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Reason: “At its heart, the otherwise complicated and multi-stage Teapot Dome affair of the 1920s, which until Watergate was considered the greatest federal government scandal of all time, was about secret bribes to an administration official that lubricated lucrative regulatory outcomes.” “In 1921, Interior Secretary Albert Fall clandestinely accepted $404,000 ($7.6 million in today’s money) […]

The cause: mailSender was a gmail.com address, but the mail actually goes out through Amazon SES, and Gmail sends mail to spam when the sending server isn't authorized to send for the address's domain — as policy, since 2024. The fix, useful to anyone deploying this server: verify your domain as an identity in the SES console (it hands you three DKIM CNAME records to add to your DNS), then set mailSender in config.json to an address on that domain. It doesn't need a real mailbox behind it — rss.chat now sends as hello@rss.chat. Verification took minutes, and the first email after the change landed in the inbox.

Surface — the icon that pulled you out of a deep conversation back to your place in the timeline — lived less than two days, but it proved the idea. Now that lifeline is Home's first stage: when you're buried in a story, a profile, a flipped view, or an open conversation, clicking Home brings you back to the timeline with the cursor still on the post you were reading. Click it again and you're at the top, everything reset, cursor on the newest post. It's the same rhythm as the Home tab in the Twitter and Instagram apps — tap once to come back, tap again for the top — with one icon fewer to remember. (Theme v0.5.318–0.5.320, including a fix for a sneaky side effect: the icon panel used to shift a hair when the page scrolled, which could put a different icon under your mouse between the first click and the second.)

rss.chat's confirmation emails had been landing in spam. The app now sends from hello@rss.chat, and the domain is verified with Amazon SES, so Gmail and the rest can see the mail is really from us. The full story is in the server worknotes.

Fractional Horsepower Social Networks on RSS.chat.

Fractional Horsepower Social Networks on RSS.chat.

“Vice President JD Vance said he has no doubt accused murderer Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kirk — but he still wonders if more people were ‘directly involved’ in the slaying,” Mediaite reports. Said Vance: “I’m always going to wonder. I’m always going to wonder what was said and how many contacts Robinson had beforehand. By […]

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I wrote another long post on Twitter. https://x.com/davewiner/status/2076076891115757616 The piece is about the small size of RSS.chat, and comparing the bootstrap I have in mind with the one we did for podcasting between 2001 and 2004.  This goes to answering Manton's ...

Reid Rasner is an openly gay MAGA Republican candidate for Wyoming state representative. Rasner is suing his fellow MAGA Republicans because he is just shocked and appalled that they would be so openly homophobic. Rasner is suing former Wyoming State Senator Austin “Kit” Je...