This was the first Ben Wolf book I've read, and I enjoyed it very much. It's basically four origin stories in one, setting up the rest of his Blood Mercenaries series. It grabbed my attention right away, and I binged it over a couple of weeks. I liked how different each origin story was.
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Dave Winer recently wrote The web of Markdown proposing a new simpler web. I quickly realized that much of this was already present with sites like mine that serve markdown for LLMs.
It was only a quick claude coding session to spin up Markdown Browser which is a web proxy that allows us to browse the Web of Markdown.
I'm really happy with how quickly this came together and how many sites I was able to find in Dave's blogroll that already support this.
I’m at WordCamp US in Phoenix Monday through lunch on Wednesday. Feel free to say hi. I have “I ❤️ RSS” stickers!
I've been using FreshRSS for a while as a backend for NetNewsWire and decided to finally create an extension to add rssCloud support.
This not only does what you'd expect: subscribe to feeds that support rssCloud <cloud> elements. But it also supports subscribing via HTTPS when port 443 or the protocol "https-post" are specified. It even looks for the latest and greatest <source:cloud> element from Dave Winer's source namespace.
But wait, there's more!
Since FreshRSS supports subscribing to an OPML file, I'll even look for a <source:cloud> element on OPML files and subscribe for real-time updates. This is super handy if you want to subscribe to the OPML feed for the super cool I ♥ RSS directory!