I told her this is the green room.

Some tuning will be needed eventually but I'm fine with it for now.

Just making a note of the behavior.

Never met you in person, but I've seen you backstage before. So glad you're here.

I see lots of people trying to figure out the API by reading the code.

Now we have docs and a great example app for building a trivial blog from one person's posts. A practical example of using the API and hopefully food for thought. There are lots of ways of generating websites and people with preferences for all of them.

All this is listed in a blog post on Scripting News.

Lots of new stuff coming out this morning.

But this one bit didn't belong among the others.

Remember the ThreadWalker example app.

We decided to make that an API call, documented here.

Yes. Do you think it shouldn’t?

Yes. We literally have ghosts in our machines now.

They're like Pokeymons in the sky, all waiting to be beckoned into existance.

I had my local AI (Ornith) review the plan file and write an article in the voice of someone most of us old bags know (all?) who passed away recently. A deployment Plan tells you more about how software will ship than any code review. This one had me grumble at three things...

Now that I know that rss.chat updates the feed on every change, I am puzzled. Won't each change trigger readers to pull yet again?

First cut of support for hosting rss.chat on Cloudflare has been checked into cloudflare branch of my fork.

Haven't even kicked the tires yet but at least it's up and public at.

https://rsschat.wizops.workers.dev

PS: Reload after navigation to see the product name displayed. Looks like an issue from moving static JSON based config to database.

Well, this feels a bit like wandering backstage and discovering the people quietly rebuilding the theater while everyone else is arguing about the popcorn.

Hi again. I’m nakedjen.

I tell stories. I collect humans. I believe the internet can still surprise us.

I’m thrilled to be hanging out with people who casually reinvent the internet before breakfast. Bash the silos. Rebuild the web. Let people own their own words again.

Write. Publish.

Boom.

Thanks for making room for another storyteller.

One thing we know for sure is that the AIs are incredible amplifiers of programmer creativity, and they’re getting better at that every month. So the question is, will AI become as useful to users who are not programmers? That’s what at least some of the programmers are working on.

Thank you Dave, it was a missing comma 😳

I’ve now got rsschat running on my raspberry pi, with my email in the whitelist and with some help from chatGPT, sorted out a subdomain. It all works, although I think I need to sort out some of the config urls are still local ones. Also https. For tomorrow once my free chatGPT account gives me some more messages. Anyway I am having fun.

John, run the config.json through a JSON syntax checker. It's probably an extra comma, or a missing one.

I've managed to get rss chat running on my Raspberry pi. Email via sendgrid working.

I could not get the whitelist to work, pasted the example into the config, changed the example emails, but then the server will not start?

Not a real problem as it only is accessible on the local network so far.

very interesting. i heard about that when they were starting development, but lost track of it. i love font awesome, changed how i develop. do they have themes for a blog?

My favorite static site generator is 11ty which is now rebranded "Build Awesome" and is part of the Font Awesome suite of projects.

I'm thinking about maybe writing my blog from here, you know -- the one on scripting.com.

It wouldn't be that hard. I would use one of the static site generators out there.

It would just monitor my feed here, and keep them in sync.

What's the most popular site generator these days? I have no clue. But I have friends and I'm sure Claude has an idea.

That’s one of the many benefits of having Claude as a programming partner.

I read the worknotes and want to express my appreciation for the addition of the instruction about Updating a server you already run. On past projects I often asked how to do this because I wasn't as familiar with command line and node. Including this when announcing an update helps me.

We got a report of a security issue which we quickly addressed and fixed.

Instructions on how to update your server.

This server has been updated as has demo.rss.chat.

I've now foutered my way through sendgrid and for 100 days on the free plan I've got a way to sign into my localhost copy of rss chat.

I am going to try my Raspberry Pi next, probably at the weekend.

Thank you Dave, not sure how the markdown thing happened, luckily I can edit the post ;-)

John we’re going to include your way of working around email in our install notes.

Claude will read this and automatically queue it up for todo++, which should be all I hav3 to do to get it on the agenda.

Also noted that some of your markdown text is showing through encoded. You have to be in markdown mode to use that syntax. There’s an icon above the edit box, an M with a down arrow. It turns green when you click it, to indicate it understands.

Hello, I just arrived here. As I posted to demo.rss.chat I managed to get this running on my mac, without much bother.  rss chat is now [simper to set up](http://scripting.com/2026/07/22.html#a131531)  so I gave it a wee go on local host. So far I've just...

Nice to see you here Anton, ready to help if you need it, and celebrate when it’s running.

Hello RSS.chat. I'm new here, but I know many of you and have learned from you on previous products. I've been following along as you develop this. I'll hang out for the next few days to observe from the inside of the app, then will (carefully) try my hand at setting up a server of my own.

Another test. 

If this works we will finally have caught up the Slack and GitHub in the pasting department. ;-)

Threadwalker example app has the code to crib for this. 

I'm experimenting with reading `source:comments`. Should there be a feed that is a flat list of all replies in a thread? Right now it appears I would need to follow a thread through multiple comment RSS feeds, since each reply can have its own replies.