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I’ve updated the code that tests for the memory problem on the A8C server. Now that we know what the problem is, the code can test for the specific problem. How to test Go to a8c.feedland.org and log in. Open the JavaScript console in the browser. (In Chrome, View menu,  Developer sub-menu.) Enter: testUserDatafiles () If it…

An update on settings in a8c.feedland.org. Here’s the problem, the user experience… You would save your settings, but then if you went back to the Settings dialog, they would appear to have not changed. What was going wrong When we asked for the JSON file that stores the user’s settings, it was being cached because…

More thoughts on why we’re doing this — First, it’s a good useful product. it would be worth doing even if RSS wasn’t moving, slightly, after being dormant all these years. It’s like a time capsule. It went out to the far edge of the galaxy, and came back and didn’t age at all while…

This question came up in my weekly chat with Christie earlier today. Why is A8C offering FeedLand as a service? There are still a lot of users and feeds, and new sources of feeds, from Mastodon, and other social networks. In other words, RSS is moving again. I made a new platform to do new…

Here’s the scenario: 1. I’m looking at a story on a site that’s really good. 2. This is the second story I’ve read recently from that site, both were good. 3. I should subscribe to this site. 4. Click the bookmarklet. If the site has a feed, I’m subscribed. If not, a dialog appears saying…

First, I am pretty sure that at a mechanical level, FeedLand is correctly receiving rssCloud messages and processing them, on the A8C server. But, we’re not going to be able to turn on all the wonderful features that come from this because there are issues raised by having more than one machine doing feed reads,…

Good morning! 😀 My first project today is to integrate the WordPress identity code with daveappserver which is the server framework for FeedLand and other of my software. This will make it possible to call directly to WordPress from FeedLand and I’m thinking maybe make it possible at some point to use WordPress for identity.…

1. This site is for work related to the A8C FeedLand project. It’s not private, but I’m also not advertising links to this outside of A8C. 2. These are items I would not at this time post on scripting.com, but at the same time it’s not meant to be private. At some point I will…

There’s an assumption that the contributors to open source projects are all developers with deep technical knowledge and there’s no place for people who are just smart and experienced users of the products. But I’m not one of those people. In fact, I’ve had considerable success with very deliberately inviting users into the open source…

A likely use-case for Miriam… I’m writing about an experience I just had at a place I used to work 20 years ago with the people I worked with then. Since I was blogging at the time, and the blog archives from that period are IIRC in Miriam’s database, I should be able to get…