Made with đŸ§€ in Madison
RSS blogrolls are a federated social network:
As a starting place I manually identified twenty websites with OPML blogrolls. From these I can follow links to find 150 distinct websites. Several of the links go to YouTube pages, reminding us that RSS isn’t just for blogs.
The network is up to 1700 feeds. It’s already becoming obvious that there needs to be a way to search all of these feeds. It’s hard to find what you’re looking for in such a long list.
Link blogging is a pleasantly low-pressure way of writing online. Found something interesting? Post a link to it, with a sentence or two about why it’s worth checking out.
People have commented on links they found on social media for many years. For some reason the big white canvas of a blog editor is intimidating though. Sometimes I wonder if smaller text input boxes would take the pressure off. I think P2 got this right many years ago.
I made some changes to the theme here for the first time since adding support for dark mode about 18 months ago. I like documenting it because it’s fun to see how the design and layout change over time.
Previously: https://josh.blog/2023/01/dark-mode
