Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
I recently read Darek Kay's excellent post about styling RSS feeds and wanted to do something similar. So, here's my simple guide to styling your WordPress blog's RSS / Atom theme. The end result is that if someone clicks on a link to your feed, they see something nicely formatted, like this: Prerequisites This involves […]
I’ve been using #emacs for about 25 years now. Is anybody reading this who has made a switch to some other editor? For a while I thought #atom could be it, but that’s gone now. Looking at #sublime at the moment.
Why switch? I don’t know. #Fomo maybe?
Emacs has seen some releases and development is going on, but it’s slow and getting everything to run a recent #MacOS is not painless. Also, I’ve never finished learning lisp for real and probably won’t find the time before my end.
I updated the way my #RSS feed works by adding a reply via #email and fediverse link (some may have noticed). While I was at it, I also made the feed human readable with #XSLT!
I've been rediscovering RSS feeds and Feeder has been a delight! I'm curious what other feed readers folks are using and what interesting feeds folks are following?
Hopefully enough folks see this who use RSS feeds to respond
Anyone got tips or advice on replacing #Atom as a text-editor? I very infrequently #code, with html, css, and a tiny bit of js (and tbh, had mostly been using it to post new blog things by pushing to my git repo).
BREAKING NEWS: A generation that knows nothing about #RSS and #Atom has finally grown up.
During the podcast recording today, a user in a live chat reached out to me saying that the #feed button on my personal site is broken 'cause it returns an #XML.
Nice to see that my first ever published #TYPO3#extension EXT:feed_display is now used more and more. In the last months there was a significant increase in download numbers. Maybe this correlates with the increasing usage of TYPO3 #v12? #rss#atom#feed#SimplePie
I remember when the primary definition of an online "feed" was an RSS or ATOM XML file published by a website to provide automated access to recent updates on that website or potentially some other site. We subscribed to feeds by actively choosing to add a feed to the feed reader of our choice, as one might (still) subscribe to a magazine or newsletter these days. We could recommend blogs or news sites to our friends or other people who "followed" us online by linking to their URLs on our own blogs or via email.
Let's reclaim that sense of a feed as a consciously chosen online diet – not a synthetic mashup generated by opaque algorithms.
I'm really turning into "old woman yells at cloud", aren't I?
For centuries, goldsmiths have sought ways to flatten gold into ever finer forms. An approach based in modern chemistry has finally created a gold material that literally can't get any thinner, consisting of a single layer of atoms. Researchers have named this new two-dimensional material 'goldene', Science Alert reports: https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-new-form-of-gold-exists-as-a-sheet-thats-just-one-atom-thick
In case you have been wondering why I have kept quiet -- I've been experimenting reading feeds on a FreshRSS instance as an alternative to social media. Hope it sticks.
I have this blog set up and ready for writing using a bare, classic web stack with no framework, no static site generator, just html/css files and some short scripts in JS and OCaml.
The only thing I feel is missing is an RSS feed. Presently I am feeling very inclined to just rolling my own RSS using the very same stack (a text editor and scripts) instead of switching to some SSG just to get an RSS feed. Something tells me that this is a sinful, heretic thought.
Ideas welcome on how to avoid such heresy. Encouragement to just do it also welcome.