Podcast: 27 minutes.

Sorry about the recording quality, I was in a large space with bad acoustics. I'll try to remember not to do that in the future.

I've noticed I spend less time programming, I go more slowly and carefully because now I can know a lot more about each problem I'm solving, and use the packages I build on, jQuery, MySQL, Node, the browser, Bootstrap, Font-awesome, Frontier, to greater advantage. A new kind of programming is possible, and it's better.

I go into some detail in this podcast about how the process works.

Interested in hearing similar stories from other developers using ChatGPT or something like it.

What should we expect from the Department of Justice in the Harris Administration?

My linkblog, which posts to the Links tab on Scripting News, as well as Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS, now also posts to Twitter. I'm also working with Manton Reece to hook up to Threads via micro.blog.

I do a daily episode of the adventures of Wordle Kitty as art I do with ChatGPT, on Facebook. There often is a NY Times headline in the image, saying something silly like how prisons are dealing with an influx of convicted house pets (like the kitten).

In this drawing the NYT is reporting on how the pets enjoy lunch, making new friends with other convicts.

This is therapeutic. Finally I can see the NYT doing something useful! Keeping me entertained while we try to get through this election. If I'm forced to accept lies from the NYT, without any voice given to opposition, they might as well be lies that entertain me! 😄

PS: I wonder if the NYT minds that we think of them as no more straight than Fox News. They've fallen really far, and have so far shown they totally don't care if we know.

When President Biden took the stage last night at the DNC, I had a moment of buyer's remorse. He looked so good in his black suit, and the pictures of the new candidates, and their spouses, looked comical in comparison to the president who was about to speak. Why did Walz h...

Today would have been my mother's 92nd birthday. She died in 2018, and I still haven't, deep inside, fully gotten the message that she's gone. Probably the most significant person in my life. I find most of my adult relationships can be traced back to my relationship with her.

Keanu Reeves: "If you see someone falling behind, walk beside them. If you see someone being ignored, find a way to include them. Always remind people of their worth. One small act could mean the world to them."

Elon Musk bought the biggest airport on the social web. A major world hub like Atlanta, London or Dubai. Bluesky is a regional airport in a cool place, maybe Austin. Mastodon is a small network of airports, like the ones served by Ryanair in Europe. Threads is potentially...

The Wikipedia page for Living Videotext begins with one of our slogans. It was a joke, and meant to keep us humble, so we listen to users. It was one of many such slogans. LVT made some important contributions to the networks we use today. Wikipedia should talk about that first, show some respect, for crying out loud. Otherwise, except for that snipe up front, the account is actually pretty accurate.

BTW, it's nice to see the DNC including influencers this year. I hear them say this is the first time, but I beg to disagree. A few dozen bloggers were at the DNC in 2004, and were treated well, in many ways. I think the word influencer and blogger have fairly similar meanings. Blogger is a broader term, because it's possible to have a very small readership for a blog, thus not be influencing very much, but still have a lot of value. And you always can influence your mom and little sister, right? 😄

Respect the reader. This isn't exactly a new rule for journalism, but it's worth mentioning anyway. If you wouldn't want to read the piece yourself, don't let them put your name on it. Example. A story promises to tell you about 47 seconds that saved Kamala Harris's career. ...

I'm working on a project which may or may not ship publicly, but it presents an interesting design challenge anyway. The idea is I want to write lots of little bits, less than 1000 words each, they have titles, use styling, links, include images, etc. But it could also be a...

I was kvelling the other day about rss.app and how they have feeds for Threads accounts. They do. But there are two caveats.

1. It costs $9.99 per month for 15 feeds. Could be a bit expensive for some people's budgets.
2. The second concern is more serious. It doesn't handle titleless items properly. It repeats the contents of the tweet in the title and description of the feeds it generates. An example. This is not right, and it's not the way Mastodon and Bluesky do it. There's nothing wrong with items that have no titles. When an item has no title you do the common sense thing -- omit the title. I'm happy to help with this. I wrote the RSS 2.0 spec, and am something of an authority on this. It's important to get this right.

BTW, Olliver Willis is right, the Dems don't need the journos.

I was surprised that Donald Trump was so famous because I didn't watch reality TV. I come from NY and he was a pretty small thing in NY, even though I guess the rest of the world thinks he's big in NY.

• I come from Queens, actually, so I know the Trump character pretty well too. Self-important narcissists who inside feel worthless, lashing out at everything they come in contact with. Not the ordinary Scotch/German in Queens, but not that rare either.

The same thing is probably happening now with Elon Musk, because attention of people like me has wandered away from Twitter, but the audience is huge, and probably every bit as movable as it was for Trump in 2016, and Musk owns it? Seems so.

People who think this is over are fooled, imho.

Read this piece in today's Guardian for another perspective.

Another possible rule for journalism. Employ new kind of op-ed writer. Appointed to a two-year weekly column, where they expose flaws in stories that have appeared in the publication, either news or editorial. They should have expertise in areas your publication covers. They...

Journalism is very important part of how our country works yet there is no accountability, no checks and balances, no requirement of transparency. There isn’t even a mechanism to disagree with them. most of the time they have the only voice. We don’t even know what they’re trying to do, what their goals are.

I would almost add a rule that journalists should have respect for critics, we'll save that for the rules of 2030 if there is any journalism left.

John Goodman explains what to do if you get ahead by $2.5 million.

No more lies in news, that's the first new rule of journalism. We've had to live with a journalism that tries to give lies equal stature to actual news, but the two just don't mix. What happens if your news is half lies, the users don't believe anything you carry. This was predicted, in 2016 when it was clear that Putin's Russia was heavily influencing American journalism. They had developed their techniques in Ukraine in previous years, and the Ukraine press and government came to the same conclusion we're now arriving at -- stop at the first lie, turn the microphone off. That's the main rule, main change that has to take place now, in advance of the November election. They may not do it, but at least now we all understand that what they're doing is stupid, wrong, even corrupt. No matter what they don't get to keep their rep if they are laundering lies.

Thank you for reading the NY Times so I don't have to.

Watch out when reporters say something said on their air or in their pub is "misleading." What they really mean is someone just lied in their space. Heard it just now on NPR after a Republican was using "talking points" that were "misleading." Of course lies are misleading, b...

And even better -- here's the RSS feed for my Threads account. This is a huge gateway for interop. I wonder how often the feed updates.

And here's the RSS feed. 😄

And here's the timeline for Kamalahq, via FeedLand.

The way I see it, if the journos are going to lie to us, why shouldn’t we listen to lies that make us feel good?

A few minutes later, the feed is in my blogroll. 😄

When was the last time the owner of the NYT did a press conference?

I'm looking for an RSS feed for Kamalahq.

Feature requests for Threads.