thechelsuk - Weak Notes - micro posts

Moving from Social as a post type to Micro

2026-08-11T11:27:00Z

Hello, this is a test post from Drafts to the new Micro feed and syndications

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Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

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Patiently waiting for Apple

2026-08-02T21:42:00Z

Specifically Xcode 27 to be released so I can publish a new version of Hiyd - with custom front matter and GitHub publishing. One cannot simply submit an app for review using a beta version of Xcode.

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RSS Chat

2026-07-26T16:30:00Z

Dave Winer and claude have been working on a new social network built on RSS. It’s a very interesting idea and I think it has a lot of potential. I am a big fan of RSS, and this chat supports posts, edits, replies and allows the user to subscribe to their own RSS feed and to the firehose feed. I am currently playing with automating my posts to the demo.rss.chat API.

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I think there is a future task for me here to extract the replies from the RSS feed and show them as replies on my site, a bit like the webmentions implementation I already have.

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RSS

2026-07-25T13:49:00Z

When I am king, the first thing I would enforce by law is that all websites that publish news or articles will legally be required to provide a full RSS feed.

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De-Meta

2026-07-15T05:38:00Z

The biggest issue is being where your connections are. Would love to de-meta but that’s where family, friends, and colleagues all reside.

It’s so ubiquitous in the UK yet people seem so passive to Meta.

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120 minutes

2026-07-12T00:09:00Z

Listen fair play, 9yo daughter went the full 120 minutes tonight. Put in a real shift and got over the line.

Mentality monster.

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Typical

2026-07-05T22:44:00Z

It would be typical of England to finally win a World Cup and it be asterisked as the Trump-infected Cup were sporting integrity was lost to personal favours.

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London's first, London's finest

2026-05-30T19:07:00Z

London’s first, London’s finest

And still…

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It's happened again

2026-05-19T21:11:00Z

It’s happened again. iykyk.

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What can you buy with a £5m donation

2026-05-13T20:14:00Z

What can you buy with a £5m donation? The longer Starmer is in office, the more Reform fancy there chances.

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Film Club

2026-05-13T15:25:00Z

I now have 1405 films logged, I am certain I have more missing from my watched list though, but no chance of remembering them now.

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Brand

2026-05-02T16:07:00Z

Bravo les filles ! Quel but à la 89e de Brand !

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Heart Rate

2026-04-25T16:07:00Z

My heart rate hit 136 bpm when I emptied the inside recycling bin to the outside bin today. Likely my only chore of the day. That’s it. That’s my life now.

I used to go for an easy run at this rate.

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