Alexander Cobleigh

little update to everyone: i just went through a bunch of your bug reports and fixed them all! a new update is forthcoming!

what's left: produce new builds and do thorough build testing targeting e.g. newer debian and ubuntu releases while making sure old distros are still ok :)

Rad Reader community · Replied to Ross Karchner in Michievous feeds and other goblins

this has been addressed today! thanks for you patience. new update forthcoming once i get some more fixes and thorough build testing in :)

Rad Reader community · Replied to tsujigiri in Michievous feeds and other goblins

this has been addressed today! thanks for your patience and for reporting bugs :>

new update forthcoming once i get some more fixes and thorough build testing in :)

Rad Reader community · Replied to Alexander Cobleigh in Michievous feeds and other goblins

for anyone else following along: these should all work as of the next update!

Rad Reader community · Replied to abekonge in Michievous feeds and other goblins

also fixed today!

Rad Reader community · Replied to gustavolsson in Michievous feeds and other goblins

this was fixed today! thanks for your patience and for reporting bugs :>

Rad Reader community · Replied to abekonge in Michievous feeds and other goblins

these have been fixed today! it had to do with the user agent i was using :) thanks for your patience and for reporting bugs :>

Rad Reader community · Replied to Keeba in Michievous feeds and other goblins

Alexander Cobleigh303 days ago (1 edit)

this has been fixed today! it had to do with the user agent i was using :) thanks for your patience and for reporting bugs :>

Rad Reader community · Replied to j12i in Michievous feeds and other goblins

Alexander Cobleigh1 year ago

these have both been fixed today! thanks for your patience and for reporting bugs :>

Flickjam 2025 community · Posted in Oh hey! flickgame dev here

I'm not sure if I missed something (read the manual a couple of times!) But would it be possible to add a hotkey / tool / modifier so that when pressed and I click a colour, it takes me to the associated frame if one is set?

Rad Reader community · Posted in does the demo accept xml import files?

Alexander Cobleigh1 year ago

Rad Reader accepts imports (and automatically produces its own exports) using the OPML format that's commonly used in the RSS ecosystem. There are instructions on importing here https://cblgh.org/rad-reader-manual/#importing-feeds but the gist of how it currently works is that you provide the path in Rad Reader's input field to the OPML file you are trying to import. You could try to rename the XML file you have with .opml, provide the file path and see if it works :)

Basically everything that's in the purchased version is in the demo except persisting to disk. I just double-checked and importing by OPML works in the demo!

If you have any more details or can provide a subset of the XML you are trying to import, that could give me something more substantial to go on. As an aside (mostly for myself:) while trying things out right now I noticed one instance of OPML file that isn't being handled correctly right now.

Rad Reader community · Posted in [Feature request] Show old data when update request fails

Alexander Cobleigh1 year ago

Hey! This is a fantastic request and an excellent use case. I will see about attending to it this fall. I will update you in this thread when it's done!

Zkolada comments · Replied to Valdus in Zkolada comments

https://capsul.bearblog.dev/rss.xml

Happy to hear you like it! Were you thinking of a standalone application that runs entirely outside of Hypercard? How so, are you wanting to use it as a serious application for storing notes?

Rad Reader community · Posted in Michievous feeds and other goblins

Alexander Cobleigh2 years ago (2 edits)

https://qntm.org/rss.php

https://herman.bearblog.dev/ (has <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/feed/?type=rss"> in <head> but not pulled down)

Rad Reader community · Replied to Ross Karchner in Michievous feeds and other goblins

This should have been fixed in the release that's out today! :>

Rad Reader community · Replied to n1kken in Michievous feeds and other goblins

I reached out to the author of wolfmd.me because, when I looked into it, it was his handcoded entry that was messing up in this particular instance! I think it should be fixed?

Rad Reader community · Replied to fletch in Michievous feeds and other goblins

This should have been fixed in the release that's out today! :>

Rad Reader community · Posted in can't install using itch.io app

This has now been added! More details in the devlog https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader/devlog/689209/bug-fixes-galore-and-osx-builds

Rad Reader community · Posted in ARM64 or Apple M1/M2 support?

