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Over the weekend, I released rssCloud Server 4.0 and wanted to discuss how I added WebSub support to the server. WebSub is an alternative protocol that has the same purpose as rssCloud: to notify subscribers of real-time updates. Back in 2020, Dave Jones had suggested I...
Last night, I finally released the 4.0 rewrite of the rssCloud Server. I'm very paranoid about breakage, so technically there was a version 3.0 that came out in May, but it was a necessary step to shore up the old codebase before the big rewrite. The big changes have been...
I just picked up my ticket for WordCamp US in Phoenix this year. I had hoped to go as an Automattician, but after two months of interviews, I got the bad news on Friday that they are not moving forward with me. I still hope there will be an opportunity for me to join in the...
I've been downloading public-domain books for a project, and many of them are kindof bad OCR scans. A lot of the work I was doing was in Claude Code. I created a skill where it would look online for the text I'm seeking and download it into a sources folder with a certain...
Another exciting project from Radical Speed Month! Jeremy Herve and Matthias Pfefferle are working on the WordPress Reader feed aggregator. The first thing mentioned is something I'm very excited about. They are adding the Google Reader API so you can use third-party reader...