Reuben Castelino

This is my follow-up article to Replacing Google Reader with TT-RSS on Heroku. That article was just my quick notes on how I had set up tt-rss on Heroku as a quick transition from Google Reader. As with any project, nothing is ever perfect the first time and there were a lot of updates that I did until I was comfortable with the setup. Besides some small changes and bug fixes, the biggest two events would be the creation of a installation script and the addition of a self-updater. If I come across anything else, I’ll either post it at the end of this article or write a Part 3. I’m still debating.

As many probably know, Google Reader is slated to be shut down on July 1, 2013. I use Google Reader all the time and this came as a huge shock to me. My first instinct was to switch to something else such as Feedly. The problem is that I also use newsbeuter as a desktop client which syncs with Google Reader. It only syncs with Google Reader, Bloglines (now dropped), and Tiny Tiny RSS. So naturally, I looked up Tiny Tiny RSS to see if I could migrate there. Unfortunately, ttrss (Tiny Tiny RSS) is supposed to be hosted on a server and I didn’t want to host it on my computer just for rss feeds. So I decided to host it on Heroku.

More and more often, I’ve found myself reading posts from Medium. It is a relatively new site (still in closed beta for writers) that was created to be a “place for ideas”. While at first, it may seem a lot like sites such as reddit or Hacker News, it’s a lot different as well. It’s different in that it feels like a magazine. I enjoy reading the articles on Medium and it looks beautiful. From what I’ve heard, writing in Medium is great as well, to the point that one writer said that he wrote emails in it just because of how much he enjoyed the UI. It also deviates from just technology articles. While it has those, it also contains articles that just express ideas or thoughts that have occurred to people. No matter the content, however, the writing is how all posts should be written: easy-to-read, thought out, and creative.

So right now I’m not sure whether to post whenever I think of an alias or bashrc function or to collect them all here. For now, I’ll just add to this post as I think of them. While not technically aliases, I’ll mostly include functions that I’ve placed in bashrc because to me, they serve the same purpose: they fulfill a certain requirement with less typing.

This is just a test¹

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