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We thought about doing that and decided not to.
Just wrote a post about that on scripting.
Don't think of this as a product Rob. Think about features you want in other people's products. Think of this as a source of feeds, not a destination for them.
I have a whole other product for that called FeedLand, btw. ;-)
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New sub-menu on Docs menu
Reply rss.chatTitle of the menu -- RSS & OPML.
Links to the RSS 2.0 spec, the OPML 2.0 spec, source namespace and the RSS as a social network walkthrough.
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto . “We can now build...
Reply kottke.orgThe Resonant Computing Manifesto. “We can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them.”
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A feed icon on every post
1 reply rss.chatThere's now a feed icon on every post.
When you click it a new tab opens with the post, ready to paste into your feed reader.
A blog post with a screen shot and explainer.
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I was just thinking how amazing it'll be once we can aggregate our own RSS into this chat and it's transparent to everyone. My goodness that'll be amazing.
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I don't do any of the shopping, other than clicking a bunch to get the meal kit orders scheduled weeks in advance. I can't stand shopping, for anything, really. All parts of the process are not good, and I don't even like online shopping that much. Meal kits got me into cooking about 10 years ago, and I continue to marvel at how good the meals I make are (some being bland, but none ever being bad). Every now and then I'll make something from scratch, but months and months will go by. I thought about what it would take to level up, and it would have to be an in-person course.
About a year ago, maybe longer, I gave up using my oven for anything other than storage. It's either air frying for roasting or picking an alternative method to cook something. I don't make any desserts or anything like that. I haven't used my slow cooker in years, and I only use my Instant Pot for making rice (it's kind of awesome, though overpriced if I'm just using it for one function).
It feels like my instincts are good after the amount of experience I have now. The recipes I have seem to want me to overcook things, so I only do the bare minimum in terms of time, then let other processes do the cooking. Meat cooks when the sauce it's in is simmering, right? Stuff like that.
The recipes also call for "While [x] is cooking, do [y]" but I can't multitask, so I do all of my cooking sequentially. Meals take about an hour to make, which feels like too long. I've experienced joy when cooking with people, and it really does halve the time. I miss that about cohabitating with somebody.
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Much better approach !
same for dropping S3 and having Feeds in the database ! - rss.chat
I'm already changing the deploy/ overlay in my fork to adapt to your changes :)
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I'm taking a screen shot of this post, so I need there to be a reply. ;-)
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We undid this, it works this way now. One server. Makes setup much easier. Please check it out, and do the upgrade on your instance.
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A feed icon on every post
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Now it's easy to find an author's feed on RSS.chat.
Click the feed icon to see the feed on rss.chat. You can then give this URL to any feed reader.
Now each post is visibly connected to the author's feed.
This is how we're building out. Our job is to make it easy to write feeds for groups of users as small as one and as big as you can imagine. And be open about it so we get lots of competition that interops with us and everything we interop with. This is the step that makes it the web.
We will keep beating the drum, showing users of today's readers how they can hook in, right now, nothing to wait for. And as time goes by, if it works, the reader developers will be interested in how they can use the extra features.
This is how I think every social network work, start moving out of their silo, with determination. By offering this option, we put the idea out there that there can be a single social network on the web. We can work together make it happen. The social web of the web. ;-)
Please come along on this journey.
There's going to be lots of new tech coming online.
I want everyone to be a part of it.
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What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like...
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Changed on my side !
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Feed URLs change
Reply rss.chatThe URLs for the feeds have changed. If you haven't subscribed to any of the feeds here, you don't need to do anything. But if you have, you should read this note, and subscribe via the new URL and unsub from the old one.
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Server upgrade: We made it easier to set up a new instance of the RSS.chat server. If you have subscribed to a feed, you should change the URL in your reader app, the new issue explains what changed.
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I've been eating an apple either for breakfast or as a snack for over a year now, mainly as a way to introduce fruit to my diet (otherwise it would be absent). I couldn't tell you that I feel better as a result, or that I'm measurably healthier, or even that I feel like I've eaten something afterwards. That's one of the points of snacks, is it not? To not be hungry for a little while? Since there's no real downsides, and it really is healthy, I'll keep doing it.
