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.#
Sunday, April 26, 2026
I just said this to Claude: "I want to show people that RSS isn't just for news and podcasting. It can be for mindless social media rants too." ;-)#
Bluesky is having trouble keeping their network running. As a developer I empathize. As a user, it's...
I wrote about Jeopardy, Firefox, Matt, Silicon Valley and the writer's web in a long comment on Doc's blog. Here's a quote. "What we really need is interop. If the source is free that’s great. But right now we have silos everywhere and I want WordPress, perhaps along with Firefox to help us boot up the writer's web."#
Friday, April 24, 2026
I want writing to be as open as podcasting. The pattern is ridiculously easy to apply. If this were on a a high school math test, it would be too easy, everyone would get it right. How do you make text work like podcasting? 1. You look for a brain-dea...
Thursday, April 23, 2026
I've written about Firefox many times over the last 20 years or so. #
Why Firefox? There's a moment now when the web could benefit from leadership. There's a chance to rebuild text in the web around the use of AI systems. But almost every company ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
I like reading Joost's blog. I'm subscribed and it's in my blogroll.#
Yesterday I threw a question out there. "If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work?" I left out specifics, because any specifics I provide might cut off interes...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work?#
BTW the "open" web has a chance to come back around the AI rewrite of all our software that's underway now. If we build the new systems entirely around web connections, with each part repl...
Monday, April 20, 2026
I applied to speak at WebCamp Europe but didn't make the cut. I did see that Jonathan Desrosiers is giving a talk about the web, and his pitch is right on. Please go listen to him if you're in Kraków in June. I have been developing software around the...
Sunday, April 19, 2026
A format like RSS needs to be loved. #
I'm doing a programming project with Claude and it's great, like a puzzle, finding out what works for me and building something I normally wouldn't have time to maintain, but -- Claude has nothing but time for ...
The people who call themselves Mets fans who are sad when the Mets don't make the playoffs are really Yankees fans.#
Last week I released a new toolkit that includes docs for your AI programming partner. Ask it to read the docs, and then tell it about the editor you want. It works with WordPress sites via the wpcom API via the wpIdentity server. A new frontier. ;-)#
Friday, April 17, 2026
If I were running WordPress, my first priority would be to get something exciting out that even non-WordPress users would talk about. Then do it again. Ideally it would be something that reporters would like, that they could see themselves using. As y...
Thursday, April 16, 2026
WordPress has remained mostly constant for its whole life, at least from the point of view of this outsider. But now the world its embedded in is turning upside down and WordPress must change, but no one really knows how that change will manifest. #...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Today the work with Claude is much better, though when we got started it was even worse than yesterday. The key to getting on track was to figure out why it worked so well in previous projects and fell apart with this one. In each of the others, I ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
A glitch in the matrix. The app that keeps daveverse.org in sync with scripting.com has been offline since Friday, so I'm republishing all the posts since then. They will all appear to have been posted today on daveverse. As they say -- still diggin!...
We reached a milestone this morning, we completed the project to add a Gutenberg version of the wpEditorDemo app. Claude did the programming on the new version. It required changes to the server app, which I made. It took 2.5 days to do the work, which was more than I thought it would. A lot of was learned. Now I'm figuring out what my next project will be. #
Heard a report on NPR re why the Dems might win the mid-terms in November. They mentioned gas prices but not concentration camps for immigrants. They mentioned inflation but not the military occupation of Minneapolis and DC. They also forgot to mention that he keeps threatening to nuke Iran.#
Sunday, April 12, 2026
BTW one thing you haven't heard, because the press is so self-centered, is that as you get deeper into the AI environment, you get smarter. Not just better informed, that's what the web has been doing for us for 30+ years. The AI stretches your mind t...
