Scripting News: Thursday, January 25, 2024

Thursday, January 25, 2024
ChatGPT is the best librarian I've ever had. #
Johannes Ernst, host of FediForum, proposes a session that looks at how a product like Ghost might support ActivityPub. A nicely pragmatic way to look at it. I wrote a thread in response saying what's called for is a Busy Developer's Guide To ActivityPub, with a matching open source client and server to test against. #
BTW, I co-wrote a Busy Developer's Guide to SOAP in 2001, because it was so desperately needed. SOAP was a tangle of specs, which must have made sense to someone, not sure who, but was incomprehensible to app developers, the same ways ActivityPub is today. I have no idea if the BDG helped, but it was the only way I felt I could be supportive of the protocol, without saying it was a complete failure. I was unusual in that among the developers of the protocol, I was the only one who didn't work at a big company, so if I wanted to do something badly enough, I could just do it. The basic message was: "If you want to implement SOAP in your app, this is one way to do it. And if you do, your software will interop with mine."#
Since when does JSON.parse and JSON.stringify not preserve the order of object properties?#
Haley should stay in and make Trump crazier and crazier till El Orange blows his top. #

Linkblog items for the day.

ProPublica Hires First Senior Director for Technology. propublica.org
John Ellis: "Trump's graceless and weirdly angry 'victory speech' in New Hampshire was incredibly stupid, politically speaking." politicalwire.com
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This. zachholman.com
Melanie, 'Brand New Key' Singer Who Played Woodstock, Dies at 76. nytimes.com
Melanie, who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and was sampled by the Hilltop Hoods, has died. net.au
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