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rss chat is now simper to set up  so I gave it a wee go on local host. So far I’ve just run it from my downloads folder.  The instructions worked but I am a node-no-nothing so I tripped a couple of times. 

First I didn’t npm install so nothing worked.

I tried to set up SMTP using SendGrid, but I lost the will to live half way through. Got an API key but

Message failed: 550 The from address does not match a verified Sender Identity. Mail cannot be sent until this error is resolved. Visit https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/sender-identity/ to see the Sender Identity requirements

So I just copied the magicString from the terminal and constructed my own url:
http://localhost:1420/userconfirms?emailConfirmCode=ysugstk4yc

Which did the trick.

Ofcouse a localhost oneperson social network is not much use 😉 but interesting none the less.

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Just saw the notice about the rss.chat example inboundRss for wordpress . I must say I hadn’t thought about going that way. I had wondered about POSSE from WordPress to rss chat. 

Currently micro.blog does a great job of posting items from my feed to mastodon and bluesky. I’ve also used FeedWordPress to pull rss feeds from one place to another.

 Where inboundRSS differs is that it runs in a browser served from somewhere. The notes suggest it could site on a server or be served via node locally. I guess a simple php script could work too? inboundRss also updates edited items in real time (a few seconds).

I’ve run through the instructions, I had a bit of difficulty getting my site id, but got that from the WordPress.com API console using GET /me/sites/

Once I’d filled in the id and my demo.rss.chat feed I run the file with php -S localhost:8081 

All I need today is do now is publish this post and it should also go onto my WordPress site. I’ll check that and then test editing here by adding a link…

And it worked: Testing inboundRSS

I’ve now made several edits and they are reflected on my site. I put the php snippet for the terminal in backticks, they stayed as backticks on demo.rss.chat but were converted to code tags on my site. 

I am now wondering what happens to edits on the WordPress side? If I added categories & tags? Enough for now though. Lots to think about!

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Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or YouTube to quickly get a feed that you can add to your favorite reader.

from: ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed

This works, I got it from Alan’s dogged following & sharing of RSS information, tips & tricks. Great way to follow family on instagram. I’ve given it a quick test. Interesting that the feeds from instagram show images in Inoreader, but not in NetNewsWire or Feedland which both just show a title.

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Read: The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers ★★★★ 📚

The Battle was the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985, at which Redbone was a more than willing partici-pant, and a subject that Calvert has frequently indulged his friend in over the intervening years but which he has little desire to hear repeated now, or indeed ever again, for the account is well worn and the telling of it is like retreading a desire path through the vegetation of Redbone’s semi-fictionalised personal history.
Calvert has long suspected that his friend somehow equates that June afternoon with some of the blood-and mud-flecked battles that he himself was a part of in South Georgia, when of course they are incomparable.

1989 over a summer 2 very different misfits spend 10 nights creating crop circles while lost in their own thoughts about society, the natural world, war & much more. A boys book perhaps, but an enjoyable one.