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Scripting News: Saturday, February 22, 2025

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Saturday, February 22, 2025 WordLand opened yesterday for everyone to use. There was a deal-stopping bug reported last night, fixed provisionally, then for real this morning. Prevented new users from getting started. Really embarassing. If you have trouble, please report. There's a link for Support in the main menu . WordLand is designed to be the kind of editor you use in a social app like Bluesky or Mastodon, but with most of the features of textcasting . # WordLand is where we start to boot up a simple social net using only RSS as the protocol connecting users. Rather than wait for ActivityPub and AT Proto to get their acts together. I think we can do it with feeds and start off with immediate interop without the complexity of federation. I call it the feediverse . It's not a joke, although it may incite a smile and a giggle. And that's ok. # Jay Rosen started a list of journalism sources on Bluesky. John Spurlock wrote an app that generates a...

Scripting News: Friday, February 21, 2025

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Friday, February 21, 2025 WordLand is now open for anyone to sign up. Here we go! :-) # Something you hear from Democratic politicians and MSNBC hosts. "We know why Musk is cutting so much, it's to fund a huge tax cut for billionaires." They don't actually know that and I doubt it's true. Show me another example where Musk did anything to benefit anyone but himself? Why should he share the loot he's grabbing with other rich folk? What did they do to help? Nah I think it's all for him, with a taste going to the Trump and Putin families. He's going to use his new power to buy something else. The question is what? What else could he want? I imagine he wants all the money in the world not just the most. # Templates for Bluesky? # A note to designers of Bluesky as a platform. # I've been playing with adding metadata to posts in a thread. # As you can see the metadata, in the screen shot below, overwhelms the co...

Scripting News: Thursday, February 20, 2025

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Thursday, February 20, 2025 Yes it's me I'm the pride of Cucamonga . # I'm starting to use the rewrite of my thread publisher on Bluesky. Here's an example . And here's the version of the thread without being broken up into 300-character chunks (you can get it by clicking in the metadata box below the text of the post). I don't like it. The software is as good as it can be, given the extreme limits of the twitter-like environment. I went all the way with this, but I'm not sure I'm going to release it. But I'm going to keep using it, and maybe I'll think of something that makes it fun or worthwhile, or maybe I'll just chalk it up to another learning experience. # Favorite part of the SNL50 show. Eddie Murphy impersonating Tracy Morgan, while standing next to him on Black Jeopardy . It's really hard to see the resemblance between today's Eddie and young Eddie, but there it was, the comic brilliance. Then they ask ...

Scripting News: Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 I don't like social networks as they're currently configured. The idea that it's some kind of conversation -- no it really doesn't resemble a conversation. I would like to try a social network that didn't have the concept of replying to a post. Give each other a little more distance. It still would be a graph, people following other people, but you wouldn't be able to insert something into someone else's flow, which is where all the indecency comes from imho. Or let replies be only visible to the person it's in reply to, so you don't end up getting speeches under your posts. And so that people with a lot of followers don't bother reading anything that's related to what they wrote, and thus no new ideas can enter the flow. We've been doing this, the way we do it, since the inception of Twitter in 2006. For some reason the design of that network is considered sacred. I was a math major who studie...

🔥 (#205) Flatten Nuxt Content Routes, Mock Any Import, and more

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Read this on my blog Hey! I hope you're having a wonderful week. Where I'm living in Waterloo, we've already had 140 cm of snow this February. That's almost as much snow in the last 3 weeks as we usually get in an entire winter. I'm so tired from shoveling snow 🥲 This week I've been working on the lesson outlines for Mastering Nuxt while we get a new design done for the app that we build in the course. And as always, I've got some tips and articles for you! — Michael 🔥 Flatten Nuxt Content Routes I wanted to organize my blog content into several folders: Articles: content/articles/ Newsletters: content/newsletters/ By default though, Nuxt Content would set up these routes to include those prefixes. But I want all of my routes to be at the root level: Articles: michaelnthiessen.com/my-latest-article Newsletters: michaelnthiessen.com/most-recent-newsletter We can do this manually for eac...

Scripting News: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Threads in Bluesky # I started out doing a week to strip blue.threadcenter down to its bones, for a fresh start, but then I started getting ideas, and decided to go for it. I have the time, and Bluesky is having moment after moment and these days I'm using it to the exclusion of pretty much everything else, though I do check Twitter, Threads and Mastodon a few times a day, but usually there's nothing for me in those places. Anyway I'll be pointing to this post from some of my experiments, so maybe nothing more interesting than this will appear here. # An example of AI use # I just thought of a good example of a question you could bring to ChatGPT. Here's the prompt. # I'm thinking of driving from NYC to Jacksonville, FL. I want to do it in four days with stopovers in three places that have good places to ride a bike and a Citibike-style bike rental. Choose three places on the trip...

'Ne Zha 2': Animated phenomenon redefining global box office success

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'Ne Zha 2': Animated phenomenon redefining global box office success In a historic milestone for Chinese cinema, the animated blockbuster "Ne Zha 2" has shattered records by surpassing $1.6 billion at the box office, securing a place among the top 10 highest-grossing films worldwide. It now ranks as the second highest-grossing animated film of all time globally, trailing only "Inside Out 2." This animated masterpiece not only captivates audiences with its stunning visuals and compelling storytelling but also introduces the world to the legendary deity Ne Zha, a symbol of resilience and heroism in Chinese mythology. Dive into the journey of how this cinematic triumph conquered hearts, broke barriers and redefined what animated storytelling can achieve. 2025-02-18 14:17:42 View in browser ...