New release of the feedlandSockets code. Still more work to do.

Here's a thought for WordPress users and developers. WordPress is huge, but it's just part of the web. That's what it means to be on the web, my friends. Everything connects to anything on the web. Once we build out a social network from WordPress, all the other systems will have no choice but to hook up too. All this talk of AT Proto and ActivityPub being the connecting glue is nonsense. The web is the connecting glue.

Last night I learned about headless WordPress installations from a tweet by Matt Mullenweg. I wrote a blog post on my WP site with what I've learned and the questions I still have. It's actually easier for me to write posts on that site when all I have is my iPad. I do all m...

In ways older people handle change better than younger ones, because we know change is here, every freaking day, and we know in a few years, at most, really big change is coming. So the attitude of the older person is often what the fuck, let's go. I'm not kidding. Maybe later in life I will get more conservative, it could happen.

They should make a ChatGPT that two or more people can chat in. I guess that's what Twitter is doing.

I'd like to see a mutual defense pact among the open source projects who depend on the stability each others' work. Not with the people, but the projects. Sort of like a NATO of open source. Where this comes from -- I'm tired of being treated like the proprietor of RSS 2.0. I transferred all my rights to Harvard in 2003. You have just as much interest in RSS 2.0 remaining stable as I do. The opposite of Embrace and Extend, rather Embrace and Preserve.

I've never been very interested in what Kimmel says but I am now.

Highly recommend today's Bill Simmons podcast where he talks about the Jimmy Kimmel situation. His perspective is very good, he says Kimmel doesn't need ABC. And I believe him.

There should be a ChatGPT "personality" for the chatbot. I'd like to start with a black lab. When I say "good work" that reinforces that what it did should be a priority. If I say that and give it a treat (by typing "treat") that should get double emphasis. I might like it better if I could train it. I don't mind a little enthusiasm, but I want it to respond to me with respect.

I'm going to call it social web not open social web. You don't need the "open" part. The web is open. It's like saying "wet water."

Cross-posted from my daveverse site. I hadn’t considered the point of view of people who worked at Netscape when it disappeared just as RSS 0.9.1 was being adopted by the blogosphere in 1999. We did try to get in touch with them, even when they didn’t work there, but no one...

The penalty for ABC and Disney should be we stop watching their stuff.

The challenge we face in the open social web is seducing people off the silos with fun toys to play with that from the start don't rely on a bigco to run it, the back-end is a server you could run for $20 a month on digital ocean for example. But the logical network isn't tied to the physical server, we use urls or dns to find other nodes. They can be hosted anywhere. The reason to run lots of servers is to demonstrate that it's only as centralized as the web itself, from day 1.

Disney stock down 1.1% at 11:30AM Eastern, indicating that in the opinion of shareholders, the first amendment isn't that big a deal for a media company.

I've been getting ChatGPT to draw me product shots of all kinds of "really simple" things like ketchup, cola, cheese, baked beans (see below). Then I thought it might work pretty well as a line of books? I'll have my Python simple. Really simple. Who would want complicated baked beans?

Test post test post test post test post test post test post, my kingdom for a test post!

I got a few good error reports and that led to an easy fix. So if you had a problem creating a new post on WordLand could you please try again and report any problems, or success. Thanks!

When Paramount said firing Colbert was financial, I think they were telling the truth. Unless they dumped Colbert the $8 billion deal with the Ellisons wouldn't happen. So it was Colbert or $8 billion. They went for the money. Pretty sure it's the same thing with ABC and Kimmel.

I had a great talk/podcast interview yesterday with Matthias Pfefferle about everything I'm interested in re WordPress and networking, and our interests overlap almost 100 percent. I was telling him about WordLand and explaining how I wanted to see a whole market of editors....

This town, at the end of the Metro North line, looks like an ideal place to park yourself for easy access to the city, yet a fairly country experience.

I've heard some reports of people having trouble using WordLand. I was just able to do a test post, and I can see from the logs that other people are successfully posting. It would be helpful if people with accounts could do a short test post. And if you have something to report, here's a good place to do it.

A bunch of new people are trying out FeedLand news products. I haven't looked at them in a long time. I'm glad they're looking, but most of my demo news products were broken. Oy. It was hard to untangle. It should be a lot easier, and next time I can dig in and do it over I think it will be. Anyway as I convert my demos, I'll list them here: mblriver.com, politics.newsriver.org, bloggers.scripting.com, dave.podcatch.com.

In a piece I wrote yesterday on my WordPress blog, I offered to do a virtual handshake with the people who worked at Netscape when it disappeared just as RSS 0.9.1 was being adopted by the blogosphere in 1999. I never considered their point of view, but in fairness, they never would talk to us except to dictate and dominate. In the piece I try to explain how it all looked from my point of view, that of a developer who had adopted RSS in favor of my own earlier format. Most of the stories miss the real innovator here, and when you find out who it is you will be surprised. (It's not me, most of my job re RSS has been fairly thankless and not creative. I wish other people would share the load. And definitely not profitable, but still worth doing because the web is the only place independent developers can work without the interference of big tech companies.)

It's really simpler than really simple.

Here's an idea. Why doesn't Apple make a laptop with a light shining out to highlight the user's face so they look better when they're on a Zoom call. I bet someone makes a device like this to clip on a laptop. Right??

When Really Simple isn't simple enough. 😄

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

I've started calling ChatGPT boss as in OK boss.