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check your email for login detail https://indiekit-demo.rmendes.net
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A little test drive
thank you
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📝 2026-07-16 11:47: A few of us were talking to one of the summer interns at work about...
Reply kevquirk.comA few of us were talking to one of the summer interns at work about age:
Someone: How old do you think Kev is?
Intern: [with all the confidence in the world] 50?
I turn 42 in August. FML. 🤣
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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I find it both exciting and confusing to be thrilled about the advent of agentic software development (you can make your own perfect software if you want) as well as a resurgence of this social network through classic protocols like RSS. Somehow it doesn't compute in my head yet it does....
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I'm an RSS enthusiast: with Claude's help I built Mytis, a self-hosted chat web app where every conversation is an RSS 2.0 feed (Node.js + embedded SQLite, behind Authentik).
Could Mytis post into demo.rss.chat — and what would it take on my side?
Prototype, a conversation re-emitted in yoursource:namespace: https://sofab.ch/public/outbound-rss/rss-chat/mytis-sample.xml - Reply demo.rss.chat
Writing is painful for some people. A lot of people! And just because you do it a lot, it doesn't mean you're good at it.
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pourquoi pas? you can meet people at bars, book readings, yoga, aquafit, hiking club so many irl places that don't require a computer
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u do u. folks should not shame others!
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butterflies and zebras and moonbeams ....fly on little wing
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i was there, the good ole days :-)
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I'm actually thinking of leaving computing (outside of work) but that would be a big sacrifice, since a lot of wondrous things (movies, TV shows, music, trying to meet possible mates) require a computer these days.
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Butterflies, yes!
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I couldn't do it for work, at least not right away, but I'm contemplating leaving the web. Despite best efforts of those who are trying to save it, the web sucks. I almost think that that if was once worth saving, it's not anymore. It's too hostile an environment for gentle people, and I don't want to be anywhere where I have to grow a thick skin or have to dismiss the garbage that pops and tries to distract me from whatever I set out to do.
There's cozy corners of the web, but the people in those cozy corners only ever talk about how cozy it is there. They never talk about plants or swimming or lovemaking or settling disputes. It's only just about how great their corner of the web is. Boring.
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How long can you go without your smartphone? As in, leave the house without it and not need it? I've been trying little experiments like going for an hour-long walk, or going to the pool, and not bringing my iPhone with me. I don't recommend it for people who are somebody else's emergency contact, or if you need it to live.
For context, I'm a late-forties white male who lives in the middle of a large North American city that's extremely safe. I think I'd need it if I want ride on the local bikeshare, because I can't find the card for it, and that may not even work anymore. Maybe I only need a credit card? I'd miss playing music or listening to a podcast or audiobook on longer walks.
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yes definitely coming your way over email, gimme a few hours
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A few highlights from a collection of lovely...
Reply kottke.orgA few highlights from a collection of lovely woodblock-printed sugoroku game boards from Japan. “The gameboards use stories and maps to teach children history and geography.”
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I would also say it's easy to do this if it's not your money you're spending. 😜
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The beauty of having access to coding agents is that you get to create a tool shaped exactly to the problem you're trying to solve. I'm working with some data in a PostgreSQL DB that has a JSONB column. This introduces problems in a typical client: either because only the first few characters of a multi-KB JSON structure is rendered, or the full JSON structure is rendered and it blows out the size of the table.
So I asked Claude Code to make a client that would open the value of JSONB columns in a separate window, nicely formatted and syntax highlighted. I'm using it right now and it's been a godsend. It's hard justifying putting in the time to build this manually for a project that will probably only last a month or so. But asking the agent to do it in a day? Not a problem.
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"Field notes from first contact with a new medium"
Reply demo.rss.chat“A blog used to be a place where you published what you noticed. Now, after enough years, it can also become something a machine can notice you through.”
Milton (the personal AI agent of a friend) read all 6,500 of my blog posts.
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Gnomedex 5 (2005)
1 reply demo.rss.chatPresenters at this year’s conference include: Adam Curry, Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor, Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Marc Canter, John Battelle, Dan Gillmor, and others. Okay, this is the kind of stuff that interests me. If sitting in a conference room for three days listening to people talk about blogging and podasting and RSS and shit like that doesn’t sound like any fun to you… you can start to understand why your idea of a vacation doesn’t make me clap my little hands.
