Sunday, August 9, 2026
Working with Claude on the user interface of RSS.chat was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and Claude who can read the code for a huge sprawling app like Frontier, and understand it, in ...
Saturday, August 8, 2026
I want to connect RSS to AT Proto, both ways, inbound and out. Toward that end, today I helped Leaflet, a very nice editor for AT Proto, make their outbound RSS feed better. We should have all our best editors, everywhere, hooked up over popular web...
Friday, August 7, 2026
I'm trying to move my whole programming act from Frontier on the Mac to Electric Drummer anywhere. I need to start using the new machines everywhere. I've dreaded this, not because I'm starting over, I'm not. I have to bring with me all the projects I...
Thursday, August 6, 2026
There's a new version of the FeedLand server. #
If Claude Code were a human working for me as a human would, it would be fired several times every day. It forgets orders you gave it two minutes ago. It's always trying to take control. Again I'm ba...
RSS.chat now supports WebSub. This means that posts on RSS.chat will appear instantly in compatible feed reader apps. #
I asked Claude for a list of popular feed readers that hook into WebSub. Turns out it wasn't a simple answer. #
I've been on quest to see if we could bridge AT Proto and RSS. I love the brightly colored-editors that are popping up inside AT Proto Land, and I want them to play with us in the land of RSS. #
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
2019: "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 a...
Monday, August 3, 2026
BTW, we figured out how we're going to implement WebSub support.#
Also I just heard about FreshRSS. This has all the features we've been wanting others to support. I hear it's recommended by NNW, and supports the Google Reader API. These are my kind...
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Fascinating thread on Hacker News about RSS. #
Taking some time off to breathe and regain perspective. Fixed a few bugs, and wrote about the big picture on demo.rss.chat. I really want to get a project going to peer with standard.site apps running i...
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! #
Ultimately AI will flatten out the differences in languages. #
One of the things you learn working with a bot is how much saying the niceties are good for you, even when the "person" would still do what you ask if you weren't so nice.#
Friday, July 31, 2026
A new validator for RSS.chat-compatible apps. Examples: The everyone feed on rss.chat. A user's feed. The user list. A feed with issues. Docs. #
If you run your own RSS.chat instance, you can now add a menu of commands to the menubar. Details in the...
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Claude doesn't iterate over UI design. It doesn't have eyes or have a human mind. It can't evaluate a design. It works best when you can present the whole design before it writes a any code. That does happen, for example when porting a product across...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Our feed parser is updated for the new elements for RSSchat.#
I want one social network with lots of branches where ideas flow in ways people want them to flow. Take the big corps out of the middle.
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Learnings from Andy Hertzfeld#
Listened ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
When the walls came down#
Yesterday's Scripting News was one of the most news-full days in a long time, maybe going back to the rollout of RSS 2.0 in September 2002. If you look at what's there, a post about re-opening the Frontier object database...
Monday, July 27, 2026
This is something. WordPress now supports RSS.chat in an interesting way, and it's surprisingly deep. Once it's cross-posted a message to RSS.chat, any comment in response will be cross-posted to the comment thread on RSS.chat and vice versa. What's g...
Sunday, July 26, 2026
New docs for the browser JavaScript interface to the RSS.chat API. #
Scott Hanson has a new service that connects RSS.chat to WordPress. #
Many of the questions about RSS.chat center on how do we make this centralized. I don't want this, I want fe...
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...
