Scripting News: Monday, May 19, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025 What it means to be distributed. Mastodon and RSS can't go down. But Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook can. # I've been working on the search function for this blog, and now we have all the DaveNet pieces between 1994 and 2004 in the database. Autoweb was my first static site generator. Here's a search for menu sharing which was a technology we made on the Mac that allowed people to write menus of scripts in Frontier that appear inside other apps. Netscape supported it as did MSIE, Quark, Eudora and many others. It was kind of magical, esp when the apps themselves were scriptable (many of them were in the 90s). Next up, I'm going to import the home page of Scripting News from 1997 to 2010. It was mostly a linkblog then. # How to understand Trump talking about tariffs. Remember how he talked about Covid. Same thing.When I announced Chris Lydon's podcast in 2003 , I called it a weblog for the ears . We didn't have the name...