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.
Hey netizens, do me a favour: if you have a site and it has a newsfeed (#RSS or #Atom), please check it with https://validator.w3.org/feed/ If it fails the validation, please tell the author of your software about it. If you're the author and you don't understand what the validator is telling you, comment here and I'll try to help (others are welcome to help too!)
The world is full of slightly broken feeds. Let's make it a better place.
The photos of this nuclear-powered cruise ship from the 1960’s are wild—it is like a perfectly preserved time capsule, with atom-themed light fixtures and tableware. A small wooden cube illustrates the amount of uranium fuel needed to circumnavigate the globe over a dozen times.
Hey the #Fediverse!
Today, I have released the version 0.1.0 of my new project, f2ap, an application that adds a compatibility layer for #ActivityPub to your website thanks to your #RSS/#Atom feed!
Currently, only the support for Mastodon is guaranteed, but there are a lot of other platforms out there. If you are on another social platform, please help me document the platforms support! 🙏
As 2024 marks the resurgence of RSS and Atom, I decided to update my rudimentary RSS tools from 2007 to make them contemporary and works under Python 3. The release v1.0 marks this step and allow everyone to use and improve the RSS toolset.
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.
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!
Is it possible to watch all edits/changes in a #GitHub#wiki, e.g. via #RSS? I know the ".atom" ending to the /wiki page, but this only gives me the new pages added and not all changes.
I've added a new tool to my collection of RSS tools. It's called rssfind.py, and it enables the discovery of Atom or RSS feeds from a specified URL. The tool utilizes two techniques: one involves searching for feed references in link references, and the other employs brute-forcing to check all well-known paths for RSS or Atom feeds
@boo_@andros I didn’t foresee anyone turning Google’s #Chrome browser #JavaScript engine V8 (2008) into the server (#NodeJs, 2009) and desktop (#ElectronJs, 2013) runtimes that ate the world, but here we are.
And Electron was originally developed for #GitHub’s #Atom text editor (2008) before they were acquired by #Microsoft in 2018, subsequently discontinued in favor of #VSCode in 2022.
Don’t tell me what you can’t see happening if you don’t remember what already did
📰 "To prowadzi mnie do spostrzeżenia zasadniczego: sprawa dotyczy czegoś więcej niż pomocy Ukrainie w przetrwaniu. Prawdziwy problem polega na tym, że choć na rozwiniętym Zachodzie doskonale wiemy o grożącym nam wszystkim kryzysie, nikt nie zachowuje się adekwatnie do sytuacji."
Physicists just learned something major about the proton.
@Gizmodo reports that "by exploiting decades-old data and a 50-year-old prediction about gravity’s import on subatomic particles, a team of physicists has teased out a measurement for a second mechanical property in the proton."
> Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage.
Czyli wyborcom rządzącej koalicji pozostaje zacisnąć zęby i udawać że nic się nie stało? Szkoda, że tak wpatrzony w rząd w Berlinie Donald Tusk nie uczy się od Niemców. Tam projekty przeciwników politycznych są kontynuowane o ile są korzystne dla społeczeństwa. Widać to zwłaszcza w samorządach. Czyli Polska ma być uśmiechnięta i przeciętna… #rzad#polityka#cpk#atom
📢Sehenswerte Reportage über die umstrittene Erweiterung der #Atom-Fabrik #Lingen, bei der Mitarbeiter von #Rosatom vor Ort sein werden. Es drohen Sabotage, Spionage & Desinformation. Landes- & BuReg müssen jetzt einschreiten und die Genehmigung stoppen!
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?