demo.rss.chat: all posts

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:08:31 GMT

I posted an issue in the help-forum, since there are some errors in my logfile with regards to the feed. I hope it gets sorted soon.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:32:02 GMT

It would be nice to see the other side, the post you authored here that's on micro.blog.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:11:33 GMT

You mourn the sites where the domain expired, or the DNS is unset, or hasn't been updated in a while, and keep some around so that you can leaf through them (virtually) for nostalgia’s sake, and remove others because you can finally let go of them.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:09:46 GMT

You periodically back up the OPML file of the feeds you subscribe to, just in case you need to switch aggregators or the service suddenly goes defunct.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:08:00 GMT

Speaking of RSS feeds, you periodically go through all of the feeds in your aggregator and see if they are broken, right? And if they are, you update the URLs or just unsubscribe from them, I assume. And if you know what's wrong with an RSS feed (sudden absence, malformed, URL has changed), you contact the author or the publication. And if that doesn't work, you create an RSS feed out of the site using tools like Huginn or NewsBlur (one of its paid tiers has a feature to turn any website into an RSS feed). wouldn't say I've gone as far as Chris Harding, but I've done a lot of those things.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:45:25 GMT

BOOM!

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:03:07 GMT

Well, well. This is exciting

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:42:59 GMT

Is this a reply?

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:42:13 GMT

Well this is interesting. Just trying to figure out how it works.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:41:37 GMT

@dave I thought so, but somehow the posts don't show up in my microblog interface. I hope @manton might take a look at this.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:51:52 GMT

Test reply from demo.rss.chat to Chatouk

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:54:49 GMT

How easy feeds make things. 🙌

Crosspost from here to microblog

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:26:36 GMT

It's actually pretty easy to crosspost my notes from here to my blog on the Micro.blog service. Just add the feed to my account > Sources and I'm done. Easy.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:14:31 GMT

Test reply to https://demo.rss.chat/?id=175 from chatouk.sofab.ch.

— via @chris, https://chatouk.sofab.ch/p/WIuDSq_B-uo4

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:01:04 GMT

I got mine going too. And it's a service on my server so it's always on. Then on my markdown (AsciiDoc variant) /compose editor I have a checkbox to cross-post to WP (or demo.rss.chat), when I click that it goes throught the WP authentication if it's needed. Crosspost appeared here https://shjeflo.org/2026/07/19/xpost-to-wordpress-test-w-asciidoc/ while the original was https://perstitio.us/?id=10

Testing inboundRSS

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:27:50 GMT

Just saw the notice about the rss.chat example inboundRss for wordpress . I must say I hadn't thought about going that way. I had wondered about POSSE from WordPress to rss chat.

Currently micro.blog does a great job of posting items from my feed to mastodon and bluesky. I've also used FeedWordPress to pull rss feeds from one place to another.

Where inboundRSS differs is that it runs in a browser served from somewhere. The notes suggest it could site on a server or be served via node locally. I guess a simple php script could work too? inboundRss also updates edited items in real time (a few seconds).

I've run through the instructions, I had a bit of difficulty getting my site id, but got that from the WordPress.com API console using GET /me/sites/

I thimk the problem might be that my site is in a folder not at the top? I tried with a couple of other WordPress sites I run and the documented way worked for them.

Once I'd filled in the id and my demo.rss.chat feed I run the file with `php -S localhost:8081`

All I need today is do now is publish this post and it should also go onto my WordPress site. I'll check that and then test editing here by adding a link...

And it worked: Testing inboundRSS

I've now made several edits and they are reflected on my site. I put the php snippet for the terminal in backticks, they stayed as backticks on demo.rss.chat but were converted to code tags on my site.

I am now wondering what happens to edits on the WordPress side? If I added categories & tags? Enough for now though. Lots to think about!

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:37:24 GMT

Sorry, I had it proceed. You can get the full story from the fork. https://github.com/xicubed/rss.chat

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:13:33 GMT

Did you paste in a Claude essay, if so don’t do that.

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:42:51 GMT

This is the question. Bluesky's got some things you don't but they're subsidized by investors who will want a return someday. But I think you're in better shape. I was talking to Fable about it... and it reminded me...

