De afgelopen dagen denk ik weer na hoe ik online alles in balans breng. Mijn blog, interessante links, online aanwezigheid, CreativeNotes, comments, maar tegelijk de professionele kant van die online aanwezigheid. Hoe hou ik dat in evenwicht. Ik zou dat na 26 jaar bloggen toch wel moeten weten. Niets is minder waar. Het blijft zoeken. De huidige site op frankmeeuwsen.com is in elk geval niet voldoende. Dat is al een jaar een lelijke placeholder voor wat er zou moeten komen. Daar moet ik eens werk van maken. Maar er moet ook een manuscript af. Gelukkig heb ik nog een paar weken redelijk wat werkvrije tijd.

This is a test post.

It has a title so it should be routed to the place where standard.site says they should go.

And I will be able to read them in this place.

Where I must imagine it behaves something like a feed reader.

Postscript. For the post that was to be routed to standard.site (whatever that means) I can find no evidence that something was sent somewhere.

The first one worked.

It was routed through micro.blog. Basically everything I post to demo.rss.chat will go to my main account on Bluesky.Unless it has a title or is longer than 300 chars. Here's what we get using various Markdown features.

A list of five countries.

1. Portugal
2. Tanzania
3. Panama
4. Canada
5. Vietnam

Obviously there's bold, italic and a link. The Big Three. Okay that's a big, almost 500 chars, and that's enough for a nice little test.

This is a test.

This is a short less-than 300 char post, that is being routed to Bluesky via micro.blog.

Because it's short it it won't have to be upgraded to standard.site class, it can go through the analog of coach (the current limits of Bluesky).

Okay that's about it. Let's see if this mofo works.

what’s happening

“Years from now you might be looking back, wondering if you were as happy or as sad as you remember during this time. […] We so often make big decisions in life based on predictions of how we think we’ll feel in the future, or what we’ll want. Your past self is your best indicator of how you actually felt in similar situations. So it helps to have an accurate picture of your past. […] You can’t trust distant memories. But you can trust your daily diary. It’s the best indicator to your future self (and maybe descendants) of what was really going on in your life at this time.”https://sivers.org/dj

“Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses — viruses generated from within itself.” — Snow Crash

Previously we were only able to notify via rssCloud.

Now we also support WebSub because there are also a fair number of feed readers that only use WebSub.

We're using Andrew Shell's rsscloud.io as our WebSub hub, as we have for a long time with rssCloud.

Andrew please help us figure out if this is working correctly.

The source is in the repo, along with a worknote.

all the bootstrap things, i love watching this boot up! Still digging :-) etc. Thanks Dave and all the developers and testers

It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.” -- George Orwell

“This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy as we inflicted chaos on others.”– Dave Winer

I love Orolo. I want him to be my grandpa.

New York Times Sunday crossword today.

38 down: Blog feed letters

“It’s hard to explain, but, for me, just aiming a speelycaptor (video recorder) at something doesn’t collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.”— ANATHEM (Neal Stephenson)

RSS love

Taking my cue from Andrew Shell (of rssCloud Server fame, about which you will be hearing more soon ;-), i have added a little feature to the footer of this site, which expresses my appreciation to Dave Winer, Andrew and the wonderful RSS community, which makes syndication of all sites great and small Really Simple!

Just made a small change in the way we prepare feeds, and I have to post something to cause the feeds to rebuild.

Hi Robert, I had Claude tell me that you're the generous developer who wrote us that thoughtful report last night about the security issue. FIrst, there are no plans for the /localnewuser function, we put it in because we watched some users struggle through installing the s...

Song of the day: "Highlands" from Bob's Time Out of Mind.

— via @chris, https://chatouk.sofab.ch/p/Yipcb6ASd47t

I've got an initial version of a utility program that gets Bluesky posts and posts them into rss.chat.

The thought behind it is that if there is an important news account that you want to see in the chat and have discussions about this is a simple bridge to bring that to the feed. (Like a breaking news account on Election Day or the Wario64 video game deals feed).

It is using the /localnewuser? endpoint which is very new (as of the last week). I'm not 💯 on using it, so I wanted to ask what the plans are for that endpoint before posting something that uses it on GitHub.

Thoughts?

A user contacted us about a potential security issue in the RSS.chat server. We responded quickly and with v0.6.11 the issue is removed. If you're running rssnetwork.js on a publicly visible server, please install the new version now. Thanks!

this is a test of rss chat

this si a test of linking: my mastodon account, feel free to join me there.

Speaking of RSS, Marc Weidenbaum is using FeedLand and GitHub to curate an OPML file of electronic music feeds: https://disquiet.com/2026/07/31/electronic-music-rss-starter-kit/

You're absolutely right. With WordPress you can go from rss.chat to mastodon.

Testing ActivityPub from WP

I just learned that it’s possible to join this WordPress blog to the Fediverse, by simply activating the ActivityPub plugin that is already installed… So let’s see if this works!

A validator and a way to add menus to the RSS.chat menubar, if you're running your own instance.

Links on today's Scripting home page.

That’s possible on the little Elixir clone server I’m working on. And if a user changes her screen name, her feed’s exposed URL also changes, although the feed’s item links stay the same.

https://thechels.uk/i-rss-andrew-shell-s-weblog

“Technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. … Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, we’ve collectively chosen the latter.”David Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Gentle bump on this one — still wondering if there's a supported path (or an experimental endpoint) for changing a user's email while keeping screenname and feed. Happy to test on rsschat.sofab.ch.