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Personal Dreck and RSS Feeds

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Although there is a bit of personal dreck on this site, I’ve done away with the “Dreck Selector”. All personal comments are still marked « Personal », but there is no longer a way to turn it off.

Also, I’ve gotten a hold of a PHP script that parses RSS 0.9x/2.0 feeds. Currently, you can view news from Zeldman.com and C|Net’s News.com right here at Skyzyx.com. We also now have our own RSS feed, in case you’re interested.

Interestingly enough, removing the “Dreck Selector” fixed the bug I came across in Opera 7.11. Hmmm…

Ryan Parman

is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented multifactor-authentication-as-a-service at WePay, defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at McGraw-Hill Education, and came up with the idea of “serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud” while at Amazon Web Services in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, , is where he writes about ideas longer than . Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.