Scripting News: Saturday, October 5, 2024
A few years before WordPress came out, I did a product called Radio UserLand which was a combination blogging tool and feed reader. Two main screens, a streamlined UI. You could get in quickly, write and publish a post in a minute, and see it show up in the reader a moment later. It worked, and it added a major new component to the blogging world, and I think still represents the simplest most focused UI for writing. It was a really popular product. #
The same idea, really simple blog post writing and editing, with all the features that should be available to web writers, optional titles, links, simple styling, enclosures, the ability to edit. The things the common social web apps generally don't have. #
This imho is a huge opportunity. I wish this is where the focus in the WordPress community was, but I think right now the world is building around WordPress, not on it. It could be great, it could totally solve the problem of a new document standard in the social web that makes it really like the web. Instead they're fighting over who owns what part of the WordPress trademark, at least as far as I can tell. #
Last year I created a Node.js package called wpidentity that acts as a bridge between a browser-based JavaScript app and the WordPress back-end, and the result is fine. It suggests that there could be a developer community writing apps that all join up in the middle in WordPress's database. Pretty powerful idea! #
And I think the users, the writers, would love it, because we developers could compete to delight them, and not have to worry about building a huge server capability as Automattic already has debugged and scaled. And maybe the battle that's going on now could fade into the background.#
Linkblog items for the day.
New York Mets rally in Game 1, top Philadelphia Phillies. espn.com
Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams. gizmodo.com
FeedLand: Getting started with FeedLand. feedland.com
Scripting News: WordPress has a greater destiny. scripting.com
Four Takeaways From Jack Smith's Brief in the Trump Election Case - The New York Times nytimes.com
Thanks John for all the kind words. theguardian.com
scripting.com turns thirty in: 2 days, 30 minutes, 28 seconds. scripting.com
Anndrew Shell has added a blogroll to his home page, somewhat inspired by the one on my blog. andrewshell.org
"I'm a Doctor. ChatGPT's Bedside Manner Is Better Than Mine." nytimes.com
2018: How journalism is like the Mets. scripting.com
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