Scripting News: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
A glitch in the matrix. The app that keeps daveverse.org in sync with scripting.com has been offline since Friday, so I'm republishing all the posts since then. They will all appear to have been posted today on daveverse. As they say -- still diggin! #
I updated sally.scripting.com to support https, and updated it with posts from scripting.com in 2023-2026. I was using it as an example of prior art of user interface for Claude. I figured restoring this app on my own would be penance for believing that Claude was anywhere near as smart as I am. Not even close. Not today at least. Grrr.#
I've come to the conclusion, perhaps temporarily, that Claude can't work on a programming project with an experienced developer. It doesn't check its work, it'll think it's found the problem, makes a change, or worse causes you to do a lot of work so it can make a change. It doesn't use the information it gives you, can't even remember what was in a bug report less than one screen above. I could have done the work I coached it through through the morning, with a thoroughly inadequate result, in an hour at most. At least today it couldn't learn from prior art, and couldn't follow basic instructions. It's weird though because I'm really suprised how little it knows about the scientific method or even has been trained in how to work with others. I seem to recall situations where it was extremely good at reading code. Not a totally wasted session, let's see what I can learn from it. #
Linkblog items for the day
US Postal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting.
apnews.com
For an easy salad dressing, look no further than lemon juice and olive oil.
wapo.st
Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents.
claude.com
WordCamp Asia 2026 keynote video.
youtube.com
How I made my skills update themselves.
joost.blog
Brilliant ad.
x.com
“Introducing OpenAI Frontier.” They took our name. I wonder if their Frontier is as good as ours.
openai.com
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