Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Today's song: It's Your Thing. If the web had a song this could be it. #
If you run a feed reader or other form of news consuming software, you will encounter RSS 2.0 feeds that support rssCloud. This example Node app shows you how to hook into th...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
A comment to a friend who roots for the Spurs. Ok you guys won one. I think last night they wanted it more than the Knicks. The Spurs knew they were going to be discombobulated, but the Knicks probably didn't expect the atomosphere to be so unusual? I ...
Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.#
I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported. #
Sometimes you write a post and when you're editing it you realize you no longer support what you wrote. This is one of those times. #
Sunday, June 7, 2026
All the news reports about AI tools repeat the same hallucination story they've been running for years. That's another huge bug in the news process. They only report on a small number of angles that might have been news a few years ago, and have no insi...
Walt Frazier: "The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame."#
The Knicks won again last night. They're now up 2-0, both games on the road. This has blown my sense of reality. This Knicks team bears no resemblance to what I think of as the Knicks. Hard to concentrate. Will Trump try to put his name of Madison Square Garden. #
Friday, June 5, 2026
Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they're working on it. #
It's really cool we get another NBA Finals game ton...
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Having fun rolling stuff out on Elon Musk's X.#
The Knicks in the Finals #
I didn't write about the Knicks prior to last night's game because I had no idea what to write. #
The Knicks in the Finals is something I had a hard time understanding,...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
We need a social web for nobodies. #
Claude is much better at starting from scratch with a big piece of code than humans are. It can suck in a full app and all its dependencies in a few seconds. For me, I would never get there. A finished piece of ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
This podcast is called MacWrite for the web. A coral reef for writing. I think the pieces are coming. We just need a little Ice-nine.#
Dries: "For an Open Source company, the test is not only what they build for themselves. It is what they help build...
Monday, June 1, 2026
John C Reilly has only one audiobook, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But it's the best audiobook I've ever read, because the narrator and the book are great, esp together. Wish he would do more. Also there's a great interview with him on the Rachel Ma...
Sunday, May 31, 2026
The purpose of standards is interop. That's it. No other purpose. #
Just watched the first episode of Star City, really good. Somewhat like The Americans, but takes place in the USSR. A spinoff of For All Mankind, which started out interesting and the...
Saturday, May 30, 2026
If I ran Bluesky, instead of trying to fork the web, I'd be trying to become the competitor of Twitter's that is 100% web top to bottom.#
Review of standard.site#
I walked through standard.site with ChatGPT. You can do it too if you want to find...
Friday, May 29, 2026
Yesterday I applied to speak at WordCamp US in August and I also posted bits to my account on Twitter. I got a really nice response from the main WordPress account. Thank you. I now have a platform to speak to the community, and I'll do my best to outli...
Thursday, May 28, 2026
I've hesitated at calling FeedLand a feed reader. I'm concerned people would stop listening right there. They know what a feed reader is. But FeedLand is not like most feed readers. Your subscription list is public, as it is in Twitter. This is my sub...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Now I have to write about the Knicks. It just hasn't fully sunk in yet that they won the East. You get to put a banner up for that. And next week we'll be watching them in the NBA finals. But it's the team that matters, not the trophies. Brunson is g...
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...
I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported. #
