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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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2019: "This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country…
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How to create a standard, 2026 addition
TL;DR: What developers need. Enough examples, a validator, and decent docs that value explaining over mathematical elegance. We assume developers can read and…
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Last week along with a lot of other stuff, we shipped a validator for lists and feeds that want to be compatible with RSS.chat. It works best for standards to…
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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…
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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…
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Claude is not ready to run the world. This is a problem for me, because I was counting on having it do this for me. Maybe in the next release or the one after…
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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…
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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…
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Taking some time off to breathe and regain perspective. Fixed a few bugs, and wrote about the big picture on demo.rss.chat. I really want to get a project…
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A user contacted us about a potential security issue in the RSS.chat server. We responded quickly and with v0.6.11 the issue is removed. If you're running…
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One of the things you learn working with a bot is how much saying the niceties are good for you, even when the "person" would still do what you ask if you…
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If you run your own RSS.chat instance, you can now add a menu of commands to the menubar. Details in the worknotes for today. I added a DW menu to rss.chat or…
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A new validator for RSS.chat-compatible apps. Examples: The everyone feed on rss.chat. A user's feed. The user list. A feed with issues. Docs.
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Claude, as we're finishing a project: "The diving is what makes it a test of the network, not just the file: it doesn't take the feed's word for anything, it…
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I wonder if anyone else is writing about Claude from a similar point of view. I've been writing commercial software since the early 80s. I slogged through this…
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Claude doesn't iterate over UI design. It doesn't have eyes or have a human mind. It can't evaluate a design. It works best when you can present the whole…
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I've been saying this for decades. The Dems need touring comedians doing rallies all over the country. They can say whatever they want, call the president a…
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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…