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Sunday, July 12, 2026 Finally, my first rss.chat podcast . 20 minutes. As always, I take forever to get to the point. # 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 network for my karass. A small group of people, not trying to get famous or rich from using a social network, rather wanted to work with or stay in touch with people who are linked cosmically. This is one of many rich ideas invented by Kurt Vonnegut, this one in Cat's Cradle , which you should read, because it's some of the best story-telling out there, and it's full of food for thought. I read all the books when I was a teen, and have since re-read them. Sirens of Titan was my fave. # Anyway... # In the past when I announced a product, people could use it right away, and usually they click a coupl...

Saturday, July 11, 2026 Fractional Horsepower Social Networks on RSS.chat. # 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 bugs and start exploring how you can contribute. This is just Day 1. Many more to come. :-) # Jeremy Herve who I know from projects at Automattic, has questions about rss.chat, and I have some answers, with more coming soon. # 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 then you can do whatever you want. It's MIT licensed. Kick ass and have fun, but remember don't fuck with the interop . It's there so users have choice. # 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 ...

Friday, July 10, 2026 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 programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this environment. # I started this project in April, a Dave/Claude creation. I could not have done something so complex internally, yet so simple to use and build on without Claude Code. The APIs on this thing are a product in their own right. # We don't need anything more than RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL and WebSocket. All very established in the web world, and remarkably only one was developed by a standards body. # We support textcasting , or text as defined by the web. Bringing the philosophy of podcasting to text. It's important that we get together on what text is. # We're starting a bootstrap here, as of today. # How is this RSS? ...

Thursday, July 9, 2026 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 Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the features the web needed to be a great writing environment. Textcasting said this is what we have to have to get back on track. # Meanwhile all I wanted was a nice little social network to use with a few of my programming buddies. # To bootstrap a simple distributed network based only on web standards, with every part replaceable. # I thought you could do it with RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL and Web Sockets. # It would work like podcasting , anyone can publish, anyone can read. # We can all have different spins on user experience, there should be lots of approaches, an infinite number of ways for people to connect, but we must all interop at a basic level, s...

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 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. The OPML list of the sites we cover is public , so you can always load the feeds into your feed reader, they all read lists in this format. This is the kind of thing that works great on the web. People take interop for granted when it's always been there. But they're still there to be built on. And imho interop and the web imho are the same thing. # 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 — every other network treats the open-web guy as an afterthought; here he's the launch audience." # Linkblog items for the day Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Demands Health Update on Mitch McConnell. nytimes.c...

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Sometimes Claude's judgement sucks, and that's why Jive coding usually produces a dashboard app. A different piece of software will drive it in a different direction. That's what I meant by AI-izing, in an earlier post. # I used to be a single-thread developer, but now I'm multi-tasking, I can work on two things at once. Claude is now able to research and fix certain problems, and his work is in a sandbox where it doesn't have any access to the surroundings, and can't make too big a mess, and it's going great, if there's a mistake it can quickly be corrected. # I think AI is the perfect innovation as we reach the crash point of the climate crisis. Who cares if we burn more CO2 now, the effect is miniscule for the explosive crisis that could be coming any day or week. One that we have no ability to recover from. To say it's unenvironmental would be like complaining that you want more Pepsi f...

Monday, July 6, 2026 Today's song : "July is dressed up and playing her tune." # James Talarico , Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg , who also happens to be from Texas. He speaks as confidently as Obama, about the right things, wants to run our government like a freaking government. To think that's a campaign issue in the United States of America says why I did not celebrate our 250th on Saturday. I tried to imagine what it will be like when we start becoming ourselves again. ;-) # We just implement Cute Paste in the new product and I keep hitting a limit that it has. I love the feature, in most cases. Here I've set up an <img src="xxx">, the xxx reserving space for the URL that I'm now going to get. When I come back I select xxx and paste, and in its place is the full url in text, linked to itself. I laugh, no feature is free, there's always a tradeoff and sometimes i...