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Dave Winer has created a new Bluesky account for political news, and is planning to create a “river of news” site for feeds (placeholder here). Dave has other news rivers (as well as my news rivers for general feeds and WordLand users), so nothing new here in terms of technology but good to get more...

Added the following feeds: https://blog.om.co/feed https://pradx.in/category/personal/status-updates/feed https://philpin.com/feed https://viehumaniste.wordpress.com/feed Up to 14 feeds now! Nice! Check out the river!

I recently checked a site of mine (Andy Status Tool) that was being served under https using the Caddy web server. However, my browser was telling me that the site was “not secure” and making me click two times to get to the site, and still showing “Not Secure” in the URL window. I asked […]

Crossposted from my WordLand test blog: I am responding to Dave Winer’s call for posts about his post “The Writer’s Web“.  I never left “The Writer’s Web”, as my primary web presence is my WordPress blog, where I have all the benefits of not having a tiny little text box, and support for all aspects...

Watched the Oscars last night on ABC, I would say that big films got small awards, and small independent films took the big awards – interesting! “Wicked” has gotten quite a lot of notice (especially on NBC) since its release, I would say they “already received their reward”.

I am harvesting these links from multiple issues of Tim Snyder’s “Thinking About…” Substack newsletter. Ironically, although these are available online, and I received them as part of a free subscription, the online version cannot be viewed without a paid subscription – sad. March 1, 2025 If you are...

I have just watched the video of the Trump/Zelensky meeting and Kaitlan Collins’ assessment of the meeting. I think something needs to be done to hold Trump and Vance to account for their disgraceful and disrespectful behavior toward Zelensky. I am trying to think of what I should do. For now, I hav...

I have created some posts on my thoughts about WordLand on my WordLand test blog, including social networks built on RSS – check it out if you are interested.

I was not planning on trying WordLand by Dave Winer, but after seeing a post from Ken Smith on X, and reading Dave’s post about it today, I decided the way I could add value would be to create a “first-time user” video – an “unboxing”, so to speak. Executive summary: WordLand successfully posted to ...

I had seen some recent posts from bloggers I follow that the Core Intuition podcast (hosted by Manton Reece and Daniel Jalkut) was coming to an end after 626 episodes over 16 years. I listened to the final episode this week, and it was a pleasant conversation. They did make a few statements which sh...

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Jack Baty converted his eponymous site to Hugo, and I liked the look, and decided to think of a reason to try out his theme. I decided to create two linkblogs, one for personal links and one for liveblogging the Trump administration. In the spirit of “imperfect progress is still progress”, I am decl...

RFK confirmed as HHS secretary – really? Trump has really managed to keep Senate Republicans in line, only one bozo was kicked off the clown car – ugh!

Dave Winer again talks about twitter-like apps using RSS. I created mine (MyStatusTool) in May 2023, and Colin Walker created a PHP version (PHP-MST). Working versions are here and here. When is Dave Winer going to create his tool?

Recently, I posted some ideas about podcast subscription lists/listening lists, and one of my readers (John Johnston) suggested I look at the Huffduffer podcast feed service. I found out that I already had an account – amazing! Must have forgotten! I tried it this evening. After I logged in, I click...

I recorded this on 1/12/2025, so I am using that in the title, even though I am posting it several days later. Links to topics in the podcast:

Via Brian Beutler, the response from the Mexican President on convicted felon Donald Trump’s idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Wednesday that the United States revert to a historic name for the territory, America Mex...

In November 2024, I wrote about Lauren Kapp, who led the @kamalahq social media effort. I noticed yesterday that Lauren had a post on LinkedIn recapping her work in 2024, did not say what her future plans are – hope it is something good!

I sing in a church choir, one which typically sings four-part harmony. For many hymns, we start in unison for verse 1, then add parts in later verses. Sometimes, my fellow tenor and I will try to sing our part, but decide to shift to unison. Sometimes, when I sing, I sing the wrong pitch, […]

Interesting that Dave Winer did not know that YouTube had feeds (posted in 2016!) and that he did not point directly to Andrew Shell’s blog, but pointed to a search of his site for “Andrew Shell”….

Today, Donald Trump was sentenced for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election. Coverage: (CNN – Takeaways) (CNN – live blog) (CNN – audio of hearing) (MSNBC – audio of hearing) (USA Today – article and downloadble audio) (CBS – a...

What is a podcast subscription/listening list? Well, let’s start with talking about subscription lists. For most, if not all podcast clients, OPML files containing a list of the podcast feeds being monitored have been the defacto standard for import/export of podcast feed lists. Prior to use in podc...

So, here we are. Mike Johnson was elected speaker of the House 218-215 (in a 90 minute vote with phone calls to the holdouts by Donald Trump). What was the next opportunity to test the Republicans? The rules package. What was the vote? 215-209, with 10 not voting and one Democrat voting for the pack...

Today, a joint session of the US Congress, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, certified the results of the 2024 US presidential election, declaring Donald Trump the winner. This was not the result I wanted, but it is a result which honored the votes of the American people, via the system of vo...

Now that the 2024 US election results have been certified by the states, those results have been made available to the public through the state election offices, usually part of the Secretary of State for each state.   A non-profit, Open Elections, has been working for over a decade to collect and m...

