I love when things just work! Recently discovered simple-rss, “a simple JS plugin for adding an RSS feed to your page.” It solved an issue over at bulltown and jenett.neko.

For this post, I used the plugin to grab my buddy John’s most recent post, Greenside, almost Spring from his feed (I love his photos). I then applied a bit of css and it rendered what you see below.

Important note: For the sake of preserving this post so it doesn’t update automatically the next time John posts, I then copied the rendered result’s html into this post and commented out the code used to grab the feed (see source).

Greenside, almost Spring

Raven soaring againt a blue sky.
A nearly ful lmoon above some trees. Blue afternoon sky
A stonechat perched on a dead twig. Dead grasses behind.

A bright almost spring like afternoon at Greenside. First toad of the year, unfortunately squashed by a motorbike on the footpath. A couple of ravens with big crusts of picnic bread by the reservoir.

The idea I’ve been playing with is creating posts featuring automatically updating feeds to explore. This post is just me examining possibilities. ;)

By the way, if you’ve read this far, you’re probably interested in exploring - here’s a great place to start: John's World Wide Wall Display.

Cheers!