Friday, November 30th, 2018

	Some news, everyone!
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I still have  no time  to phlog properly,  even though there  is half
dozen  of topics  I'd like to cover  (for starters my complete, utter
and total hatred for using hashtags in gopherspace).  But I find  (on
and off) time to add some functionality to my humble gopherhole.

This time it's a simple Perl script for parsing DistroWatch RSS feeds
with  new  distributions  and  packages  (using  just  XML::Parser as 
RSS::anything isn't in my repos). At the moment it's realtime with no
caching,  so everytime you display  that particular gophermap[1], the
DistroWatch server is queried. If that'll be a problem in the future,
some caching will be added,  but right now I don't suppose the gopher
audience is big enough for DistroWatch to even notice any significant
rise in ther statistics.

So fellow linux-positive gopherspace inhabitants, enjoy! I do.

[1] gopher://i-logout.cz/1/en/gdw/

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