Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:39:22 GMT

New York Times Sunday crossword today.

38 down: Blog feed letters

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:15:23 GMT

I do hope you don't find this necessary. I've been using demo.rss.chat as a devel playground, mostly focusing on the API's behavior, and if it becomes read-only, I might as well do my hacking against the main rss.chat. Or bite the bullet and start running an instance locally, which I've been studiously avoiding.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:42:04 GMT

My hacking continues. I managed to create a zero-length media object at demo.rss.chat/media/23 (this is what happens when you forget the @ in the curl command). I suspect that eventually, endpoints for /deletemedia and /updatemedia will be needed.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:01:03 GMT

Examining my prior post (the one I'm replying to, id=343), I see that the markdowntext element is not my original markdown, but has been converted to HTML.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:53:12 GMT

From my vim to your feed

If you can read this, my bash scripts are functional. Not pretty, but functional.

The rss.chat API docs have improved substantially, saving me from going down some deep rabbit holes.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:20:42 GMT

Not really, no.

For case 1 (both "description" and "markdowntext" populated), I wasn't sure what to expect, but the server accepted having both of them, and the website displayed the contents of "description".

For case 2 (only "markdowntext' provided), I expected a failure, since api.md says that "description" is a required field. I also did not expect the website to display an empty post.

I was expecting some kind of relationship between these two fields, where a change to one might trigger a change to the other.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:42:57 GMT

This was a call with no description, only markdowntext

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:42:16 GMT

This was a call to newpost where description and markdowntext were populated to different things.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:29:03 GMT

I'm experimenting with API calls, working purely from the api.md document. Currently, I have been able to post here using /newpost. Here are the things I'm attempting to understand:

When we say that "description" is HTML, do we mean HTML fragments, or a complete <HTML></HTML> document?

What happens if I populate both description and markdowntext?

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:46:14 GMT

Markdown

subtitle

Don't mind me, I'm just hacking on MarkDown mode. I want to become fluent enough in MD to throw away my cheatsheet.

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| name | quest | favorite color | | ---- | ---- | ---- | | Arthur | To seek the Holy Grail | blue |

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:46:09 GMT

Yay, it's here! Let's see what this can do.