Scripting News: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Yesterday I threw a question out there. "If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work?" I left out specifics, because any specifics I provide might cut off interesting answers. There are three elements in the question: web, platform and writers. The answer must say something about all three. Another way of saying the same thing -- "You're using the web to make the platform to serve the writers."#
Had lunch today with Neal Smoller, our local pharmacy owner. Brilliant young guy who's totally energized by Claude Code.#
- I wonder how many people are working on clones of existing software with an eye toward making a much more evolvable and customizable version with AI at the core of the model. #
- You can make the same software easily, with Claude's help, and if you think about the things users want to customize, you can give them a toolkit for doing exactly what they want in prompts, as opposed to code, plugins, etc.#
- So you don't vibe-code it, you start with an app that's designed to be beautiful on the inside, easy to understand for a new maestro of software, but something they can evolve with prompts so they can be working on something else intently.#
- We provide beautiful code for aspiring symphonists to learn from. #
- I remember when I first got my hands on the Unix source back in 1978. I was blown away by what was possible. I had largely been a Fortran programmer up till then. The pieces don't fit together so well on their own, I learned, you have to move them into place and for that a lot of trying-things-out has to happen.#
- Why am I thinking about this? I have friends who are not programmers who are pretty close to where I was then, waiting to see how real software is made. And they can have that experience soon. I love where we are now in tech. #
- BTW, on its own Claude writes some really shitty code. ;-)#
Linkblog items for the day
Apple Is Boring Now.
theatlantic.com
X makes it more expensive to post links through its API. It moves further away from the web, where links are a key feature.
techcrunch.com
Om Malik, one of the original old school bloggers is on the story. We're rewriting the world in software again. We're all discovering this in our own ways.
om.co
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop.
thatprivacyguy.com
‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out.
theguardian.com
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