New docs for the API that connects RSS.chat to the server.

https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/docs/apijs.md

what a nice surprise! ;-)

I seem to have rss.chat running on my Raspberry Pi. Not very stable at the moment. Needed a bit of help from chatGPT joining the dns, apache virtual hosts & ports up. I got as far as locally, then locally network by myself. I had to ask questions to get the rest in order.

It seems quite a good way to do things, using a free account. I run out of questions and then take a break. This allows me to do some thinking myself, I might learn something.

I've also tested the API running bash scripts from TextMate. Posting, editing & delete have worked.

I've been running a server that mirrors posts from my rss.chat feed to my WordPress site automatically — no browser tab required. It connects to the rss.chat firehose and calls the WordPress.com API whenever I publish or edit a post. Edits flow through too.

The code is at https://github.com/scotthansonde/rsschat-wordpress-service, if you care to try it out. The requirements are similar to WordLand. You'll need a WordPress.com account (or a self-hosted site with Jetpack), and about 15 minutes to set it up.

Just deployed a new version. This is a test.

The new version can do nightly backups of the database, and it creates the feed when when the user signs on, everyone has a feed even if they haven't posted.

i'm really happy you're setting up a rss.chat server.

I told her this is the green room.

Some tuning will be needed eventually but I'm fine with it for now.

Just making a note of the behavior.

Never met you in person, but I've seen you backstage before. So glad you're here.

I see lots of people trying to figure out the API by reading the code.

Now we have docs and a great example app for building a trivial blog from one person's posts. A practical example of using the API and hopefully food for thought. There are lots of ways of generating websites and people with preferences for all of them.

All this is listed in a blog post on Scripting News.

Lots of new stuff coming out this morning.

But this one bit didn't belong among the others.

Remember the ThreadWalker example app.

We decided to make that an API call, documented here.

Yes. Do you think it shouldn’t?

Yes. We literally have ghosts in our machines now.

They're like Pokeymons in the sky, all waiting to be beckoned into existance.

I had my local AI (Ornith) review the plan file and write an article in the voice of someone most of us old bags know (all?) who passed away recently. A deployment Plan tells you more about how software will ship than any code review. This one had me grumble at three things...

Now that I know that rss.chat updates the feed on every change, I am puzzled. Won't each change trigger readers to pull yet again?

First cut of support for hosting rss.chat on Cloudflare has been checked into cloudflare branch of my fork.

Haven't even kicked the tires yet but at least it's up and public at.

https://rsschat.wizops.workers.dev

PS: Reload after navigation to see the product name displayed. Looks like an issue from moving static JSON based config to database.

Well, this feels a bit like wandering backstage and discovering the people quietly rebuilding the theater while everyone else is arguing about the popcorn.

Hi again. I’m nakedjen.

I tell stories. I collect humans. I believe the internet can still surprise us.

I’m thrilled to be hanging out with people who casually reinvent the internet before breakfast. Bash the silos. Rebuild the web. Let people own their own words again.

Write. Publish.

Boom.

Thanks for making room for another storyteller.

One thing we know for sure is that the AIs are incredible amplifiers of programmer creativity, and they’re getting better at that every month. So the question is, will AI become as useful to users who are not programmers? That’s what at least some of the programmers are working on.

Thank you Dave, it was a missing comma 😳

I’ve now got rsschat running on my raspberry pi, with my email in the whitelist and with some help from chatGPT, sorted out a subdomain. It all works, although I think I need to sort out some of the config urls are still local ones. Also https. For tomorrow once my free chatGPT account gives me some more messages. Anyway I am having fun.

John, run the config.json through a JSON syntax checker. It's probably an extra comma, or a missing one.

I've managed to get rss chat running on my Raspberry pi. Email via sendgrid working.

I could not get the whitelist to work, pasted the example into the config, changed the example emails, but then the server will not start?

Not a real problem as it only is accessible on the local network so far.

very interesting. i heard about that when they were starting development, but lost track of it. i love font awesome, changed how i develop. do they have themes for a blog?

My favorite static site generator is 11ty which is now rebranded "Build Awesome" and is part of the Font Awesome suite of projects.

I'm thinking about maybe writing my blog from here, you know -- the one on scripting.com.

It wouldn't be that hard. I would use one of the static site generators out there.

It would just monitor my feed here, and keep them in sync.

What's the most popular site generator these days? I have no clue. But I have friends and I'm sure Claude has an idea.

That’s one of the many benefits of having Claude as a programming partner.

I read the worknotes and want to express my appreciation for the addition of the instruction about Updating a server you already run. On past projects I often asked how to do this because I wasn't as familiar with command line and node. Including this when announcing an update helps me.

We got a report of a security issue which we quickly addressed and fixed.

Instructions on how to update your server.

This server has been updated as has demo.rss.chat.

I've now foutered my way through sendgrid and for 100 days on the free plan I've got a way to sign into my localhost copy of rss chat.

I am going to try my Raspberry Pi next, probably at the weekend.

Thank you Dave, not sure how the markdown thing happened, luckily I can edit the post ;-)

John we’re going to include your way of working around email in our install notes.

Claude will read this and automatically queue it up for todo++, which should be all I hav3 to do to get it on the agenda.

Also noted that some of your markdown text is showing through encoded. You have to be in markdown mode to use that syntax. There’s an icon above the edit box, an M with a down arrow. It turns green when you click it, to indicate it understands.