welcome ben. ;-)

Now posting to my new rss.chat account with the same email address as my blog admin. Just a quick late night test. Hopefully any replies there will come back here as comments. Using the new WordPress to rss.chat plugin.

Just setting up my rss.chat

I love seeing posts like this.

If you want to create another account so you can test, email me the address you want to use.

Well that worked, posted to WordPress RSS Chat in WordPress and it flowed through to my rss.chat set up.

Can't test here 'cause I use a different email address here from my WordPress site Admin.

I was hoping for something like this!

Don’t miss this.

https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-rss-chat

NBA reporters should take some time off. It’s almost August. Now if I were a betting man I’d bet against the team the Sixers have cobbled together. Sports teams esp in basketball are not the sum of the parts. It probably won’t gel. They only have one proven solid player in T...

New docs for the API that connects RSS.chat to the server.

https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/docs/apijs.md

what a nice surprise! ;-)

I seem to have rss.chat running on my Raspberry Pi. Not very stable at the moment. Needed a bit of help from chatGPT joining the dns, apache virtual hosts & ports up. I got as far as locally, then locally network by myself. I had to ask questions to get the rest in order.

It seems quite a good way to do things, using a free account. I run out of questions and then take a break. This allows me to do some thinking myself, I might learn something.

I've also tested the API running bash scripts from TextMate. Posting, editing & delete have worked.

I've been running a server that mirrors posts from my rss.chat feed to my WordPress site automatically — no browser tab required. It connects to the rss.chat firehose and calls the WordPress.com API whenever I publish or edit a post. Edits flow through too.

The code is at https://github.com/scotthansonde/rsschat-wordpress-service, if you care to try it out. The requirements are similar to WordLand. You'll need a WordPress.com account (or a self-hosted site with Jetpack), and about 15 minutes to set it up.

Just deployed a new version. This is a test.

The new version can do nightly backups of the database, and it creates the feed when when the user signs on, everyone has a feed even if they haven't posted.

i'm really happy you're setting up a rss.chat server.

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.