I Built a Mini App to Talk to Paul Graham's Essays
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Developer built a mini app to interact with Paul Graham's essays.
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I built this during my lunch break after reading PG's essays and wanting to ask follow up questions.
I used the RSS feed that Aaron Swartz created for Paul Graham's essays (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss) – seemed fitting to honor both their contributions to open knowledge.
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