707: RSS with Social, AI Agent Traffic, and What to Blog About

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics including RSS, AI traffic, and future blogging ideas.

Show DescriptionListener John has a VSCode extension to share, Chris muses on why nobody has attempted to build the social side of RSS, a listener is experimenting with feature-based folder structures, how do you feel about AI traffic on your website, what can someone blog about in 2026, and Digg gets dugg by bots. Listen on WebsiteWatch on YouTubeLinks DTF St. Louis | Official Trailer Parasite (2019) tag-toggle - Visual Studio Marketplace CommonRSS Skyreader Tim Disney (@disnetdev.com) — Bluesky Feedbin Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Coyier, Dave Rupert

Topics covered

• RSS
• AI traffic
• blogging
• VSCode extensions
• feature-based folder structures
• social media

Keywords

• RSS
• AI traffic
• blogging
• VSCode
• Digg
• social media
• folder structures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Visual Studio Marketplace, Digg, Bluesky, Feedbin, Webspace Invaders

Books & works: Parasite (2019)

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