<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:18:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@natebowie/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Turning a Physical Book/Doc into an ebook/doc with OCR]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here I go into how to scan physical books and documents, run optical character recognition (OCR) using Tesseract to make those scans searchable, and optionally dump that text into a text file that can]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tech/@natebowie/turning-a-physical-book-doc-into-an-ebook-doc-with-ocr</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tech/@natebowie/turning-a-physical-book-doc-into-an-ebook-doc-with-ocr</guid><category><![CDATA[tech]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natebowie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 00:14:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45ePcx9Hc5JmEzfhQ8SLHav4isiKawa13ZnHL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Years on Linux]]></title><description><![CDATA[A little over a decade ago Windows 8 was entirely unusable for me. 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(IMO, yes)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quick Tip: You can get a feed for your own Hive.Blog profile by sharing such as: Previous Related posts Why I like RSS How to Get RSS For Various Services Create Your Own RSS Feed from Scratch Okay, so]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tech/@natebowie/would-creators-benefit-from-rss-imo-yes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tech/@natebowie/would-creators-benefit-from-rss-imo-yes</guid><category><![CDATA[tech]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natebowie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:25:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8XPrHkfZdMtiM68fywBJwYt7EuhvkrGEfHKk3CXbbQwwViysxtrtx52UNz9s3tCbL4fozqhY37FeemqmXqKyfZqRNnBUqP4mAX3F9byFb2NVnYeB13uMuEsRki?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creating Hostable RSS Feeds from Scratch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Version Text Version After a little trial and error I’ve found what I think is the best way to manually create an RSS file for self hosting a feed that can encompass any content you want to publish]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tech/@natebowie/creating-hostable-rss-feeds-from-scratch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tech/@natebowie/creating-hostable-rss-feeds-from-scratch</guid><category><![CDATA[tech]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[natebowie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:32:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eR9UEU3L9E7VPpRG775XHgPvSg322ALQWmt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get RSS Feeds for Nearly Anything]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Version Text Version I wrote a bit about feeds already, namingly why feeds are The Best™, how to make a self hosted feed from scratch, and why I think creators can benefit from feeds. 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