Scripting News: Sunday, January 19, 2025
How easy would it be to create a twitter-like app using RSS, and in what ways would it differ from other twitter-like apps. Here's the deal. You need a place to write a posts and a way to read a timeline of posts. That's the basic functionality. To do that with RSS you would start with a blogging app like WordPress, and a feed reader like FeedLand or NetNewsWire. Manton has integrated the two into a single user interface at micro.blog. I'm going to approach it in a somewhat differently, not sure yet how it will work, but I'm getting there. And I will offer a way for people to hook in any feed reader they want, thus opening up innovation to tech-curious users. The take-away is that you need to handle inbound and outbound feeds. That's the basics of being twitter-like. #When I put an image in the margin of a post I often pause and think about what I want to convey with the image as it relates to the writing that it's next to. In the previous piece the idea was interop. I tried to think of what images I've used in the past, then I thought why don't I just look. I switched into Daytona, entered interop, and found one I loved, but then kept scanning, and found another that I liked even more. Tools are important. Web writers haven't gotten any new tools in a long time. All the tool development has been for other stuff. Let's make tools for users again, as we did in the olden times. Craftwork in software. Playin in the band! #
Steve Jobs: "When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through." #
Linkblog items for the day.
In Oklahoma, Women Grow Old in This Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org
TikTok's service providers are risking billions in fines for keeping the app online, as Trump's assurances that it's safe to support TikTok are legally flimsy. techmeme.com
"You don't need to be on the same server to follow people!"
RSS has been doing that for 20+ years. — Hugs, the feediverse.
mastodon.social"I'm a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you'd be terrified too." cnn.com
It's so sad to see what's become of Ezra Klein's mind. He's completely lost his way. nytimes.com
Krugman had many things to say that he apparently couldn't say in the New York Times. I can't wait for his post that explains that. substack.com
Pretty sure the Nets had a fire sale trade of Kyrie Irving because of his open antisemitism, revealing something ugly about NBA players that the league wanted to stay hidden. He thinks we forgot, I guess. nypost.com
Apple, Google remove TikTok from stores as app halts service in U.S. cnbc.com
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