> March 15 there were 1,251 updates [from feed of small websites ...] too active, to publish all the updates on a single page, even for just one day. Well, I could publish them, but nobody has time to read them all.
if the reader accumulates a small set of whitelist keywords, perhaps selected via optionally generating a tag cloud ui, then that est. 1,251 likely drops to ~ single page (most days)
if you wish to serve that as noscript it would suffice to partition in/visible content eg by <section class="keywords ..." and let the user apply css (or script by extension or bookmarklet/s) to reveal just their locally known interests
Kudos on your site effort and I immediately see your point.
In fact I took your topmost entry with no helpful site/update tags and dove in a little to try to understand why a RSS friendly blogger might not be passing along ~ tags for better reader discovery.
Turns out my scarce info test case blogger has a mastodon that immediately lists all these tags about himself [I've stripped it down] ...
#FrontEnd Developer #CSS
#Halifax #London #Singapore
Technical writer and rabbit-hole deep-diver
Former Organiser for https://londonwebstandards.org & https://stateofthebrowser.com
Interests: #Bushcraft #Outdoors #DnD #Fantasy #SciFi #HipHop #CSS #Eleventy #IndieWeb #OpenSource #OpenWeb
I conclude if he knew such site and post tags getting to RSS would be of use, he'd probably make the tiny effort to wire the descriptions.
Nonetheless I merely crawled links for a minute to found this info, so I imagine something like the free tier of the Cloudflare crawling api might suffice over time for a simplistic automated fix to hint decorate blog sites.
I mean, given that we're not trying to recreate pagerank, but just trying to tip the balance in favor of desirable initial discovery.
Crawling related sites for tags could work (open graph tags on the website are another good source). I'm wary of mixing data across contexts though. A blog and a Mastodon profile may intend to present a different face to the world or could discuss different topics.
While XML/XHTML aren't spec'ed/evolved to support your fun font sans attribute challenge, certainly modern html does ...
<p>
<style>
@scope { font-family: "Arial" ; }
</style>
Prospero: Where in the world is my teapot? Hello? I'm waiting!
</p>
I know one could argue that that css rule property is essentially an attribute, but it illustrates, like XML plists[1], that one can define the tags arbitrarily to have their content be meta upon sibling/nested content, subsuming attributes' role.
To wit, it seems to me a style issue.
[1] Apple has long used XML plists for data ~ interchange or even archival storage such as .webarchive (ie just a plist flavor). Of course they soon added a simple binary version to compress out some redundancy and encoding waste.
They used an XML nested tag approach, not attributes. Maybe not well rounded pegs and holes but it has worked for them on a large scale over a long time.
Rather than just looking at Apple's motivations as to address ~new customers, I'd like to point out Mr. Gruber surprised himself:
> I am in no way arguing that the MacBook Neo is an iPad killer, but it’s a splendid iPad alternative for people like me, who don’t draw with a Pencil, do type with a keyboard, and just want a small, simple, highly portable and highly capable computer to use around the house.
My wife and I prefer iPads around the house as she is a pencil centric artist and loosely speaking I prefer touch to keyboards. But his framing points out Apple is expansively addressing broad market work/school/home computing needs/preferences and thus also brings up a question I think is under discussed...
What is Apple's user experience roadmap for Apple TV mass market home computing? And for home computing in general?
We are overdue for a leap up there, where Apple, as with the Neo, exploits their ability to profitably deliver higher end hardware which enables features at prices below any comparable competition.
I know folks are fond of pointing to Apple struggling to deliver Siri/AI advances but I view that like their Apple Maps fiasco: an ongoing priority roadmap that they will keep working at until it is better than good enough.
I believe Apple will soon accelerate the power ramp up in Apple TV both because they could now ~ Neo that device into very $/performance competitive vs game consoles but also because they likely predict an ever increasing demand for home compute by consumers.
Not just speech i/o and AI conversation but also active realtime cheap private application of compute, such as personalizing your sports game feed, for example:
a) continually show me where the ball is by [dynamic method]
b) rewind to when player X had the ball
c) freeze there and show me what might have happened if they had passed to Y
d) dress all the players in tutus
e) change to my cooking show but warp me back to this game if someone scores
f) etc etc etc.
Their 5+ year planning and commitment to the Apple Watch and Vision Pro show that they are ardent bettors on personal computing continuing to evolve very rapidly if they can concoct a profitable multi-year course from niche to ubiquitous. [not just for a product but for their synergistic products]
Remember they build elaborate fake homes as test centers, and not just to film product promos. I would be very surprised to learn their current 5 year outlook ignores robotics. Look around the edges of their public activities and imagine how what you notice might also fit together with something new but hidden.
Also earlier credit due to Isaac Asimov in Second Foundation [1953] "...
The same basic developments of mental science that had brought about the development of the Seldon Plan, thus made it also unnecessary for the First Speaker to use words in addressing the Student.
Every reaction to a stimulus, however slight, was completely indicative of all the trifling changes, of all the flickering currents that went on in another's mind. The First Speaker could not sense the emotional content of the Student's instinctively, as the Mule would have been able to do – since the Mule was a mutant with powers not
ever likely to become completely comprehensible to any ordinary man, even a Second Foundationer – rather he deduced them, as the result of intensive training.
> AI constitutes a particular threat because no form of human cognition is more heuristic, more cue dependent, than social cognition. Humans are very easily duped into anthropomorphizing given the barest cues, let alone processes possessing AI.
Software is eating the World, so what are we doing to eat software?
Our Civilization d'Sapiens ecology will find balance, but can it, sans catastrophic collapse?
43 mins long so here's my subjective short summary in case it's worth it for you:
South Korea developed a widely popular "K-Drama" mini~series industry over decades of iteration, but wages for overworked writers were perpetually pitiful and upside for producers very limited (due to IP & value capture by broadcasters)
Netflix tested the waters licensing existing K-Drama content years prior to Covid then flooded production with much much higher $ to own original IP and make huge returns (NB Squid Games).
Writers & producers are only slightly better off, but their long honed winning formula for creating audience beloved content has been greatly skewed in new directions (i.e. subjectively artistically worse) due to economic dis/incentives.
Modern global tastes, such as for short form slop, are also enshittifying the content.
The HN moderators have asked users to avoid summary comments: "Please don't post summary comments like this. I know they're well-intentioned, but they're not in the spirit of this site. HN threads are supposed to be curious conversations. Also, we want people to respond to the article, not to a summary." (https://hackertimes.com/item?id=39670657)
caveat emptor re long hashtag techniques on (ipad) safari ...
you may think safari has no effective url limit (i.e. very high) but if you ever treat a url within the url bar as editable you are at risk to be silently truncated to 4096 bytes (eg select a character in the url bar and replace it)
also re-testing potential ~buffer limits in various ways on ipadOS 26.2 safari just now slowed my safari ui down to a crawl
eg after saving example.com with ~20k #hashtag to reading list -- each keystroke in this reply was taking several seconds, so I had to force quit safari and retype to post this warning
> March 15 there were 1,251 updates [from feed of small websites ...] too active, to publish all the updates on a single page, even for just one day. Well, I could publish them, but nobody has time to read them all.
if the reader accumulates a small set of whitelist keywords, perhaps selected via optionally generating a tag cloud ui, then that est. 1,251 likely drops to ~ single page (most days)
if you wish to serve that as noscript it would suffice to partition in/visible content eg by <section class="keywords ..." and let the user apply css (or script by extension or bookmarklet/s) to reveal just their locally known interests
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