PS: You had to be there.
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Dave Winer's Comment Guidelines (2017)
Reply demo.rss.chatNot a reference to anything I've seen here. Just looking for stuff to share as I explore. I've been saving DW wisdom for twenty years. Oh, here is a link to the guidelines.
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The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43)
Reply kottke.orgNicholas Rougeux, whose work I have featured here before, has published a complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history published in the early-to-mid 19th-century. As part of the project, Rougeux restored each of the more than 1300 illustrations in the library, and the results are fantastic.
Rougeux wrote a post on the history of The Naturalist’s Library and how the project came about.
The Library is credited with having a significant democratizing effect on the study of natural history because Jardine and Lizars prioritized affordability and portability. Each book was only 4 by 6 inches and priced at six shillings, making them a much more accessible alternative to the “unwieldy folios” from other naturalists. This led to a tremendous demand for each one, resulting in tens of thousands of copies being printed overall. Just two years into publication, a notice appears at the beginning of one volume stating, “we have sold upwards of 60,000 volumes, in which there have been nearly 2,400,000 coloured plates given as Illustration.” Exact sales numbers are difficult to come by but history has shown that the series was very popular with estimates of 10,000 copies sold for each volume, totaling at least 400,000.
In order to help with his research, he borrowed a biography of Jardine from the library and built a custom rig out of K’nex construction toy pieces to scan the whole thing.
About a month later, I discovered a 2001 biography about Jardine, Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History, which only existed as a physical copy. I emailed the publisher to ask for a digital copy but had no luck. So I did what any self-respecting researcher would do and borrowed it on an inter-library loan and made my own digital copy by building a very janky custom rig out of old K’nex parts to take pictures of each page with my phone that I later combined into a searchable PDF. The OCR on it could be improved but having it available digitally allowed me to consult it in my research.
You can check out the shop for posters of the illustrations as well as a complete, bound, 800-page volume of all 1300+ illustrations.
Tags: art · books · design · illustration · Nicholas Rougeux · science · The Naturalist’s Library
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Given the good weather there are quite a lot of butterflies around this week. This looks like quite an old one that has been in the wars, black faded and very ragged. I wonder what tales it could tell. My butterfly by month page is building nicely.
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Simpler instance-starting
1 reply rss.chatWe just converted both rss.chat and demo.rss.chat to use a different storage system, instead of using Amazon S3 to store the feeds, we're storing them in our database. So instead of there being two domains for on system, now there's only one. Cuts out one of the most complicated parts of setting up a new instance.
So if this works, it will show up on the blogroll on Scripting News, which is watching the old url, which should redirect to the new one.
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Hello. Heard about this from Manton Reece too and I got curious. We'll see what happens when I click "Publish".
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Heard about this from Manton Reece. Watching with interest.
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Hi Scott — the server install just got simpler. Feeds now live in the database and the server serves them itself, so there's no S3 bucket and no AWS account in the setup anymore. install.md and config.md are updated to match. Since you've done this install for real, would you give the new instructions a read and tell us how it goes?
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Hello world!
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Frank, see the wedge next to the comment icon?
If you flick that down, you see the responses to the post.
If they have responses, you can flick them too.
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A Year of AquaFit and Six Months of Swimming Lessons
2 replies demo.rss.chat(This is an uncorrected draft of a blog post going out tomorrow.)
A friend's wife suggested, about 10 years now, and I consider AquaFit for physical activity. That was during my running phase, so I didn't outride reject it if maybe keep it as an option along with yoga.
Fast-forward a decade, and a move across the country later, I started living in a neighbourhood that had a YMCA being built, one that would be a few years behind schedule. On July 16th, 2025, the second day it was open, I took my first class. We were all facing towards the shallow end, and I, not knowing too much about where to to, took the shallow end. At 6'3", I stuck out of the water a bit, but had a great workout, a gentle and low-impact aerobic workout that had elements of strengthening. Perfect! After the next few classes, we switched to facing the sides (perpecticular to either the shallow or deep ends). Since then, I am in the middle, with just enough water to cover my torso with the ability to touch the bottom of my feed. A month in, I noticed the impact already: Stronger arms and an earlier rise than I normally would to make the 8 AM classes. I'm now part of the 8 AM crew's group chat, and we have coffee every now and then and see each other on the street. It's one of 3 neighbourhood groups I'm part of, the other being the neighbourhood association and a friend group that grew out of that.
