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Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Scott Hanson is working on a WordPress plugin that displays a FeedLand river — a constantly-updated stream of news items from feeds a FeedLand user subscribes to — on a WordPress page or post. It's important that news flows be part of managing a site. Help Scott make it perfect, WordPress is a very important part of the web. The news tab on my blog home page is an example. # Ideas for Bluesky and WordPress re Markdown and AI systems. # Claude Code massively stinks at explaining things in a way that a human can understand. # Copyright 1994-2026 Dave Winer. This email was sent on: 9/9/2026, 12:00:03 AM Eastern. "We now return to our regularly scheduled program." This blog has been running for: 31 years, 11 months, 1 day, 9 hours, 0 minutes, 3 seconds. How to subscribe . Read on the web . Click here to unsubscribe.

Monday, September 7, 2026 People love Markdown because it's impossible to hide the crud. And because people love it so much it's become a favorite of tech startups esp in the AI field. This is a great turn of events. We're getting back to the web, and the sooner everyone gets on board, the better. I've written about this for a few years. Everything in Markdown, it's just enough HTML. And with that, Microsoft has created a white flag , here's all your data dear users, in Markdown, to use as you please. Instead of waiting for Claude et al to start reading Word files. # On the other hand, why doesn't Microsoft, which owns GitHub, make a Slack-alike tool that manages the issues sections on repos. Slack is a big part of the default communication system, but GitHub is another very big part. And the great thing is that both these products, owned by huge tech companies, have an ethos of open APIs. Every part replaceable. Small pieces loo...

Sunday, September 6, 2026 Today's song: So into you . # We got past the bump, and I'm getting stuff done. I write this stuff because I will probably forget most of the frustration. Frontier is a hard piece of software to get going, it's got a lot of integrations, which you want when you're using, but hard when you're getting it all to work the first time. And this port is very much like getting it work that way. But Claude does some things poorly and others spectacularly. It can play the role of a CPU and run the code and tell you where it will fail. Helpful when you don;t have a working debugger to step through the code and see exactly how and why it failed where it did. Before debuggers it was either all or nothing. # Every day with Claude I end up debugging the things it broke overnight. Yesterday I actually got a useful script written and debugged, along the way reporting glitches but no deal-stoppers. This morning, after u...

Saturday, September 5, 2026 The governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless he can prove he’s actually alive. # I had watched almost three seasons of Silo , had no feeling for the characters, or the story, which was going nowhere that I could discern. I shouldn't have watched it through all that time, but for some reason I did. Then in episode 9, two Fridays ago, the story took a remarkable turn. It's so good it actually makes this dark and confusing show worth watching. If you haven't been watching, imho you can start in season 3, and maybe read some recaps. You want enough of the boredom so you can revel in the brilliance of this season's end. And there is another season coming, the last one, and this time it's interesting. # The social web vs the software web # I launched ChatGPT for the first time in a long time because I now have access to the new version. One new thing I see is th...

Friday, September 4, 2026 My first job after college was on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building . I wrote software for our customers, in BASIC, on a teletype in our office, talking to our mainframe in New Jersey. It seemed magical at the time. When I hit a bug, a mystery -- you'd try this and that, and not get anywhere on something that seemed so simple, you could stare at the problem for an hour, trying desperate things, getting no closer to the fix. One night, I was the only person in the office, I thought they should not put programmers in the Empire State Building with windows that open. I'm having the same feeling with Claude. I know when this project is done, I will have Frontier, and I know what that's like. If I didn't so totally look forward to that I would never try to finish the project, I hate this mode of working with the bot. Ugh. # It's around this time of year that Santa makes his first appearance on my blog. Wa...

Thursday, September 3, 2026 Why I love programming # 1. I love puzzles. # 2. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions. # 3. I love solving problems (I have an inner- Columbo ). # 4. People are the biggest piece of the puzzle (again Columbo). # 5. It teaches me about myself and my limited vision and imagination (if I had unlimited vision and imagination, I would never program a bug, and if I did it would take me 0 seconds to find it). # 6. I yearn to work together with great minds. Programming gives me that, when I use someone's API. And when the API anticipates my needs, and is instantly understandable, I feel the soul of another artist is present. I imagine this is how musicians feel when they play another musician's song or symphony. # I'm sure there's more to it. But today I'm working on a "lite" problem, and I'll figure it out, but right now I'm enjoying the fact that I don't get ...

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 We got agents running in Atlantis today. Screen shot . # A bunch of tech billionaires have chipped in a million each to fund a new Linux distribution . I can't imagine how this is supposed to work, all those huge human egos, how much will they pay their developers to contribute what. I have to find out what the goal of the project is. It would be nice to have a Linux that was extensively tested for use by regular people. # After saying I was putting my tech work aside, yesterday , I had a bolt of determination, and realized I don't like collaborating with Claude Code, but maybe it's just when we get to this stage of a project where it's all details, and they're hard to communicate, and the bot has a bad habit of ignoring things I tell it to do. It also returns code to me to test that no human developer would pass on to a user. It would be too embarrassing. But the bot isn't aware in the same wa...

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 The blogging tools for Bluesky should be able to publish on Bluesky. # Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. Assume they consent. In the same way, the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can prove he’s actually alive. The Democrats always put up with Republican tricks like this one. I'm sure McConnell would appreciate the utility of his death, and the Republican lack of shame. Anything for a buck. # Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory. # If you View Source on a fatpage , scroll to the bottom, you'll see the code. Example . The idea is t...

Monday, August 31, 2026 Fatpages . I'm working on a code release that's on the path to Frontier. It reads and writes fatpage files, a format we invented for releasing new and updated parts for Frontier in 1997. So this is very old but perfectly useful technology that's being built in a new release of Frontier, the first in 1.5 decades, depending on how you count years and forks. # Claude Code is like Victor Wembanyama , assuming you follow the NBA and are interested in my first-hand experience with CC as a programming partner for the last 8 months or so. # I've been watching The Pitt , but it can be a bit much, so I went looking for something a bit lighter, and found 9 to 5 on Amazon Prime. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton are the stars, and Dolly's famous song with the same name is the theme. It's a perfect slice of the world I grew up in. I get it confused with Working Girl which came out eight years later, wi...