Scripting News: Monday, May 19, 2025
What it means to be distributed. Mastodon and RSS can't go down. But Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook can.#I've been working on the search function for this blog, and now we have all the DaveNet pieces between 1994 and 2004 in the database. Autoweb was my first static site generator. Here's a search for menu sharing which was a technology we made on the Mac that allowed people to write menus of scripts in Frontier that appear inside other apps. Netscape supported it as did MSIE, Quark, Eudora and many others. It was kind of magical, esp when the apps themselves were scriptable (many of them were in the 90s). Next up, I'm going to import the home page of Scripting News from 1997 to 2010. It was mostly a linkblog then. #
How to understand Trump talking about tariffs. Remember how he talked about Covid. Same thing.When I announced Chris Lydon's podcast in 2003, I called it a weblog for the ears. We didn't have the name podcasting yet. #
As the import script runs I just tried looking up Engadget, got zero hits. I expect that link will work in a while after all the importing is done. #
And with this update, we don't depend on OPML any longer to create the database, all the data is exported in a format that can be easily imported directly into an SQL database. I provide the schema and example JavaScript code that, via SQL, updates a database. Hopefully this creates a better more useful archive. #
How to understand Trump talking about tariffs. Remember how he talked about Covid. Same thing.#
Apparently Chrome has changed the behavior of images served over http in web pages. It's changing the request to https, so it gives an erroneous error message about the certificate which the page never claimed to have. #
I was going to use this code in the UI of my search engine, when it wanted to display an image over http, reroute it to use an https proxy server. But Chrome wouldn't stay out of the way, so had to give up. Hey I was trying to route around their outage.#
- Andrew Hickey whose podcast I support, also appears to be strongly against people using ChatGPT. #
- I am a programmer, so you might think I'd see it the same way because what I do is similar to what musicians and prose writers do in that I create "intellectual property" which can be easily copied.#
- But we have a different culture in software, we tend to by default share what we do and let other people use it. They're supposed to credit us, but people are selfish and greedy and they will tend to take whatever isn't bolted down, and it sucks, but you accept it.#
- What's funny is Hickey appears to have no clue how much he's benefited from this ethos. His success probably would not have been possible without some people thinking it's more important to create the medium he could use any way he saw fit, than to own one that would probably have kept him out.#
- Creating is not as linear as he appears to think, which so ironic because that's basically what his freaking podcast is about. He loves to say "no one did anything first" (paraphrasing) and that's basically the same idea.#
- And I don't doubt that the next big media invention, the next podcasting perhaps, will benefit enormously from having ChatGPT available for the people developing it.#
- PS: This appeared earlier as a post on Bluesky. And I wrote every freaking word, as I always do unless disclaimed.#
Linkblog items for the day
Catching up in WordLand and KnicksLand. daveverse.org
BYD launches the new e7 EV in China, starting at under $15,000. electrek.co
Hillary Clinton bashes Republican women as a 'handmaiden of the patriarchy.' foxnews.com
How did you end up starting a decentralized social platform? It's not decentralized. wired.com
Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. nytimes.com
"It looks like most AI applications that need to access content online are resorting to scraping web pages." val.demar.in
4 Audiobooks To Listen To Now. nytimes.com
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