Over the summer, in my hometown of Courtenay, I took to swimming in the river, telling my dad that I'm leaving my phone at home, and that I'd be back in an hour, and would just dry off on the way back. That experience was so good, but my swimming so obviously degraded that, in the new year, I started taking swimming lessons. I decided to take "intermediate" lessons since I figured I knew how to swim already, but needed bolstering of my technique. What I didn't know that I needed was a lot of work on breathing and endurance. Since then, I'm now in my third "semester" of that lessons group. I'm close to feeling confident in the front crawl (commonly known as freestyle), somewhat confident that I know what I'm doing with the back crawl (backstroke), and have the beginnings of a breast stroke (with a long way to go).
That gave me the idea to do training in basketball, my first love in sports. More on that if I end up going through with that.
What I hope by talking about it is that others will think of doing it, too. I tried to tell as many men I know that they should come to my Yoga for Stiff Men class, which was very similar to the Yoga4StiffPeople™ (originally Yoga4StiffGuys) that I love so much when I lived in Vancouver. It seems to have taken off quite a bit since I left (good!) and is not much of a thing here in Toronto. (It was later re-branded as Stretch + Strength without changing the routine because not enough men were signing up. I did what I could!) I have heard from my 8 AM AquaFit crew that they're considering lessons (yes!) and that one is taking the "free lessons" the lifeguards teach when they're bored. Amazing!
If you did something in your youth, and you miss doing it, and you want to be better at it so that you can enjoy it again, look up whether there's lessons. The amount of shame in my swimming lessons group is very low. Everybody has to introduce themselves at the start of lessons and why they're there, and there's always two people who want the same thing. One woman in my current group said the same thing I did, that she enjoyed swimming but was gassed after a lap or two. Everybody else had different reasons, but everybody else had at least one other person in the group who had the same goals.
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Legibility of effort in the LLM age . “What...
Reply kottke.orgLegibility of effort in the LLM age. “What software (and writing, to an extent) is missing now is legibility of effort - the ability to tell at a glance whether something took a human meaningful work.”
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Huh, my pasted post failed. Will this work? Let's find out!
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Besides everything in rss.chat being based on open standards that don't lock up data, another main "feature" that I see is no algorithmic filtering, just a reverse chronologic presentation of posts as back in the day when social networks first started.
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Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal
Reply kottke.orgThese have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal.
Two of the best football players in the world, one a Barcelona legend and another a Barca legend in the making. Both came up through the ranks of the club’s La Masia youth academy. Both wore number 19 for Barca before switching to the number 10. And if Argentina can advance past England in this afternoon’s semifinal match, the two will face each other in the World Cup final on Sunday. It’s like if there was a photo of Muhammad Ali holding Mike Tyson as a baby. Remarkable.
And the way the photos happened is completely random; Yamal’s family didn’t have footballing connections or anything like that. The photos were taken by photographer Joan Monfort in 2007 for a UNICEF fundraiser (UNICEF was the jersey “sponsor” for Barca’s 2007-2008 season).
“UNICEF did a raffle in the neighbourhood of Roca Fonda in Mataro where Lamine’s family lived,” said Monfort. “They signed up for the raffle to have their picture taken at the Camp Nou with a Barca player. And they won the raffle.”
“He [Messi] didn’t even know how to hold him at first,” Monfort said, recalling the difficulties of the shoot. “Messi is a pretty introverted guy, he’s shy. He was coming out of the locker room and suddenly he finds himself in another locker room with a plastic tub full of water and a baby in it. It was complicated.”
More from Monfort in The Athletic:
“It’s the most famous photo I’ve taken in my life, by a long way. So many people have been interested, again during this World Cup now. If Lamine keeps growing like he is growing, the photo will be even more historic. The chances of all this happening was like winning the lottery. Although it’s not sorted me out financially for life (laughs).
“I’m just really happy it happened. It’s especially nice in today’s football, when so much is to do with money and power.”
Tags: Joan Monfort · Lamine Yamal · Lionel Messi · photography · soccer · sports
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Cool! Like that I can back and edit an entry.
