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Someone on Masto who I blocked used a nasty word to descript rss.chat. Let me be really clear here, this is an act of authorship by me. Claude is helping, a lot -- I doubt if I could have done this without its help, certainly not in the amount of time it took. And Claude could not have done it without me driving. It's basically good at a few things, but this is new territory, even I am feeling my way through this project. Having Claude is like having a car would be to someone who couldn't drive. All of a sudden you can go places. It takes a while to learn how to use that power, and so far the learning has not come close to leveling off. You couldn't find someone better in the world to do this project, and I'm working on this every day.

I set up demo.rss.chat yesterday so people can try out the software. No guarantee that this is going to run for any period of time, so don't post things there that you want to be around for a long time.

The Beatles vs Hitler, Jesus the twunk, a couple apps, and a thing about blogging

Good morning. It will seem as if developers have taken over this blog, because we have real business to do. So much new stuff to show. Today's rss.chat goodie is an example app called ThreadWalker that crawls the network of replies under a single post, to all levels, printing them on screen in neat hierarchic form. It was written and documented by Claude. I reviewed the code, and looks good, and honestly doesn't look like anything I would write (not bad, just different). It could be used as a starter system that says when someone replied to something you wrote, or something deeper in the tree. All this is done by reading RSS feeds. This is where we begin to explore what's possible when you use a famous and familiar format like RSS 2.0. Always re-use instead of re-invent is one of my strongest held beliefs. BTW it came up with the name ThreadWalker.

Most apprenticeship progress reports are generic by default and less than useful by consequence. How we rebuilt ours around the actual licensure standards for two different special education tracks, and why one form for two programs was the original mistake.

How kubelet talks to containerd or CRI-O through the CRI: the interface, the dockershim history, and the full path from apply to a running container.

A working mental model of a Kubernetes cluster — the control plane that decides, the nodes that run your Pods, and the reconcile loop that ties them together.

Clown white doesn't come off in one pass. A personal story about how I can never take myself seriously no matter how hard I try. Notes on the history of whiteface and Auguste, the clown egg registry, the Indigenous medicine of laughter, the tyranny of irony, and what it costs to never learn how to come down.

   

Picked up a sound prop today… realised later why every time I stopped at the lights, people laughed…   it looks like a DIY funeral?    

At the end of it all, everywhere was for everything. When I found a car that started I drove it over the golf course and put gouges in the fairways. I played golf all down the high street. I bathed in supermarket chest freezers and skated on the motorway. For

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Tuesday, 14 July 2026 The average temperature today is 14.99˚C, With highs of 15.4˚C and lows of 14.82˚C, It may feel like 14.76˚C with scattered clouds The wind speed is 1.34m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressu...

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

Way back in 2003 and 2004, I wrote about a trip that we took with our friends Charlie and Carie to see the Museum of Glass and pointed to the pictures we took there. That trip started a chain of events that saw me enter an NPR phoneblogging competition and one of my photos published … Continue reading "Revisiting the Museum of Glass and Bridge of Glass in Tacoma"

Today we got a nice article about RSS.chat in Coywolf.

And we got a second rss.chat server up, for testing and so people who want to try it out have a place to go. Still want to do a bit more testing before pointing to it from the blog. Working on docs now and fixes. Making sure we're ready for the next stages of growth. Turns out you can do a lot of feeds if you're willing to you know think different. ;-)

  We’ve all seen the tacky AI slop images on social media, and noticed how google search has turned to crap but in the last few weeks I’ve started getting feeble attempts at AI gen comments at this very blog!?…

Updated July 21, 2026, to include Vatican City, Togo and Niger. A pet peeve of mine is seeing flags with the wrong dimensions. Maybe I should learn to move on, but I can’t help it. Designers with a love for visual consistency are quite happy to show you every country’s flag ...

A couple stories about ATProto, hostility towards VPNs, space sugar and cover bands

Another week, another heatwave. Not much activity this week as we've been too busy hiding from the Sun. Having said that, I've continued my trend of losing weight! It may have something to do with the heat suppressing my appetite, but I'll take it as a win. I'm now down to w...