Subcurrent

In January, I started a monthly hack session for the Astoria Tech Meetup. This adds to our community's lineup of recurring events, which consist of weekly coffees and monthly tech talks.

Astoria Tech Meetup hacks

The new hack session is just a few hours every month where we can get together and work on community projects.

As an example, one of the groups is building a project called localmart, "a platform for local businesses to sell their products and services to local customers". It's going to help with problems like "Where in walking distance can I buy an HDMI cable?" and "Does the coffee shop have beans in stock today?".

What is Subcurrent?

The project I've worked on at the first two hack sessions is called Subcurrent, an RSS feed aggregator. It brings together content from Astoria Tech community members into a single web page and RSS feed.

My motivation for Subcurrent is to encourage more content creation and knowledge sharing in our community, particularly for self-publishers who don't have platform algorithms helping them get the word out.

I'll keep adding feed sources as people bring them to me. If you're in the Astoria Tech community and you publish an RSS, Atom, or JSON feed, ping me or drop a PR in the repo.

Subcurrent is like living in 2005—today. Go check it out and subscribe.