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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. One thing that is frequently used to "Sell" the rssCloud competitor PubSubHubbub (or PuSH or WebSub) is that it provides "Fat Pings". The content in the...

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. Dave...

I've been slowly but surely working on version 2.0 of the rssCloud server I built back in 2015. When I originally built it, it was my first real node app, and the node landscape was very different from what it is today. Now that my full-time job is building node based APIs...

Jeffrey Kishner asks: I don't understand what rssCloud does. Is it related to River? Back in the RSS 2.0 spec, Dave Winer documented a cloud element which is used to point to an rssCloud server for real time updates about a feed changing. Typically feed readers poll a feed...

I recently built an rssCloud Server implementation in node.js It's open source, MIT licensed and available on GitHub. I have a copy of it running live at rpc.rsscloud.io. I'm hoping to get folks to poke it and help me make it more stable. Since it's hard to test an rssCloud...

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...

Personal Development Implementing Cal Newport's Deep Life Stack and Multi-Scale Planning ThothGPT System Prompt Unified Theory of Goal-Setting Programming Javascript Object References Projects Fedwiki River RssCloud Server

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. End of last year, I changed the homepage from a list of posts to a more curated experience inspired by Derek Sivers, including a Now page. Joel Hooks...

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...