Saturday, July 25, 2026
How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product. They are free to stay where they are and still get the benefit. People choose your product...
Friday, July 24, 2026
RSS.chat worknotes are a feed now. Updated when there's a new feature or fix. Same info is on the worknotes pages in the repo. #
Dear podcast client devs#
Podcast client developers -- don't give up like this guy did. Yes RSS is delicious but you...
Thursday, July 23, 2026
A new feature on rss.chat, images. Up to 2MB per. User interface couldn't be simpler, get the image on your clipboard, start editing your post, put the cursor where you want the image, paste. Prior art was GitHub and Slack. It was driving me crazy no...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
RSS.chat now supports SQLite. Simpler and faster to install. You don't have to host a database, it's now built into the server. Full instructions. Questions or issues.#
Reminder: We have a demo server for anyone who wants to try RSS.chat. I'm glad...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
RSS.chat -- I don't have enough places to fit all the ideas these days. But we have been digging and the pieces fit together pretty well.#
Three-part ecosystem#
There are three parts to the rss.chat ecosystem. #
Writing. Today's rss.chat pro...
Monday, July 20, 2026
Two methods for creating standards: bootstrap and boil the ocean. #
John Johnston got inboundRss working, so now he can automatically post to his WordPress blog from demo.rss.chat. These are the kinds of things that "just work" when standards are use...
Sunday, July 19, 2026
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, a WordPress site. I have the app running in a tab on my desktop, you don't need a server for this. We use WordLand t...
Saturday, July 18, 2026
We have a firehose in rss.chat. Instant updates from the server. No polling. Docs and examples. #
An experiment, RSS rendered in JSON.#
Wrote this in 2018: "I know this is like pissing in the wind, but here's an idea for a demonstration that migh...
Friday, July 17, 2026
Our feeds can work with any feed reader. Examples, the feed of all posts on rss.chat, and a feed containing just mine. We just made a change in the feeds. There will be loose-ends like this. Still diggin! ;-)#
New rss.chat feature: It now supports fe...
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Added a layer to the Docs menu, the blog posts I've written here and elsewhere, and a podcast, in the Blog posts section.#
I needed a nice image for the OG Metadata, so I turned to Gemini. I know it reeks of AI, I hate that, but I need this right n...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
There's a new Docs menu in rss.chat. Right now it has pointers to the home page of our GitHub repo, and to the worknotes pages for the client and server. There will be lots more stuff in this menu as the project progresses.#
A lot more people have...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
I set up demo.rss.chat yesterday so people can try out the software. No guarantee that this is going to run for any period of time, so don't post things there that you want to be around for a long time. #
demo.rss.chat: "This is a writing surface."#...
Today we got a nice article about RSS.chat in Coywolf. #
And we got a second rss.chat server up, for testing and so people who want to try it out have a place to go. Still want to do a bit more testing before pointing to it from the blog. Working on docs now and fixes. Making sure we're ready for the next stages of growth. Turns out you can do a lot of feeds if you're willing to you know think different. ;-)#
Everyone: You can subscribe to the rss.chat flow, in RSS of course. If you're a developer, read the source for the feed. And then read the source namespace docs re the recent additions, inReplyTo and comments, and a special page that walks through how the RSS feed becomes part of the flow for our social network.#
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Finally, my first rss.chat podcast. 20 minutes. As always, I take forever to get to the point.#
Why you can't create an account#
A karass is "a group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evid...
Saturday, July 11, 2026
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 co...
Friday, July 10, 2026
Introducing rss.chat#
Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network. #
The answer is yes, of course, and -- here's rss.chat! #
The site is read-only except for a few of my programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this...
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Can RSS be a social network? #
Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called textcasting. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. #
Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the fe...
More people are using the news site I put up for WordPress. If you have a blog or podcast that covers WordPress, send me a link to the feed and I'll add it. The OPML list of the sites we cover is public, so you can always load the feeds into your feed reader, they all read lists in this format. This is the kind of thing that works great on the web. People take interop for granted when it's always been there. But they're still there to be built on. And imho interop and the web imho are the same thing. #
I said to Claude: "We're the first social network that thinks getting his support is the first thing." Claude replied: "And that's the whole thesis in one move — every other network treats the open-web guy as an afterthought; here he's the launch audience." #
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Sometimes Claude's judgement sucks, and that's why Jive coding usually produces a dashboard app. A different piece of software will drive it in a different direction. That's what I meant by AI-izing, in an earlier post.#
I used to be a single-thread ...
Monday, July 6, 2026
Today's song: "July is dressed up and playing her tune."#
James Talarico, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg, who also happens to be from Texas. He speaks as confidently as Obama, about the right things, wants to run ou...
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back. And it's just as likely that writing on computer networks will undergo a similar transformation.#
Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, ...
Saturday, July 4, 2026
I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor on this day in 1976, the bicentennial. As a NY kid, I wasn't very impressed. I liked rockets and rock bands, sound systems, had started programming then, was working in BASIC at Rapidata, a time s...
Friday, July 3, 2026
I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, but that's because the Knicks won and the NBA is re-forming itself around the Knicks. It's so freaking unusual to have your team, which was once right up there with...
Thursday, July 2, 2026
AI should be like a lawyer or doctor, first responsibility is to the user. And first, do no harm. #
An observation about Fable 5 in Claude Code. It's a much better writer than Opus 4.8. One of our next big things is writing docs, and all the info is...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
A thought for people who think the US can't be fixed. I've seen very strange things happen, like all of a sudden people figure it out and boom next thing you know they're the NBA Champions. It wasn't exactly sudden, but the last leg of was. A gestalt...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Some things Claude is extremely tedious at. But then it blows you away how it can read thousands of lines of complicated code in a few seconds (in parallel) and find tiny little things that any good obsessive programmer would want to fix (like me). An...
Monday, June 29, 2026
Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier.#
BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned yesterday. And I should mention that Manton Reece, developer of micro.blog and a longtime friend, going back to the Frontier d...
Sunday, June 28, 2026
To read scripting.com you need a browser that supports HTTP.#
Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most features of the web, and social media places limit...
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Claude can understand code no human could. Ever, under any circumstances. Just like a compiler can understand any code we throw at it. Way beyond what code obfuscation tools can do.#
In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study ...
Friday, June 26, 2026
Podcast: My (latest) AI Aha Moment.#
When Claude has all the information available it can figure out stuff a human mind would never be able hold in our minds at the same time, but it often doesn't remember to get the information first. When you get t...
