Scripting News: Friday, July 24, 2026
RSS.chat worknotes are a feed now. Updated when there's a new feature or fix. Same info is on the worknotes pages in the repo. #
- Podcast client developers -- don't give up like this guy did. Yes RSS is delicious but you all haven't done anything new with it since 2004 or so. No wonder the competition is catching up, they're actually delivering new features while you all haven't done a thing. RSS is like other web stuff, if you want to move forward you have to do things that will help your competitors. Stick your neck out, innovate, and smile when your competitors copy it. There is more to do. #
- Subscribable subscription lists would allow anyone to maintain a list of great podcasts, curated -- like a mutual fund, or a top 20 list. This has always been the problem with podcasting. Find me something good to listen to now. All the shows tend to repeat. I've heard that cast before, I say as I tell Pocket Casts not to add it to my queue. Discovery needs to be easy. This one feature will give me infinite options. And give other developers, not client devs, to enhance the whole field of podcasting. The user would just tell you which sub service they're using, and the rest is code. And not particularly difficult code. #
- I want to subscribe to a list that's maintained by people who listen to 100s of casts. And when I get tired of them, I'll fire all my guides and add some others. #
- This is one step more complex than handling OPML subscription lists for import and export, which you all already do. Now if you don't understand this, and why it's appealing them imho your client deserves to die a honorable death. If your mind is alive, then get with it, and I will help, and btw we can easily create apps that make it easy. We just need nodes on the network whose purpose is to maintain sub lists. #
- Here's the deal. I really did put together the system that makes podcasting work. Top to bottom. Would it kill you to listen to what I think the next step is? I can't hurt you, and I don't want to. I just want to see the thing that we all created by unwittingly working together, where you have to be overt in the working together to have a chance of surviving the boredom users feel by these products only getting superficial upgrades. #
- It's time to rock the f'ing boat! :-)#
- Podcasting forever! #
Linkblog items for the day
Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover? daringfireball.net
LeBron James is going to the Philadelphia 76ers. He made the right choice, the team will already be disrupted by a big trade, and probably an upgrade, and maybe LeBron can even have a place to start.
nypost.com
Scott Knaster's second computer was an Apple II.
scottknaster.substack.com
Maybe podcast apps would not be "dying slowly with dignity" if we could get some new features in there to make the RSS features even more awesome, but the people with the apps won't listen to friends. If I wanted them to listen I'd have to compete with them.
uncommonapps.nyc
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff.
oneusefulthing.org
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