Before, Wikipedia Seismograph used Wikipedia page view spikes to create date-bounded Google News searches, but I added in a bunch of different APIs and functionality. Now it’s a concept-exploring machine and I’ve barely gotten started adding stuff to it.
My Dream RSS Reader is Working WAY Too Well
In late November I put together a homebrew RSS reader to address some of my challenges in trying to keep up with thousands of RSS feeds. I knew at the time that I wasn’t going to immediately get a sense of how well it worked because we were heading into the December holidays. I’d have […]
Making My Dream RSS Feed Reader
I’m continually thinking about ways to better find and curate content. Part of this is just a general desire to improve but part of it is because the social media is constantly shifting and tools are always coming and going.
With or without ancillary tools, RSS feeds have been an essential part of my efforts for decades now (I started learning about them in early 2000.) Lately — maybe in the last few years — I’ve started leaning on RSS even harder.
Daydreaming About the Perfect Mastodon Data Broadcast Setup for Emergency Responders
I used to play Rimworld a lot in the evening, but since I started learning JavaScript, it’s much more interesting to make up my own games. Yesterday evening I pretended I had just started a Mastodon instance for a county fire and rescue and I was designing a tool to make their posts as useful […]