Friday, July 10, 2026
Introducing rss.chat#
Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network. #
The answer is yes, of course, and -- here's rss.chat! #
The site is read-only except for a few of my programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this...
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Can RSS be a social network? #
Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called textcasting. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. #
Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the fe...
More people are using the news site I put up for WordPress. If you have a blog or podcast that covers WordPress, send me a link to the feed and I'll add it. The OPML list of the sites we cover is public, so you can always load the feeds into your feed reader, they all read lists in this format. This is the kind of thing that works great on the web. People take interop for granted when it's always been there. But they're still there to be built on. And imho interop and the web imho are the same thing. #
I said to Claude: "We're the first social network that thinks getting his support is the first thing." Claude replied: "And that's the whole thesis in one move — every other network treats the open-web guy as an afterthought; here he's the launch audience." #
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Sometimes Claude's judgement sucks, and that's why Jive coding usually produces a dashboard app. A different piece of software will drive it in a different direction. That's what I meant by AI-izing, in an earlier post.#
I used to be a single-thread ...
Monday, July 6, 2026
Today's song: "July is dressed up and playing her tune."#
James Talarico, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg, who also happens to be from Texas. He speaks as confidently as Obama, about the right things, wants to run ou...
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back. And it's just as likely that writing on computer networks will undergo a similar transformation.#
Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, ...
Saturday, July 4, 2026
I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor on this day in 1976, the bicentennial. As a NY kid, I wasn't very impressed. I liked rockets and rock bands, sound systems, had started programming then, was working in BASIC at Rapidata, a time s...
Friday, July 3, 2026
I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, but that's because the Knicks won and the NBA is re-forming itself around the Knicks. It's so freaking unusual to have your team, which was once right up there with...
Thursday, July 2, 2026
AI should be like a lawyer or doctor, first responsibility is to the user. And first, do no harm. #
An observation about Fable 5 in Claude Code. It's a much better writer than Opus 4.8. One of our next big things is writing docs, and all the info is...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
A thought for people who think the US can't be fixed. I've seen very strange things happen, like all of a sudden people figure it out and boom next thing you know they're the NBA Champions. It wasn't exactly sudden, but the last leg of was. A gestalt...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Some things Claude is extremely tedious at. But then it blows you away how it can read thousands of lines of complicated code in a few seconds (in parallel) and find tiny little things that any good obsessive programmer would want to fix (like me). An...
Monday, June 29, 2026
Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier.#
BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned yesterday. And I should mention that Manton Reece, developer of micro.blog and a longtime friend, going back to the Frontier d...
Sunday, June 28, 2026
To read scripting.com you need a browser that supports HTTP.#
Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most features of the web, and social media places limit...
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Claude can understand code no human could. Ever, under any circumstances. Just like a compiler can understand any code we throw at it. Way beyond what code obfuscation tools can do.#
In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study ...
Friday, June 26, 2026
Podcast: My (latest) AI Aha Moment.#
When Claude has all the information available it can figure out stuff a human mind would never be able hold in our minds at the same time, but it often doesn't remember to get the information first. When you get t...
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,...
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. ;-)#
