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Matt Mullenweg said something provocative on Twitter two days ago that I'm just tuning into now. "The lawsuits will go years and could potentially bankrupt me or force the closure of WordPress.org." I commented on it as a developer who views WordPress as a platform.

Daytona is the search engine for Scripting News.

I've wanted to do a rewrite for quite some time, there were a lot of decisions I wanted to redo, and I've learned a lot about databases in the three years since the first release.

You can try it out. There are docs, and a place for questions and comments. The usual caveats apply, esp since it's newly deployed, quickly.

I realized some time ago that all the ways I want America to change just bring it closer to being Europe. Like, what if we had this can-do attitude and all the good parts without the guns and with universal healthcare, real education, unprocessed food without sugar in it, a ...

The feediverse is not a joke. It's deployed, scaled, widely supported, far beyond AT Proto or ActivityPub. It's the HTML of the social web. And where the others are complicated, feeds are, wait for it, really simple.

Interesting—this is exactly the same framing I used to talk about design systems a few years ago.

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ChatGPT scheduled tasks are interesting. I’ve tried a few things — sending me a news summary or programming tip at a certain time — and it works as advertised. Not sure I have a good use case right now, so for fun I’m having it send me a haiku.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bug related to == vs. === in JavaScript. Half the time we’re comparing strings anyway and it just doesn’t matter, so why ugly up your code with an extra =? Also while I’m being controversial, real tabs are great. 🤪

Sara Dietschy’s latest video about AI voice and video clones is really good. Both the technical side and also finding the right balance: using AI sparingly where it fits, recognizing that most content should be created the old-fashioned way. People want to feel a connection with a real human.

Revisiting my tweet import code (see this post) to see what can be optimized. I really hope Twitter / X doesn’t change their export file format anytime soon. May not be worth updating my code again for major changes.

Why are all the people who hate AI so pissy about it.

In the future I will be able to type a post into my blog and people who are following me will see it in their timeline.

Peeve: TV shows or movies that show text messages that are impossible to read even if you stop the video and zoom in.

I plan to ignore Trump for most of the next few years, and I’m not even ready to read the special counsel report yet. But John Gruber’s post rings true to me. We needed a trial to educate voters, to cut through the disinformation. It was a major failure that they didn’t happen. 🇺🇸

[Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge] I think this is the wrong kind of protectionism: "The Biden administration finalized a new rule that would effectively ban all Chinese vehicles from the US under the auspices of blocking the “sale or import” of connected vehi...

Back in 2019 I had the amazing experience of going to CERN and being part of a team building an emulator of the first ever browser. Remy was on the team too. He did the heavy lifting of actually making the thing work—quite an achievement in just five days! Coming into t...

Dave Winer in a longer post collecting thoughts on Matt Mullenweg and other things:

I don’t like that people have called him things like the Mad King. People used to say stuff like that about me. It’s a substitute for trying to understand where someone is coming from.

I’ve adopted the “mad king” phrasing in recent posts about Matt and about Automattic. I just find it amusing, a way to poke fun at the whole drama. I don’t actually think he’s crazy.

Starting up a new TestFlight beta for Micro.blog for iOS. This release will include support for photo collections. You can tap a photo to add it to a collection, or create a new collection in the app.

Do I brag too much or not enough? It occurred to me that Micro.blog might be on the only platform of its kind that has built-in support for exporting content in several different file formats. And multiple APIs to get your data out? JSON, XML-RPC, Micropub. Our commitment to portability is absolute.

I used to use Twitter for middle of the night ideas. These days I use one of Twitter's successors. No telling where my middle of the night missives will appear! 😄 Here's one. "We should be able to tweet from within any application that has the ability to create and edit tex...