Scripting News: Monday, August 11, 2025

Monday, August 11, 2025
Fixed a bit of breakage on the Links page over the weekend. #
I want to work on the open web with other developers who make interesting products that we can hook up together to make new products. Or if users get an idea for linking two products, they can do it with scripting. It was a dream we had for the Mac, but it fell apart because Apple wanted to control everything. I find it's better when developers are free to work with each other, without interference from a big company like Apple. That's why "platform without a platform vendor" was the most important thing about the web. That and the utter simplicity of HTTP and HTML. We lost our way in the early-mid 00s when Twitter took over at the center of the blogosphere. Now you couldn't just work with other developers, first you had to work with Twitter and accept its limits. In one swoop we lost all the features listed on the textcasting page. I am betting everything on the idea that we can build a collaborative environment like the web was before, and that the Mac had the promise of being before that and at the same time create a fantastic writer's web, far beyond what Twitter and twitter-like systems can do. #
Linkblog items for the day
When socialists win Democratic primaries: Will Zohran Mamdani be haunted by the Upton Sinclair effect? theconversation.com
The two-way-web: "The browser is a great editing tool because it understand HTTP at its core. It knows how to read stuff on the Web, and it can work with the local file system, but even in that mode it treats the file system as if it were an HTTP server."

scripting.com
This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint.

theverge.com
Breakage fixed on the Links tab on scripting.com.

scripting.com
Donald Trump Rages at 'Deranged Bum' Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman in Late-Night Meltdown.

thedailybeast.com
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics.

wsj.com
Trump's Ruthless Cuts Have Left Our National Parks in "Survival Mode."

motherjones.com
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