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NetNewsWire, the RSS feed aggregator and reader program on macOS and iOS, turned 23 today.

I use it hand in hand with Miniflux to catch up on news sources, podcasts, subreddits and YouTube video releases. It has become an essential tool for helping me get through my day, and one I absolutely want to leave open in background on my Mac unless I need to do something memory-intensive.

I personally created and use a brutalist-style theme for it called Compakt.

Happy birthday NetNewsWire and best of wishes to the development team! Here’s to many more years of one of my favourite, if not my absolute number one RSS reader. And long live RSS.

CloudFlare services having issues globally also knocked down ChatGPT and Claude. Coincidentally, my sibling is taking a certificate exam at this time…

My entire Docker setup experienced some downtime yesterday. I did some weekly maintenance, as usual, upgrading the linux-aarch64 kernel to 6.17.7. What I wasn’t aware however, the pre-compiled version of the new kernel omitted the raw table from iptables, preventing Docker from dropping incoming connection to the container system.

https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17296

6.18rc seems to have reverted this, but with the move from legacy iptables to nftables I decided to replace iptables with iptables-nft and restarted the Docker service. All good now.

Maybe I shouldn’t live life on the bleeding edge…

Part 2: I got nervous getting a public IPv4 address from my ISP, and protecting my Pi from the port attackers out there.

Part 1 of a three-plus-part story on my experience of getting a Raspberry Pi and setting it up to be my personal server for self-hosting services.