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Scripting News
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
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Learnings from Andy Hertzfeld
Listened to this podcast interview with Andy Hertzfeld one of the lead devs on the Macintosh, he talks about his time at General Magic and Google too. His…
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I want one social network with lots of branches where ideas flow in ways people want them to flow. Take the big corps out of the middle.
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When the walls came down
Yesterday's Scripting News was one of the most news-full days in a long time, maybe going back to the rollout of RSS 2.0 in September 2002. If you look at…
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This is something. WordPress now supports RSS.chat in an interesting way, and it's surprisingly deep. Once it's cross-posted a message to RSS.chat, any comment…
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How we document APIs. We did a lot of work on API docs this morning. Claude had done a draft, which we published, and turned over to users, and on review…
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How I see the network evolving
A frequently asked question about RSS.chat. How about adding external feeds to the timeline. Of course we thought of doing this, and even started development…
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A new utility exports the contents of a Frontier object database into a single large JSON file. I needed this because I'm preparing to move my code editing…
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Many of the questions about RSS.chat center on how do we make this centralized. I don't want this, I want feed readers to add some features and then we can…
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Confession: I still drive a Tesla.
Wanted to switch but nothing I tried is as great a driving experience the Model Y is. Instead I've had a lot of fender benders and haven't gotten any of them…
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rss.chat isn't really a product
It's what we used to call a coral reef. A deliberate attempt to get people to do more than it does. To think about the web the way it was meant to be thought…
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A note to people who run WordCamp conferences. Please, there should be a feed for each event, and as you ramp up to the big day, the news should flow faster…
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Example code is not expected to be bullet proof like production code, and where covering different cases make it harder to follow they should not be there.
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RSS.chat has an API
It's a standard REST API. Here's the server side of the API. Here's how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps…
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How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product…
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RSS.chat worknotes are a feed now. Updated when there's a new feature or fix. Same info is on the worknotes pages in the repo.
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Dear podcast client devs
Podcast client developers -- don't give up like this guy did. Yes RSS is delicious but you all haven't done anything new with it since 2004 or so. No wonder…
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Amyloo, a longtime friend from the early days of podcasting, has made an appearance on demo.rss.chat. So happy to see her. Here's one of the bits we did, back…
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A new feature on rss.chat, images. Up to 2MB per. User interface couldn't be simpler, get the image on your clipboard, start editing your post, put the cursor…
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Early this morning we got a report of a security issue in the rss.chat server, quickly fixed and tested the new version. So, if you're running your own…
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Something to keep in mind in press reports with AI apps breaking out of their sandbox, it works the other way too. If you give a big piece of code to Claude…
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How the web got gunked
Posted on Twitter in the middle of last night, written on iPad. I use twitter these days because it’s where the people are. The distributed ideas, masto…
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RSS.chat now supports SQLite. Simpler and faster to install. You don't have to host a database, it's now built into the server. Full instructions. Questions or…
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Reminder: We have a demo server for anyone who wants to try RSS.chat. I'm glad we set this up. It's sort of like support, and bug catching.
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RSS.chat -- I don't have enough places to fit all the ideas these days. But we have been digging and the pieces fit together pretty well.
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Three-part ecosystem
There are three parts to the rss.chat ecosystem. Writing. Today's rss.chat product is a group writing system, designed for a school department, a team of…
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Evening: Very productive day. We rolled through some UI stuff that had been on the list for a while. Set up for a big job tomorrow, server side. The worknotes…
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John Johnston got inboundRss working, so now he can automatically post to his WordPress blog from demo.rss.chat. These are the kinds of things that "just work"…
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Howard Rheingold is just the kind of person rss.chat was designed it for. And here he is asking what it is. Very fortuitous. And if you're wondering how a…
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What is RSS.chat for Howard Rheingold
I am longtime friends and an admirer of Howard Rheingold, who expressed an interest in RSS.chat. I asked Claude to read my blog posts and summarize, in the…
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Morning: Today on RSS.chat we are knocking off quick hit bug fixes. We've been focusing on big hit examples for the last few sessions.
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Today we have our first example app for WordPress. We started with an app I wrote that keeps scripting.com in sync with daveverse.org, a WordPress site. I have…
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Way back in March as I was starting to work with Claude Code, I think -- we put together a pretty nice outliner that is remarkably feature-rich. I barely…
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I wonder if it makes sense to try to implement standard.site in the context of rss.chat?
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Just finished The Expanse for the third time. Realized that the inners of today are Silicon Valley and the Belters, that’s the web.
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Wrote this in 2018: "I know this is like pissing in the wind, but here's an idea for a demonstration that might impress the Repubs in Congress. In every one of…
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We have a firehose in rss.chat. Instant updates from the server. No polling. Docs and examples.
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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…
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Everyone: You can subscribe to the rss.chat flow, in RSS of course. If you're a developer, read the source for the feed. And then read the source namespace…
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Finally, my first rss.chat podcast. 20 minutes. As always, I take forever to get to the point.
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Why you can't create an account
A karass is "a group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident." I think of rss.chat as a social…
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The new RSS.chat repo on GitHub. Lots of fixes, features, docs and examples coming soon. For now all the source is there, MIT license. And a place to report…
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My Twitter/X announcement
I wrote a pretty good set of paragraphs on Twitter/X this morning. Yesterday I announced rss.chat. Some people spell it RSS.chat. I haven't decided which way…
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Claude teaches you how to manage. You've got a perfectly pliable team member, always does their best to do what you told them to do. Now how do you design…
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The instance I started is for my friends, people I work with, it's not something people can test. It will be possible to start your own server, quite soon. And…
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Yesterday was a wonderful first day for rss.chat. It's now out there, but we haven't talked about or demo'd many of the things that it does. I wanted to get…
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Jeremy Herve who I know from projects at Automattic, has questions about rss.chat, and I have some answers, with more coming soon.
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Introducing rss.chat
Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network. The answer is yes, of course, and -- here's rss.chat! The site is read-only except for a few of my…
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Can RSS be a social network?
Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called textcasting. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when…
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More people are using the news site I put up for WordPress. If you have a blog or podcast that covers WordPress, send me a link to the feed and I'll add it…
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I said to Claude: "We're the first social network that thinks getting his support is the first thing." Claude replied: "And that's the whole thesis in one move…