Scripting News: Saturday, January 3, 2026
On Bluesky: I can't tell you how tired I am of copying and pasting the same text into five different silos. When will this ridiculous system that claims to be the web, get its shit together and start acting like the web (ie interop). #
Today feels like the day the war in Iraq began. Wars are easy to start, hard to end. They actually called Bush a "visionary" on MSNBC, they were so in awe of his courage, but that would end soon. And this time, no doubt Trump started the war with the approval of China and Russia, which will be left alone by the US in their conquest of Taiwan and Ukraine. Leaders of smaller countries must be wondering where they can hide from this. A very depressing moment. I've lived through two voluntary wars by the US, first Vietnam, then the post-911 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now this war. #The war in Iraq started in March 2003. That was also the month I arrived in Cambridge after driving cross-country from Woodside, CA. Because I did most of my blogging on scripting.com, I still have a good archive of how I experienced both those things. It's also the month we got the Harvard weblogs going, but they have not stood up so well. I wouldn't have predicted then that my personal blog would survive the system we started at one of America's great universities. #
Linkblog items for the day
Standard.site is interesting. Two suggestions, explain how you hook up with non-atproto apps. Suggest using RSS and Markdown. And give Markdown a special role, so users can use any tool to edit text. And if you all want to help the web and yourselves focus on interop with wider world. standard.site
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins. joanwestenberg.com
David Frum: Trump's Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap. theatlantic.com
Trump's Risky War in Venezuela. theatlantic.com
Can We Really Afford to Let Health Care Get Any Worse? nytimes.com
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