Scripting News: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Stephanie Booth, an OG blogger of great renown, now has a FeedLand blogroll on her WordPress blog. It is I believe going to make her blog feel less lonely. If anyone else wants to get one going, I have more confidence that it's pretty do-able. Screen shot.#
Heh. Yesterday I started writing a post about something Brent wrote on his blog, and then I must've gotten distracted and didn't finish it. I will now proceed to explain. #
Brent said he cares about desktop software but not about phone and tablet versions of same. I found that liberating. It's always been a pain in the ass to do something beautiful on the desktop only to have to destroy its utility by squeezing it into a space with no keyboard or pointing device that's more accurate than my finger (I have huge fingers, and a normal size phone). I found it liberating, but -- I'm working on the design of an app that should work well on either a phone or a laptop, and I've had that in mind the whole life of the product. But now I realize in a new way that it's a choice. It always was, but it didn't feel that way. #
Linkblog items for the day
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story. theatlantic.com
Thom Tillis Says He Doesn't Want a White House Crackdown on Charlotte. notus.org
This is why we probably shouldn't hold any conferences for open tech in the US for a while. variety.com
The story of how RSS beat Microsoft. We weren't trying to beat anyone, we just wanted to make a level playing field where bloggers and news orgs could coexist on the web. buttondown.com
Stephanie Booth's first post about rebooting the blogosphere. climbtothestars.org
How someone becomes a torturer. theconversation.com
Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance. This is what I'm talking about. Removing disconnects. Rebuilding the web. Right on. alex.kirk.at
I use ChatGPT in this mode all the time. I recently learned about CSS Grid and at the same time had it explained to me why CSS is such a sucky way to design apps to run on computers. Spoiler alert: It was designed to format documents. techcrunch.com
This criticism of ChatGPT is right on. It must act like a computer and only answer the questions it's asked, stop trying to lead. Its questions always take you in the wrong direction. Always. Took me a long time to figure this out. mastodon.social
Suzanne Aldrich explains passionately why the social media apps should meet bloggers where they live and support inbound RSS already. The good news is that Evan Prodromou agrees. (As do I of course.) mastodon.social
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich. theguardian.com
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