Dave Winer recently wrote The web of Markdown proposing a new simpler web. I quickly realized that much of this was already present with sites like mine that serve markdown for LLMs. It was only a quick claude coding session to spin up Markdown Browser which is a web proxy that allows us to browse the Web of Markdown. I’m really happy with how quickly this came together and how many sites I was ab

I’m at WordCamp US in Phoenix Monday through lunch on Wednesday. Feel free to say hi. I have “I RSS” stickers! Andrew at WordCamp US

I’ve been using FreshRSS for a while as a backend for NetNewsWire and decided to finally create an extension to add rssCloud support. This not only does what you’d expect: subscribe to feeds that support rssCloud <cloud> elements. But it also supports subscribing via HTTPS when port 443 or the protocol “https-post” are specified. It even looks for the latest and greatest <source:cloud> element fro

Today, I launched I RSS , a directory for people who love RSS. I’ve already added the badge to my footer and submitted my site to the directory. It also shows a nice live blogroll on the homepage (powered by FeedLand ). If you love RSS as much as I do, take a look and add your own website.

Over the weekend, I released rssCloud Server 4.0 and wanted to discuss how I added WebSub support to the server. WebSub is an alternative protocol that has the same purpose as rssCloud: to notify subscribers of real-time updates. Back in 2020, Dave Jones had suggested I add support for WebSub because they were “close enough in their implementation” that it should be feasible. At the time, I didn’t

Last night, I finally released the 4.0 rewrite of the rssCloud Server . I’m very paranoid about breakage, so technically there was a version 3.0 that came out in May, but it was a necessary step to shore up the old codebase before the big rewrite. The big changes have been reorganizing the repo into a pnpm monorepo and extracting packages for reuse in other projects. The packages are being rewritt

I just picked up my ticket for WordCamp US in Phoenix this year. I had hoped to go as an Automattician, but after two months of interviews, I got the bad news on Friday that they are not moving forward with me. I still hope there will be an opportunity for me to join in the future. I’m very excited about everything they’re doing with WordPress these days. I’m excited to see Dave Winer speak. I enj

I’ve been downloading public-domain books for a project, and many of them are kindof bad OCR scans. A lot of the work I was doing was in Claude Code. I created a skill where it would look online for the text I’m seeking and download it into a sources folder with a certain naming convention. At one point, I asked, “What options do I have to clean up files downloaded from Project Gutenberg OCR scans

↬activitypub.blog/2026/05/05/radical-speed-month-the-reader-meets-the-fediverse/ Another exciting project from Radical Speed Month! Jeremy Herve and Matthias Pfefferle are working on the WordPress Reader feed aggregator. The first thing mentioned is something I’m very excited about. They are adding the Google Reader API so you can use third-party reader apps to view your subscriptions. I use NetNe

@scripting I think the marketing for this new theme missed its mark. Dave thinks this is a new short-form blogging app when it’s really just a new theme. I was able to post to it from WordLand with no issues. It’s still a regular WordPress.com website. This is just a new theme built in a week by two devs as part of Radical Speed Month.