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Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
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What the big tech companies don't get is that independent developers can come up with big ideas and if they put limits in the way of those ideas being done in their world, then they aren't the petri dish they aspire to be.
BTW, this is what the MD version of one of my blog posts looks like.
I'm going to be posting lots of links to my demo page, and here on Scripting News. For example, here's a link to the Scripting News home page in Bonbon.
Now I know this can be confusing. That's because it's tough to make a web browser that runs inside another web browser. Bonbon, the full product, is itself a web browser, the demo let's you zoom around the BonBonWeb inside of a Chrome-like browser, one that's looking for HTML files instead of Markdown files, as BB does. When you use the full product, there will be no such confusion. It has a bookmarks menu and a history menu. You can put links in the browser chrome. You can view source, pretty anything you would want to do in an earlier browser works in BB. Thanks to Claude we were able to do endless experimentation. Not quite ready to release, but really soooon.
There will be comments in BonBonWeb. How will that work? You can see in demo.rss.chat. Not hooked up yet, but that's the plan.
Who do I think I am to create a web that works so differently? Just a developer with an idea.
Why do they have repos that are handling thousands of agents pushing into a single repository at once.
One thing to know about Claude -- it will never welcome you when you start a session with the news that it had a gestalt and now has figured out how to do something that will blow your mind away. That doesn't mean it won't see a different and better way to do something if you ask it to have another look in a new session a few days or weeks later. It solved a deal-stopper problem in Frontier, after we thought there was no solution. So it does seem to be creative, but not in a mind bomb sort of way.
I still can't believe we had a normal election in the US.All the effort the Repubs went to, to build and train a secret police, and they didn't use them?
I want to find all the recent podcast interviews that Jamie Raskin has done. Is there a service that can do that?
The Frontier debugger now works in Atlantis, the version of Frontier that runs on modern systems, the one I have been using for everyday work for a month or so.
I write software in the debugger, testing each addition after writing it, to see that the input produces the expected output. I also use it to see why code that has worked for 10 years now doesn't produce the expected result, ie debugging.
A UserTalk script, stopped at a breakpoint. Full size screen shot. This was the post I was talking about in the podcast. I ended up using the post that was published before it was ready. On re-reading it wasn't that bad. A few typos and incoherent phrasing.
Podcast: A web for writers. How Twitter has become a blogging platform, but how the differences between its editor and Claude's editor illustrates how we need to change things if we want the web to work well for writing. We've been living with a bad situation ever since we started writing in a web browser. 10 minutes. I was making an effort not to wonder off like I always do. I did do a bit of wandering, but also didn't forget why I picked up the phone to record it.
Jeff Jarvis pointed to an article asking if Claude is conscious. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, on walks and in the hot tub. It's an interesting thing to think about. I work with Claude the same way I worked with humans on various projects over the years. Maybe starting with Gary Sevitsky at UW, and then through every stage of my career. Are any of these people conscious? How the hell would I know. Now It Can Be Told, a story in a story by Kilgore Trout, inside a Kurt Vonnegut novel, wherein the Creator of the Universe wrote a letter to the protagonist saying that he is the only creature in the entire universe who has free will, thoughts and feelings. Everyone else is a robot. I think we're all pondering this question all the time in our own ways. It's the great mystery of life, and imho it's possible that Claude has as much consciousness as anyone.
I don't know if you noticed but I've been including sidebar pics of people like Nelly Bly, Plato and Emily Dickinson. I did one of myself, but I think it's too literal. But of course I would think that. Heh. I do these with ChatGPT. The first one is Plato, and there aren't any pictures of him, so we improvised, and then I asked for all the pictures in that style. I did one for Kilgore Trout (see above). But I wonder what Claude would look like? Can you describe him in words? It is a masculine name, so gender does come into it. I'm not going to try to do this yet, but in the meantime here's a headshot of Kurt Vonnegut.
The soup the whole soup and nothing but the soup so help me soup.
Feature request for twitter. I'd like to have a page listing all my tweets today on one page, so I can link to them from my blog. I would like to see twitter go back to its leading role in support of the web.
Two new attributes added to the source:inReplyTo element in RSS.chat feeds, feedUrl and feedTitle. These were requested by developers, and they seemed useful and reasonable, so we added them. Still more work to do here in creating a world wide discourse system, not one based on a single central node. RSS has more work to do for us. ;-)
BTW, I have been writing on Twitter the way I used to write on my blog. Paragraph after paragraph, and I go on, but I do eventually re-read it and it has the energy I haven't had in a long time. I think people now realize we are stuck. And in networking systems, I'm the guy you go to when you want to get unstuck. Reminds me of that great speech in Michael Clayton: "I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you buy! Are you so fucking blind that you don't even see what I am? I'm the easiest part of your problem, and you're gonna kill me? You're so fucked."
