New York Times Sunday crossword today.

38 down: Blog feed letters

I do hope you don't find this necessary. I've been using demo.rss.chat as a devel playground, mostly focusing on the API's behavior, and if it becomes read-only, I might as well do my hacking against the main rss.chat. Or bite the bullet and start running an instance locally, which I've been studiously avoiding.

My hacking continues. I managed to create a zero-length media object at demo.rss.chat/media/23 (this is what happens when you forget the @ in the curl command). I suspect that eventually, endpoints for /deletemedia and /updatemedia will be needed.

Examining my prior post (the one I'm replying to, id=343), I see that the markdowntext element is not my original markdown, but has been converted to HTML.

From my vim to your feed If you can read this, my bash scripts are functional. Not pretty, but functional. The rss.chat API docs have improved substantially, saving me from going down some deep rabbit holes.

Not really, no.

For case 1 (both "description" and "markdowntext" populated), I wasn't sure what to expect, but the server accepted having both of them, and the website displayed the contents of "description".

For case 2 (only "markdowntext' provided), I expected a failure, since api.md says that "description" is a required field. I also did not expect the website to display an empty post.

I was expecting some kind of relationship between these two fields, where a change to one might trigger a change to the other.

This was a call with no description, only markdowntext

This was a call to newpost where description and markdowntext were populated to different things.

I'm experimenting with API calls, working purely from the api.md document. Currently, I have been able to post here using /newpost. Here are the things I'm attempting to understand:

When we say that "description" is HTML, do we mean HTML fragments, or a complete document?

What happens if I populate both description and markdowntext?

Markdown

subtitle

Don't mind me, I'm just hacking on MarkDown mode. I want to become fluent enough in MD to throw away my cheatsheet.

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Yay, it's here! Let's see what this can do.