{"id":57,"date":"2006-09-08T05:59:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T05:59:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-09-08T05:59:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T05:59:02","slug":"the_pathetic_state_of_rss_readers_or_why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2006\/09\/08\/the_pathetic_state_of_rss_readers_or_why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pathetic State of RSS Readers or why Mike Flies at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are none.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/projects\/evolution\">Evolution<\/a> used to have one.  And it was my favourite. Feature. Ever.  The gdesklets (no link, see rest of sentence) just suck. They&#8217;re unstable and they keep crashing.  And there&#8217;s no standalone any more that I know of.  I think surfraw used to be it, but it&#8217;s apparently dead upstream.  So now, I&#8217;m thinking of going back to <a href=\"http:\/\/claws.sylpheed.org\">Claws<\/a> because there is an rss reader plugin available for it.  In order to do the migration, though, I have to make my laptop into a mailserver, to put all the mail from evo into it (over imap) and then read it into sylpheed.  That&#8217;s a good thing to do anyway, but I was hoping to do it on a proper server box. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>Any you know, I&#8217;m pissed off because I missed the first 13 chapters of <a href=\"http:\/\/cheeseburgerbrown.com\/stories\/Night_Flight_Mike.html\">Night Flight Mike<\/a>, which is the newest novella from the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/mfdh.ca\/\">CheeseBurger Brown<\/a>, whose writing I just can&#8217;t get enough of.  If I&#8217;m nonresponsive for a while, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m catching up on Night Flight Mike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are none. Evolution used to have one. And it was my favourite. Feature. Ever. The gdesklets (no link, see rest of sentence) just suck. They&#8217;re unstable and they keep crashing. And there&#8217;s no standalone any more that I know of. I think surfraw used to be it, but it&#8217;s apparently dead upstream. So now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2006\/09\/08\/the_pathetic_state_of_rss_readers_or_why\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pathetic State of RSS Readers or why Mike Flies at Night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}