I already find the name of this piece of software funny.
I haven’t been really satisfied with any RSS reader I’ve tried since google reader got shutdown, so seeing a new one piques my interest, I’ll give this a shot.
first, i’d like to admit that vore is mostly a result of my neurosis. i’ve never really built a CRUD application before, and wanted to dip my toes in with something small - that’s reasonable enough. but what really pushed me were a variety of interests of mine intersecting:
embedded sqlite
rss feed following
website minimalism
golang
then, i built out a set of more aesthetic requirements
easy to keep entire app in head
trivial to navigate on very first attempt
explanation of app through first login flow
very few deps
no javascript
single http response per request
frameworkless
i hand-rolled the auth system, the templating engine, and the routing framework - combining ideas from all over the place - notably icyphox’s legit and hashicorp’s consul. reading the stdlib helped a lot too.
i found a sqlite library that requires no os dependencies. similarly, the rss library requires no os dependencies. it wound up feeling perfect - sqlite is such a great little database. it just works so obviously & is so pleasant compared to postgres for me.
since vore is entirely self-contained, it can start as long as it has rw privileges - it also has no configurables yet, which helps - running a dev instance really is just go run .
tangentially, i hope that vore might be a decent project for beginners to read, since it ties together a bunch of different tools and concepts in more-or-less plain go.
ty for the feedback, and i agree! i tried implementing this, but adding the feed title wound up being a little harder to solve than it seemed. there’s kind of an issue with making sure the data is in the right place at the right time. i think i can get it solved soon but it’s hard to say. i think a new struct is probably in order or something, i’ll have to rethink a few things.
Just looked into this myself (<3 tiny codebases). I think a good solution would be to add a field that just gives the base URL that the feed item comes from? Which should be gettable by grabbing Item.link and then truncating it to just the domain.
When I look for project names, top of my list is very niche, very weird pron genres. Sticks with people.
you might even say it consumes them
i’m sorry
…no you’re not. :-P
One day the domain for this is going to expire and we’ll all be in for minor hilarity. Naming matters sometimes.
I already find the name of this piece of software funny.
I haven’t been really satisfied with any RSS reader I’ve tried since google reader got shutdown, so seeing a new one piques my interest, I’ll give this a shot.
Some meatier feedback:
I’m curious @j3s if you want to talk about how it’s built?
edit: Ahhhh…it’s golang + sqlite!
thx for asking!
first, i’d like to admit that
voreis mostly a result of my neurosis. i’ve never really built a CRUD application before, and wanted to dip my toes in with something small - that’s reasonable enough. but what really pushed me were a variety of interests of mine intersecting:then, i built out a set of more aesthetic requirements
i hand-rolled the auth system, the templating engine, and the routing framework - combining ideas from all over the place - notably icyphox’s legit and hashicorp’s consul. reading the stdlib helped a lot too.
i found a sqlite library that requires no os dependencies. similarly, the rss library requires no os dependencies. it wound up feeling perfect - sqlite is such a great little database. it just works so obviously & is so pleasant compared to postgres for me.
since
voreis entirely self-contained, it can start as long as it has rw privileges - it also has no configurables yet, which helps - running a dev instance really is justgo run .tangentially, i hope that
voremight be a decent project for beginners to read, since it ties together a bunch of different tools and concepts in more-or-less plain go.i appreciate it!
i like the word vore bc it means “feeding” which is what the app does :D i don’t mind the more vulgar association i guess
i’m glad u like it! i put in a lot of hours tuning vore to make it feel right, it took longer than you’d think!!
yes I tried googling this project and got some very different results.
This line has a different meaning when taking the name of this new project into account
The name is hilarious. Unfortunately the domain is blocked by our company internal filtering. I guess specifically because of the name ( ; ; )
I love this! My only, tiniest complaint, is that the feed interface doesn’t tell you from which feed the post is from!
ty for the feedback, and i agree! i tried implementing this, but adding the feed title wound up being a little harder to solve than it seemed. there’s kind of an issue with making sure the data is in the right place at the right time. i think i can get it solved soon but it’s hard to say. i think a new struct is probably in order or something, i’ll have to rethink a few things.
Just looked into this myself (<3 tiny codebases). I think a good solution would be to add a field that just gives the base URL that the feed item comes from? Which should be gettable by grabbing Item.link and then truncating it to just the domain.
great idea! i implemented it, let me know what you think.
Ah that’s so much more legible now, thanks!!
The text doesn’t fit the screen of my iPhone, requiring me to scroll sideways, fyi
@friendlysock 1000% agreed. jfc smh
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