Scripting News: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 New version of XML-RPC package for JavaScript. It now handles POST messages that don't have a body. # You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you. That's how big companies usually work with independent devs. There is a bigger picture, developers who might build on WordPress as opposed to inside. Now probably no one is going to try, maybe not even me. Or maybe we will. :-) # Claude unlearns things that we had settled a long time ago. It fumbles around with a process, making it worse with every iteration, the same fumbling it did five days ago when it initially learned how to do what it can't do now. Usually when I regress in software, I am responsible for it, i did something to break it, but here's a tool that's capable of derailing us with me doing nothing new. In that way it behaves more like an imperfect human than a GIGO machine. # ...