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Tag: rss

  • Stumbling

    Sharing a post by Lucy Belwood, Dan wishes more people used the open web more, Facebook/Twitter/Instagram etc. less.

    Read more (343 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 21 January, 2021
  • Webbed Briefs logo

    Watched the pilot of Webbed Briefs by @heydonworks (of Every Layout fame). It's a sarcastic independent vlog about web technologies, so I immediately fell in love and subscribed to the feed...
    Just kidding. It doesn't have a feed! (Yet?)

    Read more (39 words)

    • Note
    • 3 comments
    • posted 6 November, 2020
  • Rendered RSS feed showing Post Kinds prefixes

    Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds

    Dan shares the code he's written to improve Indieweb Post Kinds support in his RSS feeds.

    Read more (297 words)

    • Article
    • 12 comments
    • posted 1 March, 2020
  • The Far Side comics in Dan's RSS reader.

    Subscribing to The Far Side (by RSS!)

    The Far Side is back, and (for the first time) it has a website and daily comics. But no RSS feed? Let's fix that...

    Read more - about 3 minutes (514 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 8 January, 2020
  • Nice simple design, @typehut, but with no RSS, Atom, nor h-feed you've made a blog platform to which readers can only subscribe by email. ๐Ÿ˜ข

    Read more (24 words)

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 6 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Subscribe by Email

    Subscribe by Email

    You can now subscribe to a daily digest by email. Never miss a thing!

    Read more (201 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 1 October, 2019
  • LABS comic adapted to show The Robot literally "feeding" RSS

    LABS Comic RSS Archive

    For the benefit of anybody wanting to read LABS comic from the beginning in their RSS reader, Dan writes a tool to facilitate that.

    Read more (175 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 25 July, 2019
  • Diagram illustrating the relationships between DanQ.me and the satellite services with which it interacts.

    DanQ.me Ecosystem

    Dan explains how he produces content for the Web, and his blog's place in the ecosystem of the places his content can be seen.

    Read more - about 8 minutes (1869 words)

    • Article
    • 9 comments
    • posted 15 July, 2019
  • Veritasium explains the YouTube "frontpage" algorithm.

    I Don't Watch YouTube (Like You Watch YouTube)

    A recent YouTube video by Veritasium helped Dan understand some of the quirks of YouTube's algorithms. Why hadn't he understood them before? Because he uses YouTube in an unusual way...

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1152 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 25 May, 2019
  • Sports on the BBC News site

    BBC News... without the sport

    A lightweight Ruby program to republish the BBC News RSS feed... but without the sports articles.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (619 words)

    • Article
    • 9 comments
    • posted 14 May, 2019
  • @davejthorp the RSS feeds at dave-thorp.me.uk (e.g. for posts and comments, presumably among others) are broken

    Read more - about 1 minutes (19 words)

    • Note
    • 3 comments
    • posted 19 January, 2019
  • Your RSS is grass: Mozilla euthanizes feed reader, Atom code in Firefox browser, claims it's old and unloved

    When Firefox 64 arrives in December, support for RSS, the once celebrated content syndication scheme, and its sibling, Atom, will be missing.

    "After considering the maintenance, performance and security costs of the feed preview and subscription features in Firefox, weโ€™ve concluded that it is no longer sustainable to keep feed support in the core of the โ€ฆ

    Read more (154 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 13 October, 2018
  • The Rise and Demise of RSS

    There are two stories here. The first is a story about a vision of the webโ€™s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.

    In the late โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 3 minutes (628 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 11 October, 2018
  • Castle of the Four Winds in early 1999.

    20 Years Of Blogging

    Come next week, Dan will have been blogging for 20 years. A lightweight retrospective.

    Read more - about 15 minutes (3489 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 8 October, 2018
  • @adactio: The ampersand in https://adactio.com/notes/14395 isn't being properly escaped in your RSS feed...

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    • Note
    • posted 6 October, 2018

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