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Strange Loops


Mark Pilgrim: On a somewhat related note, I’ve cobbled together a firehose which tracks comments (like these) that I make on other selected sites.  Many thanks to Sam for teaching me about Venus filters, which make it all possible.

Ah, yes.  The Tools Will Save Us, circa 2004.  I remember it well.

There’s more to the story.  Filters are not unique to Venus.  Mark’s first prototype was based on another popular tool.  When he first showed the results to me, I immediately pointed out that relative URIs were not handled correctly.  Better tools, based on better libraries make problems like these go away.  Tools that could convert his firehose template to xslt, and thereby consistently be served as well formed XML.

On a somewhat related note, I see Planet HTML5 is powered by Venus and includes a selection of my entries.  Presumably ones that mention HTML5.  Like this one.  Even though it isn’t about HTML5.