This is something. WordPress now supports RSS.chat in an interesting way, and it's surprisingly deep. Once it's crossposted a message to RSS.chat, any comment in response will be cross-posted to the comment thread of the post on RSS.chat. What's great about this is that you never can tell what people will do when you are on the web. Matthias is a friend, I was on his podcast last year. If people use this connection and see how it works. Then we'll get an idea of where to go next.
Of course we have a feed for RSS.chat updates.
How we document APIs. We did a lot of work on API docs this morning. Claude had done a draft, which we published, and turned over to users, and on review realized it was insufficient. That was the word I used, and rolled up my sleeves, told Claude we're going to get this stuff right and set a pattern as we go forward. At the end I asked Claude to summarize what we agreed on, and it's more or less exactly what I was aiming at. If you're working with Claude on docs for APIs, I offer this up as open source, feel free to point your Claude at this doc. I have a vested interest, in my job I read a lot of awful API docs.
blog carnival collaborations
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How I see the network evolving
A frequently asked question about RSS.chat. How about adding external feeds to the timeline. Of course we thought of doing this, and even started development, you might even find some traces in the code of that attempt.
The thing about bootstraps is you can't anticipate all...
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Don't bring sensitive data to a border crossing
The DOJ is trying to prosecute Sam Tunick for allegedly using a duress passcode. It's a lesson in why your best protection is having nothing to protect.
Expanded video and podcasting in Micro.blog
Last year we introduced Micro.blog Studio, a new subscription plan with greatly expanded support for video hosting. You can upload a video to your blog and Micro.blog will prepare it for streaming, so videos up to 20 minutes start playing back right away on your blog.
Today ...
A new utility exports the contents of a Frontier object database into a single large JSON file. I needed this because I'm preparing to move my code editing suite to Drummer running on new Mac hardware. Took a long time to get here, but with Claude's help the project looks possible. In the meantime the list of stuff I want to do with RSS.chat, while much shorter than it was, still has some juicy bits in it.
Blogs, websites, and identity
In Camera, one of the songs on her latest album, CharliXCX sings:
When the camera's on
I can be anything that I wanna be
And I can feel the things I don't normally feel
When I heard these words, I couldn’t help but think about them from an art history perspective. Portraits ...
Just happened to notice I merged pull request #1000 for the Micro.blog backend today. About half of those are actually in the last year. I started using PRs way more often when AI could review them for me.
Watched: The Odyssey. Didn’t end up seeing it in IMAX, but hope to eventually. 🍿
Today was a good day for sessions in Belfast!
Today was a good day for sessions in Belfast!
Many of the questions about RSS.chat center on how do we make this centralized. I don't want this, I want feed readers to add some features and then we can connect these systems together in a million different ways. They just have to think differently about subscription lists. Not radically different, even.
Confession: I still drive a Tesla.
Wanted to switch but nothing I tried is as great a driving experience the Model Y is. Instead I've had a lot of fender benders and haven't gotten any of them fixed.
- Backed into a charging station.
- An act of terrorism (exaggerating) but I caused it, and paid for it, dented the well over right rear wheel.
- My right side mirror was pulled off its foundation hitting the side of the garage, used duck tape to keep it going. A new one costs $1000. I like the look.
- A deer ran in front of my car and took out the panel over the right front wheel. I was able to force the metal back in. A friend saw the car and said "hit a deer eh?" Yup.
I don't know if it accomplishes anything but to me it feels like retribution of a sort.
Starting to make some slow progress with Google approving Micro.blog → YouTube uploads. They’ve approved the auth scopes, but they didn’t like my privacy policy. A couple edits today, hopefully will go through. 🤞
Sunday evening session in Brighton
Sunday evening session in Brighton
Streams
I wrote this post on Thursday, July 23rd, and reviewed and slightly refined it today. I have left the post as a stream of consciousness – a snippet of my mind as it was on the morning I walked around and saw the world.
Walking among the stream of people; of stories of life ...
Bookshelves
I woke early — it has been warm lately. It is strange how you can find a burst of energy at 5am, but today it came, for I decided to organise my bookshelves, sorting what books I am ready to donate to the local charity shop.
I picked up books — stories — and thought about t...
I think some of the frustration with AI comes down to invasive UI. There’s a difference between an app that uses AI behind the scenes compared to an app that is always getting in the way: suggesting replies to an email, allow fancy edits no one asked for, adding a chatbot where it’s not needed, etc.
Honda Element: backup camera
It has been a while since I added anything new to my Honda Element. Some of the previous posts in this series include CarPlay, rooftop solar, weBoost, and a bed platform. I have a category on my blog with everything.
Over the weekend, my son helped me add a backup camera. Th...