Very early days, but I’ve managed to create a basic websub reader for myself. Missing more features than it has, but progress is being made #indieweb

@dgold Nice. Is websub a rss reader standard or something?

@hjertnes WebSub provides a common mechanism for communication between publishers of any kind of Web content and their subscribers, based on HTTP web hooks. 🤓 The W3C Recommendation has the specs.

@dgold Do you get any kind of joy out of reading W3C documents?

@hjertnes joy? No, not really. I derive a certain pleasure in understanding them, and in the sensation of neutrons firing as I imagine how I might be able to implement them, does that count?

@dgold Sure. I studied Wittgenstein for a semester for similar reasons. And Heidegger the semester after that.

Seems like I have thing for doing difficult stuff…

@hjertnes @dgold and cue

@JohnPhilpin @dgold people.umass.edu/klement/t... Beautiful piece of something, but still gives me a headache.

@hjertnes saved for ‘later’ .. but with a forward by ‘Bertie’ ... you know you have been ‘pre-warned’ ... I won ‘Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy’ as a school prize back in the day. It still travels with me. I still have a hard time with it.

@hjertnes well for a start he writes in English!

@hjertnes He actually meant Microsub which is a early draft of a way for feed reader servers and clients to talk to each other. Allowing for simplified innovative feed reader interfaces to be developed, rather than everyone having it’s own backend and parsing.

@EddieHinkle Interesting. So, I guess it could replace the fever api as the generic rss backend "everyone" implements?

@EddieHinkle graaaak! So I did. Anyone have any recommendations for browser tab managers?

@hjertnes Exactly, that’s the plan. @aaronpk who is the editor is also the editor of Micropub which is what allows some people on micro.blog to import photos from Instagram by using the OwnYourGram app (because micro.blog supports Micropub).