An interview with two passionate RFC 5005 fans on how to handle big Atom feeds
This conversation took almost an hour, so I split it into two shows:
- Part 1 talks mostly about the RFC itself, what it means and why. HPR 3082
- Part 2 goes into personal experiences with the RFC and with syndication in general, in particular in the context of web comics.
This is part 2.
In this show I’m talking to:
fluffy
- Federated social web:
https://queer.party/@fluffy - Writes and makes things in several creative fields:
https://beesbuzz.biz/ - Publ is like a static site generator, but dynamic. It produces RFC 5005 archive feeds, of course:
http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/ - Thoughts on ephemeral content vs content worth archiving and how they relate to protocols:
https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/5709-Keeping-it-personal
Jamey
- Federated social web:
https://toot.cat/@jamey - Blog:
http://minilop.net/ - Made a prototype full-history reader that follows RFC 5005 links:
http://reader.minilop.net/ - Made a webcomic reader mostly mentioned in Part 2:
https://www.comic-rocket.com/ - Made a WordPress plugin implementing RFC 5005:
https://github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullhistory - Made an RFC 5005 archive feed synthesizer for sites with a predictable post frequency and URL structure:
https://github.com/jameysharp/predictable/
Hosted at https://fh.minilop.net/ - Was on HPR 9 years ago, talking about X.Org!
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0825
Conversation notes
- Back in 2002, Aaron Swartz published his joke MIME-header-based RSS 3:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000574
The cultural context at the time and the rivalry between RSS 0.91+, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom deserves a show of its own.