Potater Top 10

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What is this all about?

Okay, so, there's a lot of stuff on the internet. There's so much stuff that it's hard to keep on top of it all. And on top of that, a lot of the stuff isn't always that interesting. So here's the deal, there, captain. I'll read everything on the entire internet, using a combination of RSS and my ability to take sites that don't have RSS and MAKE THEM into sites that have RSS... and then at the end of the day I'll post the ten best things. Then you can read them.

Of course, it helps if your interests are similar to mine, otherwise we won't see eye-to-eye. I like:

• web design, web comics, technology, typography,
• code, writing, and eating, photography,
• anything Vancouver local (I live there),
• transhumanism, SCIENCE!, computer repair,
• security, UI design, things that are orange
• and ... fuck.

Why "Potater"?

Because if you say 'potater top 10' it sounds like... 'tater tot ten'. And I like to eat tater tots.

Who is this Lassam fellow?

A Vancouver Software Developer/Cartoonist/Layabout. You can check my website at curtis.lassam.net

How does it work?

There's a whole article about that here. Let me tell you, though, it is totally ridiculous. The technical architecture is like what you would get if you had a million monkeys at a million typewriters for five minutes: A great deal of broken typewriters and thrown feces.

Seriously, though, while the HTML is all nice and purdy, this site is all-but designed for crazy RSS addicts.

The code and content for this site are both AGPL V.3 licensed. If you want to make your own potater, it's just as simple as editing the source - there's less than 20kb of it, so far. You'll probably want to remove my name and change the images around. In the future, I might distill Potater into a redistributable version with some configurable bits, but until then you're stuck just messing with the source code yourself.