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I'm at it again: Last night, I got an initial stab at a plugin API for FeedSpool working.

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The first thing I built was an auto-adjusting feed poll schedule plugin which varies the time between feed polls based on whether there were new entries found in the latest poll. It's kind of like an AIMD algorithm used in networking—I thank Gnomon for the idea a few years back.

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The next thing I built was a quick plugin bundle I call miniagg. If you'd like a preview, I've posted an HTML snapshot of what miniagg produces. It's a refinement and reworking of various aggregator UI pieces I've had floating around since AmphetaOutlines, only I think this is the simplest and cleanest I've gotten it yet. (CSS and unobtrusive JavaScript, hooray!)

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This only seems to work on Firefox and Safari—it's currently broken for MSIE, and I don't care enough to fix it yet. (Something to do with multiple CSS classes, I believe.) But, if you're unfortunate enough to be using that browser, here's a screen capture:

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\"Miniagg-1\"

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