How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product. They are free to stay where they are and still get the benefit. People only choose yours because it’s better for what they’re doing.

One thing we know for sure is that the AIs are incredible amplifiers of programmer creativity, and they’re getting better at that every month. So the question is, will AI become as useful to users who are not programmers? That’s what at least some of the programmers are working on.

Just found this piece. https://buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-ice "The New York Times, a publisher that should have been firmly in ICE’s wheelhouse, adopted RSS in November 2002. ICE limped on, however, with the authoring group releasing version 2.0 in 2004." They liked our pitch. Really simple. ;-)

I have a feeling we’re all going to spend the rest of our lives cleaning up the mess that was created by Twitter, that is if we want to ever achieve the freedom promised by the web before Twitter came along and pretty much ruined it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Why do all atproto writing tools have the same font and spacing? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Always explaining vision of RSS.chat. A post I just wrote. If we had continued developing around RSS after 2002, this is where we would have gone. Feeds as the basis for social interaction on the web. It's still way better than trying to replace the web.

In rss.chat land we're in the business of connecting big things with each other using the web. Yesterday we came out with an example app that connects a writer with a WordPress blog. WordPress has all the hooks to be the place where text and publishing meet on the web. https://rss.chat

Just finished The Expanse for the third time. Realized that the inners of today are Silicon Valley and the Belters, that’s the web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)

I can’t believe this guy is president of the United States.

Here's the story of RSS.chat. https://x.com/davewiner/status/2076076891115757616 The bootstrap is starting now. The web itself is a social network. Start small and build, and leave lots of space for others. Small pieces loosely joined, all parts replaceable. I've done these bootstraps before, btw. ;-)

FWIW, they’re just reinventing the web only more complex. Come join us in the web, the water is cooool. 🤓 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A story about I've been working on since April with Claude. Also I've been writing about it non-stop on my blog, and yesterday there was a podcast. I think this is going to change what people think about the "social web." At least that's the intention. ;-) https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/you-can-now-chat-using-rss-well-sort-of/

Stop thinking of a "network" as a big thing. They can be small too, the same software works, but the priorities are different.

I want a literate social web.

Al Franken is who I think of when the rush to destroy a Democratic politician is underway.

They have moral parades on Bluesky too, but this was from 2016, about how ineffective they are and how voting your issues is where the power is. Too long to fit here, sorry. https://x.com/davewiner/status/2074552684963577938

Hitler had the privilege of hosting the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and I don’t recall any stories about him trying to rig the games so that the Germans won or that someone else lost so we are definitely in new territory. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I don’t usually retweet Trump, but this one is too good. And very good I mean awful. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bluesky ain't the web folks. if it were, there wouldn't be a character limit, because the web doesn't have a stinkin character limit.

Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back.

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Textcasting -- Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text. textcasting.org https://textcasting.org/

Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump. https://www.vox.com/scotus/416073/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-shadow-docket-trump