It's even worse than it appears.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
New davefeedread package. Back when I was doing all my server work in Frontier, I had a verb that, given a URL, would parse a feed and return a struct. It did all the work behind a simple interface. When it came time to fix encoding in feedBase, I decided to invest in having it be that simple in Node. I have the new package running inside feedBase now. It seems to work. You're welcome to use it in your projects as well, of course. #
"There's more to life than a little money," Marge said, as if talking to Republicans. "Don't you know that?"#
If anyone from Facebook is listening, now would be a great time to do something kind and generous for the open web. Like for example supporting a subset of Markdown in posts and comments. Most important to support linking. Would do a lot to breathe new life into the web.#
Next items on my feedBase todo. Handle feeds that have special characters, such as feeds in German or Chinese, and merge duplicates, two or more URLs that point to the same feed. I'm going very slow with the changes. This is a long-term project, it's important to get it right. Very different from the first time around with RSS apps when everything was a rush. Also want to take a look at display on phones and tablets. If you have any problems you'd like to report, here's a fresh thread to post in.#
8-minute podcast. I often watch Ari Melber's show on MSNBC, but when they turn to Facebook I get ready to be angry because they screw the story up so badly. Zuck pitched Medvedev and China. He says he wants regulation but has lobbyists that worked against it. Great, you embarrass him, but the net-effect is they continue to destroy the open web. Why don't we work on something that really matters that isn't about Russia or doesn't feel like Watergate. Tech makes messes when companies get dominant. Finding things Facebook is screwing up is easy. But Melber and the rest of the folks in the mainstream press have not found it. Same with Google. #

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