Scripting News: Sunday, January 18, 2026
I've been trying to stay out of politics here lately (did you notice), but I don't get how Americans, no matter who they voted for, can watch what's happening in Minneapolis and not feel like we have to protect the people there from the thugs who are attacking them. And of course that's exactly how we're supposed to feel. I watched a video of a woman, a disabled army veteran, being dragged from her car by the ICEs, and hearing cop car sirens in the background, imagining, hoping -- they were coming to stop the attack. We never did find out. How can you stand for this if you're an American. Forget about Democrats or Republicans, what about you? Where did you learn to ignore the feelings you must have when you see people, fellow human beings, attacked with such cruelty? Snap out of it, if you have any empathy left, or any love for our country. Tell your representatives to step in and stop this, and no excuses, Democrat or Republican, I don't care.#Why now? Because there are probably still enough in the military who believe in the rule of law and will obey an act of Congress. #
- In 2019, I did an overhaul of XML-RPC, and created a reference implementation in JavaScript, both client and server (Node.js). #
- The missing links from yesterday's podcast.#
- XML-RPC website. #
- XML-RPC GitHub repo.#
- JavaScript reference implementation.#
- New JSON encoding.#
- The original website was preserved.#
Linkblog items for the day
Zodiac is great, playing on Netflix. I had never seen it. nytimes.com
"ICE needs to be totally torn down… People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Trump." talkingpointsmemo.com
Finally CNN gets that there's a difference between Democratic voters and leaders. The power is with the voters. Now we have to get the leaders to understand that they can be replaced. cnn.com
Trump is using ICE and health care as weapons of a war against his own country. ms.now
After 36 years in Palo Alto, Il Fornaio is closing. paloaltoonline.com
2005, by Dan Bricklin: "Instead of making you feel bad for 'only' doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%." This keeps coming up all the time in software design. danbricklin.com
It isn't up to the Democrats to act, it's up to the people of the United States. Do we really want our cities turned into police states? If not, make sure our reps, of all parties, understand this. Thanks for your attention to this matter. huffpost.com
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