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darekkay commented on Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban   lemonde.fr/en/france/arti... · Posted by u/divbzero
fouronnes3 · 2 months ago
I'm going to swim a 1000m race [0] there tomorrow morning! Wish me luck HN!

[0] https://openswimstars.com/paris/

darekkay · 2 months ago
Bonne chance!
darekkay commented on Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data   theregister.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/Bender
darekkay · 2 months ago
ai.robots.txt contains a big list of AI crawlers to block, either through robots.txt or via server rules:

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.tx

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darekkay commented on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law   ca.finance.yahoo.com/news... · Posted by u/Aldipower
popol12 · 4 months ago
What if your app needs to send notifications and/or use bluetooth, for instance ?
darekkay · 4 months ago
There are web APIs for both.
darekkay commented on Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website   localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/spzb
reitoei · 6 months ago
Is there a place/system for discovering or aggregating personal websites like this? Remember old school "directory" sites and tools like del.icio.us? There were awesome compared to being at the mercy of google.
darekkay commented on Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time   indieblog.page... · Posted by u/vinhnx
rednafi · 6 months ago
Exactly this, but with some automatic content grouping. Also, the ability to read the whole content in the reader instead of having to go to the site. But that depends on how RSS/Atom exposes the content; this is why I am not a big fan of the protocol. Too much fragmentation: RSS, RSS2, Atom.
darekkay · 6 months ago
> the ability to read the whole content in the reader instead of having to go to the site. But that depends on how RSS/Atom exposes the content;

It rather depends on the amount of content the RSS _author_ includes in the RSS feed. There's nothing in the RSS/Atom protocol that prevents you from reading the entire article, but some website creators decide to truncate the feed content.

My RSS reader of choice, InoReader, has the option to download the original website which solves the problem. However, I have over 200 feeds and it's rare to find one without the entire content being included.

darekkay commented on Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers   uchu.style... · Posted by u/NetOpWibby
jakubmazanec · 6 months ago
The palette doesn't seem perceptually uniform, i.e. the contrast ratios of each tint vs. white/black aren't the same across all colors. Did your try analysing the palette in https://huetone.ardov.me/ ?
darekkay · 6 months ago
I've analyzed the palette with my own tool, a11y-contrast[1], and indeed the luminance is not uniform. I wrote [2] about why this might be a desired property of a color palette.

[1] https://github.com/darekkay/a11y-contrast

[2] https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-color-palette/

darekkay commented on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too   reedybear.bearblog.dev/iv... · Posted by u/emschwartz
rwky · 7 months ago
This is interesting timing. I was asked at work to remove our RSS feed. Turns out no one but me knew what it was for they just saw the link in the site footer clicked it their browser showed a bunch of xml and they thought it was broken. I checked the logs turns out it gets 1000s of requests a day so I think that convinced them to keep it.
darekkay · 7 months ago
> 1000s of requests a day

Some RSS readers are quite aggressive with their polling time. At the same time, a single request may serve thousands of users. However, you can check your logs and get the actual number of subscribers, at least for popular RSS readers: https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-subscriber-count/

darekkay commented on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too   reedybear.bearblog.dev/iv... · Posted by u/emschwartz
gudzpoz · 7 months ago
Speaking of advocating RSS, I was trying out Nikola [0] for static site generation and found that they have a really nice-looking RSS end-point [1] that is viewable both from the browser and an RSS reader. Looking into the XML, it turns out it's called xml-stylesheet:

    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?>
And I would argue that this is an excellent way to introduce new readers to RSS: instead of the browser popping up a download prompt, you can make your RSS feeds themselves a dedicated page for advocating RSS, in case an interested reader is browsing through the links on your site.

[0] https://getnikola.com/

[1] https://getnikola.com/rss.xml (Open it in your browser!)

[2] https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/blob/master/nikola/data/...

darekkay · 7 months ago
I've once blogged about this technique, in case someone wants to learn more about it: https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/

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