WeChat ID
aaronpk_tv
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
-
-
cleverdevil
https://micro.blog/cleverdevil
•
permalink
@brentsimmons totally fair. In concept, a Microsub server acts like the server-side of a reader. It has “channels” which are like folders and in them will be feeds. It fetches feeds, parses them, and normalizes them. @aaronpk is the spec author.
@cleverdevil @brentsimmons I'd love to work with you on improving the Microsub spec based on your implementation of Evergreen! The idea with Microsub is to make it easy to develop reader interfaces without dealing with managing subscriptions or feeds. -
Want to get your podcast idea off the ground? Applications for our Spring @stream_pdx Fellowship Program are now open! https://streampdx.com/podcast-fellowship
-
@brentsimmons totally fair. In concept, a Microsub server acts like the server-side of a reader. It has “channels” which are like folders and in them will be feeds. It fetches feeds, parses them, and normalizes them. @aaronpk is the spec author.
-
brentsimmons
https://micro.blog/brentsimmons
•
permalink
@aaronpk Thanks!
Let me see if I understand it. I’ll try putting it into my own words:
Microsub is a spec for a syncing system.
The server crawls feeds, handles feed parsing, and keeps the true copy of the subscriptions list (folders and feeds).
A client app can add/remove folders and feeds and can download the parsed feed data.
(There are additional features, but I think those are the basics. True?)
The two things I think an Evergreen user would still want are: 1) per-article read/unread status syncing, and 2) per-article starred status syncing.
@brentsimmons That sounds about right!
I've had multiple requests for read/unread, but I'm curious about the starred thing. Is that meant as a private bookmark, or more like publicly favoriting something? Or is it more like adding it to a "starred" folder?
Out of the various feed reader APIs you've used like FeedBin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler, which do you like working with the best and why? -
brentsimmons
https://micro.blog/brentsimmons
•
permalink
@aaronpk A starred article is a private favorite — generally it means something you want to come back to later for some reason. It’s common to have a special pseudo-feed that shows just starred articles, so a user can find them all easily.
I haven’t worked with current syncing system APIs much yet: my experience is mainly with NewsGator and Google Reader APIs, both now defunct. I vastly preferred NewsGator’s API, because it was designed as a syncing system, where Google Reader’s API was designed for Google, and was never publicly documented or supported, and didn’t work very well for apps like Evergreen (there were lots of ambiguous cases).
@brentsimmons Awesome, thanks, makes sense. I might add a note that servers should feel free to create these sorts of pseudo-feeds themselves. I'll see if I can dig up the NewsGator API docs. It's helpful to know that you're thinking about this from a "syncing" perspective rather than more of a REST API perspective. -
Remember the Airstream recording studio we had at @outpostpdx? Well it's now it's own thing: @stream_pdx —and they announced their new podcast fellowship today: https://streampdx.com/podcast-fellowship
-
belle
https://micro.blog/belle
•
permalink
@canion This looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing.
@belle whoa that video or animated web page or whatever it is is really amazing -
belle
http://snippets.bellebcooper.com/author/belle/
•
Jan 10
My trick to make my 2017 annual review blog post easier to write was to create the draft immediately on publishing my 2016 review. I added little bits to it all year and just polished it off in Dec. I’ve already done the same for 2018.
That is a fantastic idea and I am going to do the same now.
