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Scripting News: Friday, January 16, 2026

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Friday, January 16, 2026 Last night's email didn't go out at the appointed hour, and I didn't get a chance to look until early evening. So last night's mail went out at about 6PM Eastern. Hopefully today's email will go out at roughly midnight tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience. Still diggin! # Is there any circumstance where "Sorry for the inconvenience" isn't the wrong thing to say? Maybe I didn't even notice, or if I did, maybe I didn't care. And what if the results were more than inconvenient? What if someone died! Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll say. I like still diggin the best. It says yes we suck, and we know it, but we're trying to suck less. # If you don't have one of these Keurig things , you're really missing out. # Think different about WordPress, cont'd # This is a continuation of a piece I wrote in August 2025. # Yesterday I wrote a this.how doc about getting W...

Scripting News: Thursday, January 15, 2026

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Thursday, January 15, 2026 I've been watching Jake Savin for the last couple of months using Claude.ai and ChatGPT to create a headless version of Frontier that will run on Linux and current versions of MacOS. Jake worked at UserLand , but never at the kernel level, which is exactly where he and his (virtual) AI buddies are working. He knew Frontier well, he was a developer at MacWorld, where they used it as the CMS to manage their website. Then he came to work at UserLand where he worked on the CMS itself, and over time became a full contributor to the work we were doing in RSS, XML-RPC, feed reading and podcasting. He's a musician too and the nicest guy to work with. He just got the REPL for Frontier running. I'm so proud of his accomplishments, and totally looking forward using the new Frontier for server programming, which is all Linux for me these days. And I also look forward to having Manila and Radio UserLand running on modern hardware, esp s...

Improving Git Diffs with Delta

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Begin Ruby Improving Git Diffs with Delta Jan 16, 2026 · 3 min read Working with LLMs means reviewing way more diffs than before. I discovered de...