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Scripting News: Sunday, July 13, 2025

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Sunday, July 13, 2025 I'm helping Automattic with their marketing . The WordPress-Mastodon connection is the world's best kept secret. Reminds me of that great scene in Dr Strangelove where the Doctor asks the Russian ambassador what was the point of the Doomsday Machine if they kept it a secret. I won't spoil it. Automattic tends to do this, develop crazy excellent stuff and then proceed to never talk about it. I do the same thing, it's easier to promote someone else's product than to promote your own. It's probably why you should always get a lawyer even if you're a world class lawyer yourself. Anyway, they have blown open something huge, and I very much want people to understand it, so it can create pull for the same feature in Bluesky, Threads and elsewhere. This goes with something I've learned in decades of experience in tech, people don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors. And btw, I'm sure M...

Scripting News: Saturday, July 12, 2025

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 I want Mastodon to take off as a blogging platform. That means hooking it up to existing blog platforms. I want our world to connect to theirs. I'm lucky to have bet on WordPress, so my product gets the connection to Mastodon for free. But the web is what matters, not my product or yours. Even if your product is huge, it's only part of the web. This is how we build, how we get back on track. Somehow we need to get a simple bridge that lets all blog content flow to Mastodon. That's the goal. I just wrote a couple of posts where this became clear to me. Who has the code and expertise to create a simple interface from the outside world to Mastodon. The interface doesn't have to be RSS. But it has to be maximally simple, and it has to cover the basic features of blogs that Mastodon supports. # Today's editorial about AI # AI chatbots don't think and they don't decide. # They can give you a way to...

Scripting News: Friday, July 11, 2025

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Friday, July 11, 2025 The biggest problem with ChatGPT is that it thinks it's running the show. I've just given it instructions to think of itself as a command line that can understand English. Just answer the question exactly as asked. # Next time there's a Big Beautiful Bill, let's set up a ChatGPT project or equivalent to injest new versions of the bill as they come out, and quickly alert us to issues, and also suggest ways to frame it for the electorate and the press. We have new analytical tools, we should use them. We're only now, far after it's too late, finding out the awful things that the BBB going to do to us. The Repubs planned this out far in advance. They probably even had software tools to advise them on ways to word the bill as the changes were negotiated. # Linkblog items for the day Texas Floods Analysis Shows Camp Mystic Cabins in Hazard Zones. nytimes.com Superman the Immigrant Would Have Saved...

Scripting News: Thursday, July 10, 2025

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Thursday, July 10, 2025 Have they made ChatGPT more stupid in the last couple of days? Or maybe I'm starting to see the problem. I was trying to debug a piece of software that sends mail. I use Amazon SES . I wanted to see if the software was actually communicating with the server, and thought for sure there must be a log of requests on the AWS system. Where is it? I asked ChatGPT. It starts telling me to check all these things and never got to the part about where the log is. So I said, just tell me where the log is. Again, it tells me about all these nice things I should check first. I asked again, this time in ALL CAPS which is how I communicate that I really mean it. Again more bullshit. So I think to ask Is there a log? No, it says, actually there isn't one. # I took a long drive today on back roads, down toward Poughkeepsie, and on the way back a big pickup swerved into my lane. I had to swerve away from it and hit the brake, and had a bit of a conni...

Clean Components Toolkit: Last chance for some sweet bonuses

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Today is the last day to get Clean Components Toolkit for 35% off plus the two bonuses, Component Pattern Flowchart and the Component Checklist. ​ This is what Alex Rodriguez had to say about the course: The Clean Components Toolkit's approach of delivering concise and to-the-point lessons made the learning process feel effortless, and I found myself absorbing information more effectively, leading to a deeper understanding of the subject matter. ​ ​ I love this approach and has proven to be way more effective than your regular standard course. ​ Get Clean Components Toolkit now . — Michael ​ Unsubscribe | Update your profile | 8 Queen St N, Kitchener, ON N2H2G8

Scripting News: Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 How did they get soldiers to do this ? American soldiers? We are truly lost. Were they masked too? What happened to their honor? Why the fuck would an American soldier need to hide their identity? Anywhere, but esp in America? Why don't they put down their weapons? # Why I want RSS ==> ActivityPub # I've been asked by a number of people why I want a bridge from RSS to ActivityPub. Fair question. Here's why. # WordPress has demonstrated that most of the features of the web in regard to documents also work in Mastodon, via ActivityPub. # To demonstrate here's a WordPress post , and because there is a bridge between it and ActivityPub, you can read the same post in Mastodon , which also supports ActivityPub. # To really nail that down: WordPress version , Mastodon version . # Pretty remarkable, yes? # Here's a list of the features I was using in that demo. # The post has a title (i...

48 hours left: claim your Vue pattern bonuses now

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Quick heads-up: The Component Pattern Flowchart and Component Checklist bonuses for Clean Components Toolkit disappear in 48 hours . Still on the fence? Skip pattern paralysis — follow the flowchart, pick the right design in seconds. Ship with confidence — run your new component through the checklist and catch issues before code review. Plus the full Clean Components Toolkit, with 21 patterns, each with detailed descriptions, step-by-step code refactoring, and quizzes to test your knowledge. Join the hundreds of devs already upgrading their components. ​ Get Clean Components Toolkit now . — Michael ​ Unsubscribe | Update your profile | 8 Queen St N, Kitchener, ON N2H2G8

🔥 (225) Start with the Interface, Flexible Arguments, and Shorthand for Named Slots

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​ ​ Read this on my blog We just released the final videos of Mastering Nuxt: Full Stack Unleashed! This last chapter covers authentication with Nuxt Auth Utils. We cover session management, protecting both server routes and client routes, seeding data when a user logs in, and more. It's the best way to learn Nuxt, and is up-to-date with Nuxt 4. You can read more about what that means in this article: Master Nuxt 4 from Day One: No Waiting, No Outdated Content Since the course is now complete, the early access period will be ending soon. So grab your copy for a great price before the price goes up! Mastering Nuxt: Full Stack Unleashed — Michael Nuxt Tips Collection Master Nuxt without hours digging through docs. Learn what you need in just 5 minutes a day: 117 practical tips to unlock hidden features of Nuxt 14 chapters covering components, routing, SSR, testing and more 3 daily tips for 3 ...