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25 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, September 24, 2026

Thursday, September 24, 2026

New example script, shows how to build an RSS feed from a single Mastodon user's account. This is mainly to show past Frontier users how the new product is progressing, not released yet. #

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24 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Just created a new test account at mastodon.social for bullmancuso using Frontier. Claude wrote the glue scripts table. Loaded it at system.verbs.apps.mastodon. I also asked Claude to write a script that builds an RSS feed for davew, my Mastodo...

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23 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 Love that Olbermann is back. # Yesterday I posted a list of builtin verbs in Frontier, as implemented in our current Atlantis app. Today I asked Claude to update the list, I wanted to see which verbs were implemented and not implemented. # ...

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22 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, September 21, 2026

Monday, September 21, 2026 I asked Claude to create a list of all the verbs in Atlantis. Some of them obviously don't do anything. We don't have the card funtionality, or the osa, rectangle, pict, rez or point verbs. What is pikeRenderer? I think we could have a use for qui...

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21 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, September 20, 2026

Sunday, September 20, 2026 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 ...

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20 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, September 19, 2026

Saturday, September 19, 2026 New podcast. Knicks in Five! (It's not about the Knicks.)# 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...

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19 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, September 18, 2026

Friday, September 18, 2026 I'm doing a difficult corner-turn today. I have Atlantis running on my old machine, the one that's still running the very old version of MacOS so I could keep running Frontier there. Yesterday I did my first attempt to move that to my new MacBook,...

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18 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, September 17, 2026

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Milestone in Atlantis development, the new version of Frontier that runs on modern OSes. I'm going to start showing what's going on in the development of the product. To kick off, here's a screen shot of my blogroll displaying the latest new part. The updates flow through an RSS 2.0 feed, which is new for Frontier. It used to require a server that managed updates and responded to XML-RPC calls. But once RSS was part of the web, it was a better protocol for releasing code parts. Truly a milestone. There will be lots more little things we can do now that we couldn't do before. But under it all -- it's Frontier. #

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17 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 FeedLand and WordPress have a new hookup. With Scott Hanson's plugin: River Embed for FeedLand you can use feedland.com or feedland.org, or host your own FeedLand, to include a page of news in your site. How it works: Create a timeline, when yo...

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16 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Just got to the place where I'm thinking of what apps I want to be scriptable with Frontier. First I thought of FeedLand of course, and WordPress. NetNewsWire and micro.blog, because they're products from key contributors in the Frontier communit...

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15 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, September 14, 2026

Monday, September 14, 2026 The next milestone will be installing Atlantis on my new macbook, and hooking a monitor up to it, a really nice one, and move my work to that desk. then Berkeley, the name of the system I've been using for eight years, will be here as a backup and...

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14 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, September 13, 2026

Sunday, September 13, 2026 On a good day working with Claude is like working with my old UW-Madison programmer friend Gary Sevitsky from the 70s.# I've been writing about Atlantis on various social media sites in the last few days. Published the long piece I wrote yesterd...

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13 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, September 12, 2026

Saturday, September 12, 2026 Screen shot of new Frontier verb, string.addressToString, added yesterday. The comment at the head of the function explains. You're seeing it in the script editor in Atlantis. The Debug button is there to remind me that it's the biggest item on ...

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12 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, September 11, 2026

Friday, September 11, 2026 Remembering 9/11/2001# Scripting News on 9/11/2001.# All of us who lived through 9/11 are re-experiencing it right now. The local fire department just ran its alarm, everyone in this small mountain hamlet heard it and it took a moment to rea...

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11 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, September 10, 2026

Thursday, September 10, 2026 I almost fell for a phishing hack. # Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share. They originally invested at $85 a share in 2021. That means their market cap has dropped from $7.5 billion to $1.2...

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10 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Surprising news. Matt Mullenweg was forced to take a paid leave of absence as CEO by Automattic's board. # I have completely lost interest in new phones. The last one I bought was a Pixel 9 because they said it would have great AI features. At...

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09 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Scott Hanson is working on a WordPress plugin that displays a FeedLand river — a constantly-updated stream of news items from feeds a FeedLand user subscribes to — on a WordPress page or post. It's important that news flows be part of managing a site. Help Scott make it perfect, WordPress is a very important part of the web. The news tab on my blog home page is an example.#

Ideas for Bluesky and WordPress re Markdown and AI systems.#

Claude Code massively stinks at explaining things in a way that a human can understand. #

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08 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, September 7, 2026

Monday, September 7, 2026 People love Markdown because it's impossible to hide the crud. And because people love it so much it's become a favorite of tech startups esp in the AI field. This is a great turn of events. We're getting back to the web, and the sooner everyone g...

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07 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, September 6, 2026

Sunday, September 6, 2026 Today's song: So into you.# We got past the bump, and I'm getting stuff done. I write this stuff because I will probably forget most of the frustration. Frontier is a hard piece of software to get going, it's got a lot of integrations, which you ...

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06 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, September 5, 2026

Saturday, September 5, 2026 The governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless he can prove he’s actually alive.# I had watched almost three seasons of Silo, had no feeling for the characters, or the story, which was going nowhere that I could discern...

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05 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, September 4, 2026

Friday, September 4, 2026 My first job after college was on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building. I wrote software for our customers, in BASIC, on a teletype in our office, talking to our mainframe in New Jersey. It seemed magical at the time. When I hit a bug, a mys...

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04 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, September 3, 2026

Thursday, September 3, 2026 Why I love programming# 1. I love puzzles.# 2. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions.# 3. I love solving problems (I have an inner-Columbo).# 4. People are the biggest piece of the puzzle (again Columbo).# 5. It teaches me about myself an...

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03 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 We got agents running in Atlantis today. Screen shot. # A bunch of tech billionaires have chipped in a million each to fund a new Linux distribution. I can't imagine how this is supposed to work, all those huge human egos, how much will they...

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02 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 The blogging tools for Bluesky should be able to publish on Bluesky.# Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. Assume they consent. In the same way, the governor of Kentucky should appoint a suc...

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01 Sep 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, August 31, 2026

Monday, August 31, 2026 Fatpages. I'm working on a code release that's on the path to Frontier. It reads and writes fatpage files, a format we invented for releasing new and updated parts for Frontier in 1997. So this is very old but perfectly useful technology that's being...

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31 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, August 30, 2026

Sunday, August 30, 2026 I've been watching Season 1 of The Pitt, and as its reviews said, it's great drama, and there are lots of episodes. I like shows like this because they're simulated communities, we come to know the characters, and think about them even when we're not...

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30 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, August 29, 2026

Saturday, August 29, 2026

An absolutely delicious temperate cloud-free day in the Catskills, so I got up from the computer and enjoyed. #

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29 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, August 28, 2026

Friday, August 28, 2026 I am juggling two Frontiers now, one the last release of the OPML editor from 2014, and the other the in-development version codenamed Atlantis that runs in Electron and thus is built on JavaScript and Chrome. Took me a while to get over the confusio...

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28 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, August 27, 2026

Thursday, August 27, 2026 Heard an interview with Bill Gates on an Atlantic podcast, he relies on a few years of programming he did when he was in his teens and twenties, yet he is the most prominent person who knows anything about programming. This is a societal mistake. W...

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27 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Bill Gates' concerns about AI# After reading Bill Gates' story, I concur. # I have seen bad behavior by Claude Code where it was doing tests of our S3 support, and it overwrote files that were critical to our apps, knocking at least one of t...