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Just a little story about how I came to own a Divorce Ring, prompted by seeing mention of divorce rings on another blog that I read.

Read this. If you are a mathematician, then maybe you want to sign it. leidendeclaration.ai

Congratulations Alex Eala!!!!! Galing Galing! mabuhay ka! 🇵🇭

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I’ve been using FreshRSS for a while as a backend for NetNewsWire and decided to finally create an extension to add rssCloud support. This not only does what you’d expect: subscribe to feeds that support rssCloud <cloud> elements. But it also supports subscribing via HTTPS when port 443 or the protocol “https-post” are specified. It […]

On the one hand, there are plenty of HTML entities that can be used as icons on your blog. On the other hand, just try finding them! I wrote about this recently when I pointed out that there is indeed unicode for the magnifying glass commonly used for search. It’s just not c...

My week notes for week 31 of 2026

Trying to figure out what 'the itch' is—my drive to create and contribute to the digital commons. A review of past projects, current interests in Indigenous data sovereignty and self-hosting, and the search for what comes next.

• Distance: 21.96 km
• Duration: 0:55:10
• Calories: 326.998
• Avg power: 103 W
• Max power: 429 W
• Avg heart rate: 156 bpm
• Max heart rate: 172 bpm
• Elevation gain: 48 m

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Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

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Now, I haven't been on an airplane since before 9/11, but I vividly remember what it's like to be insanely bored during a flight before the days of mobile devices. Laptops and Palm Pilots still existed, but I was poor and a teenager, so I didn't have either, and I definitely would have done anything for a portable computer in that situation. But now, we have tiny computers in our pockets, and we as a society have seemingly taken that privilege for granted, to the point where people actively brag about how they "raw dog" flights.

BTW, we figured out how we're going to implement WebSub support.

Also I just heard about FreshRSS. This has all the features we've been wanting others to support. I hear it's recommended by NNW, and supports the Google Reader API. These are my kind of people. Interop is all that matters, when you're doing software for news. It's been around since 2013. Imagine if we had support from journalism. We should have been working together all this time.

Also Claude is a new kind of intelligence and when you it its sweet spot it'll blow you away how much it can do in very little time. But it isn't trainable the way a dog is, for example, or a human assistant. If you keep asking for things a certain way, a dog or human will get the idea, esp if they get a nice treat along with it. Nothing can cause Claude to remember "how we do things" -- it starts from zero in every session, it has it all recorded in Markdown files, but it doesn't always read them, or incorporate what's in them. It's disturbing to see it not knowing anything about code that it wrote. But once it finds it, it completely sucks it in and knows as much or more as the person who wrote the code.

Claude is not ready to run the world, not even a very small part of it. This is a problem for me, because I was counting on having it do this for me.

We need a way to define lists of writers independent of the site they write on. They are represented by an RSS feed with the basic features required for RSS.chat. The list is an OPML subscription list. We're reusing formats people are already familiar with, RSS and OPML.

Back when digital cameras were new, I suggested probably in a blog post that they add a feature that tells a joke before taking a picture so everyone is smiling, not fake smiles but real ones.

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS

well, this was a romp through some bad memories.

Interesting read.

Bookmarking to read later