Kyah Rindlisbacher

Participated in the Lightning Jam over the weekend. Check out the games. The theme was "Map and bread". Left4bread is the game my team created. http://www.aberrarium.com.au/lightning-jam-entries

Google Reader has reached the end of its life with Google's second spring cleaning.

I asked around on Google+ for a free alternative with a web interface. Among the suggestion was Tiny tiny rss a php based application. This suited me as I already run a few php applications on this sever.

Setting up the application was as simple as:

1. Creating a mysql user.
2. Creating a database.
3. Giving the user access to the database.
4. Editing the config.php.
5. Creating a virtual server in apache.

Importing the old subscriptions from Google Reader was also quite simple. I was able to download the subscriptions from Google Takeout in a xml format. After signing into the Tiny Tiny RSS application, the subscriptions.xml can be uploaded on the Perferences > Feeds > OPML settings page. After which setting-up a cron job to run path/to/install/update.php --feed will keep all the RSS feeds update to date.

After working at Visual Obsession for over 4 years. I finally have a website of my own.

Not being a "Designer" my first concepts were of high quality. After much deliberation I settled on this much simpler design.