LucIdish
• Luc Daigle
We’ve had an unusually high number of deer sightings in our backyard this year. I think this morning marked the third or fourth time we have seen at least two deer in our back yard; mothers and their young or mated couples. This morning it was a pair of deer, one buck and one doe. […]
RSC — Really Simple Conversations — is a feeds-native social timeline: people who post here and people who post on their own site are equal citizens. Everything travels as RSS — posts, replies, whole conversations — so following, threading, and federation work with nothing but open feeds.
My goal with RSC is not just to publish the code of how it operates and interop but also to publish the spec/plans used to build the code itself.
Read: Misinterpretion by Ledis Xhoga ★★★ 📚 An Albanian interpreter gets into a lot of communication difficulties. Set in New York & Albania Constantly surprising narrative as the narrator bounces from one complex situation to another.
Scattering
• Mark Taylor
The brothers owned one suit between them, which on average fit perfectly. Each time one wore it he would find in the pockets the detritus of the others' lives: a place card bordered with watercolour roses; a CV, folded and torn in half; a cloakroom ticket; a condom wrapper;
Yesterday, Unattributed posted a thorough dissection of my article on note-taking PKMs, analyzing my lack of intellectual rigour, nebulous wording, and poor research. I use this as an opportunity to discuss the milkshake duck phenomenon, my experience with scrupulosity (moral OCD), and how to stay visible while imperfect through self-compassion rather than rule-following.
Intro to the small web, why we stay in walled gardens, and a tiny bit of blogging drama
A fast path to a functioning OAuth 2.0 compatible paperless connector
Music of Sound
• tim
Shooting bulb exposures of fibre optic light, as digital previz before shooting film…
Two methods for creating standards: bootstrap and boil the ocean.
RSS can absolutely participate in virality.
If a million people subscribe to a feed, read a post, and some of them redistribute it through their own feeds, websites or social accounts, the post can become viral. Virality is an emergent pattern of circulation, not a button owned by a platform.
What RSS provides first is distributed visibility: reach created across many independent readers and publishers, without one algorithm deciding what everyone should see.
