Superfeedr Blog

I am a bit ashamed that this comes so late… but it’s always better late than never: we have a rack middleware for Superfeedr. What it does is simple: subscribe, unsubscribe and help you handle notifications by hiding all the PubSubHubbub -complexity- magic. Since it’s Rack, it should work with...  

Everybody tries to make the web better. Here’s my attempt. A brief history of the web. READ I’m 29, but I was lucky enough to be among the very first web addicts. When I remember most of the websites from that time, I am pretty embarrassed by how ugly they...  

Today Google introduced significant changes to their algorithm. Like every time this happens some people are scared their free pension will end. This is clearly due to Google’s too incredibly high market share. This time, among the whiners, is Twitter, and this is interesting. Not so long ago, Twitter sold...  

It’s long overdue, but we built a little node.js library to interact with Superfeedr from any node.js application. I want to thank Martin Borho for his precious help, as well as Astro for his amazing work on node-xmpp A bit of theory We built this wrapper using our XMPP API....  

2012 is starting and, well, I have to confess we haven’t published as much as we wanted on this blog! This is one of our new 2012 resolutions! Have a wonderful year, full of amazing projects, using technologies that you love! We have a LOT on our plate… and I...  

Beware, the WebIntents protocol has been updated and the example given below are inaccurate. The general idea stays true, though. We hate barriers and user locks of any kind, but the web is full of them. The web works better when services are decoupled, when the user is at the...  

We’ve been a bit silent over the past couple weeks, but we have an excuse: days last 24 hours! We worked hard on the msgboy. Chrome’s latest versions broke our legs several times (changes in IndexedDB, changes in Websockets… etc). If what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, Msgboy is...  

Twit is an amazing web success. It’s been an honor to be invited to talk about Superfeedr and PubSubHubbub on FLOSS Weekly! Watch the show : And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, as it’s one of the best podcasts out there :)  

At Superfeedr, we’ve always been great fans of node.js. We believe the ability to use the same language on both servers and clients will breed a whole new generation of web developers that can do amazing work on both ends. Last year already, we released node.js code a couple hours...  

The msgboy is Chrome Application, and like all Chrome applications, it’s written in Javascript. Coming from the Ruby world, we really love Airbrakeapp (previously known as Hoptoadapp), and we missed it when we started rolling out the msgboy. For those unfamiliar with it, Airbrakeapp is a bug tracking tool. It...