@brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

My best take on blog discovery...

https://discover.brine.dev

discover is a hand-curated list of RSS feeds worth following. Writers, makers, and thinkers who actually share their work via RSS.

Browse by playlist or tag, preview posts before you subscribe, then take what you want. Copy individual feed URLs or build a custom list in My Feed and export as OPML.

100% free. No accounts, no ads, no trackers. Your follows stay in your browser.

#IndieWeb #RSS #OpenWeb #Blogging #Discovery

discover

A curated list of RSS feeds worth following. Feeds from people writing, making and thinking.

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 4mo ago

On the lonely fun of a blogger...

https://brine.dev/posts/calling-cq

#openweb #indieweb #bloggers

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 6mo ago

So... I'm currently working on an app I'm calling "speakEZ". It's a personal, kinda-discord replacement.
- invite-only chat
- built on Cloudflare Workers (free tier), KV, and Durable Objects
- async ed25519 passphrase auth (phrase never stored or seen outside of your brain)
- No accounts, no database
- WebSockets, markdown, image uploads
- WebRTC p2p voice channels
- tdd unit/e2e

#CloudflareWorkers #IndieWeb

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 6mo ago

Goodhart's Law warned us about platforms in 1975. But the flags in my analytics dashboard aren't metrics... they're postcards.

#indieweb

https://brine.dev/posts/postcard_from_kyiv

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 7mo ago

How rewriting my blog software accidentally led me to the IndieWeb.

https://brine.dev/posts/accidental_indieweb #indieweb

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to on infosec.exchange

@michaelharley@infosec.exchange I don't think badges (we don't need no stinking badges?) are a good solution. Lies abound. It's VERY early... but I may have a solution? https://sigyl.org #indieweb

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #SmallWeb's discovery problem always bugged me. So I built discover (https://discover.brine.dev): human-curated RSS feed playlists.

The lack of Trackbacks/Pingbacks also bugged me. #Webmentions are just too much fuss. Then it occured to me: discover has a few hundred high-signal feeds; I bet I already have a link graph?

Now a "↩ mentions" link on every feed, authors can follow their mentions. Trackbacks using nothing but #RSS & discover as gatekeeper ensuring spam-free feeds.

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lwindolf@mas.to haha... I just tried it and found bugs. So thanks for that too! Fixed and deployed.

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lwindolf@mas.to Thanks for that. You absolutely can: just add all the playlists to "+my feed" and download as OPML. That should give you all of 'em.

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 7mo ago

## World of Brine: E5 Let's Not Talk About AI Wightbred and Brine definitely don't talk about AI, zine page counts, future warfare weapons that make you a wizard, whether Dark Secrets needs a hopeful counterpart and migrating off Discord. They also don't talk about AI some more. https://worldof.brine.dev/#post?s=e5\_lets\_not\_talk\_about\_ai

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 7mo ago

@nilaypatel@threads.net Vergecast is great, you're great. Decoder's audio is over-compressed and small. Ie. shit. Fix it? And the your little _essay interludes_? You don't need them. Trust the conversation.

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 7mo ago

Over the weekend I wrote a protocol. A lightweight, human-dependent web of trust. Publish a JSON file on a domain you own. A human who knows you, vouches for you on their mirror, using their domain as stake. That's it. Math turns "Hey, careful man, there's a beverage here" into an identity. No servers. No database. No blockchain. No algorithm. Humans required. https://sigyl.org/

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 6mo ago

On NOT having an opinion is an opinion:

I refuse to perform certainty I don't have about things I can't affect.

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

If you're thirsty for reach, you belong on a platform. He said on a platform 🤔 https://brine.dev/posts/discover-a-love-letter-to-rss #rss #openWeb

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

@nsmsn@social.lol I too live in The Land of Mañana... which means your blog is a legacy add to my discover.brine.dev app :D

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

Fighting platform-brain doesn't scale... thankfully.

https://brine.dev/posts/in-the-colosseum-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-ignore-platform-brain

#openweb #indieWeb #smallweb

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 4mo ago

I can't even...

https://brine.dev/posts/drive-home-safely-stacy-beep-beep

#chicagobulls #rip #too_much_mustard_on_a_hotdog

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 2mo ago

Under Medicare For All (M4A), how much tax would you expect to pay for a family of 4 per year? $6k? More? Less? https://www.reddit.com/user/brineonmars/comments/1vgcb30/medicare_for_all/ #medicareforall #m4a

Medicare For All

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brine @brine@4d2.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@RareBird15@allovertheplace.ca @mastoblind@fedigroups.social @main As it happens, I'm working on an rss feed discovery tool, cleverly called... discover 🤔 It has basic screen reader support but I've not done extensive testing. I'd love any feedback you have! https://discover.brine.dev/