Andy
Andy
@alsylves@andysylvester.com
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  • Looking to reduce memory usage for WordPress sites

    I migrated all of my websites from Bluehost to Opalstack this summer. I am on the Single Stack plan, which provides shared hosting with 1 GB of RAM. When I was on Bluehost, I never worried about how much memory was being used when a site was accessed. Since moving to Opalstack, I noticed that…

  • More gripes about RSS feeds from newspaper websites

    I am continuing work on my Feed News Archive project, adding feeds from US newspaper websites. There is a combination of sites that do not offer feeds, sites with difficult ways to access feeds, some WordPress VIP sites that block access to their feeds (?!) and one (Seattle Times) that seems to only allow access…

  • Dave Winer talks about how to create a standard in 2026, but offers RSS.chat as the standard being described. I don’t buy it. Is this project leading to developing a standard for chat networks? I don’t think so….can anyone help me out here?

  • This story about a pop-up restaurant in Woodstock NY (via Daveverse) is puzzling. My takeaway is that they did not have enough staff – did people not want to work in Woodstock?

  • “Moderation” at demo.rss.chat

    When Dave Winer first released the rss.chat application, he stated that the rss.chat instance would be restricted to a small number of participants. He later created the demo.rss.chat instance for anyone to try out. In his initial post, he said he did not “want to get into moderation”. Soon, however, he posted comment guidelines, which…

  • Second WP test post using different email/account

  • Test post from my WordPress site (andysylvester.com) to my rss.chat instance (rsschat.andysylvester.com)

  • Ricardo Mendes has been doing some interesting development inspired by rss.chat, his application is called Really Simple Conversations (see his instance and Github repo) – check it out!

  • Updated my install of rss.chat (rsschat.andysylvester.com) to the latest server code to pick up a security patch, everything seems to be running smoothly. It is open to all!

  • I created a local viewer for my OPML Zettlekasten file that I created in 2022 and updated posts. The code uses a combination of the outlineBrowser2 and opmlPackage repos from Dave Winer. I will add a repo in my account soon with the setup that I used.