Website Changes: Backend Updates and Removing Subscriptions

Brilliant orange, yellow and red colors of the leaves line the shore of the blue lake, the refelection of the leaves and blue sky with white clouds in the water.

Looking at my notes over the past few years, fall seems to be the time of year I start planning changes to this website.

Maybe it’s all those beautiful fall colors in the northern hemisphere that reminds me of changes and motivates me to update my website?

Anyway, in my efforts to streamline the website and prepare for migrating it from WordPress (more about that plan in another post), I’ve made some website changes and will remove one feature that may impact readers of this website.

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On Twitter: Will You Wait and See?

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News this week that Twitter will be sold and taken private took the Twitter community by storm. While some Twitter users are thrilled about the prospect of the new owner, many others—women, people of color, LGBTQ, disabled people, and their advocates—are reasonably concerned about the prospective new owner’s anti-censorship focus. Personally, I’ve already learned several… Continue reading On Twitter: Will You Wait and See?

Poll Results: What You Prefer RSS Feeds to Display

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When I read Farai Gandiya’s Working with Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS, this month, I discovered there was a lot I didn’t know about RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

Who knew there was an RSS Club?

Not me!

Working with Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS

Gandiya did an excellent job explaining the difference between the three common types of syndicated web feeds: Atom, RSS, and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).

In addition, Gandiya explained what makes a good feed and the importance of knowing your feed readers and how they render content.

What surprised me from the article were two things:

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