Scripting News: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
If you're trying to read any of my code via GitHub, make sure to open source.opml in Drummer, there are a lot of notes that don't make it through to the .js and .css files. I don't think I've ever said that on the blog before. I write my code in an outliner, and take advantage of its ability to collapse long comments into a single line. There are whole blogs at the top of some functions, notes about all the big changes in code, sometimes over years, and sometimes even decades of maintenance. There's a source.opml in most of the repos with a big comment at the top explaining what's going on. Also, most projects have a worknotes.md file, and where there are dates in the source code, the refer back to dates in the worknotes.md file. Not always, but most of the time. Some of the code is very complex, I work really hard to make it simple so it can be worked on, but in some cases it's impossible to make it read casually. But it's all there, all the tools I use to write the code. #The future very much includes WordPress. It'll be as central a service as Mastodon or Bluesky. #
Linkblog items for the day
Kia's first electric van 'unboxed' and ready to take on the world. electrek.co
This guy hates your podcast, and so do I. He makes good points. I was tuned into a Wirecutter podcast about how to buy a mattress. They spent a lot of time giggling about how much fun it is to do a podcast but after 15 minutes of that I gave up. podnews.net
Shel Israel, a journalist and book writer about tech, died earlier today. He was a regular at Mike Arrington's early techcrunch parties, and a co-author of a book with Scoble. A genuine nice guy. en.wikipedia.org
Jason Calacanis: Anarcho Capitalism. thebulwark.com
Cats Can Live Their Whole Lives at This Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org
Social media probably can't be fixed. arstechnica.com
Is Washington DC a sanctuary city? Yes—Washington, D.C. is (or at least was) a sanctuary city, based on local law and policies. chatgpt.com
EV charging stations should be as visible as gas stations. People who drive EVs know they're there, because our onboard computers know. But to people driving non-electric cars they have no visibility. electrek.co
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