Timestamps

(00:24 ) Hosted Service Definition

• Account you have access to: web hosting, Dropbox, email, etc.


• “I would like an account on your service”

(01:22 ) Selfhosted Definition

• VPS, Dedicated, Colo, Garage, Old Laptop you maintain.
  
  
  
  • often Single point of failure
  
  
  • Distribution is part of our grand experiment!
  
  
  
  

(03:00 ) Status of the podcast

• Please do spread the word if you enjoy the show!


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  Castopod moved onto a hosted instance.
  
  
  
  • Castopod supports subscribing from the fediverse
  
  
  
  


• Now accepting paypal donations
  


• Domain registrar I recommend - Porkbun
  


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  Podcast Index
  


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  Value 4 Value & podcasting 2.0 listening support added for those on compatible clients.


• Join our Matrix Chat
  
  
  
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    Draupnir moderation bot. Fork of Mjolnir.
  
  
  
  

(07:40 ) What tool do you find the most indispensable?

• Send in your thoughts to our Matrix chat or to podcast@james.network
  

My top tools: notes and a password manager.

(08:05 ) KeePass - 20+ years of goodness on all platforms! Portable, encrypted, awesome.

• Distribute your databases to better manage your services


• People have paid me to teach them this!


• Friends & Family approved open source!
  
  
  
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    KeepassXC on Linux, Mac, Windows
  
  
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    Keepassium on iOS
  
  
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    KeepassDX on Android
  
  
  
  

(10:20 ) Hey, where is my keepass? sketch

(11:30 ) RSS protocol for updates & notifications.

• The introverts “social” network dashboard


• As good as you make it. Be patient.


• Basis for all podcasting

(12:10 ) RSS Clients - use them on any device to get started.

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  RSSowl - barebones and available on Linux Windows, MacOS. Java based.


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  Newsboat - top notch terminal application. Successor to Newsbeuter.

(13:20 ) RSS Server applications

• Adds multi-user support, sharing, archiving, filtering, sync to clients.


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  FreshRSS
  


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  Miniflux
  


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  Tiny Tiny RSS
  


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  Nextcloud News filter issue
  

(16:45 ) Do you have recommendations for RSS compatible services? Let us know!

(17:00 ) feed2toot - relay you feed into the fediverse of services like Mastodon and this podcast (Castopod).

(17:20 ) RSS-bridge convert URL services to RSS

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  Public instances available for you to try.


• Subscribe to Youtube, Twitter and much more

(18:15 ) searxng - meta-search engine that supports subscribing to results as RSS.

(18:40 ) Wallabag self-hosted PHP archive for web links.

• Subscribes to RSS Feeds


• integrates with RSS server applications mentioned above as a Sharing feature

(19:00 ) Archivebox is another great self-hosted archive.

(19:30 ) Nextcloud Bookmarks.

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  Floccus front end for Firefix, Chrome, Edge, etc. to Nextcloud Bookmarks, WebDAV, Linkwarden, Git, Google Drive by same dev.


• Subscribe to your Bookmarks folders as RSS!


• Share bookmarks with your other RSS services.