Here’s the sign of success. I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat was automatically cross-posted to Bluesky via micro.blog. Because the post has a title, it was routed to standard.site. What does that mean? I still don’t really understand, when I do I will explain it here. But part of the answer is that we now […]

On Facebook I wrote this in reply to a post by John Worthington, a former Quicktime developer at Apple. We’re both using AI to build things based on our past experiences and it’s a big difference, not without pitfalls, but we’re doing something that’s never been done before and my thought was that we should […]

Also a note to Hypercard enthusiasts, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could do this with that programming environment which is a contemporary of Frontier.

BTW, Jake Savin is using Claude to build Frontier on Node too. I asked Claude for help with this, and it turned out much better than I expected. I was not expecting this much success this quickly. This is exactly the kind of project AI tools excel at and I as a human am glad […]

It took one week to port UserTalk and the Frontier runtime environment, verbs, object database, etc for Frontier. I spent the next week being shattered by what happened the week before.

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 work on to keep my various online sites working. […]

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 backing out of the idea of it taking responsibility for doing simple persistent work on servers, the […]

Like a lot of other people, I want to know where Bluesky is headed, and I learned a lot about that in this podcast interview with Bluesky’s new CEO, Toni Schneider. We have crossed paths in tech, but this is the first time I’ve heard him speak at length. They have a business model in […]

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.

I asked Claude for a list of popular feed readers that hook into WebSub. Turns out it wasn’t a simple answer.

RSS.chat now supports WebSub. This means that posts on RSS.chat will appear instantly in compatible feed reader apps.

I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that a Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can’t believe how stupid the adults are. The teens are right about that, the adults have no idea wtf they’re doing. Never did. And yet somehow the world […]

I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that a Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can’t believe how stupid the adults are. The teens are right about that, the adults have no idea wtf they’re doing. Never did. And yet somehow the world […]

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 as we inflicted chaos on others.”

TL;DR: What developers need. Enough examples, a validator, and decent docs that value explaining over mathematical elegance. We assume developers can read and think, and if there’s doubt look to the examples for guidance. It’s worth noting we did not take the RSS.chat project to a standards body like the W3C or the IETF. I […]

Last week along with a lot of other stuff, we shipped a validator for lists and feeds that want to be compatible with RSS.chat. It works best for standards to stay strong and a validator helps that. So here are a few examples, validating one user’s feed, validating the everyone feed for RSS.chat, which is […]

Examples for the new validator. A feed produced by RSS.chat, and one with interop issues.

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 of people. Interop is all that matters, when you’re doing software for news. It’s been around since 2013. Imagine if we had […]

BTW, we figured out how we’re going to implement WebSub support.

Also Claude is a new kind of intelligence and when you it its sweet spot it’ll blow you away how much it can do in very little time. But it isn’t trainable the way a dog is, for example, or a human assistant. If you keep asking for things a certain way, a dog or […]

Claude is not ready to run the world, not even a very small part of it. This is a problem for me, because I was counting on having it do this for me.

We need a way to define lists of writers independent of the site they write on. They are represented by an RSS feed with the basic features required for RSS.chat. The list is an OPML subscription list. We’re reusing formats people are already familiar with, RSS and OPML.

Back when digital cameras were new, I suggested probably in a blog post that they add a feature that tells a joke before taking a picture so everyone is smiling, not fake smiles but real ones.

Fascinating thread on Hacker News about RSS.

A story from the deep dark history of my blog. I got an email from Steve Wozniak inviting me to lunch at one of our favorite retaurants, By The Bucket, in Santa Clara. He told me that the board had decided to fire the Apple CEO, he gave me the date and time. I wasn’t […]

Taking some time off the breathe and regain perspective. Fixed a few bugs, and talked about the big picture on demo.rss.chat. I really want to get a project going to peer with standard.site apps running in AT Proto, both ways, from us to them, and from them to us, via RSS. We can peer with […]

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!

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.

Of course I love RSS. 😉