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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 A glitch in the matrix. The app that keeps daveverse.org in sync with scripting.com has been offline since Friday, so I'm republishing all the posts since then. They will all appear to have been posted today on daveverse. As they say -- still diggin! # I updated sally.scripting.com to support https, and updated it with posts from scripting.com in 2023-2026. I was using it as an example of prior art of user interface for Claude. I figured restoring this app on my own would be penance for believing that Claude was anywhere near as smart as I am. Not even close. Not today at least. Grrr. # I've come to the conclusion, perhaps temporarily, that Claude can't work on a programming project with an experienced developer. It doesn't check its work, it'll think it's found the problem, makes a change, or worse causes you to do a lot of work so it can make a change. It doesn't use the information it gives ...

Monday, April 13, 2026 Written in Gutenberg : With great respect for Claude. # We reached a milestone this morning, we completed the project to add a Gutenberg version of the wpEditorDemo app. Claude did the programming on the new version. It required changes to the server app, which I made. It took 2.5 days to do the work, which was more than I thought it would. A lot of was learned. Now I'm figuring out what my next project will be. # Screenshot of the Gutenberg demo app. # Heard a report on NPR re why the Dems might win the mid-terms in November. They mentioned gas prices but not concentration camps for immigrants. They mentioned inflation but not the military occupation of Minneapolis and DC. They also forgot to mention that he keeps threatening to nuke Iran. # Linkblog items for the day Rock Hall of Fame 2026 Inductees: Oasis, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, More. variety.com Why opinion on AI is s...

Sunday, April 12, 2026 BTW one thing you haven't heard, because the press is so self-centered, is that as you get deeper into the AI environment, you get smarter. Not just better informed, that's what the web has been doing for us for 30+ years. The AI stretches your mind the way PCs did initially. It makes you smarter. Can it help us work better together? Remains to be seen. Perhaps each of us is forming our own multi-billion dollar company, and training the (virtual) people we want working with/for us. There are very few human people who seem interested in collaborating. They all want to blaze their own trail, and if you want to improve their product you have to reproduce the whole freaking thing. The web had a different philosophy, adopted from Unix, not the tech industry. We want to work with others. And we do. And it seems there's an opportunity to cast the entire AI push in the same light, so that the individual developer has the power to make indu...

Saturday, April 11, 2026 I'm working with Claude today to finish Gutenberg Land. Figuring it out as we go along. It can run the app itself because it's browser-based. I look forward to a project that runs on a server so it can run it locally and we can really make things hum. This, if I guess correctly, is how Jake is working with Headless Frontier. He just got the debugger working. Why? I asked, given that we have bigger more immediate priorities, like getting Manila running on Digital Ocean (what a trip that will be) -- he explained that's because he wants the AI bot to use the freaking debugger. # Copyright 1994-2026 Dave Winer. This email was sent on: 4/12/2026, 12:00:01 AM Eastern. "It's not like anyone gets out of this alive." This blog has been running for: 31 years, 6 months, 4 days, 9 hours, 0 minutes, 1 second. How to subscribe . Read on the web . Click here to unsubscribe.

Friday, April 10, 2026 Deshittifying the web, day 2 # The perfect app for an AI to do for you is a demo app. Yesterday I wrote about making WordPress boom with new apps for writers that run in the web ecosystem, not as plug-ins, in JS running in the browser, or on the desktop, any desktop, that would work too. Probably would be fine to put an MCP shell around it so it can be in AI-internal scripts. # I'm into writing tools. Proud of it. I'm a writer and a developer. Did I become a developer to create tools for writers or the other way around? At this point the answer to both questions is yes. # I'm basically offering to host a potluck party where people bring an app that works alongside WordLand but works differently from WordLand. Mine is a simple wizzy editor with a Markdown flip-switch. But everyone likes a different kind of editor. There is no single best editor for the web and since WordPress is of the web that applies...

Thursday, April 9, 2026 Let's make WordPress boom # New ways to write with WordPress as the back-end. # Build an API that combines what wpcom does and storage . # Recruit devs to create products for this environment. # Gutenberg will be one of these editors. # I will provide WordLand which is a wizzy html editor that has a flip-switch Markdown mode. # MarsEdit can join the club if possible. # Leaflet would be great too. # Any app that requires text editing is a good idea. # Here's the really cool thing -- we can all edit each others' docs. # Put another way, the docs belong to the users, and they let access them. # The storage is so we can build smarter better editors, more fun, color, interactions, cool toys for writers. # And yes, btw -- they are on the web, and there's an RSS 2.0 feed with rssCloud support. # And for that we can create all kinds of...

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...