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Scripting News: Monday, September 1, 2025

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Monday, September 1, 2025 AI chatbots should drop the pretense of being human. # I want my blog on the same network as my social media. # A new kind of spam or phishing email. Appears to be a challenge by Twitter of one of my posts there as a copyright infringement, which it most definitely is not. You have to look closely at the URL it takes you to, which is on this domain. assents-x.com. Hmm at first looks legit, but look more closely. # I've been watching a lot of baseball recently. Over the years I've developed as a programmer, and they've radically changed the way baseball is played. Pitchers used to try to pitch a complete game , but now that never happens. Sometimes they take a pitcher out in the first inning if he's pitched over say 70 pitches, because there's no point, what he's doing obviously isn't working, and he's getting close to the maximum pitches they'd let him do, esp if he's young and a hot prospect,...

Weekly Vue News #213 - Level Up Nuxt: Drizzle ORM, Lazy Hydration & Core Web Vital Gains

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Weekly Vue News #213 Level Up Nuxt: Drizzle ORM, Lazy Hydration & Core Web Vital Gains View online Hi 👋 You can now search for links published in previous issues of this newsletter — give it a try . This feature was requested by a subscriber, and I also find it very useful. I always strive to avoid sharing the same link twice, so you'll only get the latest news without any duplicates. Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Vue ...

Scripting News: Sunday, August 31, 2025

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Sunday, August 31, 2025 Today's song: Jambalaya on the Bayou . # A podcast from post-Katrina New Orleans, Dec 2005. # There are two quotes that make me laugh in the Think Different piece from last week. One of them is here : "They took paradise and.." At first, if you're roughly my age, you read "They took paradise and..." and recognize it as the beginning of a famous line from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi . The other is a subtle touch of sarcasm, that I usually try not to indulge in, but let pass through as I edited this piece. See if you can find it. # Mea culpa: Unfortunately I misquoted Joni, she said "paved" not "took." I'm going to leave the mistake in the piece. # If you want to get an idea of how well WordPress has been bridged to ActivityPub, check this out . It's time for Mastodon to adopt these features across the board, so when writing in Masto you can use linking, style, titles, 1...

Scripting News: Saturday, August 30, 2025

Saturday, August 30, 2025 Stephanie Booth , an old school blogger, wanted to hook up my RSS feed to a new service that supports inbound RSS , which we appreciate. Apparently they can't handle HTTP, which of course we don't . # Linkblog items for the day A CLI tool for managing RSSfeeds with SQLite storage and static website generation. github.com On the flight from Atlanta to post-Katrina New Orleans, a 50-minute podcast with Janet, a woman who lost her house and all her possessions in the Lakeview section of New Orleans. static2.podcatch.com ICE recruiting site. ice.gov Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission. theguardian.com Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" mastodon.social How Gavin Newsom made Mike Johnson look (and sound) like a (wimpy) Democrat editorial...

Scripting News: Friday, August 29, 2025

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Friday, August 29, 2025 Thanks to Matt Mullenweg for the boost to yesterday's post . Glad to finally get the whole plan down in one place. Each piece of the puzzle took a while to come together in concept and then in implementation. I'm still working on all levels, last week I added a feature to FeedLand that makes it fit in better with the (new) timeline and WordPress (20+ years). It takes a while to change your thinking from WordPress being just another blogging CMS, to being an open platform that hosts web writing in a way that's open to competition. We're on the same page. It's still a competitive environment, but there are rules to competing, you don't cash in the interop that took patience and respect to develop and maintain. That's been the pity of the open web, lots of opportunists who are willing to stink up the ecosystem to squeeze a few more bucks for themselves from things they didn't create. Let your competitors in, a...

Scripting News: Thursday, August 28, 2025

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Thursday, August 28, 2025 Think Different about WordPress # Steve Jobs asked you to think differently about computers. # I'm going to ask you to think differently about WordPress. # I'm not going to make you wait to hear what it is. I want you to see WordPress as comparable to Bluesky or Mastodon. # I've done this before -- asked people to think differently about things, like public writing, with blogging. In the 90s I was running around the Vallley trying to explain to everyone that blogging was going to change everything, all I got was blank stares from people who said "we don't do that." They of course eventually did do it. But at first the ideas seemed foreign, unreasonable. # I did it with RSS and podcasting. We needed to seed these things, get the ideas in front of people with actual products, with real utility for users. And eventually they came around. # Now I'm going to ask you to think differ...