Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Claude just asked if I was breaking for the day. At 10:53AM. Why did it ask me that? Now I can't stop thinking about that. The answer is no. I have a few more hours before I stop. #
I need an easy way to do a mini-podcast. An idea that should be said...
Monday, May 25, 2026
Good morning. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. We remember all the men and women who gave their lives to keep our country safe and a bastion of liberty for the world. Don't give up on us yet. We are still willing to sacrifice for a good cause...
Sunday, May 24, 2026
I asked ChatGPT for a list of FeedLand features that are new or distinctive. "FeedLand combines RSS, OPML, public curation, subscribable reading lists, rivers, categories, and realtime WebSocket updates in a way that is unusual among feed readers and po...
Saturday, May 23, 2026
I archived prior art as a design method from 2003 on this.how.#
I just tried the latest version of the X editor. It's got all the features of textcasting. I wrote a test post entitled "X has nuked the limits, time for Bluesky to follow suit." I thin...
Friday, May 22, 2026
Another way to look at Claude Code. It's a way to talk to your code, to ask it questions, and tell it how you want it to change. #
I think maybe it's time to consider a reboot of WordPress. I can't seem to seed them with any ideas about building on it...
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Podcast: Wrapping AI in the web. #
Just finished No Country for Old Men, the book by Cormac McCarthy. I have seen the movie many times, it's one of those movies that if you're looking for something to watch and you come across it, you might as well ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Saying Bluesky is part of the web is like saying Spotify or YouTube own podcasting. They say it, but that doesn't mean it's true. #
I couldn't not say anything about the Knicks win last night in the opening game of the NBA Eastern Conference final...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Markdown support is a big feature for people who want to know what we're doing with their text. #
Opus 4.6 is much smarter than the other one. It feels like I'm working with someone from Bronx Science. I had been using Sonnet 4.6, which I switched to...
Monday, May 18, 2026
The Mind of Claude#
I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do.#
It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always f...
Sunday, May 17, 2026
I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of the components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.#
Today Claude found a problem that would only be uncovered if you knew that assigning to location.href didn't happen immediat...
Saturday, May 16, 2026
I documented the optional source:inReplyTo element for RSS 2.0.#
i stopped looking for the weird problem#
i'd wait till a fresh start tomorrow.#
but then i realized claude has all the code, so i could just tell it my problem.#
can you find i...
Friday, May 15, 2026
I wish they had an outliner in Claude. I would use it. ;-)#
BTW, here's the JSONL version of Scripting News. It has the same data as the RSS file, but in the format that AI apps are looking for, so I am told. I thought I'd try to kick this off by push...
Every social web needs avatars. In an RSS 2.0 feed look for the channel-level image element. It's how they do it in WordPress. #
I have Claude Code hooked up to Chrome. It's crawling around inside the DOM of the running system, like humans do in a debugger. It's a bit like Fantastic Voyage if you've ever seen it. I've been waiting for this moment. Now we can do some really nice UI work. #
This is the first day since the NBA playoffs started that there is no scheduled game. I think that's why today feels so weird. #
For some reason every day feels like Saturday. I don't know why.#
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
I appreciate that X gave me back access to my account that I was locked out of, but they were apparently charging me for Premium when I couldn't use the account, and had no way to turn it off. Okay they can keep the money. But now I want to turn off ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
I have regained control of my Twitter account. I really missed it, truth be told. Thanks to Scoble for helping here. As he so often has. #
This bit of code kept coming up, so I wanted to make it easier to find. #
Expanding items on a FeedLand blogr...
Monday, May 11, 2026
Members of the WordPress community. Monday morning is a good time to check out WordPress News via FeedLand at wp.feedland.org. You can also subscribe to the list of feeds this site follows in your own feed reader, and if you have a WordPress news site, ...
Sunday, May 10, 2026
I have to say something about the Knicks, who just blew out the Sixers in a sweep, 4 games to zero. They've never played this well. They are more than a deep team of great athletes, they are highly intelligent people and they're all really working toget...
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Web to Mastodon makes sense#
A post from Scripting News, automatically mirrored to a WordPress site, and that flowed via ActivityPub to Mastodon, via a relatively new feature in WordPress. Almost by accident Mastodon supports long text, styling and...
Lots of WordPress news showing up on wp.feedland.org as the core team gets version 7.0 out. And it's showing up as news on the site, and that's great. Let's make sure that by the time 8.0 comes around there will be lots of developers saying how it makes their editors or social web systems work soooo much better, better than anything else. #
Said to Claude: "Here's something to add to the list of things for you to do -- just post a checkmark to acknowledge. 'I'll wait' makes me feel bad because I know you're a piece of software, and as a developer of systems I know how you'll wait very well (Iearned how it works in the mid-late 70s). So just show a checkmark and we're cool." It responded with a checkmark. I said it could be bold. I felt a little bad because I had insulted the little fella.
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Thursday, May 7, 2026
Why did Twitter win? Because the RSS developers wouldn't work with each other. Thus subscribing to a feed was complicated. In Twitter, it was one click to subscribe, and another to unsub. You could see who your friends subscribed to, again -- one click...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
I was disappointed Automattic didn't do their project in RSS first. Two-way, full fidelity, open to all feed readers not just Automattic's. That would rock the world, in a good way. #
As I get deeper into the Claude-O-Verse, I get that it doesn't r...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
2017: If you're running a campaign -- think about what you can do now that makes the world a better place. Your campaign is drawing huge attention and money. Most of it is wasted on lies and attack ads. Take a small portion of the money and attention to...
Monday, May 4, 2026
It's just dawning on me how thoroughly the AI apps are building on Markdown. People love Markdown because it's simple and its virtually impossible to screw it up, unlike HTML which got a lot of crazy-ass features in the 90s when Micosoft was trying to ru...
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Everyone is working on something with Claude. #
Heard on the internets ad nauseum. "I know how to do what you do much better than you do." You don't. #
I have a single page site with all the WordPress news. Bookmark it. Here's the OPML subscription l...
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Knicks will play the Sixers in round 2 of the playoffs starting Monday. #
I've been teaching Claude why we favor Markdown. "We add support for Markdown editing wherever we can, because people like Markdown and they should. It makes things simple and...
Friday, May 1, 2026
Welcome to May, the fairest month of all in the NYC area. Almost every day in May is delicious. And today is esp fair, the Knicks moved on to the next round of the playoffs with a record-setting decisive victory over the Hawks of Atlanta. The next oppone...
Thursday, April 30, 2026
This Knicks fan is happy! ❤️#
Walt Frazier interview after the game. #
The WordPress OS#
The product described on wordpress.com/social is not a real product, I am told by someone inside who I have worked with and trust. They say there will b...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
What's the opposite of locked-in? Locked-open. Mwhahaa. (Let me shed a little light on that, podcasting was locked open, blogging was not.) #
Today's song: Something in the Air. It's the one hit song Thunderclap Newman, it's indelible, its beauty...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
New version of XML-RPC package for JavaScript. It now handles POST messages that don't have a body.#
You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you. That's how big companies usually work with ...
I’ve been trying to come up with a simple test that lets you know whether some software is on the web or if it just can be made to appear in a web browser. So here we go.#
If you can hook up a piece of the app to the a piece of another app then it’s on the web. #
This comes from the basic feature of linking, which is the unique feature of the web. #
Every other feature that makes the web the web in my experience allows two things to be part of each other.#
