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...
I'm working with Claude today to finish Gutenberg Land. Figuring it out as we go along. It can run the app itself because it's browser-based. I look forward to a project that runs on a server so it can run it locally and we can really make things hum. This, if I guess correctly, is how Jake is working with Headless Frontier. He just got the debugger working. Why? I asked, given that we have bigger more immediate priorities, like getting Manila running on Digital Ocean (what a trip that will be) -- he explained that's because he wants the AI bot to use the freaking debugger. #
Friday, April 10, 2026
Deshittifying the web, day 2#
The perfect app for an AI to do for you is a demo app. Yesterday I wrote about making WordPress boom with new apps for writers that run in the web ecosystem, not as plug-ins, in JS running in the browser, or on the de...
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Let's make WordPress boom#
New ways to write with WordPress as the back-end.#
Build an API that combines what wpcom does and storage.#
Recruit devs to create products for this environment.#
Gutenberg will be one of these editors.#
I will...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
We are all Good Germans now#
I don't know about you but I thought there was a pretty good chance Trump would detonate a nuke somewhere yesterday, and the fact that we did not get him out of there in time to prevent it, says we went along with it...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Hacker News isn't a software masterpiece. All the pieces have to be there to make something as real as HN happen.#
This would make quite a movie#
The president of the United States is spinning around acting like a NYC real estate jumbo who accid...
Monday, April 6, 2026
Vibe coding is still an unknown#
I recommend this post on vibe coding.#
There's a lot more to development than coding. #
I've tried vibe coding myself, and while it's sometimes relaxing and fun, it's pretty hard to get the output to match what ...
Sunday, April 5, 2026
The discourse about WordPress#
I love all the new discourse about WordPress. #
It was so quiet until this week, now I'm getting a much better view of the landscape.#
I started developing seriously around WordPress almost three years ago. I've b...
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Sometimes I put test posts on my blog. This is one of those times. Still diggin, amazingly -- in 2026. What makes this post different is that 1. It's a singular item, ie there is no title, and just one paragraph. It's a collection of sentences not pa...
Friday, April 3, 2026
WordPress could have an active developer community creating writing tools for WordPress users. I also want WordPress to form the foundation of a new social network, one that supports all the writing features of the web. With really nice user interfaces...
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Please follow me at my new Twitter address: bullmancuso. Whatever anyone thinks of the company the product is still unique, there are people and communities there that I need to communicate with, and I just don't have that kind of network anywhere el...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
BTW, suggestion to web-based companies that send out notices via email. It's good to do that, but make sure somewhere there's a link to exactly the same material on the web. It can only build traffic for your ideas, earned media.#
Archived Scripti...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
It's peeve time. I've just listened to a song that inspires me on Amazon Music. A song I've been humming and singing in my head all morning. After it's done, the voice of Alexa comes on and says "BTW, you have two new messages. Would you like to hear...
