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.
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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.
Simon Willison’s recent talk at Django 2022 (Comping strategies for the serial project hoarder) is fascinating! His proposal is to ensure that every project has comprehensive documentation and automated tests. I am going to seriously look into this! (via Roland Tanglao)