Scripting News: Monday, June 1, 2026
John C Reilly has only one audiobook, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But it's the best audiobook I've ever read, because the narrator and the book are great, esp together. Wish he would do more. Also there's a great interview with him on the Rachel Martin podcast. #
If you work at Automattic as a developer, if there's another Radical Speed Month for devs, if you want, let's work on a project together even though I don't work for the company. I'm most interested in making products work together where the result gets people thinking about the web in a new way. A8C has a big enough product set, and FeedLand and WordLand are by design well-equipped to talk with other products. I love APIs and we have some good ones to work with, and some very underexplored (imho because we got too fixated on the silos for so long). Very much open to ideas, and I love working with good developers. Maybe I'll post some ideas here. I'm esp interested now in hooking other projects up with FeedLand. #
Maybe the best way to deal with the AIs is to quarantine the data centers on the moon or Mars, and if you want to hook up to the network, you have to move there, and quite possibly not be allowed to return, depending on how things go. It would make it possible for us to change our mind after we see a preview of the consequences. Now the big question, would you volunteer??#
There's so much I dread about the progress of AI, but nothing I say could possibly make a difference, and we aren't even that deep into it yet. This is the feeling I get every time I stop and think about it.#
They should teach every chatbot to never give the user an order. #
At what point will companies start using AI to communicate with customers? Who will be the first to show everyone else how to do it? Amazon taught the world how to do commerce over the web. When will users expect their vendors to use AI to simplify shopping, buying, returning? Right now, I don't think most companies realize they can do business differently with people. In my humble opinion that's when the boom will come. #
- Is Bluesky on the web? Yes, to an extent. I can post the url of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works. First you're on my blog, or reading it somewhere else where my blog is projected, via RSS. Then you click an anchor element, and you're instantly transported to Bluesky, to the specific place where my post is stored. In less than a second you're reading the thing I referenced. That's the web, right there. #
- But it doesn't work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to send them away. Sending people away is a sensitive concept to Bluesky's investors. Why would you do that? This is not a new point where the web and silos disagree. The web says "let them go" and the silos ask "do we look like idiots?" #
- But they will support the web in both directions if they are forced to by competition or user expectations (pretty much the same thing). That's why podcasting remains unsiloized after over 20 years. If people expect choice, they won't use clients that don't make it easy to switch. #
Linkblog items for the day
How I learned my work with WordLand was probably wasted time. Platform vendor employees do this all the time. I knew there was a good chance they wouldn’t love my product. I wanted to create a new developer ecosystem.
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