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 enoug...