FeedCity

A case study in APIs. Creating a new post via Bluesky's API.

Developers, consider this example.

First, here's the packet of information I'm sending to Bluesky to get it to post something.

• {
• "title": "",
• "description": "Room for One More on Mount Rushmore?",
• "mailaddress": "",
• "password": "",
• "urlsite": "https://bsky.social/",
• "link": "https://politicalwire.com/2025/06/29/room-for-one-more-on-mount-rushmore/"
• }

And here's what comes back.

• {
• "uri": "at://did:plc:zxb2lwpxo4axkkkgjwqand24/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsqtoowg2h2h",
• "cid": "bafyreifhet2772xmic24qr4xbui4l5lllvgek2a7kmmchojwwkufvzalci",
• "commit": {
• "cid": "bafyreicjjsd4ixlezubezaxzfaqxxpwlvoxdqwyxblnme5uh6ehklxth3a",
• "rev": "3lsqtoowpsx2h"
• }
• }

Megalithic

Now that we know the outcome of the 2024 election, not just in numbers but in what it's doing to our beloved country and the rest of the world, it's interesting to revisit the campaign that journalism ran last year to force President Biden to step aside. That's one of the fu...

It’s Sunday 29th, which means my experimental June is coming to an end. I’m aware that June ends tomorrow but I think four full weeks is a good timeframe for this type of life experiments so I’m happy to consider it done today. If you’re new to the blog and you’re wondering ...

Fáilte as Gleann Cholm Cille!

Stair railing progress while I was away this week!

Apparently the stud in the middle was slightly warped and the mirror wasn't sitting straight. They opened up the wall to shave the stud down a bit. Gives me a chance to clean up the wiring a bit while it's open

I got the TV installed in the train bathroom! It's so cool! If you close the bathroom door it's really surreal because it's the only frame of reference for outside the bathroom.

This video is the train from Portland to Seattle. Now we just have to ride a bunch more trains and stick a camera out the side on all of them.

Went to see F1 tonight. Had no expectations, but it stays engaging throughout the fairly long running time. Visually it feels like they really pulled it off. 🍿

With any luck this will be the final test. Hahaha.

Clouds along I-35. Day 28, ephemeral.

It's possible this is the last test post. (It worked, so it is the last.)

Saturday session in Donegal

Passed a billboard for Basecamp on the highway somewhere outside of Austin today. That was unexpected.

There are probably going to be a few more of these.

You hear the term Open Social Web used in places where things that are social are neither open or web. They aren't that far, and here today I'm going to give you a fast and easy recipe for linking the collection of social twitter-like sites into a real honest to goodness ope...

This year has been a roller coaster in so many ways. Thanks everyone who has supported me and Micro.blog. I’m currently working on a slight redesign to our home page, fixing glitches and unifying the Micro.one and Micro.blog pages. I don’t usually make enough time to tell new folks what we’re about.

We live in interesting times. Never a dull moment! 😄

I'm communicating more with people in the WordPress community. There's so much to the story, we have to make up for 20 years or so since we turned in the direction of silos. There's a lot of catching up to do. I hope at some point people figure out that a lot of interop can be attained very inexpensively and quickly by hooking the input and output of each distinct network up to other networks that don't currently interop. Neither ActivityPub or AT Proto is suited for that. Too complicated and honestly too strange. RSS has has 20+ years to burn in. Lots of familiarity there, and lots of working code. When people get really serious about interop, and are willing to sacrifice a little personal glory, there's a very good compromise available. We've been here before. This isn't a new idea in tech at all.