Month: October 2023

The new UI for reading lists is topped off and the fixes are installed on the server, so now here are some links that show you around the new stuff. Here’s the info page for my first test list, which I just subscribed to on the A8C server. If you click on my name in…

I am glad to be working on user interface for reading lists, and out of the feedlanddatabase boiler room. Fixing bugs, smoothing things out in the API, and making the Info page for reading lists work, providing ways to see: 1. A timeline of all news from feeds in the reading list. 2. See the…

This started out being a private update for Matt, but I decided it should be part of the record for the project, keeping in the spirit of how these things go, on the web and at A8C. The development project Adapting FeedLand to run on the VIP service, which is capable of serving millions of…

In programming and other things sometimes you get so involved in an elegant way of doing something and it isn’t working out that well, so you just take a gun out and shoot the problem like Indiana Jones did. That’s what I ended up doing with the hangup with reading lists I wrote up yesterday.…

Add another week to implementation of reading lists, not at all surprising. 😉 Here’s what’s going on for the developers among us and also those who want to peer into the Fog of Development. From my worknotes outline, pardon punctuation and capitalization. i had written code that subscribes all users to new feeds and unsubs…

A reading list is a list of feeds you can subscribe to. The author of the list can add or remove feeds. When they do, people who subscribe to the list get the update, and are subscribed to the new feeds and unsubbed from the ones that leave. It means that there can be lots…

I just added a new section to my Automattic project outline — Ideas, and added an idea (of course). It would be so cool if PocketCast supported reading lists, so I could manage my podcast subscriptions from my desktop. What got me going is a recommendation by my favorite podcaster Andrew Hickey of a podcast…

I’m beginning to see how well feedland fits into the a8c culture via Chuck Grimmett, as he ranges over Automattic, finding great collections of blogs that can be turned into reading lists and news products. And of course that makes total sense. I feel like Rip Van Winkle in a way, you all picked up…

The Bookmarks menu in FeedLand is there so it’s easy to get back to places you want to check regularly. Any URL in FeedLand can be bookmarked. This is a screen shot of what’s in my Bookmarks menu right now. BTW, it can be hierarchic, and you edit it in a tiny little outliner window…

We noticed that when viewing the river page for a user that follows many feeds, it can take quite a while to load, around 6 seconds for approximately 1000 feeds. When checking the console it was clear the river building process was the culprit: The query we’re looking for is made on this line on…