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How to understand Trump talking about tariffs. Remember how he talked about Covid. Same thing.

When I announced Chris Lydon's podcast in 2003, I called it a weblog for the ears. We didn't have the name podcasting yet.

Andrew Hickey whose podcast I support, also appears to be strongly against people using ChatGPT. I am a programmer, so you might think I'd see it the same way because what I do is similar to what musicians and prose writers do in that I create "intellectual property" which ...

I was going to use this code in the UI of my search engine, when it wanted to display an image over http, reroute it to use an https proxy server. But Chrome wouldn't stay out of the way, so had to give up. Hey I was trying to route around their outage.

Apparently Chrome has changed the behavior of images served over http in web pages. It's changing the request to https, so it gives an erroneous error message about the certificate which the page never claimed to have.

And with this update, we don't depend on OPML any longer to create the database, all the data is exported in a format that can be easily imported directly into an SQL database. I provide the schema and example JavaScript code that, via SQL, updates a database. Hopefully this creates a better more useful archive.

As the import script runs I just tried looking up Engadget, got zero hits. I expect that link will work in a while after all the importing is done.

Having the 90s and 00s in the index means I can look up old friends like Chuck Shotton.

I've been working on the search function for this blog, and now we have all the DaveNet pieces between 1994 and 2004 in the database. So here's a search for menu sharing which was a technology we made on the Mac that allowed people to write menus of scripts in Frontier that appear inside other apps. Netscape supported it as did MSIE, Quark, Eudora and many others. It was kind of magical, esp when the apps themselves were scriptable (many of them were in the 90s). Next up, I'm going to import the home page of Scripting News from 1997 to 2010. It was mostly a linkblog then.

What it means to be distributed. Mastodon can't go down, neither can RSS. But Bluesky can.

Not much to write, so impressed by the way the Knicks got past the Celtics. I don't know any Celtics fans, but I imagine there are some subscribers who are. Hard to imagine how hard the last series hit you all. I don't have anything against the Celtics these days although Paul Pierce is an asshole, and I hope you all know that. Just watched the OKC win over Denver. All around an incredible group in the final four, very diverse and inclusive. And btw now that I think of it, Jaylen Brown was grabbing Knicks players by the balls. I hope you all come to terms with that. We do love Kristaps in New York, a true gentleman. Maybe he and Giannis can come play for the Nets. We may have room for another great team in NY.

Does Joe Rogan know about what's happening with Medicaid?

Look at this, for an idea of what a product says to the prospect. It makes you laugh. When you laugh inside an idea forms. "Ain't it the truth." That gets you ready to read the pitch, which is stuff you wouldn't have read or even considered if they hadn't said something so ...

The Knicks did actually win last night. I didn't dream it.

I remember when the Knicks sucked.

In my heart I believe they still do.

But here we are, my Knicks actually have an approximately 1 in 4 chance of winning the championship.

I hope it's Minnesota we end up playing.

All in the family. 😀

This is what my WordLand blog looks like now. Quite a transformation! Sooo pretty. We're going to keep tweaking it up, so it's even more beautiful and more and more useful, but it's going to take some time. As the Supremes used to sing. I need love love love to ease my mind.

One thing I've been waiting to hear about Trump's $400 million jet. We don't need the money.

How feeds work in WordLand.

Great Art on Bluesky is back. A beautiful work of art every hour.

The Democrats need an entrepreneur at the top. Stop doing things as they’ve always been done because the media has changed. The old rules no longer apply.

The Democrats need an entrepreneur at the top. Stop doing things as they’ve always been done because the media has changed. The old rules no longer apply.

RSS-based podcasts are built-in and not going anywhere. Here's why. As long as there are lots of good podcasts available for listening to via RSS on phones, every competitive 'caster is going to want to be there, because their competitors are. And as long as I can get a good...

I want to design a Google Form, and thought to ask ChatGPT for instructions from a spec I wrote. Then I thought to ask Gemini, which is Google's chatbot, wondering if they would just do the work for me instead of providing instructions. I would have laughed out loud if they did, but alas, just instructions.

If you get the nightly email, a questionnaire. Is the text a good size? Easy to read? Suggestions?

Scott Hanson has been working on the Baseline theme and it's ready for people to try out. An important caveat. This theme was designed to be the beginning theme for WordLand-authored WordPress sites. The goal is to get the minimal features for a nice blog-oriented site run...

This is what it says on Google about tomorrow night's Knicks game vs the Celtics in Boston. I've pointed the red arrow at the part that makes me think I must be dreaming. NYK leads 3-1. Yesterday at this time (5:30PM Eastern) I was in a funk, sure that the Knicks were about ...

New WordLand feature: Edit all categories for a site.

Video demo of the new categories editor in WordLand. I wanted to be able to add new categories and edit the descriptions of existing categories without having to leave WordLand. I feel that categories are an important part of writing. It will be in v0.5.12, coming shortly.

Google may be forced, for the public good, to sell Chrome, or spin it off as an independent company. Who would you want it not sold to? If it were independent how would it make enough money to maintain the software? What should change? What should not?

There must be a group of librarians somewhere exploring ChatGPT-like products as a completely new library experience.

I worked my way through all six seasons of Peaky Blinders. I had tried it a few times before and found it hard to get started, but this time I persevered, got to know the characters, and enjoyed the stories. I knew the series was about to end as we approached the end of the f...