Scripting News: Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Another incredible use-case for ChatGPT. When it first came out Font Awesome was a total godsend. It took something every developer of graphic apps had to struggle with, and said basically "I can do that." They had a growing set of standard icons, it got better with every version. But some special icons haven't appeared in Font Awesome. There was a great icon on the original Mac, for a desk accessory, I don't remember which one. It was a flag, like the flag on a mailbox. If you put a piece of mail in the box you raise the flag, that way the postman knows to stop. When they pick up the mail they flip the flag down. On the early Mac it took an app that was wide and short, and made it wide and tall, revealing the ideas and data it kept for you. You can still have the icon, using ChatGPT. Have it generate your own icon using SVG. You get something every bit as good as a Font Awesome icon. So you can be creative in a new way. Whether this is art or not (of course it is) is beside the point. It's progress, evolution -- a way for users to make perfectly specified feature requests.#Remember when OG metadata was new? 16 years ago. It's one of those things that's widely forgotten, but still widely in use. I just wrote a post on Bluesky that demonstrates. That could be a new feature in WordPress, or the decision whether or not to display it could be up to the reader app (in this case Bluesky). If it were up to the reader we might need a way to signal that to the reader from the CMS. In the new WordLand, we use the image as an icon. It's completely wrong to use it as an OG Metadata image in Bluesky -- realllly embarrassing (screen shot). #
Linkblog items for the day
Ex-ICE chief calls DHS rush to judgement after Minneapolis shooting 'irresponsible.' pbs.org
Killing of Renee Good. en.wikipedia.org
PBS: "The Fight to Control the A-Bomb's Story." youtube.com
Minneapolis shooting reported as federal agents conduct an immigration enforcement surge. apnews.com
Facebook in 2010: One graph to rule them all. Look at how young Zuck is! That was 16 years ago. cnet.com
"In America you call it the alt-right, in Germany we call it 'why Grandpapa lives in Argentina now.'" facebook.com
Who decides what's real in the age of AI? Instagram. om.co
Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections. thedailybeast.com
The Moment We Lost The Plot. talkingpointsmemo.com
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