I support your statement for custom dev applications. Unfortunately some large enterprise applications like D365 still require the Framework :(.

Anybody who can suggest a readable (non-expert) non-fiction book on dinosaurs?

I always found it ironic that a book that advocates concise documentation and diagrams over text looses itself in way too much narrative.

Yes. It applies to what you do / make. You can’t copy (parts of) the written text, but you can act (write your own interpretation) with the ideas in that text.

“Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

So you liked Feedly for almost 10 years, but never bothered to support them financially. And now you complain that they go the extra mile trying to earn money?

Exactly. It's so comical. You were never going to support them making their software, never going to upgrade, never going to provide any value to them in anyway even though they provided value to you for 10 years. Seems like this is a good thing for feedly.

The author acknowledged that though. He seemed to even had considered buying it, but thought it was not worth it. He eventually settled on something simple and free. It doesn't surprise me that running a simple RSS feed tool is not profitable.

That's 100% reasonable. What's not reasonable is spending time to write a blog post in a tone that makes it seem like the product "is bad". The may not like it but the author wasn't a customer. It's the classic "I would buy it/pay for it if it only had XYZ or did/didn't do ABC." When in reality they were never going to pay for it, they just wanted something simple and free, which is 100% fine.

There is very little simple about running an RSS aggregator, especially at scale.

The user doesn't really care about the scale, though. There are chrome plugins, local apps, etc. With dropbox and other similar tools, you can sync across devices and keep configuration stored in the cloud without much hassle.

I'm not saying that what feedly was doing was trivial. I'm sure it was expensive and required many developers, designers, etc. However, that doesn't mean that all the effort is necessarily important for the end user.

What I’m saying is by running so many heavy services in the backend, relying on a series of API integrations to provide service and taking custody of swaths of sometimes sensitive user data, they make their own problems

for apparently nonsense features. this isn’t a patronage model, it’s a product (and the free tier is not what’s being sold)

That was my point. They are not a charity, they are a business. It's not their job to build features for people who have been using the service for 10 year with no intention to upgrade. This person wants a simple free rss reader, all good.

(misread your tone completely)

Setting that up was not part of the 20% effort that delivers 80% of the value ;).

Posted here 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28050750

Interesting promise. Will give it a try. Does anybody known similar tools, written in a different language (no expertise on Go)?

The other main ActivityPub blogging centric software is Plume https://joinplu.me, oh and there are some plugins for Wordpress

Somebody took the Make A Lisp challenge (https://github.com/kanaka/mal) quite serious :D

There even a mal in Hy! https://github.com/kanaka/mal/tree/master/impls/hy

Maybe not a starting point because it’s too advanced, but Make A Lisp has example implementations for +80 languages now: https://github.com/kanaka/mal

That is an interesting advanced project, but it is hard to find a consistent 1-page section in all of the languages.