An interview with two passionate RFC 5005 fans on how to handle big Atom feeds

This conversation took almost an hour, so I split it into two shows:

• Part 1 talks mostly about the RFC itself, what it means and why. HPR 3082
• Part 2 goes into personal experiences with the RFC and with syndication in general, in particular in the context of web comics.

This is part 2.

In this show I’m talking to:

fluffy

• Federated social web:
  https://queer.party/@fluffy
• Writes and makes things in several creative fields:
  https://beesbuzz.biz/
• Publ is like a static site generator, but dynamic. It produces RFC 5005 archive feeds, of course:
  https://publ.beesbuzz.biz/
• Thoughts on ephemeral content vs content worth archiving and how they relate to protocols:
  https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/5709-Keeping-it-personal

Jamey

• Federated social web:
  https://toot.cat/@jamey
• Blog:
  https://minilop.net/
• Made a prototype full-history reader that follows RFC 5005 links:
  https://reader.minilop.net/
• Made a webcomic reader mostly mentioned in Part 2:
  https://www.comic-rocket.com/
• Made a WordPress plugin implementing RFC 5005:
  https://github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullhistory
• Made an RFC 5005 archive feed synthesizer for sites with a predictable post frequency and URL structure:
  https://github.com/jameysharp/predictable/
  Hosted at https://fh.minilop.net/
• Was on HPR 9 years ago, talking about X.Org!
  https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0825

Conversation notes

• Back in 2002, Aaron Swartz published his joke MIME-header-based RSS 3:
  https://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000574
  The cultural context at the time and the rivalry between RSS 0.91+, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom deserves a show of its own.