Scripting News: Saturday, November 7, 2026
Yesterday's rollout of BonBonWeb was a great success. I think we have actually launched a new genre of the web, based on the original web before it was taken over by the silos. Everyone loves Markdown, which was not news to me. It's so simple you can't hide any michegas. And it gives writers control of the things we want control of, without miring us in the details of CSS. And then expert web designers can create stylesheets that work for us, and we will make it easy to add those to your BonBon, and presumably our competitors will do the same. Because I'm doing the initial implementations of each component of this web, and setting the expectation of the separation power between writers and readers, any competitor is going to have to do the same. I learned this from podcasting. The first podcast client, which I wrote, established OPML as the format for interchanging subscription lists. Doing the same kind of thing here. Setting user expectations from the start. #
I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat and you can read it on BonBonWeb. Markdown and RSS 2.0. We will provide a user-level way to connect between the two, but we're still a few steps from that. Today we proved that once we have the UI for setting it up, it should "just work." Small parts loosely joined.#
What the big tech companies don't get is that independent developers can come up with big ideas and if they put limits in the way of those ideas being done in their world, then they aren't the petri dish or coral reef they aspire to be. #
This is so heartening. America never disappeared, it just was asleep, lulled into naivete by the dashing figure Trump cast on his TV show, and he said some of the right things in his 2016 campaign. Truthful things people had never heard from a candidate and wanted to hear and wanted to believe something would be done to make it better. I got this perspective listening to Dave Chappelle explain it. And Trump helped us buy straight talk from candidates. We're getting it now from the new crop of inspiring senators and governors. Remarkable times we live in, such highs and lows. #- People from NY, such as myself, saw right through him. A typical bully -- we knew these people in grade school. There are people in my freaking family who are like Trump on a personality level. They push people around, but if you stand your ground they fade away.#
- Well now we've gotten together -- that's all we ever had to do -- work with each other -- and remember the greatness of the country that gave a home to us or our ancestors. We have not only got a big heart but we're also collectively smart enough to know that we always need to be growing, and for that we need fresh new citizens from around the world to keep things interesting. #
- I grew up in Flushing, NY -- part of NYC -- which was a sleepy Queens neighborhood made up of mostly Catholic and Jewish families when I was a child. Over the years, it became more Chinese and Korean. And it now has one of the best bagel places in the city. Everything is more alive there now. Main Street is both familiar and foreign. #
- (Utopia Bagels, on Utopia Parkway, technically in Whitestone.)#
- My mother, a refugee from the German Nazis as a child, didn't like that the neighborhood was changing, but I think it's fine, it's what makes the US and NY in particular so great. And while I still love a NYC diner breakfast or deli lunch, the Chinese and Korean food in Flushing is world-renowned and very tasty. #
- It still freaks me out that Flushing is famous for something so totally un-Flushing! #
- This election was like the 2008 election on steroids. We saw the election of Obama as a turning point. It was, but after his term was over, we snapped back to our slavery roots in reaction. This year, we re-asserted our love of country, not wanting to deprive the US of the fresh inspiration of immigrants of all races and genders, faiths, and and beliefs both religious and political. And once we, collectively, saw the aftermath of our turn toward fascism said, passionately -- no way, not here. The US is a melting pot. And we're good at it. #
- No one knew until Tuesday whether the old America of our parents and grandparents was still here, thankfully it is. #
- Now we have to continue to work together, to acknowledge our differences but also celebrate what we agree on. We are a democracy. We elect leaders but it is our country. The Trumps are still struggling with that, but don't ever forget it. This is the country that works, going through a really rough period.#
Linkblog items for the day
Martin Short Elfs Himself for Verizon.
musebyclios.com
Things Are Going to Get Ugly.
theatlantic.com
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will make it easier for publishers to opt out of being scraped.
niemanlab.org
8 Bold Ideas for the New Democratic Congress.
nytimes.com
Chuck Schumer’s Revenge.
theatlantic.com
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