ShopTalk 707: RSS with Social, AI Agent Traffic, and What to Blog About
Mar 23, 2026
Listeners share a handy VS Code extension and debate why RSS never rebuilt its social layer. They test social RSS projects and praise Feedbin and sync tools. There is a deep dive on organizing large codebases by feature and package. They worry about AI agents crawling sites, discuss mitigations, and consider what to blog about in 2026.
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Tiny VS Code Extension That Comments Matching Tags
- John built a tiny VS Code extension that comments matching HTML opening/closing tags together instead of just one line.
- Chris and Dave praise it as a useful itch-scratcher called Tag Toggle (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+C) and plan to link it in show notes.
Social Features Missing From Modern RSS Are Reappearing
- Chris and Dave revisit nostalgia for Google Reader and note its missing social comments feature where friends annotated feeds inline.
- They highlight new projects (CommonRSS, SkyReader) trying social RSS integration, OPML import, and Blue Sky/at-proto identity to solve cold start.
Organize Large Apps By Feature With Packages
- Try organizing large apps by feature (user management, billing) with each feature containing its components, hooks, and services to keep related code contained.
- Consider a monorepo with packages so each feature can be developed, built, and reused independently and slurped into the site as needed.