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Scripting News: Monday, June 3, 2024

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Monday, June 3, 2024 It's been almost nine years since I did the podcast about podcasting . Today I was asked how I feel about podcasting now. Here's what I said. It's still working -- people expect to have choice in where they listen to their podcasts, and as long as that's true they will imho continue to have choice. But even if Google took it over tomorrow, I'd be happy with the outcome. It's been over 20 years since we rolled it out, and it's still delivering huge value to lots of people, and isn't controlled by anyone, as far as I can tell there are no gatekeepers. If only we had been able to keep blogging free of that kind of control, but I have hope there too. # One of the flaws in the design of Teslas is they are really difficult to operate safely for people who are farsighted, such as myself. A lot of the status messages are too small for me to read without reading glasses, and in the time it takes to put them on the message is...

Weekly Vue News #148 - How I Write Class & Style Bindings

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Weekly Vue News #148 How I Write Class & Style Bindings View online Hi 👋 I switched from Netlify to Render to build & deploy my applications because it's a cheaper solution. This newsletter costs ~$70 per month and I usually don't have a paid sponsorships which means it generates $0 in revenue each month. If you are thinking about starting a newsletter yourself, be aware that it will cost you a lot of time and money and you probably won't make any money from it for a long time. Have a nice week ☀️ Sponsored Get Exclusive Vue Tips Join Michael Thiessen's newsletter and get great Vue tips and insights delivered to your inbox each week. Vue 📕 Implementing Clean Architecture in a Vue.js Application 👉🏻 Learn how to implement Clean Architecture in a Vue.js application, focusing on the authentication module as an example. 📕 How to Structure Vue Projects 👉🏻 In this blog post, the author explores various structures suited to Vue projects of differing sizes. 📕...

Scripting News: Sunday, June 2, 2024

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Sunday, June 2, 2024 To people who say you get wrong answers from ChatGPT, if I wanted my car to kill me I could drive into oncoming traffic. If I wanted my calculator to give me incorrect results I could press the wrong keys. In other words, ChatGPT is a very new tool. It can be hard to control, you have to check what it says, and try different questions. But the result, if you pay attention and don't drive it under the wheels of a bus, is that you can do things you never could do before. # Walt Mossberg shows why ChatGPT is such a conversation-starter, and thus is incredible art. He asked it to draw a picture of himself with Kara Swisher. Of course everyone did that, and posted the result to the thread. The variety of responses is amazing, revealing of what I'm not sure. Here's the one it came up with for me. # I bet you could do a beautifully readable blog by just dynamically rendering its RSS feed. Why bother statically rendering the home page, mon...

Scripting News: Saturday, June 1, 2024

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Saturday, June 1, 2024 Welcome to another month on Scripting News ! 😄 # By my calculations this is the 365th consecutive month of publication for my humble blog. Are there any longer-running blogs in the world? # The outline for May 2024 has been safely tucked away for posterity on the Scripting News repo. # The last post for last month is one you should read if you read nothing else on this blog ever. It's the story of tech. Something new and explosive comes out, and the journalists feel threatened by it (always, in every way, even when it has nothing to do with them) and a few others (music industry with Napster, artists with ChatGPT) see amateurs invading their previously exclusive space. Truth is these new technologies give new tools for expression of ordinary untrained people. Now we get to have fun with sharing what we see, and maybe the professionals have to reorient themselves to the rest of the world. One thing you can't do and hope not to be le...

Scripting News: Friday, May 31, 2024

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Friday, May 31, 2024 Today's song: Them Changes . # Microsoft and Google are putting AI chat into all their apps everywhere you can enter text, which imho is as pointless as embedding web browsers in all of the Office apps in 1994. ChatGPT is the Netscape of this generation. Compete with that, create the best environment for the kind of work we do there. That's the game, from a UI standpoint. # Perhaps I should add a new element to the source namespace , the name of the author of a blog, if the feed is for a blog. Here's why I need it. I am building my blogroll. Every time I find an insightful story about using tech I use, these days esp AI, I add it to my blogroll so I get to see any new articles they write when they post. But if their blog has a catchy name, I'll never pick it out of the list as I scan for something new to read. I need the name of the author too. Basically a blogger should provide their name, but of course it's completely option...

Scripting News: Thursday, May 30, 2024

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Thursday, May 30, 2024 On the day I wrote a piece asking why Trump isn't in jail, the jury returns a 34 guilty verdicts in his Manhattan trial. It's the people that get this stuff right. Juries are wonderful . # BTW, I've noticed that Google often doesn't link to the Wikipedia page unless you specifically ask for it. I don't like that. I think it should always be at the top. # The best humor is about other people being stupid, evil, clumsy or their misfortune. Watch a SNL skit. It's not about people being smart or brave, kind, generous or otherwise wonderful. That's another kind of entertainment. We find the misfortune of others funny. Especially famous, successful people. Why? I have no idea. # Biden: Why isn't Trump in jail? # Biden would be a fine president if our problems were limited to the virus, the economy and climate change. # He's like Obama, but with much more experience at getting things done in Wash...