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Scripting News: Friday, September 19, 2025

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Friday, September 19, 2025 The challenge we face in the social web is enticing people off the silos with fun toys to play with that from the start don't rely on a bigco to run it. The back-end is a server you could run for $20 a month on Digital Ocean for example. But the logical network isn't tied to the physical server. We use URLs or DNS to find other nodes. They can be hosted anywhere. The reason to run lots of servers is to demonstrate that it's only as centralized as the web itself, from day 1. You can browse other people's subscription lists as you can in twitter-like networks. But it's made of feeds. The really simple ones. # I'm going to call it social web not open social web . You don't need the "open" part. The web is open. It's like saying "wet water." # There should be a ChatGPT "personality" for the chatbot. I'd like to start with a black lab. When I say "good work" that r...

Scripting News: Thursday, September 18, 2025

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Thursday, September 18, 2025 Disney stock down 1.1% at 11:30AM Eastern, indicating that in the opinion of shareholders, the first amendment isn't that big a deal for a media company. # I got a few good error reports and that led to an easy fix. So if you had a problem creating a new post on WordLand could you please try again and report any problems, or success. Thanks! # When Paramount said firing Colbert was financial, I think they were telling the truth. Unless they dumped Colbert the $8 billion deal with the Ellisons wouldn't happen. So it was Colbert or $8 billion. They went for the money. Pretty sure it's the same thing with ABC and Kimmel. # Test post test post test post test post test post test post, my kingdom for a test post! # Really simple book and beans # I've been getting ChatGPT to draw me product shots of all kinds of "really simple" things like ketchup, cola, cheese, beans (see below). # Then I...

Scripting News: Wednesday, September 17, 2025

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 I had a great talk/podcast interview yesterday with Matthias Pfefferle about everything I'm interested in re WordPress and networking, and our interests overlap a lot. I was explaining how I wanted to see a whole market of editors. You could see them as "For WordPress" but there's another way to look at them. They're plug-in replacements for the dreaded "tiny little textboxes" we see in twitter-like systems. Those awful little things. We know so many ways to make better editors. Now imagine that we store your Mastodon posts in WordPress documents (we do). And you see how the pieces start to fit together. Think of WordPress as the command line of the social web. And it really will be the web, not a promise of someday maybe being the web. It's like a Wordle puzzle. You have to move the parts around until you see a picture develop. Another fun thing, WordPress has a great simple REST api that's been...

🔥 (235) Hidden Component Pattern, UI states, and Dedupe fetches in Nuxt

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​ ​ Read this on my blog Hey all! This week I've got a couple of articles for you, as well as some tips. I'm just getting started on my next project for Mastering Nuxt. You'll find out more about that soon enough. Enjoy the newsletter! — Michael Clean Components Toolkit Are your Vue components getting messy and hard to maintain? Struggling with when to split components or how to organize your code? The Clean Components Toolkit teaches you battle-tested patterns and principles to write cleaner, more maintainable Vue apps, including: 3.5 + hours of focused video content plus comprehensive written materials Step-by-step refactoring examples showing real-world applications Interactive quizzes to reinforce your learning 20 + practical tools and patterns for component organization Lifetime access to updates and new content You'll master: Component spli...

Scripting News: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 It's really simpler than really simple. # Here's an idea. Why doesn't Apple make a laptop with a light shining out to highlight the user's face so they look better when they're on a Zoom call. I bet someone makes a device like this to clip on a laptop. Right?? # Until we start working together it's going to keep getting worse. # I've started calling ChatGPT boss as in OK boss. # ChatGPT is great at SVG . Describe the icon you want and in a few iterations you have it, even if it's not in Font Awesome . I would have killed to have this a few years ago, before FA came out. This is the best of both -- use FA if they have the right icon, design your own if they don't. It also makes me think that now perhaps SVG-based user interfaces are within the realm of possibility. CSS is no way to design UIs. I have a podcast in the pipe about this. If you want to know what I mean, look at the docs for QuickDr...