Thursday, March 12, 2026
Substack would be the web's printer, if they supported inbound RSS. #
Bluesky is actually pretty close to being on the web. The biggest missing piece is inbound RSS. They already support outbound, it could use a review and tuneup, but that half is...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Trump’s naive attacks or threats against Iran, Venezuela, Canada, Greenland, Cuba and lack of support for Ukraine guarantee that every country that doesn’t have nukes is going to be working overtime to get them. Assuming they don’t already have the...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
The Guardian is the coolest news org, paywall-wise. Why don't they innovate, and create a EZ-Pass for news, and run it for other high quality, reader centered pubs. We pay $1 per article read. That's how I as a reader want to do it. I don't like subs...
Monday, March 9, 2026
Bluesky: "The reason we have enough money for a war is that we get to print money because we have the reserve currency that the whole world uses. So we could afford to buy you a house or pay for your healthcare or forgive your student loan debt but we ...
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Claude is not doing well today, seriously not working well, think it must be they're coping with a large influx of new users. #
I was looking forward to Season 4 of Industry, but found the first episode unwatchable. Lots of yelling. New characters ...
Friday, March 6, 2026
Mastodon: Good Mastodon accounts to follow for news?#
Remember when, just weeks ago, the Dems told the military that they must not obey illegal orders. We passed that red line when they obeyed orders to start a war that had not been declared by Congr...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
The thing that's amazing about Claude.ai is that it understands how software works. I can talk to it about software the way a football coach would talk to a player about football. I gave it some instructions in English about how the outliner was goi...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. It looks like a spreadsheet app but it's missing most of the really good commands, like defining the value in one cell with the sum of two other ce...
Monday, March 2, 2026
Very happy to welcome my old friend, John Palfrey, back to the web. His first new piece is about his experience at the AI Action Summit in February, in Delhi. I added his feed to my blogroll on scripting.com. He was executive director at Berkman when I...
Sunday, March 1, 2026
If you followed me on Twitter, please follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon. As far as I'm concerned Twitter is gone. Not because I'm religious about this stuff, but my account got hijacked and I can't get it back, so let's close that chapter. It was a grea...
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Podcast: Why men hate the Dems. I tell my perspective of MeToo, and how that imho created enough anti-Dem energy to push Trump over the top. Polls won't tell you how the Dems got the rep of being the party run by women to cancel men, but I'm sure...
Friday, February 27, 2026
When I write a comment on someone else's blog I want it to automatically be on my blog. It should just appear to be on theirs, the original and only copy of the writing appears on mine. A truly distributed system.#
Maybe it's time to give awards ...
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Recommended: When ICE buys a warehouse in your town.#
Also: New Yorker interview of Conan O'Brien. I love that both O'Brien and Remnick agree that podcasting liberated them as artists. That was the point! When you think about decentralization, ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
How many Jeffrey Epstein’s do you think there are? #
New header graphic, the entirely delightful and inspiring Alysa Liu. She's made me a better programmer in the short time she's been on our minds and in our hearts. I do this work because it'...
The things you used to write in Node.js and before that PHP and Perl, and in my case Frontier.#
I had been trying to get ChatGPT to do exactly that for months.#
We're going to spend a while reimplementing all our server software.#
It would be super helpful if the whole thing could be packaged up so we can write our servers in English or whatever our preferred Really Simple Language is, and have it compiled to whatever internal language it likes, and not have to learn too much new jargon.#
Monday, February 23, 2026
Big snow day in the east. I thought it was going to be heavy snow but it's actually really light. The shoveling is easy. I'm getting good at it. Right now I think this storm was a lot less than they said it would be, but I also think to some extent...
Sunday, February 22, 2026
The killer app of AI is customer service. A podcast about just that. #
The web builds on the web#
When I designed podcasting, I could have invented a better way to record and play radio shows, but MP3 already existed, as did recording and pla...
Saturday, February 21, 2026
New podcast episode where I explain how I lost my Twitter account and how this is exactly the kind of thing that AI can do economically, esp for people who pay actual money for your service. I can't buy anything from you if I can't use my account...
Friday, February 20, 2026
Updated version of FeedLand Docker Compose. It's now possible to run FeedLand on a local machine on a private network. #
I am going to try again to open up the editing side of OPML. It's gotten pretty famous in RSS-land, but people don't know th...
Thursday, February 19, 2026
President Obama going to the NBA All-Star game made the freaking All-Star game worth something. Perfect place for him to show up. #
It's interesting to see the ATProto solution to a problem we solved in RSS-land a few years ago, how to include ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
New account on Twitter: DWiner43240. The old one dating back to the dawn of time is disabled, so at least the new owners can't post anything there, if I understand correctly. #
The Spurlocks of RSS-Land#
I saw a product announcement from J...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Yesterday, I had to ship an envelope to the UK and got caught in dead ends at the Fedex and DHL sites. One of them said my zip code wasn't in the town I live in. How do you get past that?? These companies are losing business because their systems ...
Monday, February 16, 2026
My Twitter account has been hijacked. I can't log on, or change the password. I can't communicate with the company, so I'll try here. Please shut down my account, davewiner. To my friends who have Twitter accounts, if you see a post from davewiner ...
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Braintrust query. Every once in a while I get reports from people who looked something up on my blog's Daytona search engine saying that where they expected dates they see things like this: NaN. The reason you see that is that the archive has a mis...
Saturday, February 14, 2026
I always objected to browsers trying to hide the feeds. I come from NYC and rode the subway to school every day in high school. The things you see! It's all out there for the looking and breathing. Lift the hood on a car. Look at all those wires ...
Friday, February 13, 2026
News still needs to make a big transition, to become a distributed unownable thing, with every part replaceable, much like what needs to happen with the social web. This transition has been possible and necessary for about 30 years. The reporters a...
Thursday, February 12, 2026
I understood the web because I understood Unix and missed it. #
If you're a FeedLand user and have the technical ability to install a Docker app, even on a local computer not on the net, you could help the project by trying the new Docker versi...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Docker version of FeedLand. Scott Hanson has it working, and would like help with testing. Thanks so much to Scott. #
A fair number of people make a stop at news.scripting.com every day. I want to make some improvements, I think it can be made...
Podcast: It occurred to me yesterday that there are a lot of parallels with Frontier on the Mac in the early 90s and WordLand and WordPress in the 2020s. So I told the story in a podcast and I think it came out really well. I did some editing at the beginning and end, and as usual my audio editing is pretty crude, but otherwise the story is exactly as I told it. I also asked Claude.ai to do a third-person summary of the podcast, as I did with the previous three shows, and it's getting better. I encourage anyone who's involved in the WordPress community to listen. I think WP has a bigger role to play in the web than it currently has, which imho is saying a lot. 15 minutes.#
Podcast: It occurred to me yesterday that there are a lot of parallels with Frontier on the Mac in the early 90s and WordLand and WordPress in the 2020s. So I told the story in a podcast and I think it came out really well. I did some editing at the beginning and end, and as usual my audio editing is pretty crude, but otherwise the story is exactly as I told it. I also asked Claude.ai to do a third-person summary of the podcast, as I did with the previous three shows, and it's getting better. I encourage anyone who's involved in the WordPress community to listen. I think WP has a bigger role to play in the web than it currently has, which imho is saying a lot. 15 minutes.#
