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Scripting News: Friday, December 27, 2024

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Friday, December 27, 2024 We should be thinking about a new SQL that's much higher level. Another layer. Get all the efficiencies of a 50+ year platform , with all the understanding gained at the top level in all that time. Most of the learning I did in the last five years can be hidden behind a much simpler programming interface, imho. It's worth trying factor , again imho. # BTW, as a longtime speaker of English and programmer, I think the term refactoring is re-dundant. The term comes from mathematics where you simplify a statement without altering its truth. Factoring is a repetitive process. You factor, and then factor some more if you can. # The problem with everyone who says you have to get off Twitter is that we're giving up the meeting place we had and spreading all the bits into the wind. Are you going to leave the United States now that Trump is going to be president again? Leaving Twitter is a lot like that. How do you know Musk isn't go...

Scripting News: Thursday, December 26, 2024

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Thursday, December 26, 2024 Happy holidays everyone. Here's a nice fire to keep you warm. ❤️ # Linkblog items for the day. Matt Mullenweg Declares Holiday Break for WordPress.org Services. wptavern.com Embracing change and new beginnings in Woodstock. hudsonvalleyone.com This is the kind of story that could be turned into a list people could subscribe to. I love The Atlantic, long-time reader, and would try any podcast they recommend. theatlantic.com Scott Knaster, a friend I know from the early Mac days, where he wrote a lot of the excellent developer docs we depended on, has written a series of stories of memories of his work at Apple, Google and elsewhere. google.com Hospitals Give Doctors Minimal Guidance Under Abortion Bans, Report Finds. propublica.org You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. youtube.com Copyright 1994-2024 Dave Winer. This email was sent on: 12/27/20...

Scripting News: Wednesday, December 25, 2024

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Wednesday, December 25, 2024 I am ready to start programming ChatGPT, the same way I have built my own code writing and deploying software on Macintosh. I want to create rules in some kind of macro language that it will never violate. I find it has huge problems with memory, it says it's remembering something, but has forgotten it 24 hours later. This is like the Fail Whale in the early days of Twitter. Cute, because the system is doing something so new, futuristic and useful, but after a while it's not cute because we're using the system for real work. The web is programmable, our operating systems are, of course the AI-o-verse will be programmable too. We are able to create entirely new development environments, these platforms deserve a fresh new look at everything. I'd also like to note that at the same time, the platforms are breaking through in web user interfaces. Remarkable progress. Far beyond what we were doing in the very stagnant Web 2.0 wo...

Scripting News: Tuesday, December 24, 2024

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Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Talking with a friend about the listening lists idea and realized if it takes off it will turn podcasting into its own loosely-coupled social network. Really low tech, like the web. And not possible for one company to control. All it will take is one popular podcast client to get the pump primed . The second and third apps should be much easier to convince. This is how it worked with podcasting. Steady mission broadcasting, keep beating the drum, and if it's the right idea and when it's the right time, eventually, it happens. It will be that way too for this layer of the network, but at this time I don't own a podcast client, and that's the most basic ingredient in this bootstrap, so we wait, and keep beating the drum. # Another idea that we continued to push in 2024 is textcasting . It was what I needed to build WordLand , it defines its objective, to form an open social web with all the basic features writers need. Titles, ...

Scripting News: Monday, December 23, 2024

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Monday, December 23, 2024 Instead of having the Dems redefine the Dems, how about the people who vote for Dems redefining the Dems. Agree on what the Dems are, and just as important, are not. End arguments about whether the Dems are this color or that, this gender or that, this age or some other. Draw a circle of common interest and leave out everything else. Draw the biggest circle possible. # I wrote this piece in WordLand yesterday morning over breakfast. Started writing it as a Bluesky post, quickly ran out of space so I switched over to my own TLTB , and it's very conducive to writing flow, which is its purpose. Then I did the same thing this morning. Sorry to keep talking about the product without it being in general release yet. I want to get it right before opening it up. Still a bunch of things I want to add/fix . # Today's piece as edited in WordLand . # Linkblog items for the day. Tesla's 2024 deliveries growth might hinge ...

Weekly Vue News #177 - Merry Christmas

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Weekly Vue News #177 Merry Christmas View online Hi 👋 I'm officially on Christmas holidays for the next two weeks! 🎄 Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a wonderful time with your family if you're celebrating. See you next week in the final issue of the year! Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Vue ...

Scripting News: Sunday, December 22, 2024

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Sunday, December 22, 2024 I love writing my morning missives in WordLand . It really fits. # What we need, now, is a system to compete with Twitter. A system as capable as Twitter. It has to be privately held by a group that can be trusted not to interfere with democratic use of the system. This can't be guaranteed, it has to be based on trust. It needs to scale very quickly. Its vision is to represent democracy. And it has to be simple, clean and quickly understood as parallel to Twitter. Bluesky has a lot of what's needed, but its ownership is not clear. But it more like Twitter than Twitter is today and I expect that to continue. # BTW Twitter is innovating in ways that it never has. People not staying on Twitter would have no way of knowing. Another reason why, for software developers, quitting Twitter is stupid. As quitting Facebook was ten years ago. Great, now you have no idea what features your users are learning how to use. Eventually your software...

Macao marks 25th anniversary of return to motherland

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Macao marks 25th anniversary of return to motherland Friday marks the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland. Over the past 25 years since Macao's return to the motherland, an enormous success has been achieved in advancing the cause of "One Country, Two Systems" with distinctive Macao features. Find out more about Macao's transformation in today's newsletter. 2024-12-22 22:47:06 View in browser Macao SAR at 25: Merits of the practice of 'One Country, Two Systems' 14:05, 18-Dec-2024 ...

Scripting News: Saturday, December 21, 2024

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Saturday, December 21, 2024 I like to share posts from Threads on Bluesky and Mastodon to illustrate the incompatibility, the ignorance of one to the other. These guys should all be using the same protocol. It's a travesty that each of them considers their product to define the social web -- they don't understand the first thing about the web, what the miracle the web was. Before the web, the tech world was as it is now, fragmented by huge companies that didn't care about anything but their own internal drama. The last thing they would consider was reusing something that was already running. While all that was going on Unix basically agreed on a core set of functions that formed a basis for interop. They weren't perfect, there were differences in each of the Unixes, but you could reuse most of what you knew on each of the platforms. But Apple, Microsoft, Sun and IBM each ran their own ecosystems. And then one day along came the web. Instead of bookshelve...

Scripting News: Friday, December 20, 2024

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Friday, December 20, 2024 I've been alternating days here on my blog. One day, lots of posts, maybe even a podcast. And then a quiet day. Today started out quiet, and then the ideas started flowing. # Programming work: I was trying to work out a feature for WordLand that isn't cooperating, having to do with the clipboard and the MediumEditor package, which does all these nice things for us with the clipboard, but it isn't willing to share custody, or perhaps more accurately we can't figure out how to. The feature I want is when you paste a URL and there's a selection, the selected text is turned into a link. A video explanation . I've burned two full sessions on this, seeking advice from ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. They all pretend to know what to do, but in fact they don't. The clipboard is one of those areas of the browser that is held together with rumors and confusion, as is MediumEditor, and the intersection is rumors and confusi...