Scripting News: Sunday, August 17, 2025

Sunday, August 17, 2025
The new header graphic is gift from Stan Krute at Fresh Art Daily. #
We're in the doldrums of summer. It's hot and muggy, but I am where you want to be this time of year, in the Catskill Mountains, where there's lots to do outdoors, the peaches are fantastic right now, apples coming soon. I'm working a few hours a day on the integration of writing and timelines built around feeds. Instead of using Bluesky or Mastodon, with their limits, we use WordPress for storage. It has none of their limits, has a high performance open source server back-end, debugged complete API, it's not without problems, but far ahead of where the competition is in terms are reliablity and ease of implementation. To be part of this network, all you need is an RSS feed. Seems pretty openly billionaire-proof wouldn't you say. #
Billionaire-proof and RSS#
  • I would like to get on the record. #
  • We're going to have some interop based on RSS not too far down the road. A network that will only require an RSS feed for entry. It's what we should've built in 2006 and didn't. #
Linkblog items for the day
Common Sense about Negotiations.

snyder.substack.com
ChatGPT is simply a breakthrough in search. I don't want ChatGPT to be warm and friendly. It should behave like a computer. Only answer questions it's asked. Stop trying to lead the human. I speak from lots of experience trying to develop software with it.

techcrunch.com
European leaders to join Zelenskyy for meeting with Trump.

apnews.com
Cory Doctorow bends over backwards to praise the creators of Bluesky, but also explains why it would be nuts to trust them. Bluesky is the least billionaire-proof system imaginable and they keep saying how they are billionaire-proof. What's so admirable about that Cory (sarcasm, sorry). And if it weren't for the character limit, I could say how much I admire Cory (I really do, not just saying that, he's stood up for the right things, most of the time and the times he hasn't it's probably just because I haven't had a chance to bend his ear. 😀

pluralistic.net
Ex-Tesla employees start EV charging company after Elon Musk fired everyone.

electrek.co
"The biggest problem with free WP.com is the themes. There are not that many available, and almost all of them are awful and not well-suited to blogging."

passthejoe.wordpress.com
Europe is sending heavy hitters to Washington alongside Ukraine's president to bolster Kyiv.

politico.com
What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door.

nytimes.com
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