FeedCity

Finally, my first rss.chat podcast. 20 minutes. As always, I take forever to get to the point.

A karass is "a group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident." I think of rss.chat as a social network for my karass. A small group of people, not trying to get famous or rich from using a social network, rather wan...

How the hell are England into a World Cup semi final!? That was a tough watch.

Fractional Horsepower Social Networks on RSS.chat.

The new RSS.chat repo on GitHub. Lots of fixes, features, docs and examples coming soon. For now all the source is there, MIT license. And a place to report bugs and start exploring how you can contribute. This is just Day 1. Many more to come. :-)

Watched the rest of Star City season 1. I liked it a lot. Has a science fiction-y feel even though it’s in the past. Also finished For All Mankind season 5, though I sort of lost interest in the characters. 📺

Outside one of my childhood bedrooms there was a tree, a single tree. I see the tree vividly in my mind, and remember tracking it as the seasons changed – watching out for the first blossom, followed by the maturity of the leaves, then again by their browning as summer became...

At this month’s Homebrew Website Club Writing Edition (notes to come; will be shared likely on July 12th), the topic of audience came up. Who is the audience for our website? Do we have multiple audiences? Do we think of audience at all? In amongst this discussion, I started...

I wrote a pretty good set of paragraphs on Twitter/X this morning. Yesterday I announced rss.chat. Some people spell it RSS.chat. I haven't decided which way is right yet. The announcement covers a slice of the project, but it fans out to be the beginning of a bootstrap. I ...

It’s a good morning so far. Running db migrations and adding more plumbing to expand our books database with author pages and genres. Will roll out today, but some of the data will fill in more slowly.

Claude teaches you how to manage. You've got a perfectly pliable team member, always does their best to do what you told them to do. Now how do you design co-development projects where two very different individuals do their work and it adds up to at least twice what either of them could do alone.

I’ve been consistent in my dislike of non-competes. Vincent built his own blog hosting that competed with Micro.blog while I was paying him as a contractor! It’s fine. It makes the web better. As I told him, if I’m not paying a full-time salary, I don’t have the right to tell him what to work on.

The more I read of the Apple filing last night, the less sympathetic I was to Apple. Theft of “trade secrets” can mean almost anything, from the serious to the silly. Information is not the same thing as real property. Big companies use contracts and lawyers to protect themselves from competition.

The instance I started is for my friends, people I work with, it's not something people can test. It will be possible to start your own server, quite soon. And then you can do whatever you want. It's MIT licensed. Kick ass and have fun, but remember don't fuck with the interop. It's there so users have choice.

BTW, I notice almost everyone but me writes RSS.chat. I didn't expect that. Thinking.

Yesterday was a wonderful first day for rss.chat. It's now out there, but we haven't talked about or demo'd many of the things that it does. I wanted to get the feeds out there first, because now we get to think together about how they fit together to give us a social network experience. It's not locked in a silo, these are just like feeds you have known about for over two decades. But it is a new application for those feeds. And this is a bootstrap. You start with something small that you're sure is a beginning for what you want to do. And then you and others use it for a while. And it is open source, MIT licensed, but compatibility will make the difference.

Jeremy Herve who I know from projects at Automattic, has questions about rss.chat, and I have some answers, with more coming soon.

Here are a few moments that have brought me joy and have written down while wandering through the world. The Joys, of: Looking back on the year and seeing how many new things I have done.Seeing people start their day - of realising I, too, am starting my day.A friend pointin...

Speaking of trains, I tell a story of Winter to my friend, of the train that stopped in the village station on an evening so cold my fellow passengers and I could see our breaths. The local pub offered refuge to all those who wanted to sit in the warmth. I wanted to feel a bi...