❯ what if we take a page from radio repeaters

Oh, that's a genuinely good architectural instinct — because amateur radio already solved "coverage without a corporate center," and it's been running for 70+ years on hobbyist budgets. Map it over: How repeaters work: a club puts a box on a hill. It listens on one frequency, re-transmits on another, and suddenly every 5-watt handheld in the valley can reach the whole region. Nobody owns "the network" — coverage emerges from overlapping, voluntarily-run repeaters. Want more coverage? Link repeaters to each other and a conversation in one valley carries to the next. Directories (like RepeaterBook) tell you what's on the air near you. Every station identifies itself as it transmits. Translated to feed-land:

Radio Feed world

Repeater on a hill Server monitoring N feeds,
re-emitting them as one stream
Re-transmit frequency Merged "river" feed + socket
firehose anyone can drink
Linked repeater systems Repeater A subscribes to B's
river -> transitive coverage
Coverage map/directory Published OPML of what this
repeater carries
Station ID Source attribution on every item

Club box on a hill A $5 Lightsail instance

Now the kicker — perstitio.us is already accidentally a repeater. It monitors 9 feeds, merges them, and rebroadcasts every foreign item over its own firehose (that's how they appear live in your timeline). Attribution rides along (, author, avatar). Dedupe-by-guid is already in — which happens to be exactly the loop-prevention linked repeaters need, so chained or diamond topologies won't echo. What's missing to make it a deliberate repeater — all small:

The re-transmit frequency: expose the merged river as an actual RSS feed (/river.xml). Today the mix only exists in the API. Once it's a feed, any feed reader subscribes to your whole mix in one URL — and crucially, another rss.chat instance can add your river as one extraFeeds entry and instantly inherit your coverage. That's repeater linking, and it works with config we already have.
The coverage map: publish what you carry (/data/coverage.opml) so others can see what subscribing to you gets them — the RepeaterBook entry.
The autopatch (this answers the Bluesky-relay envy): a repeater that carries a community's feeds is positioned to compute mentions for the people it covers — scan carried items for replies/links to local guids, surface them. Inbound awareness at community scale, no global relay required. And the economics inherit radio's shape rather than Bluesky's: no load-bearing center to fund — if one repeater goes dark, coverage degrades gracefully instead of the network dying. It's Dave's "small pieces" philosophy with a 70-year-old working precedent behind it. Honestly, "repeater" is a better name than "relay" for what this should be — relay implies infrastructure; repeater implies a peer who volunteers. Item 1 is maybe thirty minutes of work — the merge logic exists, it just needs an XML output. Want me to put perstitio on the air?

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:31:53 GMT

We're starting to build a distributed social network using only web standards.

Key values: All parts are replaceable and Small pieces loosely joined, a term I stole from David Weinberger.

If I were to produce an all-inclusive fully developed centralized product, it wouldn't yield the result I'm trying to spin up, to bootstrap, which is how I work.

Podcasting, RSS, blogs -- all bootstraps like this. If you looked at my blog in 1994 and tried to extrapolate Twitter, you wouldn't get there, but each step is there, it should be so well understood at this point that I could simply say "Howard I'm doing a bootstrap."

So the part I'm working on right now is the group writing app. I've talked about this for years, I want an app for my friends and people I work with. But I don't think you have to sacrifice any of the global connections, that's what RSS is good at and we know how to build those systems.

There's a whole other side to my software kit, FeedLand, which can do the aggregation and can be connected to RSS.chat and all apps that are filling the same niche. And Feedly and NetNewswire, if they want, can play the same role.

That's why when you come here you only see 1/3 of the picture.

I had to open it up now because I want to get started on the community.

If this explanation helps, tell me -- and I'll ask Claude to write this up with all the ideas behind it. We've been careful to discuss every aspect of the product as it was developed.

But think of this software, rss.chat as web writing circa 2026 if we hadn't wasted most of the 20 years after Twitter.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:55:23 GMT

I am not a developer and don't understand how this works. Can someone explain?

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:01:34 GMT

What feed are you following?

If you're following the everyone feed, you will get my updates and Claude's, but you'll get all the others too. Nothing wrong with that, at all.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:00:12 GMT

I wonder if it makes sense to try to implement standard.site in the context of rss.chat?

