{"id":18572,"date":"2023-11-05T05:53:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=18572"},"modified":"2023-11-05T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T12:42:42","slug":"a-wee-bit-technical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/a-wee-bit-technical\/","title":{"rendered":"A wee bit technical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work I get emails about <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\">scratch<\/a>. I often miss these or don&#8217;t pay enough attention. There is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/scratchteam-blog\">scratch blog<\/a> on medium. I thought I could subscribe to that in an RSS reader. Couldn&#8217;t see a rss link so I searched for more information. Ironically the first two medium articles I found needed a paid account to read. Eventually I just pasted the link into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inoreader.com\">Inoreader<\/a> which did auto discovery. I also found the email archive on mailchimp and subscribed to that too.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that it is getting harder to be a wee bit technical. Like hiding full URLs in the address bar, or making it difficult to find an episode page for a podcast to link to. No RSS link buttons or links to audio files. These changes may have been made in the name of simplification or to make pages a bit stickier but cause frustration here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work I get emails about scratch. I often miss these or don&#8217;t pay enough attention. There is also a scratch blog on medium. I thought I could subscribe to that in an RSS reader. Couldn&#8217;t see a rss link so I searched for more information. Ironically the first two medium articles I found needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/111356385899486647"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953,6],"tags":[512,48,269],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posse","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-medium","9":"tag-rss","10":"tag-software","11":"kind-note","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4Py","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18576,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18572\/revisions\/18576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18572"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=18572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}