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Scripting News: Friday, June 12, 2026

Friday, June 12, 2026 I want to keep my podcast subscriptions in a single OPML file so I can subscribe in three different clients using the same list. # Gift articles via Mastodon # There's an account on Mastodon containing a flow of gift articles. # Because Mastodon supports outbound RSS, you can subscribe to it in any RSS reader. # But the RSS is not very good. Have a look . # So I built a little app in my new scripting language, with the help of Claude, and boom now I can read the output of the mangled feed. # I don't know what is responsible, probably has something to do with the account, and something to do with how Mastodon. But the information is being communicated. # https://giftarticles.feedland.org/ # This is not finished, it needs some css and the normal structure of an HTML page. We will come back to it. # Using AI to sort out the noise # I am using Claude ...
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Scripting News: Thursday, June 11, 2026

Thursday, June 11, 2026 This is a test page about Charles de Gaulle . It came from ChatGPT, via Claude Code. # As thrilling as the end was for this Knicks fan, as a friend (of a Spurs fan ) I empathize -- because I had the feeling you have now for most of last night's game, only to erupt in one of the greatest group sports orgasms ever. # I have been praised for continuing to develop software long after most of my peers have retired. Why do I do it? I want to restore the power and glory of the web for writers. That's part of it. Another part is that software development is undergoing a huge revolution, bigger than the move to high-level languages that came about before I started writing software. AI tools are that big. Why would I leave now? It's like leaving the Garden last night because it looked hopeless for the Knicks. It ain't over till it's over . # The indestructible NY Knicks of 2026. What a game omg. The prob...
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Scripting News: Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Today's song: It's Your Thing . If the web had a song this could be it. # If you run a feed reader or other form of news consuming software, you will encounter RSS 2.0 feeds that support rssCloud. This example Node app shows you how to hook into the network to get instant updates. No polling. As fast as a twitter-like system # Every editor should have cute-paste . # Some days Claude is great, the best collaborative programmer I've ever worked with, and a friend, like Gary Sevitsky was in the hallway outside the PDP-11 room at UW , or Brent Simmons on the 24 Hours project. And on other days Claude a crazy mutinous pirate, deleting my code, ignoring the guidelines, and building the result without permission (all the while unaware that he wasn't working on the actual code, heh). Today is one of the great days. The bug reports are crisp and complete. Picks up a task and gets right to work on it. An...
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Scripting News: Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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Tuesday, June 9, 2026 A comment to a friend who roots for the Spurs. Ok you guys won one . I think last night they wanted it more than the Knicks. The Spurs knew they were going to be discombobulated, but the Knicks probably didn't expect the atomosphere to be so unusual? I was 100 miles away and could feel how much everything had changed. Whatever happens, in KnicksLand 2026 will mark a major change in the story, forever. # Maybe the cure for Meta glasses is that they be required by law to emit a signal that can be picked up by an app on a phone and can start ringing loudly when you're in range of one of these monsters, and the rate picks up when they look at you. You can point your phone at them and broadcast their image to a special website where their identities are collected and shared along with their location? # My Claude today pulled a Hal . It was so egregious. It made a change to the software based on a question I asked. It in...
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Scripting News: Monday, June 8, 2026

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Monday, June 8, 2026 Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that. # I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site . We even have the blogroll ported. # Sometimes you write a post and when you're editing it you realize you no longer support what you wrote. This is one of those times. # Linkblog items for the day ...
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Scripting News: Sunday, June 7, 2026

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Sunday, June 7, 2026 All the news reports about AI tools repeat the same hallucination story they've been running for years. That's another huge bug in the news process. They only report on a small number of angles that might have been news a few years ago, and have no insights on what else is going on. They did this with the web too. They always pick an item that their narcissistic view of the world finds tasty. It's a huge bug in the system, and why "news" isn't valuable for news, it's mainly useful for a relaxing reassurance that nothing has changed, the world is fucked up in exactly the same way it was fucked last week, month, year, etc. It's a form of bedtime story. # WordPress and web text in the future # I wrote a blog post on Twitter this morning, sort of a version 0.4 of the talk I want to do at WCUS in August in Phoenix. # I want to offer cross-posting to twitter in an upcoming product, but...
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Scripting News: Saturday, June 6, 2026

Saturday, June 6, 2026 Walt Frazier : "The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame." # The Knicks won again last night. They're now up 2-0, both games on the road. This has blown my sense of reality. This Knicks team bears no resemblance to what I think of as the Knicks. Hard to concentrate. Will Trump try to put his name of Madison Square Garden. # Linkblog items for the day Paramount’s Weiss Woes. status.news When public charging stations aren't so public, and why it matters. electrek.co Knicks now overwhelming title favorites after shocking start to NBA Finals. nypost.com The European Social Stack. They should add a bunch of other formats and protocols to their list. The idea of bridging all those silos is a dead-end because they don't agree what text is. We have to go back to the roots, the web itself, to build an open s...
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Scripting News: Friday, June 5, 2026

Friday, June 5, 2026 Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they're working on it. # It's really cool we get another NBA Finals game tonight. I'm rehearsing what it feels like to be a fan of the Eastern Conference Champion NY Knicks. It still hasn't even slightly sunk in yet. # Elon Musk's X # I'm using EMX more than Bluesky, consciously -- realizing it was a mistake to move my social web act over there. There's no discourse to keep me there so I'm giving it less of my bandwidth. # I tried an experiment today, Paul Graham, a big tech influencer on EMX said all the Tesla haters were seemed to be gone, so I chimed in that I am one, and have just returned. I wanted to see what would happen. Yeah I got trolled. Won't be doing that again. # hate == l...
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Scripting News: Thursday, June 4, 2026

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Thursday, June 4, 2026 Having fun rolling stuff out on Elon Musk's X. # The Knicks in the Finals # I didn't write about the Knicks prior to last night's game because I had no idea what to write. # The Knicks in the Finals is something I had a hard time understanding, even thinking about. To me the Knicks are soulful losers. They're like once-future hall-of-famer Carmelo Anthony surrounded by people who shouldn't even be in the NBA, but otherwise are lovely individuals. When they asked Melo what his goal was he said it was to win a championship, but the reporters never followed up with the obvious question -- "Really?" They did make the playoffs, three times, in the Age of Melo, and they made it to the second round one of those three seasons, but that was it as far as Melo's championship aspirations went. He should've been on one of LeBron's teams, like JR Smith and Iman Shumpert , both Knic...
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