The Importance of Subscription and Nostalgic Anecdotes

This week, Federico and John interview Robb Knight, John’s co-host on Ruminate, a show about the open web, snacks, and the occasional videogame about Mastodon, ActivityPub, and the apps Robb uses day-to-day.

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Links and Show Notes

A Conversation with Robb Knight

• Ruminate
  • Ruminate is a bi-weekly podcast exploring the weird web, offbeat snacks, and more hosted by John Voorhees and Robb Knight. Every other Tuesday, John and Robb bring the weird web to your podcast player with their latest online discoveries, oddball snacks, and the occasional videogame obsession. It’s a fun and entertaining mix that will broaden your Internet horizons and amuse you at the same time.
• A Selection of Robb’s Projects
  • We Got Family podcast https://wegot.family
  • EchoFeed https://echofeed.app
  • Pokedon https://pokedon.rknight.me
• What Robb Uses
  • Hardware
    • First Mac: 2009 iMac
    • Current Mac: - 16” M2 Max with 64GB of memory and 1TB storage
  • Apps
    • Task Management: Godspeed
    • Email: Mail
    • Writing: Obsidian
    • Code: Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and PHP Storm
    • RSS: NetNewsWire for the Mac andReeder Classic for iOS synced with Miniflux
• Follow Robb
  • Website
  • Mastodon

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