I was so onboard with RSS (no acronym tag because no one can even agree what it stands for) back in the day. I wrote a blogging platform that stored data in RSS and used Python to render that into HTML for viewing. Subbing in an ‘.rss’ file extension would give you the raw RSS.…
At what point do you unsubscribe from a feed or podcast instead of just bulk deleting the stuff it throws at you because you’re not interested in reading or listening? For me that threshold is remarkably high. I think I delete at least half of the stuff in my feed reader without even skimming these…
Went visiting the waterheads downstairs to answer version control questions. They wanted email added to a post-commit hook. I recommended subscribing to the RSS feed our installation of Fisheye provides. They didn’t know what RSS was. They’re ostensibly web developers. A little bit of me died on the inside.
I know it’s a topic I come back to now and again, but only because it is one of the most useful “technologies” to come out of my WorldWideWeb experience. The ability to essentially bookmark something of interest and then have that thing tell you when something happens to it is a remarkable way to…
So Facebook doesn’t want to play nice and just give you RSS feeds for a user’s status updates. Used to be you could do that, but not so much any longer. It appears you may be able to generate a status feed using the Graph API, but that’s seriously overkill for my needs. Besides, who…
I’ve been tinkering with pulling all of my generated content on other sites into a single, browsable, About Me kind of page here on SRT. On the flip side, I’ve been toying with how to create a nice portal that collects all of the various bits of content people I like create on various social…