Scripting News: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
I took a screen shot of this post, gave it to Claude, asked it to write a short paragraph summary. Then I asked it to rewrite with using no more than 300 chars, the limit on Bluesky. Now I can post the summary there, but I won't, at the moment of truth I had to disclose this wasn't written by me, and it was 290 chars and there wasn't enough room for that. And here's a screen shot of the conversation with Claude.#
- There was a long discussion last night on Bluesky about whether twitter-like apps should show blog posts in addition to tweet-size things. Should it have a character limit, allow titles, links, bold, italic, editing, enclosures, markdown, etc? This is a permathread, it's been going since 2006. I didn't contribute, because there are no new ideas at this point, except this -- there are readers and writers and they have different needs. #
- As a reader sometimes I want a concise intro to the idea and I'll decide if I want to read more.#
- As a writer, I want to write in one place, and broadcast it out the world, and let their reading app decide for them if this is something they want to read based on whether it has a title, is over 300 chars, has links or uses styling, or if the writer doesn't disclaim editing, and the reader doesn't like editing. #
- We can do a lot better than the hard restrictions our reading environments force on us. It's now 20 years since the inception of Twitter, I think we know enough now to try out some new approaches. There should be a million readers, and they all read the same content flows. They can look at a post and see if it meets the reader's limits, and only show it if it does. If a post has a title and we don't want posts with titles, don't show it. Then writers could all use exactly the writing tools we like, and it wouldn't matter where you read it.#
- This route has always been there, but now I think people will be open to trying out some new ideas. #
Linkblog items for the day
Who’s Left to Build WordPress? wpmayor.com
This is where you find out if Claude is down. And this morning it is.
status.claude.com
Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs.
spur.us
How 100 Romanian hospitals switched to pen and paper to defeat a national cyber-attack.
bbc.com
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