Scripting News: Friday, March 1, 2024
In a new product I'm working on, I'm including links to the blogs of the social media apps I use. I notice that most of them have one. This is why:#
You can put a title on a post on a blog.#
You can include links (invariably announcements have links).#
You can edit posts.#
Simple text styling.#
Blogs have feeds.#
So I'm looking for the official blogs of the social apps I use -- Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, Threads. #
If so, what's the feed URL? #
PS: It seems dumb to have two places for writing. Also I bet Bluesky wrote their own blogging software, which is why there's no feed for their blog, which is awkward because Bluesky itself has feeds. As a programmer, I don't think I could maintain both codebases, and i'm pretty sure the blog is the one that'll get abandoned. Update: they do have a feed for their blog. At some point there won't be a distinction between blogging and social media-ing. Remember the tiny little text boxes have to go. 😄#
PPS: Twitter's blog has a really shitty title, it shows up in the list as English (UK). That should be fixed to something like Twitter Blog. I know how this happens, obviously they're maintaining more than one language, so the title is given from their point of view. As a reader, it has to make sense in a list of feeds from different publishers. Here's a screen shot to illustrate. #
My friend Brad Pettit is playing with ChatGPT's image drawing capability, and had a brilliant idea, feed it the lyrics to a song and see what it comes back with. He tried Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys by Traffic, a great song, and the image was really cool. #
This game me the idea to try it with a few of my favorite songs. #
Linkblog items for the day.
Voice Note Etiquette: How Long Is Too Long? nytimes.com
Feeds you can get to from my Mastodon account. rss-is-dead.lol
Trump immunity case: SCOTUS' delay is not based on legal procedure, it's to help Trump. slate.com
Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June. techcrunch.com
5G is ' now' eating cable's lunch. om.co
Alexey Navalny was one thing Vladimir Putin can never be: heroic. mastodon.social
Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon. newrepublic.com
Mourners chant Navalny's name at funeral of Putin critic in Moscow. theguardian.com
Is the Media Enabling Trump to "Usher in a New Era of Fascism"? newrepublic.com
Come on it's not that the Repubs like Putin or are fascinated by him, they're scared of him. nytimes.com
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