It turned out that way, didn't it. ;-)

Funny thing is at the time Microsoft had a product that was meant to compete with Apple's iPod, called Zune, and it wasn't getting in there. I went there and proposed we turn it into a podcasting platform. They never responded. 

Lots of examples of things like that. They needed to pivot, turn the corner, realize there was another market they could get at that Apple couldn't because Apple viewed audio as valuable and podcasting says "one listen and throw it out." There really was a niche there back then. Now, it would never go over, because the installed base.

Also that's something micro.blog does really well. 

I support what Manton has done there. 

We have to work together to build the web, we can't do it by all trying to work with the BigCo's. They have other (understandable) motives.

We thought about doing that and decided not to.

Just wrote a post about that on scripting. 

Don't think of this as a product Rob. Think about features you want in other people's products. Think of this as a source of feeds, not a destination for them.

I have a whole other product for that called FeedLand, btw. ;-)

I was just thinking how amazing it'll be once we can aggregate our own RSS into this chat and it's transparent to everyone. My goodness that'll be amazing.

I've been eating an apple either for breakfast or as a snack for over a year now, mainly as a way to introduce fruit to my diet (otherwise it would be absent). I couldn't tell you that I feel better as a result, or that I'm measurably healthier, or even that I feel like I've eaten something afterwards. That's one of the points of snacks, is it not? To not be hungry for a little while? Since there's no real downsides, and it really is healthy, I'll keep doing it.

A little test drive

I find it both exciting and confusing to be thrilled about the advent of agentic software development (you can make your own perfect software if you want) as well as a resurgence of this social network through classic protocols like RSS. Somehow it doesn't compute in my head yet it does....

I'm an RSS enthusiast: with Claude's help I built Mytis, a self-hosted chat web app where every conversation is an RSS 2.0 feed (Node.js + embedded SQLite, behind Authentik).
Could Mytis post into demo.rss.chat — and what would it take on my side?
Prototype, a conversation re-emitted in your source: namespace: https://sofab.ch/public/outbound-rss/rss-chat/mytis-sample.xml

pourquoi pas? you can meet people at bars, book readings, yoga, aquafit, hiking club so many irl places that don't require a computer

u do u. folks should not shame others!

butterflies and zebras and moonbeams ....fly on little wing

i was there, the good ole days :-)

I'm actually thinking of leaving computing (outside of work) but that would be a big sacrifice, since a lot of wondrous things (movies, TV shows, music, trying to meet possible mates) require a computer these days.

I couldn't do it for work, at least not right away, but I'm contemplating leaving the web. Despite best efforts of those who are trying to save it, the web sucks. I almost think that that if was once worth saving, it's not anymore. It's too hostile an environment for gentle people, and I don't want to be anywhere where I have to grow a thick skin or have to dismiss the garbage that pops and tries to distract me from whatever I set out to do.

There's cozy corners of the web, but the people in those cozy corners only ever talk about how cozy it is there. They never talk about plants or swimming or lovemaking or settling disputes. It's only just about how great their corner of the web is. Boring.

How long can you go without your smartphone? As in, leave the house without it and not need it? I've been trying little experiments like going for an hour-long walk, or going to the pool, and not bringing my iPhone with me. I don't recommend it for people who are somebody else's emergency contact, or if you need it to live.

For context, I'm a late-forties white male who lives in the middle of a large North American city that's extremely safe. I think I'd need it if I want ride on the local bikeshare, because I can't find the card for it, and that may not even work anymore. Maybe I only need a credit card? I'd miss playing music or listening to a podcast or audiobook on longer walks.

I would also say it's easy to do this if it's not your money you're spending. 😜

The beauty of having access to coding agents is that you get to create a tool shaped exactly to the problem you're trying to solve. I'm working with some data in a PostgreSQL DB that has a JSONB column. This introduces problems in a typical client: either because only the first few characters of a multi-KB JSON structure is rendered, or the full JSON structure is rendered and it blows out the size of the table.

So I asked Claude Code to make a client that would open the value of JSONB columns in a separate window, nicely formatted and syntax highlighted. I'm using it right now and it's been a godsend. It's hard justifying putting in the time to build this manually for a project that will probably only last a month or so. But asking the agent to do it in a day? Not a problem.

Not a reference to anything I've seen here. Just looking for stuff to share as I explore. I've been saving DW wisdom for twenty years. Oh, here is a link to the guidelines.

Give the good weather there are quite a lot of butterflies around this week. This looks like quite an old one that has been in the wars, black faded and very ragged. I wonder what tales it  could tell. My butterfly by month page is building nicely.

Hello. Heard about this from Manton Reece too and I got curious. We'll see what happens when I click "Publish".

Heard about this from Manton Reece.  Watching with interest.

Hello world!
Love the look of this already.

Heh. It's true.

Here's the emancipation proclamation.

https://textcasting.org