Scripting News: Monday, September 15, 2025

I've gotten a lovely response to the Que Sera Sera post I linked to here. It's from 1996, I was reporting from a tech conference I was at where there were all angry men on stage threatening everyone else. They may not have known they were doing that, but it was awful. And so different from the web we were just beginning to understand at that time. I'm going to start going through the posts that I remember making a difference at the time. No better way for me to remember what the web is, going back to these memories when it was all fresh and new, before the leaders of tech realized what was going on. Google didn't ship for another two years. It probably wasn't even in development at the time. Yet I think the last section is a good anthem for the web, for those of us who think it's time to cut pop all the bullshit off the stack and get back to our roots.#
I had a flash last night during the Emmys. The Bloggers of Mastodon. I loved the concept right off the bat, so I wrote a blog post using in WordLand that went through WordPress and landed on Mastodon. It all works. Where are the other Bloggers of Mastodon? Let's start a club!#
  • This question has come up quite a bit lately. #
  • People don't know that there are two places you can use FeedLand, feedland.org and feedland.com.#
  • There's a lot of history here, and some uncertainty about the future, so there's not much I can do other than explain the situation.#
  • First you're welcome to use either of them. #
  • feedland.org is running on a simple small server on Digital Ocean, and feedland.com is on Automattic's VIP network. #
  • If feedland.org gets overloaded, it gets slow. #
  • if feedland.com gets overloaded, it adds more servers and should stay about the same at all times. #
  • You should pick one and use it and not have two accounts, but people accidentally create them, because in some places we point to .com and in others we the default is .org. It's because we haven't gotten it together yet. #
  • There are also performance issues on .com -- ones that we still need to address. #
  • That's about all I can say at this point. At the same time I'm working on a whole other product while all this is happening, and I'm not that young, and really can only work so many hours a day before I have to stop. A fact. #
  • And I'm really glad so many new people are trying FeedLand. I use it myself in so many ways. And it will be deeply integrated with WordLand in the next release. I'm not kidding. #
Linkblog items for the day
BTW we now have a blogroll on my WordPress blog (which I am loving writing to, it's got a different feel). It just snuck up on me, I wasn't expecting it and first impression -- it looks great. Slowly we're getting it together. :-)

daveverse.org
Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation.

english.hani.co.kr
Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests.

internet.exchangepoint.tech
Google has a point with the summaries. The most highly rated search results often seem to never get around to answering the question, so maybe they brought about their own demise.

theverge.com
I tried watching The Pitt, but I have a phobia to watching surgery where you have to look inside people's bodies. I try to avert my eyes, but it doesn't work. I hear it's a great show.

en.m.wikipedia.org
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape.

bogdanthegeek.github.io
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