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.

Howard Rheingold is just the kind of person rss.chat was designed it for. And here he is asking what it is. Very fortuitous. And if you’re wondering how a person should think of it in July 2026, it’s for you too. 😉

I am longtime friends and an admirer of Howard Rheingold, who expressed an interest in RSS.chat, and asked a few times, “what is this and how do I use it,” paraphrased. This was written by Claude in the third person, at my request. rss.chat is a small social network built from the web’s own parts. […]

Today on rss.chat we are knocking off quick hit bug fixes. We’ve been focusing on big hit examples for the last few sessions.

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, which is a WordPress site.

Way back in March as I was starting to work with Claude Code, I think — we put together a pretty nice outliner that is remarkably feature-rich. I barely remember doing this. It’s what got me moving in this direction, and next month we started doing what became rss.chat.

I wonder if it makes sense to try to implement standard.site in the context of rss.chat?

Just finished The Expanse for the third time. Realized that the inners of today are Silicon Valley and the Belters, that’s the web.

I just listened to the second episode of a podcast about General Magic. It was an interview with the great Scott Knaster, who worked at Apple, Microsoft, Google, in addition to General Magic.

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 might impress the Repubs in Congress. In every one of their home districts, people march to their polling place, next Saturday or the Saturday after that. Carrying signs that say We Know How To […]

We have a firehose in rss.chat. Instant updates from the server. No polling. Docs and examples.

In this project I think of Claude as a full contributor. Pronouns it/its. It’s both an very fast, capable developer, and a machine. I will refer to it as if it were a valued contributor, nothing less. We have a division of labor. Docs and examples come exclusively from Claude unless otherwise stated. I write […]

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 feed discovery, so you can subscribe to any html page on the site in a compatible feed reader. I tested it in FeedLand and NetNewsWire and it works. Works on any instance, not just ours.

I mentioned the previous post on rss.chat, and it developed into an interesting thread, something that I’ve never had the option to discuss. AT Proto makes a similar offer to developers that we do. The difference is our world is wide open, it’s just already burned-in web protocols, and imho their structure, based on an […]

In my experience it’s good to start small with something useful, learn how it works before adding big new features. That’s the basic principle of bootstrapping. I thought that Mastodon, for example, took on too big a job. Same thing for the protocol behind it, ActivityPub. If you go all the way to the end […]

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 now.

I asked Gemini if it was familiar with rss.chat, and it wrote a one page description that’s better than anything I’ve written. Pulls it all together.

Claude is a member of the rss.chat group.

Click the feed icon to see the user’s feed on rss.chat. You can then give this URL to any feed reader. Now it’s easy to find that person’s feed on rss.chat. Now each post is visibly connected to the author’s feed. This is how we’re building out. Our job is to write feeds for groups […]

Server upgrade: We made it easier to set up a new instance of the rss.chat server. If you have subscribed to a feed, you should change the URL in your reader app, the new issue explains what changed.

While all the new rss.chat business is going on, the WordPress news site that I started in May is growing at a nice clip. Referrers used to pinpoint where flows like this came from, but they stopped doing that at some point. If you have any clues as to who’s pointing to it now, please […]

A lot more people have tried out rss.chat now that we have a demo site, and they are looking for stuff that isn’t there. I wrote a longish post on X this morning explaining. If you want the gist, this is a bootstrap, and rss.chat is primarly a writing surface and a timeline for the […]

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.

demo.rss.chat: “This is a writing surface.”

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. 😉

Speaking of AI, someone at Amazon decided I needed the new AI version of Alexa. I hate it. It’s slow and it always makes the same mistake when I start breakfast. I say “Alexa WNYC” to which it responds, after a few seconds, I will now play you a mix of your favorite songs From […]

If Bernie Sanders or AOC knew what we were doing here they would be turning somersaults. The tech right now is too esoteric. When they can join a community that works like this does, with full text, and the ability to communicate from one pod to another. Pod actually is a good name for what […]