Scripting News: Sunday, October 4, 2026
Claude's biggest most amazing strength is its ability to inhale a lot of source code and understand what's going on, any language, any OS, anything, in an instant.#
BTW now that I have Frontier back and am using it for most of my work, I'm having a lot more fun writing my blog. Can you tell??#
- Great scene from The West Wing.#
- CJ and Josh, on the street outside the White House.#
- The president was hiding serious disease, and it’s about to come out. Back in those days such a revelation meant the president has no chance of being re-elected. #
- Anyway, the kid has an idea and starts explaining, and as he does CJ laughs. The kid asks what’s so funny. #
- She tells him about a scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid starring Paul Newman as Butch and Robert Redford as the kid.#
- They’re cornered, on a cliff, preparing to jump into a river far below. Redford says he can’t swim. Newman says it doesn’t matter, the fall is going to kill you.#
- Okay so why mention this now?#
- I hear there’s a monster heat wave in California. Over 90F every day for two weeks. That’s unusual for October IIRC.#
- We’re all fretting about AI killing us.#
- Imagine CJ laughing. Haha she says, so you’re worried about AI are ya? It’s the climate that’s going to kill you.#
- Josh would correct her. “Us. It’s going to kill us.”#
- CJ tells him to go away she needs to be an adult right now.#
- Twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform. I wrote the first draft of this post on my iPad, that's how useful it is.#
- Imagine if a real blog platform created a super simple way to write posts, no need for Gutenberg, just Markdown and that would be optional. Default would be a normal wizzy text editor, bold, italic, using a standard user interface. #
- Add web links and a reply structure, open source, nice API and developer program to shine the light on the cool editors independent devs were creating, and all of a sudden a bunch of new blog platforms emerge, and get this — they all work perfectly with each other because of the common foundation and API. The web of social media. It would be exciting and would pressure the other social media apps to peer with this truly open system.#
- It would change the freaking world I tell you. And it would be so wonderful with AI. No need for the cheesy chat UI. A real revolution. Undo all the craptastic silos that strangled the web? #
- It would be pretty damn easy imho, fwiw, ymmv, mmlm. #
- PS: MMLM is an acronym for My Mother Loves Me. Anticipates flameage. Okay you don't like me, but my mother loves me. #
Linkblog items for the day
Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump?
theguardian.com
Btw twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform. x.com
New book by Michael Lewis, author of many great books, about Elon Musk and DOGE.
amazon.co.uk
We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything.
simonwillison.net
Elon Musk and DOGE brought catastrophe to the U.S. government. Michael Lewis’ Blockers details just how much. slate.com
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