Scripting News: Friday, October 3, 2025
Friday, October 3, 2025 In yesterday's piece I suggested people start by creating a free site on wordpress.com to be their home on the open social web. # People are surprised that I'm trying to build the for-real social web as opposed to the aspirational social web. It does require a lot of chutzpah . I feel that. Sometimes I put off doing things because while the coding is simple and straightforward, the immensity of it overwhelms me a bit. I don't remember feeling that way the first time around, possibly because we were doing it all step by step over approx ten years. Now it's all compressed into weeks. I know how to do it, and I've got or built the pieces I needed. But it just doesn't somehow feel right that the idea is actually becoming a thing. "This can't be happening." But we live in that kind of time. Who knows what monsters lie within. We may find out. Heh. Maybe that's where the goosebumps come from. # With...