I’ve been writing about Atlantis on various social media sites in the last few days. Published the long piece I wrote yesterday on Facebook and X, both of which allow long posts. Wasn’t going to try that on Mastodon or Bluesky, which have character limits (I know Mastodon doesn’t technically have a limit, but in […]

Claude has started asking me how Claude is doing. It’s clear that the Claude I talk to knows nothing about this. I appreciate this, and hope if I said it wasn’t working well with me, it would try to fix it? Not sure. Anyway this is what I just wrote, and felt it was worth […]

With Claude Code you don’t have to write system scripts to get data about your data. Claude makes that fully transparent. For example, I just asked Claude to get me a list of all the parts I’ve changed since the last release of frontier.root. If Claude writes a script to get that info, it’s invisible […]

It’s like we’re living in a science fiction movie. Some of us are working with the aliens. At first the journalists only fear was driven by their natural narcissism, all that matters is they get paid for their writing. Now all they can see is the much larger threat to humanity. What if the aliens […]

The world may be falling apart, and the Mets suck even though they have the most expensive roster in MLB, and my house needs work and I can’t find a contractor I like, but I’m in a great mood. Partially because the weather is so nice, chilly in the morning, but it gets up to […]

Lots of stuff going on around WordPress for the last couple of years, and every bit of is a distraction from what I want to do to help the web get back on its feet. I remember how great it was when everything could hook into everything else. The web was like Unix. Today’s “web” […]

Scripting News on 9/11/2001. All of us who lived through 9/11 are re-experiencing it right now. The local fire department just ran its alarm, everyone in this small mountain hamlet heard it and it took a moment to realize this was the exact time the first plane hit the tower. I was at my computer […]

I almost fell for a phishing hack.

2017: The thing people don’t realize about storm surge, and they don’t really explain it on TV, is this. If the ocean surges 1 mile inland, and you were on the beach before the surge, now you’re 1 mile out to sea. In normal times you’d be pretty fucked if someone dropped you in the […]

WordPress emerged from the ashes of UserLand, something I am recently reacquainted with, working the last couple of months with Claude on a reboot of Frontier, this time written in JavaScript, running in Electron. But someone is sure to reboot Manila in this context, and Manila is at least a grandparent of WordPress. I’m following […]

Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share. They originally invested at $85 a share in 2021. That means their market cap has dropped from $7.5 billion to $1.2 billion. My guess is when that happens the CEO if they want to keep their job, has to rethink the whole […]

The last two episodes of season three of Silo on AppleTV prove that there is value in a three season, boring escapade of confusing, unlikable uninteresting characters, living their whole lives in a silo, fearing the outdoors — if you have a clever way of accounting for all that at the end. Highly recommend watching […]

Fair to say I was gobsmacked by the news late yesterday that Automattic’s board had put their CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on paid leave. I’ve read lots of stuff about it, in news articles and in a Hacker News thread. And a lot of posts on Twitter by Matt, and the replies. It’s a very unusual […]

Surprising news. Matt Mullenweg was forced to take a paid leave of absence as CEO by Automattic’s board.

I have completely lost interest in new phones. The last one I bought was a Pixel 9 because they said it would have great AI features. At that time the sky was the limit, there were new breakthroughs every afternoon in AI. Now it’s just an app. I will be ready for the next thing […]

I spent the day programming in Atlantis. It’s buggy, and there are a few missing parts, but most of what I need is there. It’s starting to feel like Frontier, which is cool because that’s what we’re making. And I have my backup tools working on the new machine, praise Murphy.

Claude Code massively stinks at explaining things in a way that a human can understand.

I laid out some ideas for Bluesky and WordPress re Markdown and AI systems.

Scott Hanson is working on a WordPress plugin that displays a FeedLand river — a constantly-updated stream of news items from feeds a FeedLand user subscribes to — on a WordPress page or post. It’s important that news flows be part of managing a site. Help Scott make it perfect, WordPress is a very important […]

People love Markdown because it’s impossible to hide the crud. And because people love it so much it’s become a favorite of tech startups esp in the AI field. This is a great turn of events. We’re getting back to the web, and the sooner everyone gets on board, the better. I’ve written about this […]

Microsoft has figured out the appeal of Markdown, it’s impossible to hide the crud, and this is how a big company with a big messy product line, pivots to make sense in the new world of AI tools. Someone at MS either remembers or had studied the transition from PC operating systems to the web. […]

A big corner-turn in the Atlantis project, the new version of Frontier for modern OSes, in development, just me and Claude Code so far. We now have the means to update the root, so anything implemented in script code can be released without fuss, using RSS of course. We’re using a method that will be […]

On the other hand, why doesn’t Microsoft, which owns GitHub, make a Slack-alike tool that manages the issues sections on repos. Slack is a big part of the default communication system, but GitHub is another very big part. And the great thing is that both these products, owned by huge tech companies, have an ethos […]

We got past the bump, and I’m getting stuff done. I write this stuff because I will probably forget most of the frustration. Frontier is a hard piece of software to get going, it’s got a lot of integrations, which you want when you’re using, but hard when you’re getting it all to work the […]

Today’s song: So into you.

Every day with Claude I end up debugging the things it broke overnight. Yesterday I actually got a useful script written and debugged, along the way reporting glitches but no deal-stoppers. This morning, after updating to the latest version, the script doesn’t run. It’s been like this for two weeks. No wonder every day before […]

The governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless he can prove he’s actually alive.

I had watched almost three seasons of Silo, had no feeling for the characters, or the story, which was going nowhere that I could discern. I shouldn’t have watched it through all that time, but for some reason I did. Then in episode 9, two Fridays ago, the story took a remarkable turn. It’s so […]

I launched ChatGPT for the first time in a long time because I now have access to the new version. One new thing I see is that they are popping up suggestions about things you can do in realtime, like smart queries in a feed reader, which as far as I know is still uncharted […]

If you want others to follow you, you have to offer them your users. And a format alone has no users. And you have to trust your users to choose the best product, and you have to have a great product, that they appreciate, even though they have choice. Just coming out with something better […]