FeedCity

I'm creating a new way to do messaging, a network that only understands RSS feeds for incoming and outgoing messages. The only API you'll need to subscribe is a feed reader. The idea is to show developers how to do it so a thousand flowers can bloom. It's a lot easier to create these things if you're modest in the features you support, at least at first, and you don't try to control the users. There is no business model here, other than the satisfaction of making sure everyone knows what a social system looks like made only out of the features of the web, and every part replaceable.

An example of the latest version of the library generator, which is of course just a script. Note that there's a disclosure at the bottom of the page where it says how and why it was created, and then lists the exact prompt that ChatGPT responded to. And I didn't write the prompt, Claude did. I think that pretty much assures I kept my own opinion to myself.

Often when I use the term RSS feeds it will link to this page.

In the coming weeks and months I'm going to talk a lot about RSS feeds. I want to be clear, that it is a short hand for RSS, Atom and RDF. It makes the writing flow better, and it gives me a place to provide the technical details for people who need them.

We use the Feedparser package to read the feeds, so basically we support the same feed formats they do.

Request for Claude, please add a close box to this message box. I wasn't using the new model. Once is enough for this message.

Good morning sports fans! Going to the Knicks parade in NYC on Thurs? Parade starts at 10AM at Battery Park, goes up Broadway through Canyon of Heroes, concluding at City Hall.

As always, when we’re back home after a trip, Sanna shares lovely, well-composed photos on her blog, and I think to myself:

Hey, maybe I got some good shots too?!

I scroll through my own camera roll from those days: two accidental screenshots from my watch, an accidental self-portrait from putting my phone back into my jeans (where I look a bit like Hagrid), and, well, I guess this shot of a tiny bathroom I found cute turned out okay?

Over at Cosmos Malick, a post on the autobiographical elements in some of Malick’s films.

Francis Young: I have been interested in Faustina Kowalska’s experiences ever since I first read about them when I was eighteen. I am not usually much of a fan of modern-day (or even early modern) devotions, and I was never sure what to make of things like Lourdes, Fatima, ...

New top of page image. The official Knicks team picture as champs.

BTW the Gift Articles feed works really nicely in the blogroll.

Today's song: I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City.

People keep saying the Spurs are the future of the NBA, but they didn't earn that this year. More probably it's the Knicks that are the future. The Knicks will keep growing. The Knicks beat the Spurs in the last two games by playing rope-a-dope, probably not intentionally, but it worked anyway. The Spurs, and Wemby especially, were completely zonked by the fourth quarter. The Knicks had a bench this year that let the starters get plenty of rest. The Spurs lost game four because they didn't have the good sense to rest Wemby while they were up by 20+ points. Anyway, the Knicks have a formula. Pick players with heart potential and talent, treat them like a team, keep trying out new ideas, approaches. It works. Won NY the championship this year. As anticipated I have no idea what to make of the Knicks as winner. I'll have to learn too. ;-)

One thing I want to know -- where do I tune in to get the most of Clyde talking about this series.

And thanks to the Knicks for being such a great team. Never ever in a million years did I imagine saying that.

JY Stervinou proposed Universal Mentions, an interesting new low-tech web-like protocol for mentioning people, places or things via link elements in the head section of any HTML file you want to use as your personal directory. It's an intriguing idea. ChatGPT review, after a short discussion between us. Both JY and ChatGPT use the term "open web" which to me has become a red flag. The web is open. No need to say it twice. There's no such thing as a web element that's not open. It's like saying wet water.

Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:

President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.

Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the center missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to do so. The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of trustees to rename it was illegal.

A perfect metaphor for the work ahead of us.

From Apple’s Developer site: To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running...

Anthropic: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. ...

Sarah Perez: This week, Apple announced a series of discovery features that will personalize app recommendations based on users’ interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have their app discovered. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhone maker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, which will showcase recommendations tailored to […]

Scott Perry: My team rewrote Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter in Swift, ask me anything. […] I feel like naming just one would be a disservices to all of the features that made this effort possible (C interop, generics, noncopyable/nonescapable types) but at the end of the day I think the star of the show was […]