Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It’s a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren’t ready to move on yet. They’re still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the […]

Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is creating a connection from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I’ve wanted this for a long time, but now I’m planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to.

One of the reasons I’m working on the Web of Markdown is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the web religion is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is “Google is a guest on the web, as […]

A blog post from Scripting, in Markdown.

Previous posts on this topic: Oct 6 and Oct 8. What’s new? I’ve got a browser running, and have been using it for a few weeks. We’re not releasing it today because first I want people to think about the format we’re using to represent a story, and get feedback, and see if other people […]

Ooops, didn’t get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. 🙂

I hope to see the The Web of Markdown idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. Still diggin!

Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow.

Occam’s News reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That’s all that’s going on there. All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It’s totally obvious what’s going on. […]

Today’s song, for the Knicks. “And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again.” Knicks in 5!

I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight’s game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic […]

My friend Guy Kawasaki has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. “Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn’t take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.” You […]

About XSLT — I remembered that I thought it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren’t really that […]

Anyway — I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It’s a writer’s web. The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it’s just writing. […]

Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying […]

I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn’t fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we’re doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files […]

The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients. Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients. They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag. I don’t know if it’s this […]

Anyway, what this means is we’re building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you’re reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably […]

I wrote a piece entitled The Web of Markdown on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It’s one of […]

Try going to web.org in a recent version of Chrome.

I didn’t notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of […]

Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed — and they also called it the web. The confusion — you could read it in a web browser, but that didn’t make it of the web. My […]

Tried a Wirecutter podcast about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn’t know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was giggling […]

Worth repeating: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play […]

Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com blog post from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it’s a dangerous site. I’m getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good look for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is […]

Reminder, Atlantis is the codename for the new Frontier that runs in Electron. As I work on other projects now, it’s not on my front burner, but in a way it is, because I’m using it constantly as I work on FeedLand and the other project. We just released a new set of parts that […]

Thread: “Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles.”

Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won’t be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won’t have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.

Occam’s News reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That’s all that’s going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It’s totally obvious what’s going […]

The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball. The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic. Each in turn has had their way with the web. . The web this stack of hair defines is far far away from the web we started with. It was […]