Scripting News: Monday, November 9, 2026
Monday, November 9, 2026 The Markdown version of my blog is getting more traffic than the HTML version. So much so that I'm getting complaints about all the political stuff. I love this, and I even love that some people are saying what they used to say, they didn't come to my blog for the politics. That probably will influence me a little, but it still is my main way I talk to the world, so I'm not likely to back off too often. # To Phil Windley : "We both remember what the web was like before it became a CSS and JavaScript platform." But most young users and developers have no memory of how powerful it was to make interop so damned easy. # John Palfrey , a friend and former colleague from Berkman wrote a fantastic post about people at the lawfirms who caved to Trump. # Same thing has been happening in tech for decades. Technology gets captured by a bigco, they kill all the inspiration, in order to lock it down it...