Scripting News: Saturday, March 7, 2026

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Claude is not doing well today, seriously not working well, think it must be they're coping with a large influx of new users. #

I was looking forward to Season 4 of Industry, but found the first episode unwatchable. Lots of yelling. New characters angry and arguing about nothing, dramatic music mocks the awful writing and acting. Does it get better? Reviewers loved it. I've seen this before. Previous seasons were great, so the next season automatically must be great too. #

Cory, RSS has never been dormant#

• I love the piece Cory Doctorow just posted, but he says something that follows a pattern, the way journalists can say something's dead because they heard it as conventional wisdom. #
• Development around RSS has never "lain dormant." That's a perception not reality. Let's stop handicapping what we agree is a very useful and freedom-building system like RSS. You're telling the story that makes people believe it's gone. It is not gone. #
• Without the NYT the rest of the news publishing world would probably have never adopted RSS. The NYT drove the liftoff of RSS. Google's product did come to dominate, but there were excellent feed readers long before that. #
• Happened to the Mac too#
• In the early days of the web, it was conventional wisdom that there was no new software for the Mac, all the developers were flocking to Windows. Maybe all the devs were, but the best web server and development software, writing software, was on the Mac. #
• A blogroll for 2026#
• BTW, since you mention Kottke's blogroll, I'd love for you to have a look at mine. You can see it on my blog at scripting.com, or on the WordPress version of my blog at daveverse.org. A screen shot.#
• It's a realtime blogroll, the blogs appear in the order in which they last updated. You can expand each item to see the titles of the last five pieces, with a 300-char excerpt, and a link to read the whole thing. It's the blogroll I wanted in the early 00s, a clear indication that there's nothing dormant going on here, Cory. #
• You can install it on your own system, it works as a WordPress plugin, so it's especially easy to use it on a WordPress site. #
• My old ass#
• I'm working my old ass off developing for the web and RSS every freaking day Cory. #
• I won't stop until we have a social web running with all replaceable parts, no lock-in, as decentralized as the web itself and of course RSS is part of the web.#

Linkblog items for the day

Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay.

npr.org

The web is bearable with RSS. That's what I've been sayin. ;-)

pluralistic.net

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