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There are three parts to the rss.chat ecosystem. Writing. Today's rss.chat product is a group writing system, designed for a school department, a team of developers, a family, a magazine or group blog, or just as well, a single author. I don't think it would work well wi...

Another thought about Rocky: it’s a great movie, and I think its Oscar is defensible, but All the President’s Men is really something special. I’ve watched it dozens of times. If the Academy were to redo the 1977 vote today, I wonder if they’d pick Rocky again.

The eleventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 11, I chat with flaMEd, the author of flamedfury.com about, among other things, web communities around games and television shows, sharing music interests with a personal website, community in the indie web, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Watched: Rocky. About 15 minutes into “rewatching” Rocky, I realized… I’ve never actually seen this movie. Looking forward to I Play Rocky too. 🍿

Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.

I saw these while browsing through a thrift store and correctly clocked them as thick tabbed dividers though the person who rang them up for $1.50 thought they were folders because of their heft.  I’ve been wanting some for use with 8.5 x 11″ index cards, but thought that most major stationers had quit manufacturing … Continue reading

Evening: Very productive day. We rolled through some UI stuff that had been on the list for a while. Set up for a big job tomorrow, server side. The worknotes for client and server apps.

Monday session in Glencolmcille

It’s a little mesmerizing watching Waymo track all the cars around an intersection.

Two methods for creating standards: bootstrap and boil the ocean.

Federico Viticci blogs in detail about Open Minis. Looks like a really impressive app that combines frontier models with a Linux shell on iOS so it can run like an agent with tools. Sort of like putting a mini OS inside a sandbox, and it can still reach out with local APIs when it needs data.

Hi all,

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.

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. ;-)

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.

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.