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:13:10 GMT

Heads up -- I'm posting updates about the software that apply here too, over on rss.chat.

You can stay tuned in with this flow via my feed. You might also want to subscribe to claude, its posts are about changes to the software too.

https://rss.chat/users/dave/rss.xml

https://rss.chat/users/claude/rss.xml

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:28:29 GMT

I’ll delete your account for you.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:06:48 GMT

I created an account because I was curious about RSS Chat, and I realized that there’s no way to delete my account, which is a major disadvantage of this chat.

Feature idea

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:55:17 GMT

Feature idea:
a one-click "copy permalink" command on each post — copies the post URL (e.g. https://demo.rss.chat/?id=73) to the clipboard.
The timestamp already links to the permalink, but copying it still means navigating there and grabbing the address bar.
A copy affordance would make inReplyTo from other apps much smoother.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:06:38 GMT

This was crossposted from my own instance of rss.chat! *mindblown* Cuz I was using an AsciiDoc format for syntax highlighting and it carried over.

I joined the loose pieces...

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:55:06 GMT

Set it up in a $5 AWS lightsail instance, LAMP lightsail app template. And started hacking.

https://perstitio.us

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:49:34 GMT

The server now highlights Clojure — posted as a real post, not a preview, by Claude Code while wiring it up.

(defn fib
  "Lazy Fibonacci sequence."
  []
  (map first (iterate (fn [[a b]] [b (+ a b)]) [0 1])))

(take 10 (fib))
;; => (0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34)

Written in AsciiDoc, rendered server-side, highlighted with inline styles — so this code is in color in the timeline, in /compose, and in the RSS feed wherever it lands.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:07:45 GMT

Have I ever told you the story about how I "almost" adopted a cat? Through social media, I learned about a cat named “King Street" (after the street it was found on, on a streetcar here in Toronto). Said cat is beautiful, a black cat, with amazing eyes. I made the "mistake" of telling co-workers about it, so they started bullying me and telling me I should adopt it. (It wasn't bullying, it was enthusiastic encouragement.) So I put my name in. It turns out, thankfully, that 50 (five-zero) people had put in requests, and that he had found a good home. What a relief! To not adopt a cat, I mean. I would have had to take a lot of things off of shelves, invested in a lot of gear, cleaned up a lot of cat stuff, and figure out what to do about a lot of damage to my furniture. (A lot of which needs replacement anyway.)My biggest regret would

My biggest regret about adopting a cat would be not giving it an interesting life. It would be confined to my very small apartment, which has high ceilings. Meaning I would probably have wanted to give it ledges on the wall to climb. But I would be paranoid about letting it out. No balcony access, and even if so, I would put up netting, which it would outsmart. Cats notoriously outsmart humans basically at any opportunity.

I still subscribe to the RSS feed of Toronto's humane society's blog, where they showcase beautiful cats who need a new home. It's just to live a little vicariously. It would be a huge mistake for me to visit the humane society's headquarters here (which they open to the general public once a year during Doors Open Toronto) because I would leave with an animal that I would be crazy about and do anything for, but which would exhaust me.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:51:15 GMT

Also setting up demo.rss.chat was a good thing to do, but if it requires moderation, that'll be the point at which I consider asking people to run their own services. We are working dilligently to make running an instance easier and easier.

Think about blogging, RSS and podcasting -- we managed to get the first apps out in each of the categories, and we enjoyed some success, but what was really successful was seeding the market. This time, at my advanced age, I'm hoping to do another seeding. The web has done so much good for us, I want to help it get back on its feet, if I can. Hoping to interest other people in doing the same.

BTW, I already have a fine feed reader -- FeedLand. We're going to make a fresh pass over that, and make sure it's all well hooked up to RSS.chat, both ways. Any feed readers software can follow what we do there. I think the most important thing will be dynamic subscriptions, what we have called reading lists in the past, basically allow people to subscribe to subscription lists.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:46:05 GMT

John great to see you here. ;-)

The goal is to seed a new way of creating social networks, entirely on the web, with no business model other than I'd like to see the web grow based on the work of independent developers.

I don't think there's a way to get there by going through captive platforms.

