignorant of the major benefits of #Guix; so far I have only taken time to use it as a glorified package manager although I am using a full system install; I love it on principle, because @fsf but haven't looked in to anything deeper than package management.

@daviwil ah, yeah. The instability while streaming would definitely fall under the "Glass" part of my analysis. Not doing that sort of content creation, though, I'm not sensitive to the shortcomings of the X (x-window) in EXWM. I feel as "impossible for me to change" about EXWM. It was you and your stream that made me aware and persuaded as to Guix, though

@daviwil Whoa! I didn't realize that you had moved away from exwm. Have you also moved away from Guix?

@abcdw Cool! Question: where do you use Guile other than with #Guix?

Would I recommend #emacs #EXWM as daily driver? No. But I also won't stop living in it. #GlassCannon https://orys.us/v6

It's hard to say how much I love the ad-free, bloat-free experience of #SafeTwitch #twitch . Thanks, #FireFox #LibRedirect #plugin

I just got mildly stung by the fact that #PHP is #DynamicallyTyped. Somehow on one #WordPress site a foreach over an array started choking because its datasource included a boolean, on our dev server only.

@rust What's Twitter?