Scripting News: Sunday, January 25, 2026
They should host games on ChatGPT.#
They couldn't have chosen a more ideal liberal state to own. I don't think any of this is an accident. Next time they will kill two, American citizens of course. And we'll protest. And then 25. It's starting to sink in that this is not just a bad dream and it's not going to end. (I was wrong, according to ChatGPT, Minnesota is only the 17th most liberal state.) We're always looking backward, that's a mistake. Accept where we are right now, and be able to visualize what comes next if we give up.#Michelle Obama was wrong when she said "when they go low we go high." Sometimes the truth is pretty damn low.#
- Nominated for best picture of 2025, ranked by Metacritic rating.#
- One Battle After Another. 95 #
- The Secret Agent. 91#
- Marty Supreme. 89#
- Train Dreams. 88#
- Sentimental Value. 86 #
- Hamnet. 84#
- Sinners. 84#
- Frankenstein. 78#
- Bugonia. 72#
- F1: The Movie. 68#
- Random ramblings with past experience dealing with tech power.#
- As I think about next steps for building out from WordPress to create a network of users and their writing, I wanted to review how XML-RPC came to be, when I did a podcast, I found real gaps in my memory. #
- Then just a minute ago as I was browsing around the discuss.userland.com archive I came across this post entitled How XML-RPC will Evolve. This was in November 1998, five months after XML-RPC for Newbies and the Frontier implementation were released. #
- It was a few years before the W3C came out with their equivalent of XML-RPC, and as promised, Frontier supported it. #
- In fact, what a coincidence -- I worked on that project with Jake Savin, and we're once again working together on a project that's related to what we were doing then. It's also interesting that there are people to play the role that the three Microsoft people played, inside the WordPress community. And there is no one that can make them wait, as the Microsoft team in 1998 was stopped by their huge organization. But they were lucky to have me, someone completely outside their management structure, to decide to go ahead and release it.#
- One thing you can be sure of is it'll take more time for them than it did for you. Also it'll be more complex, and take more work to support. And you never will be able to fully support what they come up with, by design. So you just say Yeah! Let's do it, and in the meantime go ahead and develop the market. When people ask about the threat, we're on board. I had learned this from the experience with Apple and AppleScript. Take it in stride, don't assume they win just because they're large. Just take the bullet. And know that even if you do everything as best as you can, there is a cloud over your future. #
- Matt once said to me it was political, referring to RSS. Yes it was, everything about cooperation is political. But important point -- politics can be constructive, it doesn't have to destroy things. Even if everything goes smoothly as it did with XML-RPC, it's all still political. Yes, I really liked working with the Microsoft people, and I would have worked with them no matter where they came from. But it really helped build my confidence to know it came from inside the biggest most dominant tech company at the time. What an odd combination. Just like going to Harvard was political. Same thing, I would have done all the same work if I were at a smaller school without such a strong rep, but we were able to get more done because we were based there. #
- And btw, Carney's story at Davos about dealing with the BigCo country follows the same pattern. We didn't give Apple or the W3C awards, but net-net they were about as impetuous as the country Carney was talking about. What he said there could have been a Davenet post from the 1990s.#
- PS: I think perhaps just for fun we should create an XML-RPC implementation of the wpcom API. I have just the thing to base it on. #
- PPS: At some point we're going to want to make it as easy to set up a WordPress site as it is to create a new Bluesky account, because the two things will be basically the same thing. Either one will get you access to a network of bloggers. #
Linkblog items for the day
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt: 'Americans don't like what they're seeing right now.' thehill.com
Getting to know our planet. The Permian–Triassic extinction event. en.wikipedia.org
Guess who the US military just recruited? Private AI. observer.co.uk
Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM. m.slashdot.org
Best picture nominees, ranked by Metacritic score. daveverse.org
It doesn't matter that Bluesky verified a dormant ICE account. People should pick battles that matter. Like making sure "web" doesn't completely lose its meaning. Bluesky is not part of the web and it's ridiculous to say something is the "open web" -- it's like saying water is wet. werd.io
Why Wouldn't They Shoot Somebody? thenextmove.org
Paul Krugman has seen enough. paulkrugman.substack.com
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