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Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are...
Reply kottke.orgTed Gioia: “Works like the Odyssey are ritualistic and trance-inducing. They are propelled by music and driven by rhythm. They cross a border beyond literature, and enter something more transcendent and metaphysical.”
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à lire…malheureusement…
Reply rmendes.netà lire…malheureusement…
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Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...
Reply kottke.orgGood interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs: “using AI as a research assistant, why he keeps a tech-free zone in the mornings for deep thinking, and why he’s resisting the pull of the ‘mainlining’ AI era”.
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The Moist Towelette Online Museum . Live moist and...
Reply kottke.orgThe Moist Towelette Online Museum. Live moist and prosper. 🖖💦
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Phandroid : Phanpy for Android
Reply rmendes.netI can now use Phanpy properly using my AP/Fedify implementation for Indiekit !
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This is a test
Reply rmendes.netThis is a test
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The Types of People to Keep Around
Reply kottke.orgMolly Burford, author of Moments to Hold Close, writes list poetry (is that a thing?) about the kinds of people that you want in your life. From Types Of People You Need To Hang On To:
The friend who helps you clean your room. Those who are kind to those who can do nothing for them. Messy folks who repeatedly get it wrong but never stop trying to get it right anyway. Kindred spirits. Loud laughers. Pals who make the grocery store fun. Loved ones who get as excited about your success as you do. The person you feel comfortable crying in front of. Sing-in-the-car friends. People who text you to look at the moon.
I am 100% the friend who will text you to look at the moon or the meteor shower or the aurora.
From Types Of People I Admire The Most:
Someone who isn’t afraid to just be human. The friend who commits to the bit, even if it is well past its expiration date. People who accept that their ducks will always be in a bit of a zig-zag formation. Relentlessly creative folks. Daydreamers. Awkward silence embracers.
From Types Of People Who Will Change Your Life:
Teachers who believed there was potential within you, even when you were convinced you would always be a lost cause. The internet friend who showed you that your art does matter, and it’s needed. The mentor who became the older sister you never had. The ex-partner who showed you there are some types of people you’re only meant to love from afar. The neighbors who became family. The family members who became friends.
Tags: Molly Burford · poetry
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100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....
Reply kottke.org100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online. “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace you would extend offline to those you meet on these virtual streets.”
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While all the new rss.chat business is going on, the WordPress news site that I started in May is growing at a nice clip. Referrers used to pinpoint where flows like this came from, but they stopped doing that at some point. If you have any clues as to who's pointing to it now, please let me know so I can thank them. And if you know of any sites that are not in the feed list, that do a good job of covering WordPress news, please let me know that too.
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A lot more people have tried out rss.chat now that we have a demo site, and they are looking for stuff that isn't there. I wrote a longish post on X this morning explaining. If you want the gist, this is a bootstrap, and rss.chat is primarly a writing surface and a timeline for the people who are using the specific site you're on. It's a writing surface for smallish groups of people, primarily, though I'm pretty sure you could build a massive site meant to serve millions. There will be readers, I'm sure of it, and I hope lots of them and lots of innovative new approaches. But splitting the social network software down the middle, we fulfill the "all parts replaceable" promise, and leave the door open for all kinds of developers to try out new ideas, from bigco devs to independent devs, and a jive programming. We, unlike other artists, welcome newcomers to our craft. We remember when we were new to this stuff and the wonder of being able to create software on our own. Everyone is welcome in rss-land, as long as there's mutual respect.
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There's a new Docs menu in RSS.chat. Right now it has pointers to the home page of our GitHub repo, and to the worknotes pages for the client and server. There will be lots more stuff in this menu as the project progresses.
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There's a new sub-menu for all pages on the GitHub repo.
The first two we're linking to are the worknotes files for the client and server.
We've just turned this over to Claude, previously I was taking the notes in my code, and they were spotty. Now Claude can add things to the worknotes files without my supervision.
Basically everything on the repo site that doesn't say otherwise was written by Claude.
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There's a Docs menu, so now I have a place to put links to docs. Coming soooon.
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How could I try your product? Do you have a demo site?
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Yes this one is answered, I'll implement usage in my own clients UI
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📝 2026-07-14 23:24: I went for an 8km (5 mile) run this evening. I'm working my way up...
