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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 We are all Good Germans now # I don't know about you but I thought there was a pretty good chance Trump would detonate a nuke somewhere yesterday, and the fact that we did not get him out of there in time to prevent it, says we went along with it. You can decide what that means. # I've had several friends over the years who are German. My age or a little older. People who grew up with the shame of being German in the postwar years. Friends. People who weren't born when the atrocities happened. We were friends and when I could I tried to assure them that I know they weren't there when it happened. It didn't matter, as far as they were concerned it didn't absolve them of the shame. It had become their birthright. # American friends, what we allowed to happen yesterday, even though we were adequately warned, says we went along with it. If we wanted to stop it now, I believe we could, and we sti...

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 Hacker News isn't a software masterpiece . All the pieces have to be there to make something as real as HN happen. # This would make quite a movie # The president of the United States is spinning around acting like a NYC real estate jumbo who accidentally was elected president and after only five years in office has realized a whole new level of trolling. It started with cable news, then went to Twitter, then masked American gestapo killing protestors on TV for everyone to see, and then starting a war with Iran of all countries. # I'm sure his generals suggested that at the same time as they were bombing Iran proper, that they should send in a few boatloads of Marines to occupy the Strait of Hormuz. When the Iranians weren't so desperate, it might have been relatively easy to take it over. I'm sure we've spent billions over the years on what to do if we had to attack Iran, not like now when...

Monday, April 6, 2026 Vibe coding is still an unknown # I recommend this post on vibe coding. # There's a lot more to development than coding. # I've tried vibe coding myself, and while it's sometimes relaxing and fun, it's pretty hard to get the output to match what you had in mind. # I think people find it amazing that they can create code, not just that the machine can create it. I know what that's like because I get a rush from creating images, something I never had a skill for, so all of a sudden being able to express myself with drawings was a breakthrough for me. ;-) # I've spent a few decades making commercial quality software in a variety of contexts, and so far I wouldn't rush to get rid of my dev teams based on the idea that the bots can do their work. # I think more realistically we have powerful new tools that we as yet have not learned how to use, but it's pretty exciting to see...

Sunday, April 5, 2026 The discourse about WordPress # I love all the new discourse about WordPress. # It was so quiet until this week, now I'm getting a much better view of the landscape. # I started developing seriously around WordPress almost three years ago. I've been developing this kind of software since the late 80s if you can believe that. # What's missing on the web -- software for writers. # I believe more all the time that WordPress is the natural way to store and present writing on the web and hook up to all the social webs, to actually redefine what a social web is. There should just be one social web, btw -- not 18. If there are 18 and they don't interop with each other then none of the deserve to call themselves the web. There is only one web, by definition. # The WordPress community has been very introspective, but it's time to make a difference for the whole web, and of course imho it is prepared to...

Saturday, April 4, 2026 Sometimes I put test posts on my blog. This is one of those times. Still diggin, amazingly -- in 2026. What makes this post different is that 1. It's a singular item, ie there is no title, and just one paragraph. It's a collection of sentences not paragraphs. 2. It has a right margin image. I have to test this specific case. It has to go on a certain length so that the image that appears in the right margin doesn't leak over to the next item, and the image should be small so it doesn't require so much text to keep it out of the next post. And now I believe I have entered enough text. # When Trump appeared on Twitter # Excellent podcast discussion with John Stewart and Heather Cox Richardson . I desperately wanted to get in the conversation. I think they missed something important and came soooo close. Trump isn't only a TV star, he's a blogger. Comes naturally to him. Why wasn't Obama transformative...

Friday, April 3, 2026 WordPress could have an active developer community creating writing tools for WordPress users. I also want WordPress to form the foundation of a new social network, one that supports all the writing features of the web. With really nice user interfaces for people to choose from. That's a new ecosystem. It may form around ChatGPT and Claude etc. Or it could start with WordPress. I think I can get this bootstrapped, but I need people to work with. That's the summary of what I'm about at this point in 2026. # Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn't have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of "singular" posts, ie posts without titles. This is what I see on the Posts page. # Does EmDash have a feed reader built in?? # Suggestion for feed reader devs. Put a Check Now button on the page for a s...

Thursday, April 2, 2026 Please follow me at my new Twitter address: bullmancuso . Whatever anyone thinks of the company the product is still unique, there are people and communities there that I need to communicate with, and I just don't have that kind of network anywhere else. # My first real post in the New Dave On Twitter, or N-DOT. # Yesterday I wrote about AI introducing doubt with something as fundamental as how software is created now with the advent of AI software that can be used effectively to write software. Behind that I wondered if the open source developers of WordPress had changed their methodology? Is their codebase managed by ChatGPT now or Claude.ai? Not only did I get the answer to that question overnight (yes, they have made the change), but there was an announcement of a new WordPress competitor, something that hasn't come along in decades, actually. It's called EmDash from CloudFlare . I read their announcement, and then asked...

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 BTW, suggestion to web-based companies that send out notices via email. It's good to do that, but make sure somewhere there's a link to exactly the same material on the web. It can only build traffic for your ideas, earned media . # Archived Scripting News OPML source for March 2026. # The fog of tech # Got an email from Automattic about MCP support in WordPress, which is now available on their servers. With this new interface you can write prompts in Claude etc that do things in your WordPress workspace. Kind of like a scripting language, but English, like this -- "In WordPress, please set the category for the current post to Project 32." # I guess it's very much like the wpcom api we're using for WordLand . It's going to be harder to get people to look at wpcom with this kind of functionality out there. It was always going to be hard, but I liked the challenge of telling a story about a ...