Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Although it hasn’t helped me find a job, I’ve continued to build stuff with PHP. I’ve also been brushing up on my Objective-C. After upgrading to use Version 2 of the GData (YouTube) API I had to upgrade to Version 1.1 of the Twitter API. This took a lot more work especially trying to meet [...]

I never set out to build a miniature painting news aggregator. I had time to do it because I remain #unemployed. I was just trying to help a fellow blogger out with a problem they were having. You know me, always helping other people, when I should be helping myself… Anyway I spent even more [...]

Although I perhaps should have been using the time in other ways, I’ve spent considerable time and effort building a custom news aggregator.  I was able to leverage SimplePie and PHP to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but I also wanted to scour the Internet, social media, and all the trendy Web 2.0 [...]

So I’ve been building something. And while doing so I discovered there are three different types of feeds on the Internet. Feeds that return useful information in chronological order that can be displayed and manipulated easily. Feeds that do not conform to an established standard or otherwise do not behave as expected and cause SimplePie [...]

Curation is the next big thing on the Internet with Pinterest being the media darling. Unfortunately for the talking heads in mainstream media, curation has been a feature of the world wide web since the beginning. A home page, something I’ve maintained online since 1995, is by very definition a curated collection of personal interests. [...]