Scripting News: Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Everybody's maxing out on Wordle today. I stopped with one step left. Stumped. I may lose my streak today. A lot of people are. # What's up with WordPress? # A long time ago I ran a free service called weblogs.com . It was the early days of blogs . RSS didn't exist yet, so there was no way to find out which blogs had new stuff other than going through your blogroll and clicking links. # So I built a simple server, running in Frontier , that handled pings. When you updated your blog, you'd send a message to weblogs.com saying your blog updated. It would then read the HTML of the blog and verify that it changed, and it would be added to a list of blogs that updated, in reverse chronologic order. It also published an XML version of the update list called changes.xml , so if you wanted to run a search engine off the list, you could do that too. # There were several ways to send a ping. You could go to a web p...