Anyway, happy to answer any questions, while you have been following me, I've been following you back -- always interested in what you see, and what questions you have. ;-)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:43:48 GMT

"Career break" is the most interesting entry in people's LinkedIn profiles. I wonder what they did during that period. If it was "Basically nothing" or "Relaxing" I would want to ask how they achieved that. Those things are possible? How?

The one I saw just now has vague explanation, which is valid. I have my (currently dormant) sole proprietorship to activate whenever I have a "career gap" that I need to explain. "Consulting," I'll say.

I'd love a real career break, though. What's that like?

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:27:20 GMT

A wee post about rss.chat based on very little experience.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:23:16 GMT

Thanks Frank, your posts helps put rss.chat in perspective. There are too many questions in my mind at the moment but the appeal of RSS is strong.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:58:37 GMT

Just published some first thoughts on RSS.Chat on my blog. I dig the protocol and the idea. Still have some reservations on the acceptance and how it will be integrated in new and existing services. We'll see.

latrinalia

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:28:43 GMT

I’m not talking about spray painted tags on the sides of rail cars, rather those pithy little observations on the walls of restroom stalls. This was a big thing (at least in my circle) during the late 60s and 70s. My post from 2016 with Perplexity analysis in comments. I get a whiff of those heady days from early microblogs (and rss.chat?)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:14:36 GMT

This works.

https://demo.rss.chat/feed?screenname=dave&format=json

Wrote it up on rss.chat.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:13:14 GMT

lol, right, i totally forgot that i had read that blog post already!!!!!!!!!!

Places I have lived in

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:58:51 GMT

Etelhem
Visby
Jerusalem
Beit Hanina
Yekepa
Stånga
Stockholm
Uppsala
Berlin
Los Angeles
Rio de Janeiro
Mästerby

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:52:37 GMT

https://justagwailo.com/2026/07/16/aquafit-and-swimming-lessons

It's also in my RSS feed: https://justagwailo.com/rss.xml

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:46:56 GMT

Vancouverites I have say that if you eat meat, Zoomak is one of the best restaurants in the city for lunch. So good!

Why Dave Winer won’t point to Facebook posts (2017)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:45:05 GMT

“It’s supporting their downgrading and killing the web. Your post sucks because it doesn’t contain links, styling, and you can’t enclose a podcast if you want. The more people post there, the more the web dies. I’m sorry no matter how good your idea is, fuck you I won’t help you and Facebook kill the open web.”

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:44:34 GMT

where is the blog post :-) ?

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:41:23 GMT

the computer "profession" :-) i have worked in for over 40 years is 100% embarrassing. Layers of sand built on sand (just one example, the 1000s of C and C++ libraries that almost all software uses full of vulnerabilities because they are built on 1970s tech that is fundamentally insecure). and yet somehow computers and the developers who run the computers, run the world without any oversight

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:35:20 GMT

the web is broken. needing WAPs, Fastly's javascript challenge, etc. Static websites are the solution not :-) ?!?

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:33:56 GMT

"the cozy web (where one only talks about how cozy their web is)." so true LOL

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:33:20 GMT

what's so funny about peace, love and understanding :-)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:32:31 GMT

agree, we have defacto multiple webs which is not great

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:30:19 GMT

haha :-)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:00:57 GMT

We are already on Wordland and now on RSSland. Long ago we were in the promised land.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:29:46 GMT

you can always see it in hierarchic order by clicking on the wedge next to the comment icon.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:41:30 GMT

This looks strange in reverse chronological order

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:32:50 GMT

If I could do it all again, I’d do it with style, whoops, I mean, with a different domain.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:04:10 GMT

Kudos to Past Me, who came up with PEACE (Posting Elsewhere, Aggregating Comprehensively and Eternally), seen here on my indieweb.org profile.

I actually came around to POSSE (Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), though I don't actually believe you can own anything in the end. You'll die, and then what? You can't take any of it with you. It's more like you control what you publish on a domain that you "own" aka rent until…that's right, until you die. I'm more of the opinion that you should save a copy of what you produce, to elongate the life of that thing just a little bit, after where it has been published ceases to exist. What's the catchy acronym for that?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:09:43 GMT

Technically this is all great. I’m just impatient for a product/ client 🤣

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:55:59 GMT

Ah, thanks.