My last post in this series was in April 2024, so I have not touched this topic in a while (although I have been writing about podcasting and some issues with WordPress podcast feeds). However, in the November 2024 issue of New York magazine, an article called “How YouTube Ate Podcasting” appeared, ...

In November 2024, I wrote a post about an issue I discovered in trying to create a WordPress category feed for a set of audio posts. The category feed had issues in being recognized by a podcast app. I found that when I set the post type/format as “Audio” in the WordPress editor, the category […]

Earlier this year, Dave Winer began an experiment to create a podcast feed with shownotes for the Morning Coffee Notes podcasts that he created at the beginnings of podcasting in 2004. He created a Node.js app (podcastBuilder) to create the feed and the shownotes, which were in an OPML outline (both...

One of the Starbucks holiday commercials caught my ear: This lead to an exploration of the music of the group Sam and Dave, here is the full song: Here is a live version of “Hold On I’m Coming”: Sam and Dave also wrote the classic “Soul Man”: which was covered by “The Blues Brothers“: Enjoy!

In the US today, the Electoral College is meeting to cast electoral votes for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Per CNN, Donald Trump has already received enough votes to win the presidency. I tried to find where the Oregon Electoral College meeting is, but did not find anything. Quite a difference fr...

Recently, I wrote a post about an idea of trying to get the @kamalahq social media feeds going again. I took the following actions: What to do next? I will follow up to the state party office (probably should write the top person) and the county committee (maybe the comms person has some other ideas...

I was watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade on NBC this morning while preparing for our Thanksgiving meal. There were quite a lot of Broadway show excepts and pop performers, but there were also the marching bands (both high school and college). When I was in band in high school in the 1970s, the ...

There is a saying that ” your vote makes a difference” or “every vote is important”. In a Oregon House race that just concluded, every vote was, indeed, important. This happened to be Oregon House District 22, in which I reside. The incumbent, Republican Tracy Cramer, was being challenged by Democra...

I have written before about using WordPress to host podcast files, but I have had problems in getting a stock WordPress site to create a feed that loads in a podcast client (like PocketCasts). I decided to look into this yesterday, and figured out that the post format has to be “Audio” (if it is […]

I recorded this on 11/23/2024, so I am using that in the title, even though I am posting it 2 days later. Coves the election, what to do next, and what technical projects I think I will work on next. Links referenced in the podcast: Emptywheel: What next? Emptywheel: Lessons from Red States on How [...

Recently, Dave Winer has written about how the Democratic Party stops communicating its message when the election is over. His position is that the Republican Party has supporters/surrogates/podcasts/TV networks pushing the Republican message 24/7/365, but that the Democrats are only “on-the-air” du...

Well, the first bozo has left the clown car, hope to see some other bozos exit as well…

I am feeling somewhat better now. Last week, I was suffering from “election depression. On the night of the election, we turned the TV off at 10pm. In the morning, neither my wife nor I wanted to turn the TV on, but we did, and the first words we see are “TRUMP WINS”. Ugh. As […]

With Election Day in the US come and gone, I have completed updates to the Kamala Campaign Timeline website. This site covered the day-by day events of the Harris-Walz campaign from Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race through Election Day. Each daily entry contains a link to the CNN daily blog for ...

This morning, I was walking my dog, and as we arrived home, I saw a baby squirrel in the grass in front of our home. He was not moving, so after I got my dog inside, I went and checked on the baby. Its head was moving and its eyes were open, but the baby […]

I have finished updating KamalaCampaignTimeline.com with the latest campaign news through September 1st – check it out!

This week, I spent some time working to understand how to use the Mocha testing tool and the Chai assertion tool in developing apps using Node.js. I found two articles that I was going to use to get started, and I decided to set up my package.json file to use the latest version of the […]

When Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and threw his support to Kamala Harris, I wanted to capture the day to day events of the campaign. After some review, I decided to use the static timeline generator site template developed by Molly White, which I had used for a site on tracking “Re...

Oliver Willis, in a recent Substack post, goes into further details on Sources Go Direct, and how the Harris campaign is doing this (via Dave Winer). The last paragraph is the best: Frankly, the relationship between Trump and the press, which follows in the footsteps of the relationship George W. Bu...

Doug Muder of The Weekly Sift makes excellent points about how the mainstream media wants access to Harris so they can tear her down. It makes total sense that she is “going direct” with her message. Trump gets a pass with the mainstream media for having two incoherent “media availability” sessions ...

I like how Manuel Moreale makes the distinction between hobbies, side projects, and money (hobby is for yourself, a side project can turn into a money thing). My web development is definitely in the hobby department!

A 12-13 minute rambler, here are links to sites mentioned: Portland Protest News Making Your Own Media KamalaCampaignTimeline.com (not live yet) Molly White Eleventy Web3 Is Going Great RTOWatch.com Molly’s timeline site template Steve Tockey/Construx Software How To Engineer Software Newer model-ba...

A few days ago, Dave Winer talked about “making your own media”, meaning that individuals could create lists of sources and distribute them. Dave called for Democratic podcasts, but he has a podcast “river of news” site with multiple podcasts. I thought – why not create a river of news site for some...