serializer

serializer collects links from Hacker news & others and lists them in sequential order, some might even say it serializes them. It also collects a few other sources, not all of which are voting based, e.g. Ars Technica.

I deploy the app to serializer.io when there are changes to deploy. It's currently configured to work with dokku-alt. rufus-scheduler is used to run the collection tasks.

Features

• Read-to-Here Marker
• Loginless sessions for cross-device syncing
• Customizable source feeds - toggle sources in 'menu'
• Reading time estimates (based on 300wpm and a simple content extractor)
• Tweet counts that are updated for recently added items
• Basic duplicate link removal
• Tab title unread marker & background refresh

Feedback & Contributing

I'm keen to accept changes that make serializer work better for you, pull requests welcome. If something's not right open an issue. There's an anonymous feedback form here.

Notes

• rake collect_active & rake collect_feeds can be used to populate items, collection doesn't run automatically in development.
• Images and icons are hosted on Cloudinary.
• If the app runs into issues it sends notifications via Airbrake.

ENV Variables

To have everything up and running you'll need most of these set.

• CLOUD_NAME
• CLOUDINARY_SECRET
• CLOUDINARY_KEY
• AIRBRAKE_ID
• AIRBRAKE_PROJECT
• SECRET_KEY_BASE
• SECRET_TOKEN