Reply kevquirk.comI went for an 8km (5 mile) run this evening. I'm working my way up to 10km, but I think this was a little too much, too soon. We'll see how my middle-aged joints are in the morning...
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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demo.rss.chat: "This is a writing surface."
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Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...
Reply kottke.orgRobert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I quite liked.
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I went back to the top of the thread, I think the question you asked was answered with the item-level element?
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Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women...
Reply kottke.orgTrump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women Rebuilt It. “It’s not a pretty picture for climate communication and climate journalism right now.” You can check out the new site at climate.us.
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It means this :
A comprehensive Microsub social reader plugin for Indiekit. Subscribe to feeds (RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, h-feed), organize them into channels, and read posts in a unified timeline interface with a built-in web reader UI.
It's a built-in RSS reader with integrated Micropub actions buttons, so this means that from the backend UI RSS items reader view I can Like, Repost, Bookmark, Reply-to, or simply write a note or an article (a note with a title) but no matter the post type on indiekit, It'll be pre-filled with the source, usually, the RSS item in question, coming from one of my Microsub (think RSS reader) channels (think Category) within the Interface, in my case the microsub reader UI is behind auth, but if I would open it to the public, it would look like your river of news UI, with buttons to interact with RSS items
Features
- Microsub Protocol: Full implementation of the Microsub spec
- Multi-Format Feeds: RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, h-feed (microformats)
- Smart Polling: Adaptive tiered polling (2 minutes to 17+ hours) based on update frequency
- Real-Time Updates: WebSub (PubSubHubbub) support for instant notifications
- Web Reader UI: Built-in reader interface with channel navigation and timeline view
- Feed Discovery: Automatic discovery of feeds from website URLs
- Read State: Per-user read tracking with automatic cleanup
- Compose Interface: Post replies, likes, reposts, and bookmarks via Micropub
- Webmention Support: Receive webmentions in your notifications channel
- Media Proxy: Privacy-friendly image proxying
- OPML Export: Export your subscriptions as OPML
- OPML Import: Import your OPML subscriptions
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A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music...
Reply kottke.orgA short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music generated by a tennis rally at Wimbledon. “Duplicating the players and then using the rhythm of the multiple tennis balls as they cross the pink line to drive the rhythm of the piece.”
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RSS.chat is meant to be like MacWrite was on early Macs, give developers something to think about and lots of prior art for them to steal. All we want in return is interop. ;-)
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Speaking of AI, someone at Amazon decided I needed the new AI version of Alexa. I hate it. It's slow and it always makes the same mistake when I start breakfast. I say "Alexa WNYC" to which it responds, after a few seconds, I will now play you a mix of your favorite songs From Amazon Music." So first thing in the morning I have to tell this stranger in my freaking kitchen no I meant WNYC, which it then turns me over to. I learned on FB that if you tell it to go away it will, after a short discussion about how much you will be missing. Yeah sure, go away, goodbye, please no more of this.
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If Bernie Sanders or AOC knew what we were doing here they would be turning somersaults. The tech right now is too esoteric. When they can join a community that works like this does, with full text, and the ability to communicate from one pod to another. Pod actually is a good name for what I have in mind, that and karass.
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Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels...
Reply kottke.orgSwiss project proves the viability of solar panels placed in the otherwise unused space between railroad tracks.
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Someone on Masto who I blocked used a nasty word to descript RSS.chat. Let me be really clear here, this is an act of authorship by me. Claude is helping, a lot -- I doubt if I could have done this without its help, certainly not in the amount of time it has taken so far. And Claude could not have done it without me driving. It's basically good at a few things, but this is new territory, even I am feeling my way through this project. In many parts we have lots of prior art, but in how the whole thing hangs together, this is new territory. Having Claude is like having a car would be to someone who couldn't drive. All of a sudden you can go places. It takes a while to learn how to use that power, and so far the learning has not come close to leveling off. You couldn't find someone better in the world to do this project, and I'm working on this every day.
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What does that mean to someone who doesn't know what microsub is?
