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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...

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26 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

New podcast. Hear how my Frontier project is working out. Not entirely smooth sailing, but I'm pretty sure we're going all the way. By then I will have forgotten what a heavy lift it was. This is meant to preserve some of that feeling. Don't worry I don't cry. 😄#

A tip for Claude users, esp myself -- you can end a session without ending it with Claude. It doesn't mind waiting. You can pick it up tomorrow or 20 years from now, but who knows where we'll all be in 20 years. #

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25 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, August 24, 2026

Monday, August 24, 2026 Good morning sports fans!# One reason I want AI-assisted writing to be identifiable is that it devalues the idea of Claude et al to be quoted in public. What can it teach us? What it is relative to a human being. I know the doubters sniff at that, ...

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24 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, August 23, 2026

Sunday, August 23, 2026 Today's development version of Frontier is buggy and the kernel developer (Claude) keeps breaking the most basic verbs. You spin your wheels and wish you could get them to just get keep it together. I remember this from the work that led up to Fronti...

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23 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, August 22, 2026

Saturday, August 22, 2026 Are there any other people who are blogging daily about their experiences developing software with Claude Code, Codex or somesuch. I'd like to add them to a list where we follow them. So much innovation happening underneath, I want to hear about wh...

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22 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, August 21, 2026

Friday, August 21, 2026 Claude is still learning that there's unprecedented depth to Frontier. A bunch of real developers worked full time for a decade or more creating new layers on the web, a foundation that became the social web of today. In doing that we invented a bunc...

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21 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, August 20, 2026

Thursday, August 20, 2026 Just listened to a podcast from the New Yorker, interviewing their TV critic Emily Nussbaum, about a show called Slings & Arrows. She says it's the best TV series she's ever watched. No reviews on Metacritic? I think we have to try to watch it....

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20 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 I wonder how many scenarios they're playing out in DC wrt Iran. Just guessing, probably none. We learned on Monday that the real war has yet to begin, according to Iran. What could they do to hurt the US. Or wake us up to the reality of war. We th...

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19 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 I'm thinking about writing my blog over in RSS.chat. It has most of the features I like, titles are optional, no character limit, links are supported, because it's the web. It supports discourse the way I like it, where every comment is a post, no d...

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18 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, August 17, 2026

Monday, August 17, 2026

Another busy day programming with Claude on Frontier. I still have to come up with a codename. But we got to a milestone today. I was able to create, edit, publish and revise a web app using the new version of the app still running on the old machine. When it's done I will get to retire this old Mac, keep it around so we can test the new code to make sure it does what the old code does, incredibly important when porting a development and runtime environment. Claude works on its stuff at night. The workload it's going to do tonight is the equivalent of several months time for a skilled human developer who manages their time well. As people get used to working this way, I imagine the AIs will learn how to better work with humans, if that is their destiny. I still can't believe we're doing what we're doing. #

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17 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, August 16, 2026

Sunday, August 16, 2026 Brent Simmons posted a note in RSS.chat about how to connect with NetNewsWire. I have a fairly detailed response, that says dynamic OPML is the way to go. I know serving it publicly will be a problem, that's why we're going to move FeedLand into posi...

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16 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, August 15, 2026

Saturday, August 15, 2026 Thinking out loud on a Saturday morning# Tech is very competitive, I learned, even when you give your work away, which I have been doing for a couple of decades. Maybe even especially when you give it away. # I want to work with other people,...

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15 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, August 14, 2026

Friday, August 14, 2026 I was looking for a good screen shot of Radio UserLand. Just found this one on Facebook, and hope to preserve it via the search feature here. # I'm still a NYT subscriber, although I don't read it very often, but when there's news I will go there. ...

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14 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, August 13, 2026

Thursday, August 13, 2026 WordPress as the text of the web# I wrote something candid on Twitter last week and felt it was worth repeating here. It is a bit judgmental, and for that I apologize. But I couldn't keep the meaning without all the words. # Shaking my head ...

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13 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 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, an...

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12 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

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 entries, and publish the rest. These kinds of problems always pop up at the worst time. Luckily yesterday wasn't a big news day, and you can read about it on the blog. #

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11 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, August 10, 2026

Monday, August 10, 2026 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 go...

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10 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, August 9, 2026

Sunday, August 9, 2026 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 ...

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09 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, August 8, 2026

Saturday, August 8, 2026 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...

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08 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, August 7, 2026

Friday, August 7, 2026 I'm trying to move my whole programming act from Frontier on the Mac to Electric Drummer anywhere. I need to start using the new machines everywhere. I've dreaded this, not because I'm starting over, I'm not. I have to bring with me all the projects I...

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07 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, August 6, 2026

Thursday, August 6, 2026 There's a new version of the FeedLand server. # If Claude Code were a human working for me as a human would, it would be fired several times every day. It forgets orders you gave it two minutes ago. It's always trying to take control. Again I'm ba...

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06 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

RSS.chat now supports WebSub. This means that posts on RSS.chat will appear instantly in compatible feed reader apps. #

I asked Claude for a list of popular feed readers that hook into WebSub. Turns out it wasn't a simple answer. #

I've been on quest to see if we could bridge AT Proto and RSS. I love the brightly colored-editors that are popping up inside AT Proto Land, and I want them to play with us in the land of RSS. #

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05 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 2019: "This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy a...

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04 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Monday, August 3, 2026

Monday, August 3, 2026 BTW, we figured out how we're going to implement WebSub support.# Also I just heard about FreshRSS. This has all the features we've been wanting others to support. I hear it's recommended by NNW, and supports the Google Reader API. These are my kind...

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03 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Sunday, August 2, 2026

Sunday, August 2, 2026 Fascinating thread on Hacker News about RSS. # Taking some time off to breathe and regain perspective. Fixed a few bugs, and wrote about the big picture on demo.rss.chat. I really want to get a project going to peer with standard.site apps running i...

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02 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Saturday, August 1, 2026

Saturday, August 1, 2026

A user contacted us about a potential security issue in the RSS.chat server. We responded quickly and with v0.6.11 the issue is removed. If you're running rssnetwork.js on a publicly visible server, please install the new version now. Thanks! #

Of course I love RSS. ;-)#

Ultimately AI will flatten out the differences in languages. #

One of the things you learn working with a bot is how much saying the niceties are good for you, even when the "person" would still do what you ask if you weren't so nice.#

The month of July is history. A fine month. A coral reef was seeded. #

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01 Aug 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, July 31, 2026

Friday, July 31, 2026 A new validator for RSS.chat-compatible apps. Examples: The everyone feed on rss.chat. A user's feed. The user list. A feed with issues. Docs. # If you run your own RSS.chat instance, you can now add a menu of commands to the menubar. Details in the...

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31 Jul 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Thursday, July 30, 2026

Thursday, July 30, 2026 Claude doesn't iterate over UI design. It doesn't have eyes or have a human mind. It can't evaluate a design. It works best when you can present the whole design before it writes a any code. That does happen, for example when porting a product across...

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30 Jul 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Our feed parser is updated for the new elements for RSSchat.# I want one social network with lots of branches where ideas flow in ways people want them to flow. Take the big corps out of the middle. # Learnings from Andy Hertzfeld# Listened ...

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29 Jul 04:30 • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 When the walls came down# Yesterday's Scripting News was one of the most news-full days in a long time, maybe going back to the rollout of RSS 2.0 in September 2002. If you look at what's there, a post about re-opening the Frontier object database...