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Monday, June 23, 2025 Podcast: WordPress and me . # Dan Knauss, one of the organizers of WordCamp Canada, wrote a post on their blog using WordLand. Here's a screen shot of what that post looked like when he was editing it. That's all you need to see to understand the role that WordLand plays. It's a pretty self-describing product. # A great scene from The West Wing . Use your imagination, something similar is probably happening right now. # Linkblog items for the day 2006: Why formats like RSS 2.0 work. scripting.com Bluesky users should check out this thread. It's not decentralized and it's not billionaire-proof. mastodon.social Copyright 1994-2025 Dave Winer. This email was sent on: 6/24/2025, 12:00:02 AM Eastern. "People return to places that send them away." This blog has been running for: 30 years, 8 months, 16 days, 9 hours, 0 minutes, 2 seconds. How...

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Sunday, June 22, 2025 Today's song: Peace in our time . # People talk about "regime change" as if the only regime that could change is the one in Iran. # Note to linkblog readers: I just flipped a switch and am now using WordLand to do the linkblog . Today's links are good, but the ones from prior days were mainly test posts. They will scroll off in a few days, and it'll be as it always has been. Still diggin. # One more thing about the linkblog, it no longer cross-posts to social media sites. I want to see if I miss having the links there. It also won't have the limits. Maybe it'll be better if my accounts are a bit more quiet. Also the RSS feed is in a new location, I want to wait a bit to make sure it works before publicizing the URL. # WordCamp Canada in October # I'm keynoting the WordCamp Canada conference in October in Ottawa. It's the first conference I've attended since before the pandemic. # ...

Saturday, June 21, 2025 Speak plainly. As Brent says , lessons not learnings. Keep it simple. This is one of the foundations of blogging, btw. "Try to write correctly." # Just a guess, but the people doing the "ice" raids are not real police any more than the "doge" people are/were actually part of the US government. In this New Yorker podcast , they dug into what "doge" actually was/is. Some weren't actually Trump supporters, they just thought it would be interesting to be empowered to fix the government. They learned the government doesn't work the way they thought it did. Spending is way up over the years, but number of government employees has stayed flat. It has already been largely privatized. Tangentially they appear to have found some things actually worth fixing. Tech culture isn't just the billionaires, far from it. There's a lot of hippie ethics in there too, you just have to look past the money, ...

Friday, June 20, 2025 I read through the QuickDraw API summary from 1985. For me it was like someone who built applications of electricity, going back to see Edison's workbench before there was an industry. It was so seminal. It would never work in today's architectures, almost everything was global. There were five color constants, white, black, gray, ltGray, dkGray. You could see the whole archtecture in just a few pages. It wasn't bloated yet. And the best thing was there was the screen memory. Not hidden. If you didn't like the way QuickDraw worked, you could go around it. It was an idea I only ever used on the Apple II, it was imho Woz's big contribution, for me coming from Unix it was incredible to have so much power. On the Mac it showed up as a variable in a high level language, on the Apple II, you had to know the physical address, but in both cases, when you stored a bit in the memory it showed up on the screen. We never saw anythin...

Thursday, June 19, 2025 Until further notice dissent is an act of patriotism, support of and belief in our country. # Bill Atkinson and QuickDraw # Bill Atkinson died two weeks ago today. # I was explaining to a friend why he was so important. Most people who know of him know about MacPaint and Hypercard , both were fantastic contributions to the evolution of personal computers. But underneath all that he created a layer of the Macintosh OS called QuickDraw , which was a core innovation of the Mac, its graphic system . Every piece of software that ran on the Macintosh ran on top of QuickDraw. # Here's what QuickDraw is. Software could do things at the pixel level, a dot so small it's barely visible to the eye. What you're seeing on the screen is made up of collections of those dots, forming lines, boxes, ovals and text, and later page layouts, beautiful photography, and the text you're reading right now. The software that does...