FeedCity

Got sidetracked looking at photos and satellite imagery of Hudson Yards, before and after the current redevelopment project covered half the tracks. Now I want to go back to New York. 🚂

I've assumed that all WordPress sites hosted on wordpress.com or running JetPack would have data about the site id, and for each item, the post id. It turns out it's not that simple?

A couple of examples:

• daveverse.org/feed/ -- has these elements
• scripting5.wordpress.com/feed/ -- doesn't have them

I have of course asked ChatGPT, and got a lot of wrong answers.

It's important because this data is used to connect blog posts to the editor, for posts you can edit. It's really important that editing is accomplished by at most a single click, when you're viewing it in a reader app.

I should be able to click on an edit icon from the viewer to open it in the editor, assuming it's my post.

It also figures heavily in the discourse feature.

I've created a place on GitHub for comments.

Thinking longer for a better answer. ☕️

"We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized."

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I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea how to find this website! Today,, I was both surprised and delighted that the search query “old timey illustrations” allowed me to find the site, which I now know is called Old Book Illustrations. It is amazing that I can type in a query like “old timey illustrations” into a web search engine and find the page for which I am looking. The speed with which I found the website for which I was looking – and how a search engine found the page with my description "old timey" – brought a smile to my face. Addendum: It looks like not all illustrations are public domain according to the Terms of Use, but this doesn't detract from the story :)

Safari, Chrome, and Edge all allow you to install websites as though they’re apps. On mobile Safari, this is done with the “Add to home screen” option that’s buried deep in the “share” menu, making it all but useless. On the desktop, this is “Add to dock” in Safari, or “In...

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This is a spot-on analysis of how CSS-in-JS failed to deliver on any of its promises:

CSS-in-JS was born out of good intentions — modularity, predictability and componentization. But what we got was complexity disguised as progress.

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A short piece of speculative fiction.

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Amazing win by the Longhorns. I hope they end up making the playoffs. 🏈

We’ve secured an amazing secret venue for State of the Word on Monday, but it has limited capacity in terms of people and has a lot of security hurdles to jump through to get in. So to open things up to the community more, we’re going to activate my hacker/maker art warehouse, TinkerTendo, in the … Continue reading SF WordPress Party →

Mickey Mouse holding horseshoe ornament. 🎄

November 21-28, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, November 26 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh Tuesday, November 25 at 6:00pm EDINBURGH, Scotland: Costa Coffee (Upstairs) Front End Study Ha...

This week's New Yorker Politics podcast is an interview with Jeopardy champion and host Ken Jennings. Great stuff if you, like me, are a longtime Jeopardy fan. We used to watch it in our Flushing kitchen in the 1960s when Art Fleming was host.