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RssCloud is a technology designed to provide real-time updates for RSS feeds, streamlining the process of feed notification and reducing the need for frequent polling by feed readers. The original rssCloud server was written by Dave Winer in Frontier/OPML Editor. In March 2015,...

I deployed the new rssCloud v2 to a temporary port and I'd like to have a way to poke at it and make sure it's doing what it should be doing. Today I plan on building a simple tool that will allow me to zip through the various combinations of pleaseNotify and ping and check that...

One of the reasons I continue to work on the rssCloud server is that I see it has untapped potential. (more…)

Idea: Could we include a cloud tag in an OPML headline and have Little Outliner ping an rssCloud server with the public OPML url when it's updated? That way if we wanted to use an OPML file as a data source (blogging for instance) the consumers could subscribe to the file. ...

I've been slowly but surely working on version 2.0 of the rssCloud server I built back in 2015. (more…)

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I recently built an rssCloud Server implementation in node.js (more…)

I've been making many gradual changes to the RSS Cloud server over the last few months. Things have stabilized enough that I feel comfortable sharing now. New Logger The first big change was a revamp of the log page for debugging. I found that the way it was before made it...

I've been out of the WordPress plugin game for a while now. I closed my Nofollow Links plugin back in 2021 and haven't kept up since then. However, now I'm running WordPress again and looking to get back up to speed. Since I built and maintain the RssCloud Server and wanted to...

Hoopla! That word seems to have become a part of my brand. It started as me just being goofy one day at school after watching Shock Treatment, but now has become my stock greeting when I see people I know. It's gotten to the point where the hoopla precedes me. Once I met a...

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For the last few weeks, I've been playing around with Claude Code and have found it to be very useful. In particular, I've been leveraging it to modernize my RSS Cloud Server project, which has been on the back burner for several years. It's very much AI-assisted and not "Vibe...

FedWiki River is an river-of-news aggregator of updates across all known federated wikis. It's powered by Federated Wiki Feeds which crawls the wikis and exposes RSS feeds and OPML reading lists. Crawl Logic The wiki checking logic is that every wiki in the all feeds list get...

My site has been a blog since at least 2006. It literally uses the blog subdomain. I don't know how much I like that anymore. (more…)

A number of years ago when I worked for Brazen Careerist I had an idea for the company. We could create a white label social news site that was a window into a larger network of social news sites. Management didn't see this as a useful direction for the company so it didn't...

Dave Winer discusses in his post A simple proposal for discussion software makers an idea where instead of having to only publish content inside of the application (Ex: WordPress, Tumblr, Quora), you could specify a URL for your content and the application would fetch that...