Miniflux

Various bits and bobs, I gradually accumulated over the past couple of years, to make my self hosted Miniflux look just the way I want it. Width and Size Changed the width to 850 pixels wide, because even on my vertical monitor, there was quite a bit of wasted horizontal space. Changed the body to use a slightly smaller size. body { max-width: 850px; !important; font-size: 90%; } Italic Blockquotes Changed blockquotes to be italic, so that they’re better set off against normal body text. Also made them a wee bit tinier than the body. ...

I use Miniflux as my feed reader, and I love it to bits. It does what I need, it does it fast and it stays out of the way. Well, almost. I have a couple of those—whatchacalit—firehose feeds. And I keep skimming through them by clicking next, next, next on each page. Like so, Except for when there is no next under my pointer. ...

I finally got done, moving the blog from Nikola to Hugo today. I already wrote about why I did it. These are a few more thoughts about what went into the endeavour; and some colophonesque details. One, really small hope, is that it will help me learn Go. The DevOps world that I now seek to enter, speaks Go. I also, now run two Go programs that are indispensible to me, Hugo and Miniflux. And being the control freak, that I am, I’d love to tweak them to just how I like it. Nikola did help learn me Python, after all. ...

Pleased as punch, with my Miniflux instance. RSS, is how I catch up with everything newsy and techy and with what people I want to hear from, have to say. I love it. I did face one teensy issue with it though. Every time I rebooted my machine, the Miniflux service would fail to start. I would just manually do a systemctl restart miniflux and it would start right up, with that innocent doggy face. ...

Something I learnt recently as I moved hosts for my Miniflux instance. I can just take all the variables I want (like feed refresh times, the base url or the address/port Miniflux listens on); and then stuff it into a config file and then launch miniflux like so … miniflux -c 'path/to/file' Pretty handy! P.S. The entire list of variables is here.