Scripting News: Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

When I started working with Automattic last year, one of the big milestones we were aiming for was getting FeedLand and WordPress working together. Now we have the first step. I hope you take a moment to give it a try and let us know how it works. Scripting News readers have helped bootstrap all kinds of cool stuff, we can do it again. #

Jay Gilmore: "ActivityPub breaks my brain. It doesn't need to be that hard given the payloads we are talking about." True.#

FeedLand and WordPress#

There's a new plugin that adds a blogroll to a WordPress site. #

It would be helpful if people who are regular readers of Scripting News who use WordPress, set up a test site, give it a try and let us know how it goes. You can help us get to the next level with this stuff. #

So there are two sides, the FeedLand side and the WordPress side.#

The FeedLand side. Sign on to FeedLand, create an account if you don't have one, and subscribe to a bunch of feeds. These will be the feeds in your blogroll. There are some tips on how to find feeds, in the next section.#
The WordPress side. There's a new plugin, developed by the people at the Team51 group at Automattic. They have a checklist for how to install the plugin in a WordPress site. #

You can get ideas for feeds for your blogroll from reading other people's feed lists. When you see a checkbox that isn't checked, you can subscribe to the feed simply by checking the box. #

Have a look at my feed list for ideas. Here's a list of recent users, click on their names to see their feed lists. You don't have to finish this now, you can come back and tune this up anytime.#

Developers: Use feedlandBlogrollToolkit to add blogrolls to other platforms. #

If you have questions or comments, or need help getting it working, post a note in the discussion group here. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Sidenotes. markllobrera.com

My Dinner With Andreessen. prospect.org

Meta AI is a serious ChatGPT rival. fastcompany.com

Recommend this podcast with Joe Trippi explaining how RFK is a missile from Trump aimed at Biden. Pretty convincing. newrepublic.com

Does the O'Reilly "Radar" site have a feed? I'd like to subscribe. oreilly.com

Inside Dems' thinking on saving Mike Johnson from an ouster vote. politico.com

I would have hired Doug Engelbart scripting.com

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