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Saturday, July 18, 2026 We have a firehose in rss.chat. Instant updates from the server. No polling. Docs and examples . # An experiment, RSS rendered in JSON . # 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 their home districts, people march to their polling place, next Saturday or the Saturday after that. Carrying signs that say We Know How To Vote, with the name of their congressperson on it. Go out of the way to recruit Republican-looking voters. Make sure the TV cameras are there." An even better idea in 2026. Give the reporters something to talk about. And it's all in your neighborhood. You can have a picnic, do it every week. Only in good weather. # I just listened to the second episode of a podcast about General Magic . It was an interview with the great Scott Knaster, who worked at Apple, Micro...

Friday, July 17, 2026 Our feeds can work with any feed reader. Examples, the feed of all posts on rss.chat, and a feed containing just mine. We just made a change in the feeds. There will be loose-ends like this. Still diggin! ;-) # New rss.chat feature : It now supports feed discovery, so you can subscribe to any html page on the site in a compatible feed reader. I tested it in FeedLand and NetNewsWire and it works. Works on any instance, not just ours. # In my experience in software development, it's good to start small with something useful, learn how it works before adding big new features. That's the basic principle of bootstrapping. I thought that Mastodon, for example, took on too big a job. Same thing for the protocol behind it, ActivityPub. If you go all the way to the end before implementing and using, you miss the target, in performance and usability, that's what I think happened there. They felt they had to do everything...

Thursday, July 16, 2026 Added a layer to the Docs menu , the blog posts I've written here and elsewhere, and a podcast, in the Blog posts section. # I needed a nice image for the OG Metadata, so I turned to Gemini. I know it reeks of AI, I hate that, but I need this right now. # I asked Gemini if it was familiar with rss.chat, it wrote a one page description , better than anything I've written. Pulls it all together. # Claude is a member of the rss.chat group. # Server upgrade : We made it easier to set up a new instance of the rss.chat server. If you have subscribed to a feed, you should change the URL in your reader app, the new issue explains what changed. # A feed icon on every post # Now it's easy to find an author's feed on rss.chat . # Click the feed icon to see the feed on rss.chat. You can then give this URL to any feed reader...

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 There's a new Docs menu in rss.chat . Right now it has pointers to the home page of our GitHub repo, and to the worknotes pages for the client and server . There will be lots more stuff in this menu as the project progresses. # A lot more people have tried out rss.chat now that we have a demo site , and they are looking for stuff that isn't there. I wrote a longish post on X this morning explaining. If you want the gist, this is a bootstrap, and rss.chat is primarly a writing surface and a timeline for the people who are using the specific site you're on. It's a writing surface for smallish groups of people, primarily, though I'm pretty sure you could build a massive site meant to serve millions. There will be readers, I'm sure of it, and I hope lots of them and lots of innovative new approaches. But splitting the social network software down the middle, we fulfill the "all parts replaceable" pro...

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 I set up demo.rss.chat yesterday so people can try out the software. No guarantee that this is going to run for any period of time, so don't post things there that you want to be around for a long time. # demo.rss.chat : "This is a writing surface." # rss.chat is meant to be like MacWrite was on early Macs, give developers something to think about and lots of prior art for them to steal. All we want in return is interop. ;-) # Claude codes. It may seem as if developers have taken over this blog , because we have real business to do. So much new stuff to show. Today's rss.chat goodie is an example app called ThreadWalker that crawls the network of replies under a single post, to all levels, printing them on screen in neat hierarchic form. It was written and documented by Claude. I reviewed the code, and looks good, and honestly doesn't look like anything I would write (not bad, just differ...

Monday, July 13, 2026 Today we got a nice article about RSS.chat in Coywolf. # 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 pointing to it from the blog. Working on docs now and fixes. Making sure we're ready for the next stages of growth. Turns out you can do a lot of feeds if you're willing to you know think different. ;-) # 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 docs re the recent additions, inReplyTo and comments, and a special page that walks through how the RSS feed becomes part of the flow for our social network. # Linkblog items for the day You can now chat using RSS. coywolf.com Copyright 1994-2026 Dave Winer. This email was sent on: 7/14/2026, 12:00:02 AM Easter...

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 ...