Someone on Masto who I blocked used a nasty word to descript rss.chat. Let me be really clear here, this is an act of authorship by me. Claude is helping, a lot — I doubt if I could have done this without its help, certainly not in the amount of time it has taken so […]

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.

Claude codes. It may seem as if developers have taken over this blog, because we have real business to do. So much new stuff to show. Today’s rss.chat goodie is an example app called ThreadWalker that crawls the network of replies under a single post, to all levels, printing them on screen in neat hierarchic […]

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. […]

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 […]

Finally, my first rss.chat podcast. 20 minutes. As always, I take forever to get to the point.

A karass is “a group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident.” I think of rss.chat as a social network for my karass. A small group of people, not trying to get famous or rich from using a social network, rather wanted to work with or stay […]

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 contribute. This is just Day 1. Many more to come. 🙂

I wrote a pretty good set of paragraphs on Twitter/X this morning. Yesterday I announced rss.chat. Some people spell it RSS.chat. I haven’t decided which way is right yet. The announcement covers a slice of the project, but it fans out to be the beginning of a bootstrap. I want to entice other projects to […]

Claude teaches you how to manage. You’ve got a perfectly pliable team member, always does their best to do what you told them to do. Now how do you design co-development projects where two very different individuals do their work and it adds up to at least twice what either of them could do alone.

The instance I started is for my friends, people I work with, it’s not something people can test. It will be possible to start your own server, quite soon. And then you can do whatever you want. It’s MIT licensed. Kick ass and have fun, but remember don’t fuck with the interop. It’s there so […]

BTW, I notice almost everyone but me writes RSS.chat. I didn’t expect that. Thinking.

Yesterday was a wonderful first day for rss.chat. It’s now out there, but we haven’t talked about or demo’d many of the things that it does. I wanted to get the feeds out there first, because now we get to think together about how they fit together to give us a social network experience. It’s […]

Jeremy Herve who I know from projects at Automattic, has questions about rss.chat, and I have some answers, with more coming soon.

Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network. The answer is yes — introducing rss.chat! And here’s a Day 0 screen shot. The site is read-only except for a few of my programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this environment. I started this project in April, a […]

Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called textcasting. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the features the web needed to be a great writing environment. Textcasting said this is what we have to have […]

More people are using the news site I put up for WordPress. If you have a blog or podcast that covers WordPress, send me a link to the feed and I’ll add it. The OPML list of the sites we cover is public, so you can always load the feeds into your feed reader, they […]

I said to Claude: “We’re the first social network that thinks getting his support is the first thing.” Claude replied: “And that’s the whole thesis in one move — every other network treats the open-web guy as an afterthought; here he’s the launch audience.”

Sometimes Claude’s judgement sucks, and that’s why Jive coding usually produces a dashboard app. A different piece of software will drive it in a different direction. That’s what I meant by AI-izing, in an earlier post.

I used to be a single-thread developer, but now I’m multi-tasking, I can work on two things at once. Claude is now able to research and fix certain problems, and his work is in a sandbox where it doesn’t have any access to the surroundings, and can’t make too big a mess, and it’s going […]

I’m an independent developer working in Claude Code, we’re in the endgame of a product cycle, where the core is working and it can be used for the thing it was designed to do (biggest consideration). This is the time when you need users banging on it and reporting problems. People who write good bug […]

I think AI is the perfect innovation as we reach the crash point of the climate crisis. Who cares if we burn more CO2 now, the effect is miniscule for the explosive crisis that could be coming any day or week. One that we have no ability to recover from. To say it’s unenvironmental would […]

Inside the big AI companies they are certainly AI-izing every app conceivable, and even teaching the AI’s how to AI’ize, because AI inside a standard productivity app which includes social network software will be one of the basic UI tools, and that means hidden technology like SQL databases can now be end user products, so […]

One of the silver linings of AI use is that it makes you a better writer.

James Talarico, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg, who also happens to be from Texas. He speaks as confidently as Obama, about the right things, wants to run our government like a freaking government. To think that’s a campaign issue in the United States of America says why I did […]

We just implement Cute Paste in the new product and I keep hitting a limit that it has. I love the feature, in most cases. Here I’ve set up an , the xxx reserving space for the URL that I’m now going to get. When I come back I select xxx and paste, and in […]