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A man is in the hospital after being shot by ICE in Austin today. I watched some of the press conference… APD and the Texas Rangers are going to investigate.

If and when Democrats take the House, there is a long list of things to do. Oversight of ICE and pressure for reform has gotta be in the mix.

Elon Musk today again teased a hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio. Doesn’t seem likely to me. And it’s a major failure that we still have no usable train connecting literally any combination of Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Whenever there’s small progress, it stalls.

Servers getting hammered today by hackers. Sigh. Whenever I noticed this, I add some more blocking rules, but it’s such a waste of everyone’s time.

Dave Winer:

We’re starting to find the networky-ness of the web coming back to life.

Here's a screen shot of a new verb we just added, to facilitate nightly backups. I want to save off a fresh copy of frontier.root every night, as well as my guest databases. This is how that will work.

Frontier news. I have been working on a repo for Frontier pioneers, I started with a few friends, including Brent and Jake who were both on the UserLand team, and have added people very slowly. This is a good time to start showing progress in the project. Still very early for a public release of the software. And I want to do even better than we did with rss.chat a few months ago. And Frontier is a huge thing, all kinds of docs, and archives, and example stuff. It really was 15 years of work done by as many as 5 people.

New verb: string.addressToString. This is how I'm releasing examples.

Chigurgh: "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" Frontier must've lived by a good rule. The Atlantis version has tons of bugs but it works. It defied death. I just spent a session updating my nightly backup code, and there were awkard moments. The debugger isn't in yet. The Find command doesn't work. But I have hobbled my way to working code, and I have help debugging with Claude, and it is amazing at that. Frontier didn't know that Claude was going to save its life. More proof that you never know what is just around the corner.

Another shot of Austin, a little later in the morning from the Lamar pedestrian bridge. Love this city and don’t actually go downtown often enough.

If you want to get an idea of the kind of user interface you can create using Claude Code, with a driver (me) who has ample experience developing such things, have a look at demo.rss.chat. The UI was entirely done by Claude with me directing, very fine-tuning stuff. Claude can't really grok user interfaces because it is not visual and it is not a user. It might be able to test them, to some extent. Anyone can create an account on the demo server, that's what it's there for. And if something interesting breaks out there, that would be even better. I even tolerate a small amount of spam, and testing is definitely allowed (that's why it's there). ;-)

There are problems people aren't talking about, that are immediate, and go against all the security practices the web has been built on. Here's a story of what happened in my setup in mid-August. First fact, Claude Code (CC) is different from regular Claude in that it is us...

Morning in Austin. From the bridge looking east.

On stage in Cáceres.

Panorama from today. I enjoy riding waves quite a lot. I went to Ocean Beach. Kelly went to San Diego Design Week. I updated my avatar on lots of services. It was a bit easier to do on my Elsewhere page. I also added it (still out of order and with duplicates) to my “PFP”...

Went to see Come From Away tonight at Zach. I love musicals but had been avoiding it over the years, felt too close to 9/11. Glad to finally see it. It’s good. 🎭

A long, well-researched blog post from Andrew Sharp that attempts to pour some cold water on the accelerating “AI is going to kill us all” narrative:

The vague and unfalsifiable fears expressed by AI leaders are predicated on leaps in the technology that may well be foreseeable, but also on the assumption that humans will be completely powerless to intervene and mitigate harms, or perhaps use technology themselves to innovate solutions.

Well I got a lot done today. We had a bit of a meltdown due to a Atlantis bug, where it couldn't handle some text that I threw at it that was a huge file of includes used in everything I do, and I was feeling pretty cheeky, and it blew up. For about an hour you couldn't read my lovely words. But by remembering "slow down to hurry up" Claude figured out what went wrong as I asked 20 questions to narrow it down. And to celebrate, I decided to do something easy -- created a podcast. And it showed up in all the right places. Might be worth listening to as well. Now let's see if this shows up on daveverse.org, that's what I'm really testing. (It worked.)

New podcast. Knicks in Five! (It's not about the Knicks.)