If you View Source on a fatpage, scroll to the bottom, you’ll see the code. Example. The idea is that the docs for the code are what you see in the browser. Maybe that’s the way feeds should work too? Something to think about.

I begin the month of September for some reason, not feeling like working. And rather than succumb to the work ethos, I’m allowing myself to goof off with the same determination that I worked my ass of for so many years. I think the last time I felt like this was when I was a […]

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 built in a new release of Frontier, the first in 1.5 […]

Claude Code is like Victor Wembanyama, assuming you follow the NBA and are interested in my first-hand experience with CC as a programming partner for the last 8 months or so.

Best explainer I’ve read about the last episode of Silo.

I’ve been watching The Pitt, but it can be a bit much, so I went looking for something a bit lighter, and found 9 to 5 on Amazon Prime. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton are the stars, and Dolly’s famous song with the same name is the theme. It’s a perfect slice of […]

One of life’s lessons is if someone does something evil to you, and you decide to let it go, they are sure to do it again and again until you stop letting them do it.

My posts are also available on Mastodon, made possible by WordPress, where I mirror my posts from my original blog. A lot of what’s in the post makes it through, but not all of it. This is where we need to do some work, connecting a blog like mine, to WordPress and Mastodon, with no […]

Trump is rotting in the presidency, and that is becoming more and more dangerous, because this time they had a plan, the most radical part of the Repubs, and have deployed a new secret police force and have introduced the nation’s military to the nation’s capital. It was all super insidious as it was starting […]

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 watching. Before too long we’ll have AI programming that makes […]

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

It’s our job to make the web a more attractive environment than AT Proto. We can deliver all the benefits they tout, without the huge transition involved in converting to their world. It would be like porting from Mac to Windows in the 90s, something we did at UserLand, and net-net probably wasn’t worth it, […]

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 confusion, because Frontier is actually a product that contains other products […]

Manton wants to know why Marc Benioff chose the name Claudeforce for his brand-merge of Salesforce and Claude. My two cents. Claude is a great name. I think that’s ultimately what he bought. His customers just want to be able to check the box – we’re using AI. Boss is happy. When I was coming […]

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. We have to have public discourse about tech that’s as […]

FeedLand Rivers for WordPress: I’ve noticed that people are setting up news reader sites with FeedLand that are getting considerable flow. We thought they’d use News Products, a feature that was supposed to make it easy to create standalone sites like the one I did for WordPress insiders. But people aren’t going that way, they’re […]

My WordPress mirror site stopped updating on August 12. It’s now updating once again. I’ll try to watch it more carefully.

All of a sudden it’s cold here in the Catskills this morning. It’s still August, I don’t get what’s going on. We haven’t had a really hot day all month. I’m starting my workday wearing a freaking hoodie and am thinking about turning on the heat.

The Atlantis project continues. Today I’m working on the code that updates the frontier.root object database using RSS, a technique I started in 2007. I actually let the codecasting.org name lapse, figuring I’d never get back to that stuff, but here we are, doing unpredictable things.

I just went through hell trying to respond to an email that came to me through the gateway between WordPress and Mastodon. I clicked the link, it took me to a WordPress dialog, very confusing, but there was a link to the message, so I clicked it, took me to a Mastodon post, where there […]

If you run a tech company I hope you didn’t lay off most of your programmers last year when that was the hype. Don’t wait too long before you fire your human developers. I’m now doing my second big project with Claude Code, not an experiment, and we’re going through the same mess we went […]

Apparently the nightly email didn’t go out last night. The problem was an error when it tried to read the Linkblog entries for the day. I’ve seen reports that these errors happen when you try to read the Links tab on scripting.com. The error shouldn’t kill the email sending, it should just omit the linkblog […]

I was looking for a codename for a new scripting environment Claude and I are making attempting in every way to do exactly what Frontier does. But until it does that I need a nice name, memorable, maybe a bit magical and positive. Frontier has been gone, thought to be lost, but with the advent […]

Manton: “The way I think about RSS.chat is that it’s a bootstrap for getting lots of RSS feeds to play well together, for both posts and replies. Can the web be the social network? Yes. And Micro.blog should be part of anything working toward that goal.”

I have Claude update me on all posts on both RSS.chat sites when we start for a day. I read them all when they’re posted, but one was in German, which Claude automatically translated for me, and it’s an interesting question. Which I have answered.

Anyway, one of those streaming services I get now is Paramount+ which is owned by the Ellisons, which I don’t like, but they have a show that is really excellent esp if you like British crime stories, which I most definitely do, even if most of the actors are American, and it probably was recorded […]

I have Spectrum cable and they recently started unbundling the cable services they provide. So I have a bunch of streaming services that I never decided to follow, and haven’t gotten in the habit of checking them. Not sure if I like this, but I certainly understand why the bill is so high and seems […]

I seen the new Game of Thrones just completed their third season. I tried getting into it, and couldn’t. But then I didn’t get going in the original series for the first few attempts. People this show is good, so I will give it another try.

Working with Claude on the user interface of RSS.chat was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and Claude who can read the code for a huge sprawling app like Frontier, and understand it, in a minute or two. We’ve done this […]

I want to connect RSS to AT Proto, both ways, inbound and out. Toward that end, today I helped Leaflet, a very nice editor for AT Proto, make their outbound RSS feed better. We should have all our best editors, everywhere, hooked up over popular web standards. And I want my posts to show up […]