Scripting News: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The feediverse is not a joke. It's deployed, scaled, widely supported, far beyond AT Proto or ActivityPub. It's the HTML of the open social web. And where the others are complicated, feeds are really simple. #Matt Mullenweg said something provocative on Twitter two days ago that I'm just tuning into now. "The lawsuits will go years and could potentially bankrupt me or force the closure of WordPress.org." I commented on it as a developer who views WordPress as a platform. #
Sad to say I'm going to have to mention Trump from time to time. When I hear a reporter wondering what to make of his thing about all those friendly countries he wants to go to war with, here's what it means. He's trolling you. Haven't you figured that out by now. Just by mentioning the weird thing he's talking about as if it were some kind of puzzle, a brilliant chess move, etc blah blah zzzz. It's trolling. Stop falling for it. If it's Trump-initiated nonsense, don't report it. You. Are. Being. Trolled. Asshole. All he wants is attention. Always. No exceptions.#I've wanted to do a rewrite for quite some time, there were a lot of decisions I wanted to redo, and I've learned a lot about databases in the three years since the first release.#
You can try it out. There are docs, and a place for questions and comments. The usual caveats apply, esp since it's newly deployed, quickly.#
Linkblog items for the day.
If you thought those kinds of questions would dominate the hearings, you must be living under the illusion that we live in a serious country. nytimes.com
These things we call the social web are really just feed readers. wordpress.com
2009: Where is Twitter's WordPress? scripting.com
Elon Musk complains Tesla is not getting subsidies for electric truck chargers while calling for end of EV subsidies. electrek.co
And Peter Baker is an asterisk on an asterisk on an asterisk that has already been forgotten. politicalwire.com
Flickr: Not on my wrist! scripting.com
A new version of my blog's search engine is running. Here's an example lookup, for Berkeley, where I lived for a few years. It looks a lot nicer than Google, indexes all my writing, no funny business, and no ads. scripting.com
A pedestrian scramble is a type of traffic signal movement that temporarily stops all vehicular traffic, thereby allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time. wikipedia.org
Are there blogging platforms that don't automatically support RSS? Kind of hard to believe. mastodon.social
Heather Cox Richardson's How the South Won the Civil War has never been more relevant. They had another insurrection, and this time in addition to being welcomed back into the Union, they're now going to run it. amazon.com
John Scalzi on his friendship with the scandalized Neil Gaiman. scalzi.com
The "feediverse" is not a joke. It's deployed, scaled, widely supported -- far beyond AT Proto or ActivityPub. It's the HTML of the open social web. And where the others are complicated, feeds are really simple. feediverse.org
I want ChatGPT to be a programming partner, and nothing I do can get it to work that way. wordpress.com
How will you feel when you'll have to swear loyalty to Generalissimo Trump to see a doctor, or to drive on a public road? politicalwire.com
The entire MAGA world is rushing headlong to install a guy with no qualifications to run DOD. emptywheel.net
评论
发表评论