Scripting News: Friday, August 16, 2024

Friday, August 16, 2024

When was the last time the owner of the NYT did a press conference?#

I'm looking for an RSS feed for Kamalahq.#

A few minutes later, the feed is in my blogroll. 😄#

And here's the timeline for Kamalahq, via FeedLand.#

And here's the RSS feed. 😄 #

And even better -- here's the RSS feed for my Threads account. This is a huge gateway for interop. I wonder how often the feed updates. #

The way I see it, if the journos are going to lie to us, why shouldn't we listen to lies that make us feel good? #

BTW, I've started using Mastodon in place of GitHub for comments on posts like the one below. GitHub has a better model for text with comments, supports full Markdown the way it was meant to work. I have an instance of Masto that I can use that supports Markdown but they do an unacceptable rendering of links. Example post. I want a simple, widely accepted easy place to comment, on the social web, not Discourse or GitHub, that isn't controlled by one vendor (so ActivityPub for now is probably the best approach) and supports plain old Markdown without any weird embellishments. I don't work in the Mastodon world, I'm already committed to the projects I'm doing. But we could really use something nice, designed to plug into blogs. This is a good use-case, and it's pretty close. #

One advantage of using GitHub for questions tied into a blog is that you get a great archive of all the questions you asked and how people answered or contributed, going back to 2016.#

I wrote rules for standards-makers and it caught on, and has been used by a few open source projects. I hope that the new rules for journalism, which is just getting started, will be similarly influential. If existing journalism is going to start working again, they're going to have to have some rules. Comments welcome on Mastodon.#

Feature requests for Threads.#

Linkblog items for the day.

RSS.app can create an RSS 2.0 feed for any Threads account. Nice discovery. rss.app

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