Scripting News: Saturday, January 11, 2025

Saturday, January 11, 2025
Notes on Little Feed Reader, running on Bluesky since Jan 2. #
YouTube channels have feeds. Here's the feed for my YouTube channel. And a canonical JSONification of the feed (this is how FeedLand gets the data from any type of feed, RSS, Atom or RDF, the YouTube feed is Atom). I did not know they had feeds, in fact I thought I heard they specifically did not have feeds. I've subscribed to the feed in FeedLand and it seems to work, and also included it in my blogroll category, so it should show up in my blogroll, and possibly in the Little Feed Reader on Bluesky. All of this, and more, was discovered by Andrew Shell. Two suggestions. 1. Include descriptions with the items. 2. Use enclosures for the videos. Atom does enclosures differently from RSS, but it can be made to work, imho. No matter what, thank you YouTube, and it's a great start. #
This is what my YouTube channel looks like in my blogroll. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Musk helped circulate screenshots of the Los Angeles Fire Department's four-year-old 'racial equity action plan,' writing "They prioritized DEI over saving lives and homes." What are his priorities? npr.org
Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton, Jeff Bridges and other LA celebrities lose homes to wildfires. bbc.com
Making Space for a Handmade Web. figma.com
What 'fire containment' actually means. yahoo.com
ChatGPT says yes, YouTube has feeds. chatgpt.com
YouTube has feeds. Here's the feed for my channel in JSON. Apparently the feature has been there for a long time. News to me. :-) scripting.com
This piece by Matt Mullenweg about a fork in the WordPress community and (presumably) code base, shows how complicated WordPress is, in addition to being a fairly kickass product with lots of unexplored potential. wordpress.org
Donald Trump is a lame duck (not a bear)—an unusually weak one, in some ways—and he knows it. offmessage.net
Payloads for RSS, on this day in 2001, marks the official beginning of what eventually became podcasting. A simple feature added to RSS that made it open to all forever, still true almost a quarter century later. archive.org
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