Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup

Re:Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup by BaseballPhysics on Monday March 21, 2022 @11:58AM (#30755583)

Man, every time I read an Atlas Obscura article I enjoy it. Fortunately, I just discovered they have an RSS feed (despite all the rumours that RSS is dead) so it's now in my reader!

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Re:Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup by aerostable_slug on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:31PM (#30759313)

For a while I worked on a news application that depended on RSS, and a client needed their number of news sources radically increased for their international customer base. I discovered quite a lot of news sites around the world apparently still had a dusty server in a rack (or on a shelf) somewhere spewing out a feed, completely untouched for a decade+. You wouldn't find any links to it in the current UI, but there it was running on its cron job like a good little piece of software.

The problem was when the feed breaks, nobody remembers they had one in the first place...

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Re:Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup by cactusmatt on Monday March 21, 2022 @02:50PM (#30758153)

Great tip! I just added them to my RSS reader. Long live RSS!

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