Scripting News: Monday, October 23, 2023
Monday, October 23, 2023 The nice thing about ChatGPT is that when you want to know something like how to hard-reload any popular browser for advice to a user, or know what Writing-First workflow is -- you get a complete answer without any of the junk writing you get from a commercial journalism site. And it seems not to forget (or bury) the one piece of information you came there for. # I wish, instead of dropping all the way down to JavaScript after working in Frontier for two decades, I could have done the next version of Frontier , backward-compatible of course, factoring in what we learned from developing network writing tools, blogs, feed readers and podcasting in Frontier in the 90s and 00s. Then things like the relatively huge corner-turn I'm doing with reading lists would be less of a mind fuck. I'll get there, but I don't like the stack I'm working in, the browser and its ridiculousness, then JavaScript and its idea of program synchrozatio...