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Scripting News: Saturday, January 24, 2026

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Saturday, January 24, 2026 A new home page for the Scripting News podcast . # I've been following Bluesky since inception, even tried developing for it and found it was nothing new with its 300 character limit, no links, titles, etc. Basically you can build the same apps for Bluesky that we were able to develop for Twitter. I've also been following Leaflet , an attractive writing tool that works on AT Proto, the format that Bluesky is promoting, basically a reinvention of the web but inside a silo, which means -- perhaps confusingly, that Leaflet uses the same basic format that Bluesky uses, but Bluesky can't do anything with Leaflet posts, because of the limits that Leaflet doesn't have. So -- they formed an alliance with two other products that are writing tools for AT Proto, and came up with a format that they will all implement called standard.site (nice name and very attractive site). They probably hope that Bluesky itself will use that for...

Scripting News: Friday, January 23, 2026

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Friday, January 23, 2026 Just watched Darkest Hour , a biopic of Winston Churchill, as he became prime minister and had to decide whether to surrender or fight Mr Hitler as they called him. I had seen it of course when it came out, but it's especially appropriate to our times. I'm glad the NATO's are resisting the US. We have to work together to keep democracy alive, not just in our own countries, but around the world. If ever there was a time when working together mattered more than it does today, I sure can't think of it. And that all of this revolves around the technology we played a part in creating, that makes it all feel so much more real. # AI assistants could if they wanted drive all of us crazy in different ways. Advertising squared. # Linkblog items for the day Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE. religionnews.com Republicans move forward with plans for a midterm convention featu...