Scripting News: Thursday, August 7, 2025
Thursday, August 7, 2025 ChatGPT 5 is even more of a bastard than 4. # That said, it got pretty far toward solving the problem I asked it to work on. Here's a demo of a page it put together for me of the top 25 articles in US news. # A summary of recent work via my WordLand blog. # New version of feedlandSocket . It's now an NPM package you can include in Node projects. The demo is more useful, and there's a video of what it looks like as it scrolls through the JavaScript console. WebSockets + feeds. A fairly important component of an open social web system. # I wanted to put together a demo of a very simple but interesting Node.js app, so I hooked up with replit , and was surprised to find out that it's now an AI bot. But when I asked it to make a sandbox for this app, which is in a repo on GitHub, rather than take the direct route, and run the demo.js app (which is what I asked it to do), it concocted a pointless user interface, that h...