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Scripting News: Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 I'm going to WordCamp Europe in June in Poland. Can't wait. # News from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. Writeup is here . # Here's a news page with stories from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. A brilliant idea. All I did was give each item a category, and shortened the URL. The brief writeup is here. # No one else can see this message. You are the only real person. The rest of us are alien robots sent here to test you. # I wrote an app that implements Inbound RSS for WordPress sites. Three months ago, a few little glitches but remarkably reliable. Open source. That's how I have scripting.com output hooked up to daveverse.org input. It stopped working this morning, not sure why. This is actually a test to see if this works. (Postscript: It did work. But I have two earlier posts today that did not get through.) # Automattic shipped a WordPress plugin that adds a source:markdown element to a WordPr...

Scripting News: Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 Interesting post on Twitter by an OpenAI co-founder, Andrej Karpathy , about the value of RSS . I've seen it said elsewhere, that RSS and ChatGPT are particularly well-suited for each other. I don't understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing the output of an app so other apps can use it as input. Another thing AI apps have in common with work we've done in the past is the ability to script apps , which was one of the big features of Frontier esp on the Mac starting in the early 90s. This started out just for desktop apps but worked just as well for web apps, once that opportunity became available. I felt strongly that the Mac with it's very functional GUI could benefit from a powerful system-level scripting language with the UI objects being scriptable, and the data of the apps accessible via script. That kind of duality is still a common theme in computer work, I'm doing the s...

Scripting News: Monday, February 2, 2026

Monday, February 2, 2026 I have an array built into every app I do, on server or in the browser, called snarkySlogans . When I need a bit of text to test with I just choose a random snarky slogan. They are little truths that have occurred to me over the years. You're free to steal this code, they do come in handy at times. There's a snarky slogan to cover that -- "Only steal from the best." Another one I really like: "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right." # Linkblog items for the day Don't discount American democracy's resilience. natesilver.net Melania at the Multiplex. thenation.com Nick Arnett: Cruelty Requires Instruments. nickdarnett.substack.com Copyright 1994-2026 Dave Winer. This email was sent on: 2/3/2026, 12:00:01 AM Eastern. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This blog has been running for: 31 ...

Weekly Vue News #235 - Dynamic UIs, Drag-and-Drop Nuxt, and Smarter Vue Forms

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Scripting News: Sunday, February 1, 2026

Sunday, February 1, 2026 Why did we need all those programming languages? # Imagine building blocks to assemble your own social web app. A toolkit you could plug into your bot. # I was surprised to find that nirvana.userland.com , a site that was new in 1998, is still running. # January is archived, as is 2025 . On to the future! :-) # Linkblog items for the day ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections. cbsnews.com We have a tremendous oversupply of would-be parade leaders, we need to build momentum, and it doesn't really matter what it is or who leads it. As long as it's something the press can cover. A movement that begets more motion. A huge march in DC. Demonstrations at Tesla dealers. daveverse.org Haitian-owned business faces closure as immigrants flee Springfield. springfieldnewssun.com 2025: "I didn't invent RSS and honestly I think it would be better if ...

Scripting News: Saturday, January 31, 2026

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Saturday, January 31, 2026 Next year I have to go to FOSDEM . This year's conference is going on right now in Brussels . If you're there and reading this -- say a hello for me. I realize the piece I wrote yesterday about the future of the social web is equally relevant now for FOSDEM. My prescription: carefully start over with a simple peer-to-peer service and build on that foundation. I would use websockets . You will have to deal with issues of centralization, and at each point decide how much you're willing to trade off ease of use and performance for decentralization. I think you can go pretty far without stripping the gears of users, but there has to be some amount of centralization, identity and storage, being the two biggies. Please read the piece, it's short, bulleted style , highly opinionated, and based on my experience with systems like the ones they're working on. (Who does he think he is? Just a software developer, working hard for...

Scripting News: Friday, January 30, 2026

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Friday, January 30, 2026 Notes for FediForum meetup # The FediForum home page says "the Open Social Web still has only a tiny fraction of the users of the closed social media platforms, and growing that number significantly has turned out harder than expected." This is the premise of their next conference, on March 2 , a little over a month from now. # Why don't people switch to Mastodon? # It's hard to use. # Twitter beat RSS because it was so damned hard to subscribe to a feed in RSS, and with Twitter it was a single click. Mastodon has the same problem. You might want to think of coming up with a Mastodon Lite that trades off some of the decentralization for ease of use. Not sure how that would work. But I promise you -- you all are having the same problems we had with RSS. People wouldn't work together, Twitter blew right through that. # If you want to get an idea why adoption is slow for Mastodon, take a t...