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China and APEC 2026: Forging a more connected and prosperous Asia-Pacific

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China News 15-Nov-2026   China and APEC 2026: Forging a more connected and prosperous Asia-Pacific As China prepares to host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen, Asia-Pacific economies are looking to turn shared opportunities into tangible gains through deeper economic integration, stronger infrastructure and digital connectivity, and greater openness. These stories explore China's role in advancing Asia-Pacific cooperation, the opportunities emerging from regional industrial partnerships, Shenzhen's rise as a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship and the ideas shaping a shared vision for the region's future. ...
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Scripting News: Saturday, November 14, 2026

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Saturday, November 14, 2026 My first impulse to create a new web based on Markdown was to get around the tech industry which now unambiguously claimed to be the owner of what we've come to think of as the web. But it turns out the impulse was totally correct, even if they hadn't done what they did, it was still a good idea, and long overdue. Thank Claude for this too, because without Claude it would have remained an idea. It gave me the power to do it, in an incredibly short period of time. # And btw, the tech industry should help me. Mike Arrington said one day they would erect a statue of me in Palo Alto or San Jose. I told him it'll never happen because I knew how tight the Silicon Valley club was. I was on the edge of it for many years, and for brief periods I was inside. He saw me at the peak. But their model and mine were radically different. I saw software as an individual thing, that it's like making a movie, and you need various sk...
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Scripting News: Friday, November 13, 2026

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Friday, November 13, 2026 Writing is so important it deserves its own web. # There's a recursive effect of the election on the voters. We didn't know there would be so many of us. Ask us again what we want done with this power now that we understand how much more united we are than we thought. # This is where the new Substack mail list lives. It'll be faster and more immediate than the nightly email. No guarantee it'll work forever. Expect a mix of new features, interop with other products, stylesheets and plugins, great new applications of the tech, and lots of writing, because friends, that's what it's about. Writing is so important it deserves its own web. # This is what a blog post looks like in Markdown, and the HTML version which Google objects to. Every post has one of these. 16K+ posts since May 2017. That's all, just wanted to show you the A-B. You can also see what we're being influenced by in...
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Scripting News: Thursday, November 12, 2026

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Thursday, November 12, 2026 We're doing a demo site for BonBon, as part of the docs, and as I was planning it out I remembered we did one for a "newly hired senior evangelist" at a ficitious Silicon Valley startup. This is what I love about AI tools. I couldn't remember her name or the name of the company but i remembered it was funny. So I explained the problem to Claude, and it gave me what I want. The new hire is Kim Parker, and she was hired by Bloatware. This is where having kept good records on the web comes in handy. A search engine wouldn't be much help because I didn't remember her name or the name of the company. And I wrote too much about Fargo for that to be a good search term. Instead my prompt was: "i wrote an app called fargo a few years ago and it had a demo site that was from a new hire at the company called Bloatware. can you find it for me on the web?" Got me what I wanted, and cited all the relevant links. It s...
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Scripting News: Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 Braintrust query : If you're a writer, but not a techie, do you like Markdown? If so, what do you use to write your MD text? Is any of it public? If so how do you get it on the web? Where do you store it? How much does it cost, if anything? Also on Bluesky and Twitter . # Listen to Bernie # Whoever leads the Democratic majority in the Senate must have the support of Bernie Sanders. # At the beginning of Sanders' running for president, I didn't like him. I thought HRC was a much better choice. # Maybe the electorate wasn't ready for him. I sure wasn't. But now, last week's election was his validation. # This is our second chance to get past the toxic combination of the Repub leadership and the Dem leadership. If we're going to have a war it has to come from our strength. Ideally there will be no war because the American people, believe it or not, are willing to give Be...
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Scripting News: Tuesday, November 10, 2026

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Tuesday, November 10, 2026 I am working on a new bit of functionality in BonBonWeb. If all goes well we'll have something to show for it later today or tomorrow. (Update: Things you think are quick, never are. We have the basic stuff working but still have work to do on the demo.) # Next frontier in AI? Communicate with eyes. So Claude would know I haven't finished asking questions or providing instructions. If I can turn on my camera and have that be part of the conversation, and if the software was well tuned, it could be great. # Google's web is falling apart in front of us. It's objecting to sites that support HTTPS as if they were those oldfashioned HTTP pages. I'm sorry I wrote them so long ago, but some of them are funny, like the one I wrote on my birthday in 2005, a story about the TV show The West Wing. By 2005 we were ready to live in that world instead of the one we lived in. We've been back there dreaming of th...
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Scripting News: Monday, November 9, 2026

Monday, November 9, 2026 The Markdown version of my blog is getting more traffic than the HTML version. So much so that I'm getting complaints about all the political stuff. I love this, and I even love that some people are saying what they used to say, they didn't come to my blog for the politics. That probably will influence me a little, but it still is my main way I talk to the world, so I'm not likely to back off too often. # To Phil Windley : "We both remember what the web was like before it became a CSS and JavaScript platform." But most young users and developers have no memory of how powerful it was to make interop so damned easy. # John Palfrey , a friend and former colleague from Berkman wrote a fantastic post about people at the lawfirms who caved to Trump. # Same thing has been happening in tech for decades. Technology gets captured by a bigco, they kill all the inspiration, in order to lock it down it...
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