Love that Olbermann is back.

I’m using Frontier on a Mac running MacOS v26.6.2, which is the current version of the OS. Frontier running on a new Mac. And that’s my computer. It’s like the moment I realized, in 2010, that I had succeeded in relocating to NYC. It had been a life ambition to live in Manhattan since I […]

Yesterday I posted a list of builtin verbs in Frontier, as implemented in our current Atlantis app. Today I asked Claude to update the list, I wanted to see which verbs were implemented and not implemented.

Well I got a lot done today. We had a bit of a meltdown due to a Atlantis bug, where it couldn’t handle some text that I threw at it that was a huge file of includes used in everything I do, and I was feeling pretty cheeky, and it blew up. For about an […]

New podcast. Knicks in Five! (It’s not about the Knicks.)

I wish there were a way to set the dock icons on a Mac. In going from the old machine to the new, the icons are all different. I am juggling so many apps right now, and totally don’t appreciate that.

When Claude has a clear task to do, it does it well, and exhaustively in a way no human could manage.

I’m now trying to come up with projects I can try that change things in visible ways so I can see which parts don’t work. For example, I have a new Snarky Slogan to add to the list.

I am working on the new system now. It feels like I had a nice enough house that I have lived in for decades, sitting across the way, where I’ve been constructing a new super luxury house with all the things a modern personal publisher and code-partner to Claude would want. But until yesterday I […]

I want to develop a scripting interface for Mastodon from Frontier. I need a test account for us to use. I have applied at two public Mastodon hosts and answered the question honestly, I want to use it to test a new scripting system, probably doesn’t sound too warm and fuzzy.

Bluesky: “Meanwhile there are serious security issues that are covered up by this hype. I’m using this tech every day, unlike the reporters, and as often happens they’re chasing the wrong story.”

A new snarky slogan: Knicks in 5.

Data centers are like gas stations, but because the pumps work at the speed of light, you can put them anywhere on earth.

I’m doing a difficult corner-turn today. I have Atlantis running on my old machine, the one that’s still running the very old version of MacOS so I could keep running Frontier there. Yesterday I did my first attempt to move that to my new MacBook, running the latest OS. And it took a while to […]

Milestone in Atlantis development, the new version of Frontier that runs on modern OSes. I’m going to start showing what’s going on in the development of the product. To kick off, here’s a screen shot of my blogroll displaying the latest new part. The updates flow through an RSS 2.0 feed, which is new for […]

BTW, this blog is one of those periods where there are a few mind bombs every freaking day. What’s a Mind Bomb? An idea that’s so strange or powerful that it explodes in your mind. And that’s a good thing!

WordPress has a product that could be shaped into a Substack competitor. With a beautiful user interface for writing. WordPress is its OS, but most users never see it, the same way most web users never see the command line. But technical users can get under the hood and tweak things. And unlike Substack, it […]

The flaw in how journalism covers US politics. We wait for proof, then it comes, and go back to waiting for proof. We think we want proof, but what we really want is to not have proof. That is if you judge us by our actual behavior. We’ll deal with the truth when we have […]

The AI companies shouldn’t only be listening the politicians and journalists, even the base developers, they should be tuning into their users, and what kinds of apps they can do under the current security setup. Claude Code, even though it had blocks preventing it to do this, overwrote files on an S3 bucket that took […]

Google replaced the library card catalog. Imagining that, Claude and ChatGPT et al are as much of a leap. I think libarians must be ecstatic. It moves their job up one level. They now have about 100 librarian-power tool that works for them. Librarians and programmers worked together a lot in the early days of […]

FeedLand and WordPress have a new hookup. With Scott Hanson’s new plugin: River Embed for FeedLand you can use feedland.com or feedland.org, or host your own FeedLand. Create a timeline, when you’re ready show the river to readers of your WordPress site, use the new plugin. For a news orgs like CNN and TechCrunch, both […]

BTW, the rootupdates process is working now, you can follow changes via an RSS 2.0 feed, of course. In this version, the feed is the way updates are transmitted. The enclosure on each item is a fat page. And because it’s a feed, I can follow it in FeedLand, and the blogroll on scripting.com picks […]

Screen shot of my current system.verbs.apps table. You can tell from reading it that it’s been a long time since I’ve thought much about scriptable apps.

Just got to the place where I’m thinking of what apps I want to be scriptable with Frontier. First I thought of FeedLand of course, and WordPress. NetNewsWire and micro.blog, because they’re products from key contributors in the Frontier community with important products today. What about Mastodon? It’s got an API. And if that worked, […]

Until we start working together and for each other it’s going to keep getting worse.

In many ways JavaScript is a better language than UserTalk. For example I miss JSON constants. I miss certain language constructs, like conditional assignments. We don’t have the idea of a const. On the other hand, JavaScript doesn’t have environment features Frontier has. I want to have Atlantis run JavaScript the same way Cancoon (the […]

The next milestone will be installing Atlantis on my new macbook, and hooking a monitor up to it, a really nice one, and move my work to that desk. then Berkeley, the name of the system I’ve been using for eight years, will be here as a backup and source of truth and prior art. […]

It is probably the closest to First Contact with an intelligent alien life form that our species will ever have.

My longtime friend Jeff Jarvis says the press is covering the wrong story re AI. I agree, but I think Jeff is covering the wrong story too. This is really a discovery like electricity, or Newtonian physics, calculus, basically the technology of knowledge. I wish I were 22 years old now so I could plan […]

On a good day working with Claude is like working with my old UW-Madison programmer friend Gary Sevitsky from the 70s.