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There was a time when I thought Dick Cheney was the worst possible person to be vice president of the United States. His corruption led to what we have now. I will never love his memory. But I do remember that he voted for Kamala Harris. So, if you go deep enough, we shared the same vision for the country. As corrupt as he was, even he had a limit. We need more Republicans to do what he did. And I thank him for setting that example.

📍 Checked in at b-ware! ladenkino, Berlin, Berlin.

Wind turbines, driving back from Corpus Christi.

Mia Elvasia has a great article about how they realized they were spending $635/yr across various plugins to get things that Jetpack offered bundled and often free. Save money! Jetpack is frequently overlooked as one of the most underappreciated plugins in the WordPress universe. This is partially our fault, as the article notes, because the … Continue reading Jetpack Saves →

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Mural in Corpus Christi.

Wes Felter explains what stablecoins are for. "Stablecoins work offshore in places where dollars don't, they're faster to transfer, they mostly can't be seized, etc. It's for the margins not the mainstream."

From the beginning, I wanted FeedLand to make excellent use of WebSockets. It's an amazing technology for its power and simplicity. Basically it allows a server running in the cloud to send information to an app running in the browser, or for that matter an iOS app running on an phone. Then the question is what do you want to use the socket for? And the answer is that to make syndication even simpler and faster than RSS. If you want to know more, there's a client toolkit and demo app on GitHub, open source of course. How real is it? The blogroll on scripting.com is a sockets app, a much-improved blogroll from the ones we had 20 years ago. Also runs on WordPress sites. It's been running smoothly since March 2024. Pretty solid. And WordPress, that doesn't break formats, has supported the rssCloud protocol since 2009, and of course so does FeedLand.

New podcast about WebSockets.

If I could grab you by the shoulders I would urge you to pay attention.

Here's a way to push news around the net that's as fast as you can imagine it being, and even simpler than RSS.

It's all about WebSockets, rssCloud and WordPress.

Would you spend a few minutes thinking about that?

Then here's a podast for you.

Here's the blog post I wrote this morning with all the links you need to explore the sockets tech in FeedLand.

I'm part of the Berkman community email list. There's a tradition that people are introduce themselves at this time, so I thought I should also, since this is my first year on the list. This is a copy of the email I sent. My name is Dave Winer. I was at Berkman in 2003-04. ...

England is criss-crossed by routes that were originally laid down by the Romans. When it came time to construct modern roads, it often made sense to use these existing routes rather than trying to designate entirely new ones. So some of the roads in England are like an early...

Last baseball game of the year. 

It's the first day of "no more baseball" for the next ten months or so. I admit I don't really get involved until August. But this year was great, even though the Mets didn't make the playoffs. Congrats to my friends who are Mariners fans, they made a really good run. I was pulling for the Blue Jays, dreading a Los Angeles win, but as they say you can't always get what you want. And I don't mind that there's a victory for LA, a city that's taking the brunt of what's surely coming for NYC. Obviously they're waiting for the election to be over before they occupy the city.

Current screen shot of WordLand.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Kyle Kowalski has an amazing blog post exploring many aspects of this Zen Kōan, including some diversions into David Foster Wallace’s legendary commencement speech, This is Water.

Working on something new for the Mac app and thinking about how disclosure triangles are sort of a lost art. We’ve web-ified most UI design.

🎃 Night before IndieWebCamp Berlin! Participants are (hopefully, mostly) all tucked into their beds, dreaming of what wonderful things they can brainstorm for their personal sites Saturday, and #HackTheirPlanet on Sunday.Want to keep up with #IndieWebCamp #Berlin participants?Follow their feeds and a Bluesky starter pack (happy to include more for any other formats, protocols, or platforms)* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin#Feeds_Lists_Starter_Packs_Oh_MyWe’ll add more as folks sign-in at the camp!This is post 14 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb #Blogtober #IndieWebMovieClub #HackThePlanet 📟← https://tantek.com/2025/303/t1/october-blogging-challenges→ 🔮

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