Someone should keep an eye on Linus.

Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.

https://hnrss.github.io/

I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.

https://brr.fyi

Not an app, but for the ones interested in following specific hacker news posts, there’s the unofficial Hacker News RSS feeds.

On the design side:

• I like that profiles do not show the total karma count. I feel like that just incentivises mindless posting just to get that counter up (some people love seeing their numbers going up).

• I don’t think the “hot” sorting algorithm is very good yet. A lot of old posts were showing up (haven’t seen those lately, maybe it has been fixed), but the algorithm is still not great.

• Would be nice to auto hide posts that I already upvoted or downvoted. That option exists on Reddit

You’re welcome!

Had no idea that thunderbird didn’t do it, sounds like a pretty basic feature to me.

I’m not sure I understand… I thought all readers did this.

Doesn’t liferea do it? (It’s also gtk iirc)

Same.

I actually feel that my stubbornness has made my life better in this case.

I’ve been to Reddit since, but I no longer feel the need to scroll it. I just use it when I went to find a genuine human recommendation on a topic.

You can still use programming to leverage your current position.

If you work admin in an office and are able to automate a bunch of workflows with some simple scripts, you’ll have more leverage when salary raises start to get discussed.

Will your code be at the level a professional programmer would produce? Probably not, but you’re not competing with one.

Because I refuse to install the Reddit official app.

Do you mean buying your own domain, and forward email sent to it to an email provider?

A lot of email providers have that option (with paid plans). For example

https://proton.me/support/custom-domain

• ls / cd for basic stuff

• fzf if I want to find my way through the history

• broot if I want to search for a file

• ripgrep if I want to find a file with specific contents.

I know that the last 3 are not available by default, but they are good pieces of software, so I’m just going to install them.

at least I experimented Idk, that’s the point I guess.

That’s absolutely the point.

I’ve done most of my learning after messing up my system (or at least learnt the lessons that stuck the most).

You’re not going to learn much from a phone app. Specially programming.

“Learning apps” are mostly gamified gimmicks. If you never learned programming, you need a good book explaining the concepts of what you’re trying to learn, a computer, a project, and the internet to search when you get stuck.

I know it’s the boring answer, but this is one of those skills that it’s basically a lot of tinkering, exploration, and nose to the grindstone.

Maybe one of these?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)

I love blogs, specially from people with niche interests and experiences. I follow them via RSS. So that’s what I read outside of Lemmy / Reddit / Mastodon.

Recently I’ve been following the blog written by an IT guy working in a research station in Antarctica (also has a great domain name).

https://brr.fyi/