I'm happy to share that there's now OSX (and M1/M2) support! You can read more in the latest devlog :> https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader/devlog/689209/bug-fixes-galore-and-osx-builds

Rad Reader community · Posted in getting feed [err]: could not find resource

oh that's strange, the feed looks alright when downloaded and viewed in my editor. in a while i'll give it a look and return to this thread with my findings!

Rad Reader community · Posted in Way to reset / export feeds?

Alexander Cobleigh2 years ago (1 edit)

Heya :) Caught this in the approval queue *just* now, sorry for that wait. Yes you can import & export feeds using opml, it's covered in the manual. For resetting the app you simply delete the files mentioned in the manual in section Files.

Rad Reader community · Posted in Some feature requests

Saw this earlier but only gotten around to responding now: tThanks for the requests, taking them with me and mulling them about for the future :)

Rad Reader community · Posted in ARM64 or Apple M1/M2 support?

Hi! Since it's been oft requested, I've looked into getting it working on OSX! I've had preliminary success with that and I'm aiming for a Mac release early next year :)

Rad Reader community · Posted in Sorting

Thanks for the report and subsequent poke! It WAS actually a bug in Rad Reader, and now fixed thanks to your help ^_^ See the screenshot below.

Apologies it took some time to get back to you, there's been a lot on the work-front recently. Gearing up to make a new release of bug fixes around the new year for Rad Reader :)

Rad Reader community · Posted in can't install using itch.io app

Alexander Cobleigh2 years ago (1 edit)

Hi, I will look into adding support for this with the next release! You will have to download the binaries from the release page for now, sorry for the inconvenience! This is my first real foray into itch.io 🙇‍♂️

Rad Reader community · Replied to robotic_scarab in Michievous feeds and other goblins

Ah sorry, I introduced a bug when I refactored before release. Someone else reported this last week and I fixed it then, so it will be out in the next update! :)

Rad Reader community · Replied to brhfl in Michievous feeds and other goblins

no worries, it's what i tested on as well!

Rad Reader community · Replied to brhfl in Michievous feeds and other goblins

huh! i'll look into that, i run it on windows as well and never got it flagged. are you on windows 11?

Rad Reader community · Replied to efelbar in Michievous feeds and other goblins

good one! this was running into the same atom oversight as the sive.rs issue elsewhere in the thread, it's fixed and will be out next update! :)

Rad Reader community · Replied to tsujigiri in Michievous feeds and other goblins

thanks for this one, it revealed a, now fixed, oversight in the atom parsing routine - sivers now works! (will be released in next update). though, for some odd reason, i sometimes have to try his feed twice before it goes in -- not sure if that's due to his domain being a bit slow or what :)

Rad Reader community · Replied to emma essex in Michievous feeds and other goblins

Alexander Cobleigh3 years ago (1 edit)

in regards to specific feed-related issues, it seems to not load the two latest entries on my own feed @ https://heckscaper.com/rss.xml. a couple other readers i have on hand seem to be parsing it without issue. i don't think it's an issue with formatting on my end, but it would be great to know what end the issue is on.

thanks for this, it was on my end! thanks to you the time parsing routine is now a bit more resilient in terms of handling different representations! :)

Rad Reader community · Replied to mia soweli in Michievous feeds and other goblins

Yes sorry! Rendering of the app is attempted with the system's webviewer, which in the case of Linux the program tries to use webkit (as noted). I'll try to do some testing on one of these distros where it is not bundled coming up, but I'm not sure I can promise a good fix for this as it's central to the construction.

The drawback is needing that dependency installed, but the benefit is that it's only installed once: binaries never need to include it, and if other programs attempt to use the system webviewer they will also rely on the same instance.

Perhaps I should list the dependency requirement somewhere so that it is more explicit.. What do you all think?

Rad Reader community · Posted in Sorting

Entries within a feed should be reverse-chrono! Do you have a feed for me to try that seems to not adhere to this?

In case this is what is happening (don't think so, tho): when first adding a feed url, it will appear at the top as a way to give the user feedback that "ah, yes the feed was added!" but it will be resorted next time a fetch happens.

Rad Reader community · Replied to emma essex in Michievous feeds and other goblins