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Scripting News: Monday, April 27, 2026

Monday, April 27, 2026 Busy day working on new RSS-based project. Still diggin! # What makes the web? # I’ve been trying to come up with a simple test that lets you know whether some software is on the web or if it just can be made to appear in a web browser. So here we go. # If you can hook up a piece of the app to the a piece of another app then it’s on the web. # This comes from the basic feature of linking, which is the unique feature of the web. # Every other feature that makes the web the web in my experience allows two things to be part of each other. # Comment here . # Linkblog items for the day Billionaires Are Dominating California Politics. nytimes.com Jamie Ding’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Streak Comes to an End. nytimes.com I’ve been trying to come up with a simple test that lets you know whether some software is on the web or if it just can be made to appear in the we...
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Scripting News: Sunday, April 26, 2026

Sunday, April 26, 2026 I just said this to Claude: "I want to show people that RSS isn't just for news and podcasting. It can be for mindless social media rants too." ;-) # Bluesky is having trouble keeping their network running. As a developer I empathize. As a user, it's beginning to be a problem. I am using it the way I used to use Twitter, taking notes for future blog posts, sharing a few linkblog feeds, DMing with people I work with, and want/need to keep going. I know about its lock-in problems, but at this time there's no open alternative that has the same collection of users who are easy enough to find. So if it stays unreliable I have to think about what to do about that. Every time I get a 403 Forbidden , I stop and think if this is the time to write a post? This was the time. # Imagine you were putting up a skyscraper in Manhattan. I lived in an area of the city, called Billionaire's Row, for nine years where ...
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Scripting News: Saturday, April 25, 2026

Saturday, April 25, 2026 Knicks won in a blowout . As disturbing as Thursday's game was, today we are feeling no pain. Go Knicks! ;-) # I wrote about Jeopardy, Firefox, Matt, Silicon Valley and the writer's web in a long comment on Doc's blog. Here's a quote. "What we really need is interop. If the source is free that’s great. But right now we have silos everywhere and I want WordPress, perhaps along with Firefox to help us boot up the writer's web." # Linkblog items for the day Trump may be temporary. The damage he is doing isn’t. theglobeandmail.com Kia cuts EV6 prices by $5,000 on 2026 models. electrek.co Paolo says AI should replace patients not doctors, and he's absolutely right. Totally worth reading. val.demar.in 2025: The writer's web. scripting.com What to do if you’ve been bitten by a tick. wapo.st "I added all the ...
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Scripting News: Friday, April 24, 2026

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Friday, April 24, 2026 I want writing to be as open as podcasting . The pattern is ridiculously easy to apply. If this were on a a high school math test, it would be too easy, everyone would get it right. How do you make text work like podcasting? 1. You look for a brain-dead obvious choice for text. 2. And then attach it to a format that's really good for transmitting packets of text. And then write software that works really well with the obvious choices. The user retains ownership and control of their writing, pays for the storage, and can give access to the apps they want to use. They can also, for a fee, point a domain name to one of the nodes in their storage. This would radically change the economics for independent developers. Now we don't have to resell storage. Products can be developed on our kitchen tables. There is an explosion of interest in developing software. Think it through -- how are they supposed to deploy their apps on the web? We need...
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Scripting News: Thursday, April 23, 2026

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Thursday, April 23, 2026 I've written about Firefox many times over the last 20 years or so. # Why Firefox? There's a moment now when the web could benefit from leadership. There's a chance to rebuild text in the web around the use of AI systems. But almost every company that could be a leader in this space isn't thinking about what they can do for the web, instead are focused on their corner of it. For a company like Firefox whose product everyone understands is at the center of what the web is, they keep avoiding this obvious role. The assumption I guess is they need revenue and there's no money to be made from selling browser software. But there is a lot of money to be made, imho, recurring revenue, offering services to users that can foster growth of the web, for which Firefox can lead in developing great features in an open way so other browser companies can share from their innovation. That's the Firefox I got to know in the w...
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Scripting News: Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 I like reading Joost's blog . I'm subscribed and it's in my blogroll . # Yesterday I threw a question out there. "If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work?" I left out specifics, because any specifics I provide might cut off interesting answers. There are three elements in the question: web, platform and writers. The answer must say something about all three. Another way of saying the same thing -- "You're using the web to make the platform to serve the writers." # Had lunch today with Neal Smoller , our local pharmacy owner. Brilliant young guy who's totally energized by Claude Code. # New maestros in software # I wonder how many people are working on clones of existing software with an eye toward making a much more evolvable and customizable version with AI at the core of the model. # You can make the same software easily, with C...
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Scripting News: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026 If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work? # BTW the "open" web has a chance to come back around the AI rewrite of all our software that's underway now. If we build the new systems entirely around web connections, with each part replaceable, we can have as much "open" as we want. Products like Bluesky will look like they bet on the wrong horse if we all have choice everywhere. It's not as strange as you think. Opportunities come along every time things change as radically as they are changing now. # ChatGPT images update # I gave the new ChatGPT image maker a whirl, it's supposed to be more thoughtful and realistic. # The prompt: “A turkey in plastic with supermarket label with text and fine print. The branding is Really Simple brand Turkey. The motto, ‘turkey for simple people.‘“ # A really simple brand turkey fr...
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Scripting News: Monday, April 20, 2026

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Monday, April 20, 2026 I applied to speak at WebCamp Europe but didn't make the cut. I did see that Jonathan Desrosiers is giving a talk about the web , and his pitch is right on. Please go listen to him if you're in Kraków in June. I have been developing software around the ideas of building the web, software that runs on top of WordPress, which imho should be playing a much bigger role in the web. I have a track record here of actually founding new tech ecosystems, but as time goes by people forget how this stuff is made, I think. I'll probably try again with WordCamp US and of course Canada again, I had such a good time there last year. # I asked ChatGPT if the term glass palace had been used to talk about pre-PC computer data centers. Yes . # How do you subscribe to a feed in Feedly? Had to ask Google. Click on Follow Sources in the sidebar. It never occurred to me that Subscribe would become Follow. The screen that comes up ...
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Scripting News: Sunday, April 19, 2026

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Sunday, April 19, 2026 A format like RSS needs to be loved. # I'm doing a programming project with Claude and it's great, like a puzzle, finding out what works for me and building something I normally wouldn't have time to maintain, but -- Claude has nothing but time for stuff like that. I'm building it to pass off, a common code structure that we both understand and I know how to evolve because I design my code for evolution. And it's going well. But then I realized it's the same Claude I ask general questions of so I tried this. "I would love to pass off wpIdentity to an open source development organization. The ideal would be the WordPress's community. Is there any precedent for this, one community acquiring a new product?" You can try typing that prompt in yourself and see what you get. One thing I learned is that the Apache Foundation was set up for this. And Claude is pretty firm that WordPress is not set up for...
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Scripting News: Saturday, April 18, 2026

Saturday, April 18, 2026 The people who call themselves Mets fans who are sad when the Mets don't make the playoffs are really Yankees fans. # Last week I released a new toolkit that includes docs for your AI programming partner . Ask it to read the docs, and then tell it about the editor you want. It works with WordPress sites via the wpcom API via the wpIdentity server. A new frontier. ;-) # Linkblog items for the day What is the protocol for hooking RSS planets together? rubenerd.au Jon Ossoff Calls Out ‘Mar-a-Lago Mafia.’ politicalwire.com Obama and Mamdani meet for the first time. pbs.org Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump. theatlantic.com Headless everything for personal AI. interconnected.org Last week I released a new toolkit that includes docs for your AI programming partner. Ask it to read the docs, and then tell it about the editor you want. It works wi...
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