Thursday, June 25, 2026
Om Malik died. A longtime friend, most generous kind person in Silicon Valley. It's that time of life. Much love to you brother.#
Claude is a brain, very different from ours and when we work together we humans have access to capabilities that work ...
When writing code with Claude you really have to be skeptical when it says it just found the problem, but you have no idea what it's saying, chances are pretty good it's just a word salad excuse for not having read all the code necessary to have an fact-based opinion. Actually debugging software isn't about opinions, it's about proof. When you start clutching at straws until one works you just added another level of bug that will eventually bite you in the butt and you'll still have to solve the original one. Uncorrected, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to trust the code it writes, but I guess that's why people have two or more instances playing different roles? For now I'm the one that questions its sanity, politely though. ;-)#
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
I took a screen shot of this post, gave it to Claude, asked it to write a short paragraph summary. Then I asked it to rewrite with using no more than 300 chars, the limit on Bluesky. Now I can post the summary there, but I won't, at the moment of trut...
Monday, June 22, 2026
Louis CK: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.
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People who reinvent RSS often say they did it because it was missing a feature they needed. We anticipated that, there's a section of the spec that explains how you can extend the format so there...
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Today's song: Back to the Island. #
Braintrust query: Do you have a copy of Radio UserLand that runs?#
With AI you can have a team of assistants available on call at any time. The other day I went from working on a deep technical problem (changing ...
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Claude doesn't care if you criticize the code it wrote, because if it wasn't written just now, it didn't write it. It starts from zero in every session, you can watch it, like HAL in 2001, singing daisy daisy. I can see it happening as the environmen...
Friday, June 19, 2026
Today's song: "You who choose to lead must follow. "#
The WordPress community likes to say that WordPress powers a certain percentage of the web. This always bothered me, couldn't figure out why, until just now. WordPress is part of the web, that's t...
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Today I did a change that was across two apps, different projects, client and server. I tested it as best I could for now, and it appears to work in both apps. But now I have an extra level of confidence because I asked Claude to do a code review, ch...
The Knicks’ message is that working together works.#
Being a NYer and Knicks fan, I don't have a good perspective on how big an event the Knicks winning is. If you're not from the area, how widely is this holiday being observed and how many share the enthusiasm. Are people everywhere asking "How about those Knicks!"#
There will be new higher level development environments. How they work, I don't know. But much of your time working in Claude Code is telling it how to do stuff you want it to do, always -- and reminding that it that it forgot one of the rules (which it seems to always admit). A new development environment will come with rules about how to work with people. Those rules will be written with the help of psychologists who study human reasoning processes. #
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Jason Calacanis challenges people to develop certain open source software, offering a bounty on specific projects, but I think the real incentive for people to pitch in is that Jason has a lot of sway in the startup world, and if there is a flow of ex...
Monday, June 15, 2026
Good morning sports fans! Going to the Knicks parade in NYC on Thurs? Starts at 10AM at Battery Park, goes up Broadway through Canyon of Heroes, concluding at City Hall.#
Now that basketball is over, can we ask why the Spurs played cartoon music to i...
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Today's song: I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City.
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New top of page image. The official Knicks team picture as champs. #
People keep saying the Spurs are the future of the NBA, but they didn't earn that this year. More probably it's the Knic...
Saturday, June 13, 2026
JY Stervinou proposed Universal Mentions, an interesting new low-tech web-like protocol for mentioning people, places or things via link elements in the head section of any HTML file you want to use as your personal directory. It's an intriguing idea...
Friday, June 12, 2026
I want to keep my podcast subscriptions in a single OPML file so I can subscribe in three different clients using the same list.#
Gift articles via Mastodon#
There's an account on Mastodon containing a flow of gift articles. #
Because Mastodon ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026
This is a test page about Charles de Gaulle. It came from ChatGPT, via Claude Code. #
As thrilling as the end was for this Knicks fan, as a friend (of a Spurs fan) I empathize -- because I had the feeling you have now for most of last night's game,...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Today's song: It's Your Thing. If the web had a song this could be it. #
If you run a feed reader or other form of news consuming software, you will encounter RSS 2.0 feeds that support rssCloud. This example Node app shows you how to hook into th...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
A comment to a friend who roots for the Spurs. Ok you guys won one. I think last night they wanted it more than the Knicks. The Spurs knew they were going to be discombobulated, but the Knicks probably didn't expect the atomosphere to be so unusual? I ...
Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.#
I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported. #
Sometimes you write a post and when you're editing it you realize you no longer support what you wrote. This is one of those times. #
Sunday, June 7, 2026
All the news reports about AI tools repeat the same hallucination story they've been running for years. That's another huge bug in the news process. They only report on a small number of angles that might have been news a few years ago, and have no insi...
Walt Frazier: "The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame."#
The Knicks won again last night. They're now up 2-0, both games on the road. This has blown my sense of reality. This Knicks team bears no resemblance to what I think of as the Knicks. Hard to concentrate. Will Trump try to put his name of Madison Square Garden. #
Friday, June 5, 2026
Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they're working on it. #
It's really cool we get another NBA Finals game ton...
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Having fun rolling stuff out on Elon Musk's X.#
The Knicks in the Finals #
I didn't write about the Knicks prior to last night's game because I had no idea what to write. #
The Knicks in the Finals is something I had a hard time understanding,...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
We need a social web for nobodies. #
Claude is much better at starting from scratch with a big piece of code than humans are. It can suck in a full app and all its dependencies in a few seconds. For me, I would never get there. A finished piece of ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
This podcast is called MacWrite for the web. A coral reef for writing. I think the pieces are coming. We just need a little Ice-nine.#
Dries: "For an Open Source company, the test is not only what they build for themselves. It is what they help build...
Monday, June 1, 2026
John C Reilly has only one audiobook, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But it's the best audiobook I've ever read, because the narrator and the book are great, esp together. Wish he would do more. Also there's a great interview with him on the Rachel Ma...
Sunday, May 31, 2026
The purpose of standards is interop. That's it. No other purpose. #
Just watched the first episode of Star City, really good. Somewhat like The Americans, but takes place in the USSR. A spinoff of For All Mankind, which started out interesting and the...
Saturday, May 30, 2026
If I ran Bluesky, instead of trying to fork the web, I'd be trying to become the competitor of Twitter's that is 100% web top to bottom.#
Review of standard.site#
I walked through standard.site with ChatGPT. You can do it too if you want to find...
Friday, May 29, 2026
Yesterday I applied to speak at WordCamp US in August and I also posted bits to my account on Twitter. I got a really nice response from the main WordPress account. Thank you. I now have a platform to speak to the community, and I'll do my best to outli...
Thursday, May 28, 2026
I've hesitated at calling FeedLand a feed reader. I'm concerned people would stop listening right there. They know what a feed reader is. But FeedLand is not like most feed readers. Your subscription list is public, as it is in Twitter. This is my sub...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Now I have to write about the Knicks. It just hasn't fully sunk in yet that they won the East. You get to put a banner up for that. And next week we'll be watching them in the NBA finals. But it's the team that matters, not the trophies. Brunson is g...
When writing code with Claude you really have to be skeptical when it says it just found the problem, but you have no idea what it's saying, chances are pretty good it's just a word salad excuse for not having read all the code necessary to have an fact-based opinion. Actually debugging software isn't about opinions, it's about proof. When you start clutching at straws until one works you just added another level of bug that will eventually bite you in the butt and you'll still have to solve the original one. Uncorrected, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to trust the code it writes, but I guess that's why people have two or more instances playing different roles? For now I'm the one that questions its sanity, politely though. ;-)#
I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported. #
