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I had originally fallen in love with Ruby with the hopes of being able to use it on 16-bit DOS computers, but didn’t turn out to be possible. Since then I had stuck with it to tinker around quite a lot. But it turns out that a vast amount more programs are written in Python. Since my experiences with Ruby GUI toolkits were just horrifying, and all the Python GUI stuff I’ve seen is awesome, I think I’ll check things out.

I didn’t end up looking into Python much, but I have a bunch of notes.

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(port) > Thunderbird + YouTube + RSS

I thought YouTube didn’t do RSS any more, but Brad left a comment with details. They are untested.

RSS was tested with YouTube subscriptions. While it can do it, it’s atrocious. It doesn’t get everything, and doesn’t get new items even a week later, and it keeps showing duplicates. It’s horrifically slow.

See also:

  1. Exporting YouTube subscriptions as Thunderbird RSS feeds
  2. coming later: Exporting YouTube subscriptions as Google Reader RSS feeds
  3. coming later: Exporting YouTube subscriptions as an RSS OPML file



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