{"id":739,"date":"2019-10-29T18:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2019-10-29T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:23:46","slug":"rss-is-the-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"RSS is the bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a facility in my web application to publish RSS feeds for the most &#8220;significant&#8221; events.  I built it so that I wouldn&#8217;t have to build some way of integrating those events with lots of different mechanisms for lots of different users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I demo&#8217;d it to the guy who&#8217;s taking over tech for the company I&#8217;ve been consulting to.  Started by asking &#8220;do you know what RSS is?&#8221;.  His response: &#8220;oh, yes, that&#8217;s really old tech&#8221; and made some analogy with a tape player in his old car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I fired up Zapier, and showed him how to take the feed and plug it into a Google Sheet, and into Slack so that his customer support people got pinged with new items.  Oh.  I could see his brain start to whir.  I said something about &#8220;old tech, but still good tech&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davewiner\">@davewiner<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a facility in my web application to publish RSS feeds for the most &#8220;significant&#8221; events. I built it so that I wouldn&#8217;t have to build some way of integrating those events with lots of different mechanisms for lots of different users. I demo&#8217;d it to the guy who&#8217;s taking over tech for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}