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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.

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Likes Scripting News: Updated version of FeedLand Docker Compose by Dave Winer.

Updated version of FeedLand Docker Compose. It’s now possible to run FeedLand on a local machine on a private network.

I’ve now got Feedland running on my mac, despite a really sketchy idea of how docker works. Eventually I’d like to get it running on my pi again. Especially as I’ve a pi 5. But I really need to understand some more about hosting first.

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Read: Trespasses by Louise Kennedy ★★★★ 📚

Northern Ireland 1975 Cushla young RC teacher starts an affair with a Married Protestant Lawyer & gets mixed up with a mixed family of a pupil. Spent the whole book tensed against the expected end.

While in Dublin:

They walked up Grafton Street. Buskers were playing guitars, huddles of youths standing about watching them.
Something was wrong. She looked up and down the street and didn’t know what it was until she was in the doorway of Switzers, sliding her handbag off her shoulder and holding it open. Michael laughed. You’re not in Kansas any more, he said.

I remember in the 70s my aunt on a visit to Glasgow going up to the security guard in M&S & opening her handbag.