John Johnston got inboundRss working, so now he can automatically post to his blog from demo.rss.chat. These are the kinds of things that "just work" when standards are used to connect to the outside world. WordPress, as I've been saying so long, has all the right hooks to be the place where text and publishing meet on the web. They've been reluctant to step into that role, but I think it'll be realllly good for Matt's company and the community. A lot of developers can come in via the web. That's how I personally approach WordPress. A place to send text so it can be widely read. A growing foundation for a community to build on, and would imho help the web enormously.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Howard Rheingold is just the kind of person rss.chat was designed it for. And here he is asking what it is. Very fortuitous. And if you're wondering how a person should think of it in July 2026, it's for you too. ;-)
What is RSS.chat for Howard Rheingold
I am longtime friends and an admirer of Howard Rheingold, who expressed an interest in RSS.chat. I asked Claude to read my blog posts and summarize, in the third person.
RSS.chat is a small social network built from the web's own parts. It looks like a chat room or Twitter ...
Today on rss.chat we are knocking off quick hit bug fixes. We've been focusing on big hit examples for the last few sessions.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
Tennessee vs. Meta trial starts this week:
The state alleges founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was repeatedly warned by some Meta employees about research that found a negative impact on teens, but declined to fund efforts to minimize those harms and made misleading public statements about the amount of harmful content on the platforms.
There’s really no fixing Meta’s business model. It is hard to take an ad-based business hell-bent on engagement and align it with users’ best interests.
Working on a new Bluesky starter pack discovery interface inside Micro.blog. It’s not comprehensive, but I think I will launch it soon as an experiment. Then later, need to figure out how to integrate it with blogrolls and (maybe) Mastodon collections.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
First time in Oceanside in a good while. Excellent dawn patrol morning.
Music
the direction of music; the music of direction.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Thoughts on “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm
As I mentioned in my IndieWeb Book Club post, I first read Fromm’s book more than 20 years ago. I was in my early high school years when I stumbled upon his work and was immediately intrigued by his way of looking at the world. The fact that he was not “just” a philosopher b...
Viva Espana! The best team won (thankfully). Vamos!
Of Day
I close my eyes and listen to the church bells reverberate through the city — the air, the street, the park; the hearts.
Usually when I go into a bookshop, I find myself looking at all the books. Often, for nothing in particular, but rather to see what is new. Who knows what...
The final season of The Bear was simply beautiful, and a welcome return to form.
Today we have our first example app for WordPress. We started with an app I wrote that keeps scripting.com in sync with daveverse.org, which is a WordPress site.
Way back in March as I was starting to work with Claude Code, I think -- we put together a pretty nice outliner that is remarkably feature-rich. I barely remember doing this. It's what got me moving in this direction, and next month we started doing what became rss.chat.
I wonder if it makes sense to try to implement standard.site in the context of rss.chat?
I thought our Standard.site support was broken, but then remembered it only works when Micro.blog is configured to embed previews for links. Updated the help page of Bluesky technical bits to document this.
Just finished The Expanse for the third time. Realized that the inners of today are Silicon Valley and the Belters, that’s the web.
This morning while listening to random music on the Echo, I realized that OpenAI’s smart speaker is going to obviously need music too, even if it’s primarily a voice assistant. Maybe a partnership with Spotify.
John Gruber has a blog post covering a few angles of the Apple vs. OpenAI lawsuit, including some “What would Steve Jobs do?” questions. Really good post.