Timestamps
(00:24) Hosted Service Definition
- Account you have access to: web hosting, Dropbox, email, etc.
- “I would like an account on your service”
(01:22) Selfhosted Definition
- VPS, Dedicated, Colo, Garage, Old Laptop you maintain.
- often Single point of failure
- Distribution is part of our grand experiment!
(03:00) Status of the podcast
(07:40) What tool do you find the most indispensable?
My top tools: notes and a password manager.
(08:05) KeePass - 20+ years of goodness on all platforms! Portable, encrypted, awesome.
- Distribute your databases to better manage your services
- People have paid me to teach them this!
- Friends & Family approved open source!
(10:20) Hey, where is my keepass? sketch
(11:30) RSS protocol for updates & notifications.
- The introverts “social” network dashboard
- As good as you make it. Be patient.
- Basis for all podcasting
(12:10) RSS Clients - use them on any device to get started.
- RSSowl - barebones and available on Linux Windows, MacOS. Java based.
- Newsboat - top notch terminal application. Successor to Newsbeuter.
(13:20) RSS Server applications
(16:45) Do you have recommendations for RSS compatible services? Let us know!
(17:00) feed2toot - relay you feed into the fediverse of services like Mastodon and this podcast (Castopod).
(17:20) RSS-bridge convert URL services to RSS
- Public instances available for you to try.
- Subscribe to Youtube, Twitter and much more
(18:15) searxng - meta-search engine that supports subscribing to results as RSS.
(18:40) Wallabag self-hosted PHP archive for web links.
- Subscribes to RSS Feeds
- integrates with RSS server applications mentioned above as a Sharing feature
(19:00) Archivebox is another great self-hosted archive.
(19:30) Nextcloud Bookmarks.
- Floccus front end for Firefix, Chrome, Edge, etc. to Nextcloud Bookmarks, WebDAV, Linkwarden, Git, Google Drive by same dev.
- Subscribe to your Bookmarks folders as RSS!
- Share bookmarks with your other RSS services.