Feedlark 3.0: Bird of Prey

Feedlark 3.0: Bird of Prey

Features:

• Ordering of feed items using machine learning!
• Bookmarking feed items
• Lovely favicons
• Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
• Email Verification
• Email Summaries
• ReCAPCHA on registration
• Security on all Gearman requests
• General stability improvements across the backend
• CLI for backend tools
• Production server automatically syncing with master branch
• Persistent "items per page" setting
• Minified site assets improving load time and bandwidth usage
• Refactored article-getter

Stats:

• 947 commits
• 790 continuous integration builds
• 18,000+ messages in slack
• 144 total backlog items completed
• 5 tired programmers

Feedlark: Taking Flight

End User Features

• Converted the web server to express.js, which speeds it up.
• Users can generate API tokens for use with the plaintext endpoint
• Feeds are filterable by keyword and feed
• Plaintext endpoint is available

Isolated Backend Features

• Have a gearman worker that finds a crossover between article topics and user's interested words using word vectors
• Have a gearman worker that takes in the users interested words

Warning

Autogenerated data is invalid and must be removed after vagrant provision.

Inside the vagrant run these commands:

mongo
> use feedlark;
> db.user.remove({"username":"sully"});

Known Bugs

• Interested and disinterested buttons are broken, due to the fact that the PR for like and dislike buttons wasn't code reviewed in time.

Feedlark: Hatchling

Feedlark v1.0: Hatchling

Features:

• User Authentication
• Support for 3 RSS feed versions
• Support for 2 Atom feed versions
• Modular system with easy load balancing through Gearman
• Simple website following material design principles
• Easy dev environment deployment with Vagrant
• Jenkins CI support
• Automated polling of feeds
• Per-user feed aggregation
• Database abstraction layer through Gearman

Stats:

• 277 commits
• 56 backlog items closed
• 17,000+ lines of in repo (including webserver dependencies)
• 243 continuous integration builds