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Scripting News: Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 I had an hour to spare this morning so I decided for a third time to try to coax ChatGPT to play a role in a little drama I have in mind. I still want to use AI to power an RSS feed of news, customized to the interests of one person (me). My query is this: "Create a summary of the news, top 20 stories with an emphasis on these topics: how people are using AI, especially in education, blogging, US politics, science news, the NBA and MLB, with a slight emphasis on the Knicks and Mets. The results should be in JSON format, with each item including: A brief one sentence summary, publication date and a link to a source where the reader can get more info. My software will then create an RSS feed with this information.." The response was basically: "I'm sorry Dave." Groan. Here are the details . # Paul Boutin who I know from early Wired days offers some hope that it can be gotten to work, with a bit more guesswork, tria...

Scripting News: Monday, August 11, 2025

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Monday, August 11, 2025 Fixed a bit of breakage on the Links page over the weekend. # I want to work on the open web with other developers who make interesting products that we can hook up together to make new products. Or if users get an idea for linking two products, they can do it with scripting. It was a dream we had for the Mac, but it fell apart because Apple wanted to control everything. I find it's better when developers are free to work with each other, without interference from a big company like Apple. That's why "platform without a platform vendor" was the most important thing about the web. That and the utter simplicity of HTTP and HTML. We lost our way in the early-mid 00s when Twitter took over at the center of the blogosphere. Now you couldn't just work with other developers, first you had to work with Twitter and accept its limits. In one swoop we lost all the features listed on the textcasting page. I am betting everything...

'Dead to Rights' on Nanjing Massacre strikes a chord at home and abroad

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'Dead to Rights' on Nanjing Massacre strikes a chord at home and abroad A film on the Nanjing Massacre has become a sensation in China's movie industry. We offered not only a glimpse into the nation's unforgotten sacrifices and contributions in WWII, but also explored how "Dead to Rights" is leaving a deep emotional impact on global audiences. Celebrated for its authenticity, the film stands as a powerful reminder of why history must be remembered and told with truth. 2025-08-11 19:56:06 View in browser A film honors China's unforgotten sacrifices and contributions in WWII ...

Weekly Vue News #210 - Modals, Nuxt Data Fetching, ViteLand Updates & More

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Weekly Vue News #210 Modals, Nuxt Data Fetching, ViteLand Updates & More View online Hi 👋 No big news this week. I've mostly been working on small bugs and features for my side projects alongside my full-time job. Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Vue 📕 The Problems With Modals, and How to Solve Them ...

Scripting News: Sunday, August 10, 2025

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Sunday, August 10, 2025 Internet was out at the house all day. Luckily it was one of the most perfect days to spend outside. In the meantime, I highly recommend the Floodlines serial podcast from the Atlantic. It's bingeable in an afternoon, tells an interesting story of Katrina and New Orleans. The interview with Brownie is cringe -worthy not binge-worthy, I skipped over it. # One more bingeable, Blue Lights from BBC on HBO Max. I love police dramas, esp British ones. I watched Peaky Blinders earlier this year and The Fall , another British crime drama, and, amazingly they all take place in Belfast, believe it or not, and don't count the number of times people say "wee" in the darndest places in BBC Belfast crime dramas. Do Brits really say wee all the time? How did I not see that coming. # It hasn't hit us yet # Theory about why we don't fight to save the US. # Many of us haven't personally felt much impact. #...

Scripting News: Saturday, August 9, 2025

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Saturday, August 9, 2025 I did a rewrite of the FeedCorps page in FeedLand. You get to it through the Reading Lists sub-menu of the Tools menu. There are three lists in the new version. A lot were false starts, they didn't make the cut. I'm always adding feeds to my blogroll and news.scripting.com. Unfortunately I can't say the same for podcasts, which are not hooked up to my podcast app. I really want a hot connection there. We'll get there. The reading lists feature is going to play a big role going forward in the open social web we're building. BTW, I really like the name FeedCorps . I haven't talked about it very much. It's a cause, like peace or freedom. Open those suckas up. Feeds all the way babe. # An archive of the previous version, built around GitHub. # There's a difference between reading a site in a web browser and it being part of the web. As it turns out what became Web 2.0, all built as silos, could more accurat...

Scripting News: Friday, August 8, 2025

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Friday, August 8, 2025 I want the web to be like Harvard # Back in the beginning I wanted the web to be like Harvard. # It's one of the reasons I went there as a research fellow in 2003. # I wasn't satisfied with the web, the density of minds wasn't up to my expectations, so I thought if I brought the web to the minds, that might work better. I wanted to work on communication systems for people trying to work together to solve big problems. # I chose Harvard over MIT, because the web was already strong at MIT, and they weren't friendly to my cause, they were busy trying to reinvent the web when it imho didn't need that. I hoped instead, Harvard, more a school of the liberal arts, would be more open to innovation in communication between people as opposed to between machines. I felt, in 2003, that was a solved problem on the web. # It didn't happen there either, some great stuff did come out of that period, and some...