Scripting News: Saturday, January 10, 2026
What's happening with ICE is like January 6 four years later with billions of dollars behind it and many months of planning and studying history for prior art.#
As I listened to the mayor of Minneapolis speak I thought he was going say "get the fuck out of Minneapolis" but of course he couldn't say that and then he said it.#
I'm doing little demos of stuff I'm working on in WordLand, here's a narrated demo that shows how instant updates are going. As often the recording level is too low, so turn up the volume if you want to hear the comments. A productive Saturday session. #
John Johnston, a longtime friend of UserLand and my newer products, asks how WordLand connects with FeedLand. Two ways. 1. FeedLand has an API, still working on it, but it will be public. 2. FeedLand has an outbound websockets interface, which is already public, so any can use it as their feed reader, and get notice of new items and updates to existing items as soon as FeedLand has the info. And if the site uses rssCloud, as WordPress does and has since 2009, the notices are instantaneous. So to the extent people thought RSS is a slow protocol, it's not. It runs at the speed of the internet. And FeedLand is all about RSS, as you know. #
Linkblog items for the day
Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker. oregonlive.com
The cool thing about using RSS as the format for a twitter-like system is that not only can it handle every major text feature of the web, but it is also easily extended, so it can grow without the cooperation of dominant bigco siloers. links.daveverse.org
Why We Keep Falling for Narcissistic Leaders. nytimes.com
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