Scripting News: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Just heard from Brent Simmons that the next version of NetNewsWire will support the Markdown in RSS. I wrote it up on my daveverse site, which I edit with WordLand, which means it has a special feed that contains source:markdown elements. You can be one of the first people with markdown-support in your feed, and in doing so, help the bootstrap. If you have questions, post a comment here.#At the same time I heard from people at Automattic that they had successfully installed the new version of the FeedLand software on feedland.com which runs on their VIP system, so theoretically should scale as well as anything on the net. There was a serious performance problem, that, with the help of Ryan Neudorf who I met in Ottawa, and Scott Hanson, longtime contributor here, was fixed. It was a daring move, it meant that all the timeline-generating code in FeedLand had to be rewritten. It was worth it. If you've ever felt that FeedLand was too slow at displaying news, please try again, I think you'll be pleased.#
Since many of us now program with AI chatbot assistance, it seems it's time to think about higher level languages we can use to specify what we're doing, new kinds of computers because we now have bigger more capable minds at work. #
Every OS should have a Help system that you can ask "How do I do this" and it understands what you're saying. The Mac OS tries to take you to a manual with a freaking table of contents! What do I look like, a robot? Come on it's 2025. Get with it. Maybe OpenAI should buy Apple. #
Linkblog items for the day
I just got word from Brent that the next release of NetNewsWire will have support for the source:markdown element.
This will help the transition to using Markdown as a fully-supported format for RSS. Right now NNW is the first mainstream product to support it.
This site has an RSS feed that contains source:markdown elements.
Every WordLand-written post has one of these feeds, so there is an official way to publish content that NNW will display via Markdown.
links.daveverse.org2022: Dev notes for Markdown in RSS. scripting.com
Trump's Tony Soprano Presidency Is Bleeding the Country Dry. thenation.com
British newspaper spoke to the wrong Bill DeBlasio, not an 'imposter.' semafor.com
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