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Monday, August 18, 2025 I've been watching The Dropout on Hulu. It's hard to watch at times, because the main character of the show, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, is such a horrible person. She lies to everyone about everything, but she's cute and the VCs like her, so they pump hundreds of millions of dollars into her startup, Theranos , which was a real company, and made a product that never worked, but she doesn't get around to telling anyone that, including the board of directors, until long after it's too late. I haven't reached the end yet, but I know how it ends, because it's based on a true story. She ends up in the same prison that Ghislaine Maxwell is in, in Texas. The only reason I mention it is that in my tenure in Silicon Valley, about 30 years worth, I saw everything she did, done by other entrepreneurs and VCs, in real life. Only now, in the second Trump administration, its craptitude is maxed out far beyond anything I ...

Weekly Vue News #211 Bulletproof Watchers, Effect Scopes & More View online Hi 👋 I enjoy the summer time with my family, so there is no relevant progress on my side projects that is worth sharing. Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Vue 📕 Bulletproof Watchers in Vue ...

Sunday, August 17, 2025 The new header graphic is gift from Stan Krute at Fresh Art Daily . # We're in the doldrums of summer. It's hot and muggy, but I am where you want to be this time of year, in the Catskill Mountains, where there's lots to do outdoors, the peaches are fantastic right now, apples coming soon. I'm working a few hours a day on the integration of writing and timelines built around feeds. Instead of using Bluesky or Mastodon, with their limits, we use WordPress for storage. It has none of their limits, has a high performance open source server back-end, debugged complete API, it's not without problems, but far ahead of where the competition is in terms are reliablity and ease of implementation. To be part of this network, all you need is an RSS feed. Seems pretty openly billionaire-proof wouldn't you say. # Billionaire-proof and RSS # I would like to get on the record. # The only billionaire-proof s...

Saturday, August 16, 2025 I want a new ChatGPT mode where I drive the work, not the bot. I don't want it giving me answers to questions I didn't ask, because it's trying to navigate in my mind, and it has no information about that, so it's basically always wrong. I keep looking back on problems that took hours to solve because it drove the process and I went along with it. I want to tell it in advance to not make suggestions, to just answer questions. I call this "behave like a computer, not a human." Because it's a fanstastic computer, but not a good partner. # Linkblog items for the day ICE trying to poach Florida law enforcement. wftv.com Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say. reuters.com The Latina behind Governor Gavin Newsom's social media posts. calonews.com Trump Has No Cards. theatlantic.com Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as in...

Friday, August 15, 2025 The big corner-turn is working. Here's a screen shot . # I like documentaries about climbing Mt Everest, but I absolutely hate watching people climb El Capitan . Then I realized that sometimes in software I'm climbing a cliff that's too tall to climb in one session, so I have to carry a tent and backpack with food and water. I hate this kind of programming more than anything, because it comes from not having a high-level enough runtime to support me in big corner turns. Or not having invested enough time in creating a layer I can build on. Anyway I'm in the middle of one of those corner-turns now. Hell has not broken loose although at times it looks like it might have. I'm being sure not to create another mess that needs to be cleaned up in the future. Not stressful, but I'd rather be doing anything but this. :-) # Linkblog items for the day My Prison Is Full of Cancer Patients. prisonjournal...

Thursday, August 14, 2025 There should be a connection between DC and Kiev residents. They could teach us how to do this . They have decades of experience. # The thrill of rotary phones # Is it for me? # Linkblog items for the day "I did it. I threw a sandwich." cbsnews.com What is Bluesky? Starts out with the big lie, it's totally centralized. techcrunch.com The U.K. Online Safety Act could kill the internet as we know it. slate.com The Politics of Jerry Garcia. wnyc.org I'm Building My Father's Brain Before He Dies. hopeyscott.substack.com Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected. cnbc.com The electricity is on, as is the internet. Buses and subways are running. The airports are open. scripting.com The Male Friendship Collapse. levernews.com Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests. techcrunch.com Cop...

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 If you're trying to read any of my code via GitHub, make sure to open source.opml in Drummer , there are a lot of notes that don't make it through to the .js and .css files. I don't think I've ever said that on the blog before. I write my code in an outliner, and take advantage of its ability to collapse long comments into a single line. There are whole blogs at the top of some functions, notes about all the big changes in code, sometimes over years, and sometimes even decades of maintenance. There's a source.opml in most of the repos with a big comment at the top explaining what's going on. Also, most projects have a worknotes.md file, and where there are dates in the source code, the refer back to dates in the worknotes.md file. Not always, but most of the time. Some of the code is very complex, I work really hard to make it simple so it can be worked on, but in some cases it's impossible to make it read ...