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Education What To Do Next - Input Sought!

Discussion in 'General' started by Gareth Halfacree, 3 Nov 2025.

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  1. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    This is something we've actually had a lot of success with. Speaking with customers and staff in different regions it's gone down well.
     
    MLyons, 18 Nov 2025
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  2. Gareth Halfacree

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    Right, an update.

    The three-month scheme-of-work with my primary client ends this month, and I've just got off the phone with the dude there... and things have got interesting. I'm not at liberty to share the details, but the Big Boss is gone and the guy I was talking to is in the hot-seat for running things - at least for now.

    The whole revenue share thing is on-hold, and I was entirely correct in thinking the previous traffic targets were highly unreachable. However, I'm supposed to be getting a new five-month scheme-of-work under the same terms as the current one minus the revenue share bit - which is fine by me.

    When that expires, I should be good for a six-month rolling contract - fingers crossed on that.

    He's also keen to get me covering some events in-person, and has a plan for going more mixed-media - getting me to do a regular video series, which I've pushed back on unless the remuneration is handsome indeed.

    For now, though, looks like I can just carry on like I am - though, obviously, nothing's certain until the ink is on the page!
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 16 Jan 2026
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  3. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    Hearken unto me, slumbering thread, for I command you to rise once more…

    Did you ever set up an RSS feed of any kind for your work, Mr H?

    I can find the RSS for hackster.io, but obviously that’s a feed for the entire site. I can see the Gemini site, but honestly I’m still in two minds about Gemini…

    I set up FreshRSS a while back, and I’m trying to start making much better use of it. Up until now it’s basically been just “newsletters” - aka blogs - by Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron.
     
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  4. Gareth Halfacree

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    I did not! I did raise the idea of per-author RSS feeds with the powers that be, but that was, like, three big bosses ago, so I can't imagine it's a priority...
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 18 May 2026
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  5. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    Fair enough :happy:.

    I’m still going to add Hackster to the feed. I’ll have a nose around FreshRSS, there’s a whole filtering system that I haven’t played with yet.
     
    Byron C, 19 May 2026
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  6. Pookie

    Pookie Illegitimi non carborundum

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    I am just glad if I hit hard times I have youth and dashing looks on my side so I can start an OnlyFans. Anyway best of luck Gareth, it will all come together for you you I'm sure :thumb:
     
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  7. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    On the off-chance that anyone at Hackster HQ cares enough to allocate resource to fix it… I think the feed’s got a couple of issues, both likely due to the same root cause.

    Firstly this:

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    I’ve seen three author names come up in the feed so far, but it’s only your articles that show these placeholders. However that’s probably because you’re the only one using more than just three or four punctuation marks…

    Secondly, you may have noticed the lack of new lines in Hackster’s feed… That does appear in all articles, which is why it looks to me to be the same root cause. I don’t see this in other feeds, so it’s not a FreshRSS issue - for example:

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    That one’s RSS whereas the Hackster feed is Atom, so I did take a quick look at the raw feed files (hey, don’t judge, I absolutely am working - I’m waiting for an Azure DevOps pipeline to run…). Ed Zitron’s feed uses properly-formatted HTML/XML in the actual content - meaning <pr> </pr> tags for paragraph breaks and so forth - whereas the Hackster feed appears to be plain text.

    I know that it’s only a handful of aging nerds that actually care about RSS feeds these days. And don’t feel under any obligation to pass this “up the chain”, as it were, ‘cos I know this is all way beyond your remit as a writer… But old habits die hard: I spend a fair chunk of my working life investigating bugs and then documenting & flagging them when I can’t fix ‘em myself.
     
    Byron C, 20 May 2026
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