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Why is scripting.com not https? I hope you can see that I have no trouble deploying https sites here. I use Caddy on my Linux servers, and I don't see why anyone uses anything else. It's really easy and requires none of the work people complain about. Anyway the reason script...

It’s upgrade and cleanup season. I moved the old noke dot us site into the archive. And I archived the Git repo. And added it to my prior projects. I created a new page to enumerate my robots: /robots. I made a new header. I also deprecated some domains I will not do anything with....

My suggestion re Schumer et al. It's over -- remember the lessons, let's look forward, tonight's vote is already history. Let the Dems in the Senate take care of themselves. It's we, the people, who created this country, and we the people are the only ones who can make it work again.

In my My static site editing bookmarklet blog post, I outlined the bookmarklet I made that, when clicked, automatically takes me to the GitHub page associated with a URL on my website. I use this link daily to edit the wiki-like pages on this website. Today, I thought to mys...

Photos taken in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. Pink blossom on a tree A plant with mostly green leaves, except for the occasional red leaf, one of which is in focus A palm tree A bush with many white rhododendrons and the occasional pink blossom A bush with many red rhododendrons White blossom on a tree

“There is a joy to walking on a familiar path but in a new direction,” I thought as I walked to the botanic gardens. I enjoyed walking on the sunny side of the street as I ventured to a part of the city I don’t visit as often. With every step, I found delight in my surroundin...

The well-kept antique books in the window caught my eye, all carefully bound in the way that only old books are. I stopped and looked around. Through the tall window through which the natural light of the sun was beaming – the bookshop was on the sunny side of the street – I ...

Bluesky has a proposal to declare user intention for things like archiving and AI training. Looks pretty good. Maybe we should mirror this in robots.txt? It stretches the original purpose of the file but it should be somewhere outside of a specific protocol. There was also CC-NT for one narrow use.

We are so used to being able to do almost anything in software. For example, today I was looking at how long it takes to load the list of your blog posts in Micro.blog. It’s a couple seconds, but I’d like it to be half a second. I know from many years of web experience that ...

Disappointed I missed the world without caesars shirt. Still catching up on SXSW happenings, including Jay Graber’s interview which I just queued up.

Question for WordLand users. When you published your first post, were you surprised that the window didn't clear? Did you understand that you can make changes and update the public post? I was just talking with a friend who didn't expect it to behave the way it did.

Had a couple funny interactions with ChatGPT this week, including when asking it for some help with a coding task. It suggested some code that was really problematic and could easily break in the future. I told it I was worried about that code, and it replied with “You’re right, that was a hack.” 🤪

I asked ChatGPT to write a blog post using the technology of 1993.

I was looking over my blog archive for August 2006, which was when I started using Twitter, and came across this video of Jason Calacanis, at a Wikipedia conference in Cambridge. This is what videos were like back then, tiny and very short. I probably took it with a fairly expensive Nikon camera.

Saw an interview with Mark Cuban where they asked why would Elon Musk do something that would cause Tesla stock to tank. How could he say no? He's got the power to play with the biggest financial thing that has ever existed, and quite possibly that ever will exist. In compari...

I heard an idea that really resonated in a Brian Lehrer interview with Anand Giridharadas, who says among many other things, that we should aim our ire at the leaders of the MAGA movement, and stop bringing our angst to the people who voted for them. Every time I see a condescending TikTok story about them, I think about how that takes us further from getting where we must go. We have to reconcile, we share a country, and our interests are totally aligned. We need each other, that will become completely obvious, and the sooner it does the better.

Please, today -- write a blog post that explains why you believe in The Writer's Web. That the best way to express our ideas on the web is with all the tools that writers have invented. And while we may enjoy using social media like Bluesky or Mastodon, we understand that they are not for writing and are not the web. Please send me a link to your post and I will read what you've written with thanks for believing in writers and the web! You can use any blogging software you like. My email address is dave.winer@gmail.com. And thank you.

I keep hearing pundits and incumbent Democrats missing the point, that the people are the ones whose opinion matters about the Republicans dismantling our democracy in the United States. I want to celebrate those leaders who totally get that the power is with the people, no...

"It's the people, dummy!"