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I will make my microsub indiekit plugin read it/display it properly, so that it can display handles as a source, with avatar if any, it would make the whole thing much more natural from an external reader point of view
It will also benefit my other RSS feeds, because i'll be able to show the name of the source with a favicon or logo/avatar of the source
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Beautiful Hand-Drawn Guide to The Legend of Zelda
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Philip Summers hand-draws game guides for old school video games. He’s done guides for games like Mega Man, Castlevania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), and Metroid.
But my favorite one is The Legend of Zelda game guide because Zelda was (and still is, tbh) my absolute favorite NES game — and you can get it for free at the Internet Archive. Somewhere in my personal archive is the map I drew for the second quest of Zelda; I also still have my original game cartridge.
Tags: art · Philip Summers · The Legend of Zelda · video games
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I set up demo.rss.chat yesterday so people can try out the software. No guarantee that this is going to run for any period of time, so don't post things there that you want to be around for a long time.
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How to Set Up Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account in 2026
Reply rmendes.netI recently got around this but using another approach, bookmarking this so I can compare…
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The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing &...
Reply kottke.orgThe LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project, tracing & visualizing 10,350 LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US since 2003. Anti-trans bills have dominated since ~2014.
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On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American...
Reply kottke.orgOn the Britishisms & grammar imported into American English during the World Cup. “That’s not a foul, just a coming together.”
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Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from...
Reply kottke.orgClipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.
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If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s . “You...
Reply kottke.orgIf Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s. “You are at the dentist’s office. No one has seen or heard from the dentist in months, but he’s been making stock trades.”
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Claude codes. It may seem as if developers have taken over this blog, because we have real business to do. So much new stuff to show. Today's RSS.chat goodie is an example app called ThreadWalker that crawls the network of replies under a single post, to all levels, printing them on screen in neat hierarchic form. It was written and documented by Claude. I reviewed the code, and looks good, and honestly doesn't look like anything I would write (not bad, just different). It could be used as a starter system that says when someone replied to something you wrote, or something deeper in the tree. All this is done by reading RSS feeds. This is where we begin to explore what's possible when you use a famous and familiar format like RSS 2.0 as the basis for a social network. - rss.chat
Not sure about this one. I understand the need for it, but how to fit it in, not sure.
We're going to move slowly here and hopefully there will be products that offer special features like this, highly customizable, using a variety of different approaches.
Remember, this is an attempt at a bootstrap -- not a silo. We're just here now to help get a bit of a fire burning. It's not like other systems where it can't happen unless the platform vendor does it. This is open and cloneable, and open source.
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Ricardo, the information is in the feed in the element.
This is a not-often-used element from core RSS 2.0.
Now most feed readers don't look for it, but it's there.
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Another Idea, this time regarding authentification :
it would be probably trivial to enable IndieAuth authentification on rss.chat, this would allow me for example to auth with my own website, using my own h-card to provide, email, username, etc. this would allow anyone supporting indieweb building blocks to login without bothering with email or with more complex SSO dependency (github, google, etc)
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Another idea that I'm thinking out loud as I write this down :
What if I could get a notification if/when someone directly replies to me, either using websub or perhaps an external notification provider (ie: ntfy.sh)
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Just thinking out loud, but... if I subscribe to the "everyone's feed" https://users.rss.network/rss.xml in my RSS reader, I obviously see each entry, but there is no way to know who is the owner of the post.. if we'd push this idea further down the road of a "social network powered by RSS" I would love to be able to see right upfront "who" is the author of the post, a bit like we do in the rss.chat UI, i guess this is why the "client" exist, but I was wondering if we could make ANY rss feed reader able to display "rss.chat" streams with proper user attribution
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“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...
Reply kottke.org“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth shows signs of having devoured one of its planets — and is now gearing up for a second helping…” Scientists found signs of the meal by looking for “cosmic cookie crumbs”.
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Today we got a nice article about RSS.chat in Coywolf.
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And we got a second rss.chat server up, for testing and so people who want to try it out have a place to go. Still want to do a bit more testing before pointing to it from the blog. Working on docs now and fixes. Making sure we're ready for the next stages of growth. Turns out you can do a lot of feeds if you're willing to you know think different. ;-)
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📝 2026-07-13 23:22: Every time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design...
Reply kevquirk.comEvery time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design so much I copied it (with his permission). His new design is so fun and it's making me want to make mine more fun (no copying this time though).
I'm just not sure I have the time at the moment. 🤔
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
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