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I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo.
Yesterday I wrote a piece about a Markdown-only browser, that worked nicely with HTTP.
I got interested in what it would take to do this, and asked ChatGPT for a plan.
gist.github.com/scripting/c8...
If you want to implement it, please do.
Let me know if you have something to try.
Works like a champ on the Brave browser. Well done Dave.
The tech industry kicked the web out of the web.
scripting.com is your canary in a coal mine.
If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser.
If it can’t it’s phoney baloney.
The tech industry kicked the web out of the web.
scripting.com is your canary in a coal mine.
If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser.
If it can’t it’s phoney baloney.
Amen. And food. I grew up in a quiet little village in queens. Lots of cheesy diners, McDonald’s, delis. Then a miracle happened. Chinese immigrants in a huge wave, and then Koreans. And omg the food. Took my mom out to dinner, waiter asked if we were tourists. No we’re natives.
Buttigieg for president. Talarico for VP.
James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC:
“Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so.
We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
It was at a time when my little company was being attacked by much larger companies for being bullies with RSS and trying to paint a picture of us as being too big to be trusted. The press was helping them and could find little bits of quotes that it made us easy to believe the bigco’s.
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
I started blogging on October 7, 1994. Thirty-two years on Wednesday. The longest running blog, and it's still even worse than it appears.
Sports, esp basketball, are about the team, not looking great on paper. #knicksIn5
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump? www.theguardian.com
Btw twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform.
This is a test post.
We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything. simonwillison.net
Elon Musk and DOGE brought catastrophe to the U.S. government. Michael Lewis’ Blockers details just how much.
Software engineers should no longer care about AI-generated code in their projects any more than they care about object files, linker output, and executables generated by their compilers. The AI DevOps cycle now automatically includes unit tests, linting, and end-to-end tests plus a whole lot more.
I cannot even articulate it. Vegan barbecue wild. Actually having seasons wild. Barton Springs temperature change wild. Not watching the Red River Rivalry wild. Mild salsa wild.
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"I've been on these trips with corporate platforms, and if they want you gone, you should just take the hint and go, because eventually you _will_ get the point." scripting.com
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar.
Reddit is ending RSS support: What this means for Inoreader.
I don't know if these are the very best five documentaries but they are the first five that came to my mind
SHOAH
THE SORROW AND THE PITY
CRUMB
HOOP DREAMS
PARIS IS BURNING
that's a great idea for democratic fundraising.
donate $1K to our Demolish The Ballroom PAC to guarantee a front row seat at the demolition event.
for $10K you get an official sledgehammer and you get one swing at the ballroom.
July 1, 2024. John Roberts writes that a president can't be prosecuted for official acts. 6 to 3. Trump has acted like a king ever since. Tell Congress to impeach him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
the above quote is from the Reddit/RSS actual announcement. can't the same bots scrape the html text? or does their paywall prevent them from doing that assuming they have one. also reading a feed isn't exactly scraping.
Reddit: "Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives." www.reddit.com
I don’t want to read blog posts or work memos or marketing materials that are clearly written by AI.
