Scripting News: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
New version of XML-RPC package for JavaScript. It now handles POST messages that don't have a body.#
You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you. That's how big companies usually work with independent devs. There is a bigger picture, developers who might build on WordPress as opposed to inside. Now probably no one is going to try, maybe not even me. Or maybe we will. :-)#
Claude unlearns things that we had settled a long time ago. It fumbles around with a process, making it worse with every iteration, the same fumbling it did five days ago when it initially learned how to do what it can't do now. Usually when I regress in software, I am responsible for it, i did something to break it, but here's a tool that's capable of derailing us with me doing nothing new. In that way it behaves more like an imperfect human than a GIGO machine.#
A question I'd like to put out there. Maybe AI needs the massive data centers now, but they could definitely get more efficient over time. There might be another Moore's Law in there. And the work is going very fast, and maybe they're leaving other optimizations for later. Take a look at how computers themselves have gotten more efficient since when I started in the 1970s. It was a miracle that I could buy a computer to put in my living room in 1979. A couple of years before that I had a 100 pound terminal that I could lug cross-town to show my grandfather. We may end up with a lot of unused data centers and energy generation capacity. But that's how great evolutionary steps work. You go where you're called to go. We are a big Ouija board. This stuff is really important, we're going to remove layers and layers to tech, get to the answer sooner, and more easily, and empower people with much less tech education that we have to do the good parts of what we do, the fun stuff. There's art in the lower-level stuff too, but in tech we like to bury that stuff and forget its even there. That's how we get to build more complex machines that do more. By pushing the repetitive complex stuff into the pipes. If this were parallel to the development that led to smart phones, we're at the point where we have the glass palaces with huge cooling systems, and maybe Fortran has been invented, but it might still be machine code. #
This week is being spent, among other things, teaching Claude how to write code that fits in with my library of apps. I like this. It's like a painter telling an assistant the rules for adding to the sculpture. Art has been practiced like that for a long time. Anyway, here's an example of my side of a workflow where we're getting its dialog management code, that works fine, so it fits in with the other code. "these all look good, and the last one is most important, we don't need a blob of html to be there before you run, you create the dom structures you need. this may seem inefficient, but it makes it much easier to add a new element, or even more complex changes. that won't matter much to you, but when a human is editing it matters a lot. simplicity makes work flow better and reduces chance of being detoured by a bug that has to be found and fixed." I didn't edit that at all. I am also teaching it why things work the way they do because of differences between machines and humans. I'm learning a lot about our strength and weakness from seeing how it would work, left to its own needs (ie no human-edited code base, just AI-edited). #
Linkblog items for the day
Why is Jimmy Kimmel being held to a higher standard than Donald Trump?
theguardian.com
A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com.
wordpress.com
NetNewsWire Now Getting Feed Images from RSS.
netnewswire.blog
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