Scripting News: Friday, May 23, 2025
Has Harvard considered opening a satellite campus outside the United States? If the Trumps keep making demands, like demanding that they stop admitting students from outside the US, the students the US government rejects could still go to Harvard, be taught by the same teachers, collaborate and socialize with other Harvard-quality students, without interference from Trump. I imagine there are a few countries that would be willing to help. If you want to really make a point, open it in China.#If you're into Mastodon, you can follow my daveverse blog, the one I write using WordLand, on Mastodon, using this address: @scripting@daveverse.org. Mastodon preserves links and styling, and doesn't seem to have a size limit. I can edit my posts and you get the updates. So Mastodon kind of informally has become a blogging system, which I totally applaud. It checks a lot of the boxes from my textcasting manifesto. Slowly the world is starting to make sense. #
A couple of little tweaks to Daytona. It now has a history menu which it saves in local storage. It's useful to be able to come back to a recent search. It remembers the last 50 searches this way. Also had to add a little hack that turns off other copies of Daytona when another one launches. Use a local storage trick, save a random string to a fixed location, and every second check to see if its value has changed. If it has, another copy of Daytona has launched, so I redirect to the home page of my blog. #
I would pay extra for cable service to have none of my money go to Fox News. What made me think of it this way is this great scene in Moneyball where Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) reminds David Justice that the Yankees think so much of him that they're paying him $3.5 million a year for him to play against them. That's valid. #
Linkblog items for the day
Highly recommend Jon Stewart on the latest Bill Simmons podcast. podcasts.apple.com
Brent Simmons: My Wildly Incorrect Bias About Corporate Engineers. inessential.com
What does Jony Ive actually do? He doesn't seem like a software developer, yet he was somehow put in charge of software at Apple and now is going to do the software design at OpenAI? Really? Or is this just a multi billion dollar press release? sixcolors.com
Why Is Cancer Drug Revlimid So Expensive? propublica.org
All I've written about FSD mode in my Tesla Model Y. daytona.scripting.com
Coolify sounds like where Heroku would have gone if it were open source. I was a big fan of Heroku in the day, but when they made it really expensive to run tiny apps (which I had a lot of) I wrote my own. coolify.io
Memorial Day EV deals you can snag for under $300 a month. electrek.co
Has Harvard considered opening a satellite campus outside the United States? daveverse.org
The Eagles with Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne 1974. karkpost.com
The Knicks inspire dread in their fans, and great writing among the sports writers. Like this. nydailynews.com
The Paris Agreement Target for Warming Still Won't Protect Polar Ice Sheets. motherjones.com
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