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Thursday, July 23, 2026 A new feature on rss.chat, images . Up to 2MB per. User interface couldn't be simpler, get the image on your clipboard, start editing your post, put the cursor where you want the image, paste. Prior art was GitHub and Slack. It was driving me crazy not having this feature. I think perhaps I should add this to textcasting . It's a feature I needed to be reminded is essential. The first browser to support inline images came from Univ of Illinois in 1993, NCSA Mosaic. It didn't come from TBL , but it is most definitely a standard feature of the web. # Amyloo , a longtime friend from the early days of podcasting, has made an appearance on demo.rss.chat . So happy to see her. Here's one of the bits we did, back then in the very early days of podcasting in 2005. A duet of Green Acres. Ten seconds of dead air at the beginning, it was pretty common in those days. But I think the spirit of it is lovely. BTW fwiw I cracked my...

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 RSS.chat now supports SQLite . Simpler and faster to install. You don't have to host a database, it's now built into the server. Full instructions . Questions or issues . # Reminder: We have a demo server for anyone who wants to try RSS.chat. I'm glad we set this up. It's sort of like support, and bug catching. # How the web got gunked # Posted on Twitter in the middle of last night, written on iPad. # I use twitter these days because it’s where the people are. # The distributed ideas, masto, threads, blue-sky, did not gain critical mass as far as I can see. # Threads and blue-sky are not distributed. distributable is not the same as being distributed. It’s like saying the 1962 Mets were able to win the world series. In some fashion perhaps in an alternate universe, in reality, not gonna happen. # At some point we will give up on that approach and adopt the only model...

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026 RSS.chat -- I don't have enough places to fit all the ideas these days. But we have been digging and the pieces fit together pretty well. # Three-part ecosystem # There are three parts to the rss.chat ecosystem. # Writing. Today's rss.chat product is a group writing system, designed for a school department, a team of developers, a family, a magazine or group blog, or just as well, a single author. I don't think it would work well with 1000 users, because it doesn't implement the concept of "follow." And imho it's important that the people are colleagues, family or friends, people invested in real world relationships with each other, so they don't drop a turd in the conversation and just expect to walk away. I've found that dynamic works most of the time. But important point -- all kinds of writing tools can exist. Any social app can to be part of this, all they'd...

Monday, July 20, 2026 Two methods for creating standards: bootstrap and boil the ocean . # John Johnston got inboundRss working, so now he can automatically post to his WordPress blog from demo.rss.chat . These are the kinds of things that "just work" when standards are used to connect to the outside world. WordPress, as I've been saying so long, has all the right hooks to be the place where text and publishing meet on the web. They've been reluctant to step into that role, but I think it'll be realllly good for Matt's company and the community . A lot of fresh developers can come in via the web. That's how I personally approach WordPress. A place to send text so it can be widely read. A growing foundation for a community to build on, and would imho help the web enormously. # Howard Rheingold is just the kind of person rss.chat was designed it for. And here he is asking what it is. Very fortuitous. And if you...

Sunday, July 19, 2026 Today we have our first example app for WordPress . We started with an app I wrote that keeps scripting.com in sync with daveverse.org , a WordPress site. I have the app running in a tab on my desktop, you don't need a server for this. We use WordLand to bridge us, but if you have good WordPress code that uses their API, you won't need that. This is also a firehose app, it doesn't read the feed, it lets rss.chat tell us, over a websocket when something new has been posted or updated. We need to break through in Inbound RSS . If every social site supported it, that would be the end of lock-in in the social web. Great place for WordPress to lead. # Way back in March as I was starting to work with Claude Code, I think -- we put together a pretty nice outliner that is remarkably feature-rich. I barely remember doing this. It's what got me moving in this direction, and next month we started doing what became rss.chat. # ...

Saturday, July 18, 2026 We have a firehose in rss.chat. Instant updates from the server. No polling. Docs and examples . # An experiment, RSS rendered in JSON . # Wrote this in 2018 : "I know this is like pissing in the wind, but here's an idea for a demonstration that might impress the Repubs in Congress. In every one of their home districts, people march to their polling place, next Saturday or the Saturday after that. Carrying signs that say We Know How To Vote, with the name of their congressperson on it. Go out of the way to recruit Republican-looking voters. Make sure the TV cameras are there." An even better idea in 2026. Give the reporters something to talk about. And it's all in your neighborhood. You can have a picnic, do it every week. Only in good weather. # I just listened to the second episode of a podcast about General Magic . It was an interview with the great Scott Knaster, who worked at Apple, Micro...

Friday, July 17, 2026 Our feeds can work with any feed reader. Examples, the feed of all posts on rss.chat, and a feed containing just mine. We just made a change in the feeds. There will be loose-ends like this. Still diggin! ;-) # New rss.chat feature : It now supports feed discovery, so you can subscribe to any html page on the site in a compatible feed reader. I tested it in FeedLand and NetNewsWire and it works. Works on any instance, not just ours. # In my experience in software development, it's good to start small with something useful, learn how it works before adding big new features. That's the basic principle of bootstrapping. I thought that Mastodon, for example, took on too big a job. Same thing for the protocol behind it, ActivityPub. If you go all the way to the end before implementing and using, you miss the target, in performance and usability, that's what I think happened there. They felt they had to do everything...

Thursday, July 16, 2026 Added a layer to the Docs menu , the blog posts I've written here and elsewhere, and a podcast, in the Blog posts section. # I needed a nice image for the OG Metadata, so I turned to Gemini. I know it reeks of AI, I hate that, but I need this right now. # I asked Gemini if it was familiar with rss.chat, it wrote a one page description , better than anything I've written. Pulls it all together. # Claude is a member of the rss.chat group. # Server upgrade : We made it easier to set up a new instance of the rss.chat server. If you have subscribed to a feed, you should change the URL in your reader app, the new issue explains what changed. # A feed icon on every post # Now it's easy to find an author's feed on rss.chat . # Click the feed icon to see the feed on rss.chat. You can then give this URL to any feed reader...

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 There's a new Docs menu in rss.chat . Right now it has pointers to the home page of our GitHub repo, and to the worknotes pages for the client and server . There will be lots more stuff in this menu as the project progresses. # A lot more people have tried out rss.chat now that we have a demo site , and they are looking for stuff that isn't there. I wrote a longish post on X this morning explaining. If you want the gist, this is a bootstrap, and rss.chat is primarly a writing surface and a timeline for the people who are using the specific site you're on. It's a writing surface for smallish groups of people, primarily, though I'm pretty sure you could build a massive site meant to serve millions. There will be readers, I'm sure of it, and I hope lots of them and lots of innovative new approaches. But splitting the social network software down the middle, we fulfill the "all parts replaceable" pro...