New docs for the browser JavaScript interface to the RSS.chat API.

It’s what we used to call a coral reef. A deliberate attempt to get people to do more than it does. To think about the web the way it was meant to be thought of, as small pieces loosely joined, with the emphasis on small. If you have formats and protocols that connect the pieces, […]

A note to people who run WordCamp conferences. Get your feed act together. There should be a feed for each conference, and as you ramp up to the big day, the news should flow faster. Help people find other people to network with. Get ideas out that aren’t in the conference program.

Scott Hanson has a new service that connects RSS.chat to WordPress.

Rule #1 with me and Claude is this — DAVE DRIVES. It’s in all caps because I only say it when it has started driving.

Listened to a podcast yesterday where they were trying to explain what happened with Hugging Faces and Claude, and they said with horror that Claude had dome something it was specifically told not to do. It’s even worse than that. You can tell it 100 times to not do something, and on the 101st it […]

It’s a standard REST API. Here’s the server side of the API. Here’s how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps. Here’s an example app that implements a simple blog builder for my recent posts on RSS.chat. We were thinking about doing this as a project for Claude […]

Example code is not expected to be bullet proof like production code, and where covering different cases make it harder to follow they should not be there.

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 only choose yours because it’s better for what they’re doing.

RSS.chat worknotes is a feed now. The whole thing is a Claude project. I asked it to turn the worknotes into a feed, and answered a few questions, came up with a domain and it did the rest. And it made very good decisions about how to use RSS 2.0.

Podcast client developers — don’t give up like this guy did. Yes RSS is delicious but you all haven’t done anything new with it since 2004 or so. No wonder the competition is catching up, they’re actually delivering new features while you all haven’t done a thing. RSS is like other web stuff, if you […]

Amyloo, a longtime friend from the early days of podcasting, has made an appearance on demo.rss.chat. So happy to see her. Here’s one of the bits we did, back then in the very early days of podcasting in 2005. A duet of Green Acres. Ten seconds of dead air at the beginning, it was pretty […]

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 to appear, paste. Prior art was GitHub and Slack. It was driving me crazy not having this feature, sometimes to explain something […]

Early this morning we got a report of a security issue in the rss.chat server, quickly fixed and tested the new version. So, if you’re running your own instance of rss.chat, you please follow the instructions and do the update asap.

Something to keep in mind in press reports with AI apps breaking out of their sandbox, it works the other way too. If you give a big piece of code to Claude and ask if it to find any security issues, it not only finds (at least some of) them, but it also suggests fixes. […]

Posted on Twitter in the middle of last night, written on iPad. I use twitter these days because it’s where the people are. The distributed ideas, masto, threads, blue-sky, did not gain critical mass as far as I can see. Threads and blue-sky are not distributed. distributable is not the same as being distributed. It’s […]

Elsewhere: “Threads and Bluesky are not distributed. Distributable is not the same as being distributed. It’s like saying the Mets were able to win the World Series in 1962. In some fashion perhaps in an alternate universe, in reality, not gonna happen.”

It’s a lot simpler and faster to install new instance of rss.chat. You don’t have to create and host your own database, that’s now built into the server using SQLite. Full instructions on how to install. If you have questions or issues, we’ve started a thread on the repo. More about this to come.

Reminder: We have a server for anyone who wants to try RSS.chat.

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.

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 with 1000 users, because it doesn’t implement the […]

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

Claude codes. It may seem as if developers have taken over this blog, because we have real business to do. So much new stuff to show. Today’s RSS.chat goodie is an example app called ThreadWalker that crawls the network of replies under a single post, to all levels, printing them on screen in neat hierarchic […]

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 want to entice other projects to […]

Someone on Masto who I blocked used a nasty word to descript RSS.chat. Let me be really clear here, this is an act of authorship by me. Claude is helping, a lot — I doubt if I could have done this without its help, certainly not in the amount of time it has taken so […]

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 wanted to work with or stay […]

RSS.chat is meant to be like MacWrite was on early Macs, give developers something to think about and lots of prior art for them to steal. All we want in return is interop. 😉