Scripting News: Friday, January 10, 2025
The personal profile pages for Bingeworthy are working again. Here's my profile page. This is how you share recommendations. More info here.#
Good questions from Phil Jones re Wednesday's podcast. I'm glad to get to answer these questions. There's more to wpIdentity than is obvious at first glance, for example it has a relatively complete storage system built in for developers to use. I used one of its features yesterday in the connection between Bingeworthy and the profile display app. #
BTW, I'm going through all the episodes of Deadwood, and find it's influencing how I write. A good bingewatch is like that. You become one of the characters, or in a way, all of them. Sometimes I'm Swearingen and other times I'm Wu. Etc.#
We need an AI chatbot that can work with GitHub repos. That is, in my prompt I say, the following questions are about this GitHub repo. At that point it is ready to answer any question about the project. This an incredibly important intersection of capabilities. As far as I can tell, GitHub doesn't offer it. #
Anticipating that people will suggest I use their editor, I don't want to use their freaking editor. This keeps coming up everywhere. You can't use this or that unless you use their editor. Insidious form of lock-in. And it also limits their market to people who use their editor. Shortsighted and stupid. #
We need to start thinking about choice. If it applies to developers, it's more likely they will follow through in the designs of their own projects and give their users choice as a matter of principle. #
I'd also like to use a chatbot that incorporates the philosophy of the open web. They have opinions btw. One of the first things Claude.ai does when I give it some JavaScript code is that they "modernize" it. That is also insidious. I choose which constructs I use carefully, and follow the rule that one way to do something is better than two, no matter how much better the second way is. #
The bots can be bullies because the companies that make them are tech companies and thus shortcuts to make money, and thus handicap their users. Maybe the users are starting to figure this out. One can hope. #
Linkblog items for the day.
Heart of Zuckness. todayintabs.com
A dozen eye-opening reads to kick off the new year. npr.org
Kia has found its answer to low-cost Chinese EV makers. electrek.co
Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump. axios.com
John Johnston on WordPress, WordLand and writing tools. johnjohnston.info
Bingeworthy is back. This is my profile page, it lists the shows I've rated, best-first. If you're looking for something good to binge instead of the inauguration, these are my recommendations. 😀 bingeworthy.org
Anticipating that people will suggest I use their editor, I don't want to use their freaking editor. This keeps coming up everywhere. You can't use this or that unless you use their editor. Insidious form of lock-in. scripting.com
Trump To Be Sentenced In New York Hush Money Case. talkingpointsmemo.com
Scroll to the end of this review of the updated Tesla Model Y for the reason no matter how good it is as a car, until they get a real CEO, forget about it. electrek.co
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