Scripting News: Tuesday, March 3, 2026
I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. It looks like a spreadsheet app but it's missing most of the really good commands, like defining the value in one cell with the sum of two other cells using point and click. If you go down this path, ask it to keep a user's guide current, and then ask it to put in features, and just describe them in standard spreadsheet terminology. The trouble starts when you want to make something that doesn't have a standard terminology yet because it's new. #Then I had to ask Claude.ai to write me a nice little outliner that runs in the browser. And it did. With a flourish. It was designed to make me the guy who designed outliners for most of a lifetime, and I have to say it was very nicely done, for a two-minute project. Even for a two-week project it's pretty nice. Then I asked it to do a priorArt outline, and it looks really good in the this.how template. The power of standards. And I had a full day of work even while Claude.ai was doing these mind bombs for me. #
I asked for a feature of the outliner from Drummer that it automatically opens a file in read-only mode if there's a URL parameter with the address of an OPML file. Like this. #
Linkblog items for the day
Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need to watch it? blog.joemoreno.com
U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," Return of Jesus. jonathanlarsen.substack.com
I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. Amazing. Why have I not tried this before. It made me a little spreadsheet in two minutes. this.how
I thought that Ro Khanna supporting the billionaire tax would enrage the billionaires of Silicon Valley, and so it has. It's a great referendum. If I still lived in Calif, I would vote for Khanna just on this one issue. techcrunch.com
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