You first and foremost need to know just whether there are any new items in your feeds. | There once were less lines of the below script when it was less robust.
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Atom/RSS feeds dish for a browser capable of framesets — with some Perl
Just seeing what time was the last update to an RSS feed should be enough for most. And the RSS feeds already have titles, so one might not need a full OPML, but nothing more than a list of URLs as a flat file. Although what follows has some room for improvement, feed reading can…
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Simplistic reconciliation of mostly-append text files like Offpunk lists: draft involving Kahn’s algorithm
I have been thinking about managing my Offpunk list files that I might be modifying on either, or both, my netbook and some main laptop. Since this is mostly about new parts that might have gotten added, I didn’t want to introduce some full-blown version control to this. Instead, I figured that I could start ensuring the files end with a time-specific marker when was the file last appended before sync that would also be useful to the human…
Distributed file version management in 15 minutes of Bash
You don’t always need to have all the tools at your disposal, but you may want to have some way of checking in your file edits. CVS is too powerful and has a lot of unnecessary parts, while not being distributed. You may not need to keep everything in deltas. So why not just write…
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