Colin Walker is working on a new blog tool, it’s fun to read his posts narrating his work. I am working on a tool as well, still not ready for public view, but looking forward to completing my MVP.
Remembrance of the 2nd anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection
Two years ago today, Donald Trump sent a mob to the US Capitol to disrupt the counting of the Electoral College votes and attempt to have Donald Trump named the winner of the 2020 presidential election. We did not know then that this was the final step of a coup-conspiracy to keep Donald Trump as president. I was at my laptop computer, watching the events of the day on C-SPAN, thinking this was going to be the final step to take for the election of Joe Biden as president. Instead, a horrifying set of events unfolded where our democracy hung in the balance. In the end, the rioters left, and the counting of the electoral votes was completed. I have a liveblog that I created that day, it is still amazing to me the comments of the senators and congressmen/women who tried to protest the results of the election. The work of the House January 6th committee has documented what led up to the events of January 6th. In the published version of the report from HarperCollins, MSNBC legal correspondent contributed a foreward describing the eight crimes of this coup-conspiracy (parts of this are available as a podcast and a Substack newsletter, and discussed on the Brian Lehrer Daily Politics podcast).
Last year, there was a ceremony at the Capitol where the only Republicans in attendance were Liz Cheney and her father, Dick Cheney. Today, the House Democrats met on the steps of the Capitol in remembrance of this event, with one Republican attendee.
Joe Biden gave a speech and awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to individuals who helped keep that election safe.
A remembrance rally was held in Washington DC:
Let us not forget, so that this cannot ever happen again…
This weekend, I learned that Mastodon provides at least two types of feeds, your toots (Your feed URL is [instance]/users/[username].rss or .atom, for example https://mastodon.social/users/brownpau.rss), and your toots with replies (https://zirk.us/@bsigmon/with_replies.rss). In addition, there is a service called OpenRSS which can also generate RSS feeds for different Mastodon activity.
In the spirit of federation and the lack of need to review posts for standards (unlike this instance of editorial discretion), I present two new newsriver apps for collecting FeedLand user feeds and Mastodon user feeds that I am interested in. By the way, I decided to take feeds from two other products as an input to my products, and RSS said “yes!“
Had a great conversation with Ron Chester this week (long time 1999.io blogger on Thailand and ham radio topics and also on micro.blog). Ron is a great follower of Bob Dylan and ham radio, and I have set up two news rivers for Dylan and ham radio topics. Ron has a bunch of new low power rigs that he is going to try out in the new year…
Getting ready to leave Seattle and head back to Portland. Had a great lunch at Kanak Indian Cuisine and went to Pike Place Market. The best parts? It did not rain, and we were able to walk everywhere and not get a car.
I wonder what or who Dave Winer has grievances about?
Blogging from the train from Portland to Seattle, wifi is slow, but making do….
Got some good traction on Hacker News for my post on rssCloud, there were a number of good comments, I added some replies.
I finished reading this Wired article on RSS revival via a Hacker News post. The two interesting things to me were the subscriber base of Feedly (13 million) and The Old Reader (1 million) – sounds like there is a market there. The other thing is that this story was written in MARCH 2018! And it’s getting this much traction on Hacker News? 50 comments? Give me a break – this is ridiculous! To me, this shows that RSS is a hot topic among Hacker News readers.