Scripting News: Monday, November 24, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025 Pocket Casts has come up with a new feature called Playlists. I was able to figure out how to use it in a few minutes using their web app . Questions. Is there an open format behind this feature? Can I create a playlist outside of Pocket Casts? Can I use a PC playlist in another app? Pocket Casts comes from Automattic so I would expect the answers to be yes, given how committed they are to the web, and how podcasting is of the web . The most logical open format to use here would be imho RSS 2.0 . # Yesterday I put up a form asking for the addresses of people who have WordPress sites that have the ActivityPub feature turned on. Only got four responses so far. But it's good to see what people are doing. For example Evan Prodroumou is using it, and his Mastodon posts are blog posts. I smiled when I saw this. Nicely done. Loop closed. # The feed validator operated by the W3C is kind of frozen in time, and imho has a very odd perspe...
