In this era of moving away from Twitter, I have been reviewing the rssCloud protocol and think about its potential. I had not done anything about it, but saw this Twitter thread and really liked this comment by Preslav Rachev regarding building on RSS: “And best of all, everyone is free to build their own apps and tooling on top of it without restrictions, or stepping onto each other’s toes.”. I then decided to start playing around….
I read through the walkthrough document on the rssCloud site and decided that the simplest test would be to create some RSS feeds that have rssCloud elements, register them with a rssCloud server, then get the server to contact a server when the feeds updated, then display some information from the feeds. I started with this script from Dave Winer, updated it to provide web output, then ran the script twice to register two different feeds. I then made a video of running the script, posting to feeds using Drummer and FeedLand, then displaying the title or description of the most recent item in the feed, along with the feed name. The video is shown below. Source code and more instructions are available on Github. Let me know what you think!
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@Ron thanks! I am planning to continue to work on this project, so look for more updates soon.
@AndySylvester I’m gonna buy some big index cards as my next step, which I will use to catalog my now large radio collection.
@Ron sounds good, you should reach out to @ChrisAldrich, he is into index cards!
@AndySylvester I ordered 300 of the index cards that Chris uses from Amazon last night. I’ll start cataloguing my radios when they arrive.