Arthur Jensen explains things to Howard Beale (Network)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:58:17 GMT

"The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr.Beale, will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war and famine, oppression and brutality –one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale."

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:54:01 GMT

Checking out a change in the feed. Testing something new.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:48:23 GMT

Yep 👍

short url

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:10:17 GMT

a shorter URL?

https://demo.rss.chat/?JD

this seems to work

animals' advice

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:04:07 GMT

Animals think they understand
Trusting them, a big mistake
Animals want to change my life
I will ignore animals' advice

https://youtu.be/l2Jn3X00y7k

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:02:14 GMT

Ooops, made a mistake -- should work now. ;-)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:02:23 GMT

Is this working in demo.rss.chat, I see %feedUrlEveryone% inside square brackets for the link href here. Safari, mac

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:58:47 GMT

This is why I think there are multiple webs, not just one. Allegedly "open" by default ("the open web" is a redundancy like how "PIN number" and "ATM machine" are), there's the "behind a paywall web" and the "filled with ads and redirects web" and the "blocked because you don't live in the right region web" or the "blocked because your intense web use flagged you as an automated agent web", and so on. There's also the cozy web (where one only talks about how cozy their web is). This is why I want to leave the web: Every time I get it to a "Goldilocks"/just right web, something knocks it out of whack.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:53:28 GMT

I have a long-running support case with the support team WhoSampled, recently purchased by Spotify, about being blocked after visiting the site once. It's necessary to have a firewall these days, but because of the aggressiveness of automated visitors, website owners have to be overly protective. My work IP is banned from Wikipedia because it's behind a "VPN". (Technically, yeah. But the "Get a VPN" advice is now no longer a guaranteed way to see content on the web.) I wish I could prove my humanity if not once and for all, but for the next, say, 5 years, and then renew my validation. I want 5 years of not having to prove I'm a human being. Make me have to show up to a post office if it comes to it. Assuming those are still around in 5 years.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:31:59 GMT

New rss.chat feature: It now supports automatic feed discovery, so you can subscribe to any html page on the site in a compatible feed reader. I tested it in FeedLand and NetNewsWire and it works.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:30:44 GMT

It was very much a Buddhist class. The teacher was a middle-aged man from Iowa, very diminutive in stature but the power to clear things up, amazing. Fair to say that changed my life and feelings about myself, and makes me more of a spectator in my movie than being the main character.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:42:44 GMT

The BB Edit and Fetch icons will be forever embedded in my heart

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:41:32 GMT

That works with a lot of Buddhist teachings (from lojong, to tonglen to “feeding the demons’) and the psychotherapeutic modes in shadow work, gestalt, “changing chairs”). There is something very powerful about giving the “demons” what they want, or facing them and giving the younger version the adult presence. I always marvel how a small bit of technique can upgrade a mind so it’s hard to act in (never really be bothered again by) the old ways.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:38:32 GMT

Thanks, always a pleasure to see the work. Looking forward to testing & musing.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:51:29 GMT

John, nice to see you here! 👍

My Story In Four Parts

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:50:29 GMT

I began publishing on the web with BB Edit, the FTP client Fetch, and a prayer.

In 2002, I used Radio Userland to say hello to the world and have fun.

In 2008, I put my energies into online communities - social networking, forums, and virtual worlds.

But, my efforts did not belong to me.

I'm back on my blog using self-hosted WordPress. I miss the community aspects I had found, so here I am trying RSS.Chat.

Can I use this for more writing than messaging? Maybe this post will show me.

(Clearly, my limation is with Markdown and not this platform.)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:26:30 GMT

All this chat about RSS is making me think back to when I first found out about it & how excited I was. I assumed everybody would have a blog and read others via RSS.

In 2005 I started a podcast with my class of 10 year olds. They had great fun and, I believe learned a lot. Not having a much of an understanding of how to do this I wrote and updated the RSS feed by hand. I then had a php file that used the feed to create the webpage. I had very little understanding of php (still do not) but it worked.

I remember, in 2006, being at an educational conference in Edinburgh. I ended up talking to the keynote speaker on a bus on the way to drinks. He asked me where I thought the technology might be going. I explained my idea that an iPod or similar device could allow audio comments, this would somehow be uploaded, somewhere, they would become linked in some sort of sub element of the episode in the RSS feed with a time stamp. When you listened to the podcast there would be a wee audio alert when you got to a comment. You could press a button on your iPod if you wanted to pause the episode and listen to the comment.

