Scripting News: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 There are a lot of developers who think they understand WordPress but they don't. It has a REST api that you can build on. Everything WordPress does. It's the API the browser client is built on. I didn't know it was there until I added WordPress login to FeedLand a couple of years ago. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. What can I do with it? It snuck up on me that it's an API for the web, and it's also the easiest API for ActivityPub. The programming model for the fediverse might be a lot simpler than you think. WordLand is as exciting as any web product I did before, because now, after being asleep for 19 years, the web can now wake up. It really feels that way. # The web has been asleep for 19 years, which is almost as long as Rip Van Winkle was asleep, according the Washington Irving story. # In the future you will be able to chain social networks together. # Yesterday's podcast was with Ma...