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Retirement Update: andysylvester.com

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The passing of MIT/NASA pioneer Margaret Hamilton: andysylvester.com

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@manton thanks for posting this, I appreciate it!

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Podcast on design engineering in software development: andysylvester.com

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I have resumed using my linkblog. Following John Johnston’s example, I am linking to my latest collection of links – enjoy!

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Followup on support for Drummer oldSchool blogs: andysylvester.com

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I just started seeing comments this past week on my WordPress blog that appear to be created by AI – is anyone else seeing this?

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Got the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress working: andysylvester.com

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After reading Will Bunch cringing about Trump’s address to the UN last week and China summit, and yet another Natalie Harp expose on the Daily Beast, my thought is “how can we get out of this mess?”.

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Creating a local version of a Drummer oldSchool blog: andysylvester.com

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Another whiny post about Hugo breaking a site: andysylvester.com

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Finding voting records on your state representative: andysylvester.com

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A reason why RSS feeds can’t be read from news websites: andysylvester.com

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@frankm this is an excellent analysis, one that many people are not thinking about

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I recently got a pizza steel and tried it out last night following this recipe, the result was pretty good!

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I did not think THIS would ever happen – the Commodore 64 computer is now available again (it was the first computer I ever owned!)! What a nostalgic trip!

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I pushed out some updates to my OPML viewer app to add a toggle for expand/collapse for the outline – check out this demo, and download from Github to try it out!

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Thoughts about “working together”: andysylvester.com

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Saw this at Walmart today – loved it!

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Podcast about using formal methods in software development: andysylvester.com

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New OPML viewer now available: andysylvester.com

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@antonzuiker cool!

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Archer Aviation acquires Wisk, Skygrid, and InSitu from Boeing: andysylvester.com

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How I backed into subscribing to the New York Times: andysylvester.com

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Saw an interesting behavior in Claude Code: andysylvester.com

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Looking to reduce memory usage for WordPress sites: andysylvester.com

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@frankm I just saw this comment, I will work to include those features in the repo I set up

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More gripes about RSS feeds from newspaper websites: andysylvester.com

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Dave Winer talks about how to create a standard in 2026, but offers RSS.chat as the standard being described. I don’t buy it. Is this project leading to developing a standard for chat networks? I don’t think so….can anyone help me out here?

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@antonzuiker I added a comment to my WordPress rss.chat post, and saw your comment there (heh!), both of those made it to rsschat.andysylvester.com, I still have not seen a comment back on the WordPress post from my reply on rss.chat, I may try some other test.

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@antonzuiker I am waiting to see if my rss.chat instance reply appears as a comment on my WordPress blog, the plugin docs said that there could be a 5 minute delay in posting.

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@antonzuiker I also see it - since I use my WordPress RSS feed to post to the Micro.blog timeline, I added that category in my rss.chat post, to see if it would appear here, and it did!

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@frankm woohoo!

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@manton I have set up a personal rss.chat server (https://rsschat.andysylvester.com/), just letting you know.

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@j4ck.xyz I have set up a personal rss.chat server (https://rsschat.andysylvester.com/) - feel free to join!

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@JohnPhilpin Heh!

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@JohnPhilpin I will post when my install is working so you can join it, see my other recent posts for install problems

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@dave I disagree on the “easy install” part. The rss.chat docs do not say anything about needing to have AWS SES setup to be able to send email to new users. Why is that?

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@manton I created an app in 2023 using rssCloud and supporting inbound and outbound RSS called myStatusTool. I have working instances of a Node implementation and a PHP implementation. If you could let Dave Winer know, I would appreciate it (not sure if he is reading my emails).

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@frankm I really appreciate your posting this! I am looking for something to help me with the same thing to post to my WordPress blog, I will report back with whatever I find…or develop…

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@manton thanks for passing this on!

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@frankm I enjoy your analysis!

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@antonzuiker thanks for sharing, I am going to continue to look into this, will post when I have more to share.

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@frankm thanks for the feedback, I will do some testing and report back

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@JohnPhilpin glad you liked it!

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@frankm looks good, thanks!

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@frankm your link to Readwise takes me to a login page - is there another way to see what you are pointing at?

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@frankm looks very cool! Is this a web application or a native application? What development tools are you using?

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@bradenslen Thanks Brad!

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@DiplomaticDiva Thank you!

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