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Thursday, April 16, 2026 WordPress has remained mostly constant for its whole life, at least from the point of view of this outsider. But now the world its embedded in is turning upside down and WordPress must change, but no one really knows how that change will manifest. # The opmlProjectEditor explainer needed a light edit. It should make a lot more sense now if you're a newcomer. Perhaps the most important thing is that it now includes an example that you can open in Drummer to see how it works in an outline editor. OPML has become a really important format for apps that use RSS, but it's far more broadly adaptable. It's a good package for a whole app, and you can teach your tools to use the common structure to make it easier to share it with others, to keep a repo current, and to deploy the resulting code. # WordPress is a monoculture # I've been designing and developing software like WordPress for over thirt...

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 Today the work with Claude is much better, though when we got started it was even worse than yesterday. The key to getting on track was to figure out why it worked so well in previous projects and fell apart with this one. In each of the others, I passed off an existing project for it to convert or build on. This time we started with something it had created without a "starter." So I took all the random bits we had and organized into the opmlProjectEditor format we had specified back in early March. It's how all my projects since 2013 are organized, so it's a good fit for me, and also for Claude. So now I'm going to pass back a package that's ready to be worked on collaboratively. The other thing is I switched to the Opus 4.6 model from Sonnet 4.6. So I've made it to 11AM and feel like I've already accomplished something today. The problem was yesterday we were spinning our wheels, and that doesn't wor...

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...