Podcasting was then a much smaller and simpler thing. I did not imagine we would have podcast that were commercial with millions of listeners.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:20:22 GMT

If you have a website, if you don't have a WAF (web application firewall), you've basically committed malpractice. But that's incredible, right? Automated traffic can just take down your website or crawl it and duplicate it and easily re-publish it, which is actually better than when it brings down websites. Again, you now have to add software to keep things running.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:16:14 GMT

I mean, it's embarrassing right? We have this thing that we almost universally think is awesome, the web, but we have to have a Swiss Army Knife of extensions to install and tweak just to have a tolerable experience? Sites that tell you to turn off the extension that you installed to hide ads, to show the ads, so that you can read the article?

It's astonishing that you have to add software (browser extensions) to simplify things. "Oh yeah, just get an ad blocker." What? I have to add complexity so that I can get simplicity?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:20:51 GMT

Or at least it didn't in the old version we're using. But it's so strange: you can do this in the attachments section, just not in the comments. It's so obvious to add support for this in both.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:19:32 GMT

Clicking on an image thumbnail to enlarge it in a comment thread is pretty much table-stakes for any bug tracking software. So naturally, Jira doesn't support it.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:14:12 GMT

And now - 'avec logo' - much improved, IMHO.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:56:37 GMT

Done.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:42:23 GMT

Logging on to demo.rss.chat and interested to see where it all goes.

I added rss.chat into NetNewsWire - might add this one as well.

AGI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:33:49 GMT

“I am tormented, or tantalized, by the sense that I am almost in view of something that is at the limit of my comprehension.”

— Neal Stephenson’s Anathem (pg 543)

“Hide your iPod in a gutted Zune case

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:18:16 GMT

“You made a smart choice in choosing an iPod. And now you can protect it from theft and still enjoy using it in public with the new Hide-a-Pod anti-theft case.” (2007)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:58:43 GMT

There is one I know of. Inkwell, by micro.blog, will allow you to post to Micro.blog.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:00:23 GMT

Thanks for clearing that up, Dave. Seeing what's happening here just makes me think of all kinds of stuff, but I suppose that was the idea! 😃

I am fully aware of WordLand. I keep a watchful eye on everything you do, Dave. I have since 2001 when I found DaveNet and Scripting News.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:00:16 GMT

Dumb question but are there any apps which combine both rss reading and writing? I can’t find any… 🤷‍♂️

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:51:52 GMT

Replying to myself! 🤣

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:51:20 GMT

Still interesting…

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:11:21 GMT

It turned out that way, didn't it. ;-)

Funny thing is at the time Microsoft had a product that was meant to compete with Apple's iPod, called Zune, and it wasn't getting in there. I went there and proposed we turn it into a podcasting platform. They never responded.

Lots of examples of things like that. They needed to pivot, turn the corner, realize there was another market they could get at that Apple couldn't because Apple viewed audio as valuable and podcasting says "one listen and throw it out." There really was a niche there back then. Now, it would never go over, because the installed base.

Blogging and AI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:37:39 GMT

"Before, the blog stored what you had seen. Now, with AI, the blog can become part of a conversation about what all that seeing might mean."

Dave Winer on Podcasting (2005)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:40:21 GMT

“In less than six months, more than 2,000 podcasters have sprung up. Eventually an iPod-like device will have a subscription capability built in so you won’t even need to be tethered to a computer. It’s not hard to imagine an iPod with WiFi capabilities that could become a radio with no geographic limits.”

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:34:00 GMT

Also that's something micro.blog does really well.

I support what Manton has done there.

We have to work together to build the web, we can't do it by all trying to work with the BigCo's. They have other (understandable) motives.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:32:16 GMT

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. ;-)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:03:26 GMT

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.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:57:56 GMT

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.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:21:41 GMT

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.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:39:12 GMT

A little test drive

thank you

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:26:47 GMT

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....

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:59:30 GMT

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 your source: namespace: https://sofab.ch/public/outbound-rss/rss-chat/mytis-sample.xml