I have a new Chromebook, I keep it on the kitchen table so I can get online quickly from downstairs. I've been able to log on to every service I need except X. It insists that to log in I have to use their app, but if they have a Chromebook app, the Google store doesn't know about it. Why they can't just let me enter the email address and password? They could send a code to my phone. What else. I think this has something to do with having encrypted direct messages.

These are the big features that remain to be done in Atlantis, the new version of Frontier in development with myself and Claude. The one that's bold is what we're working on now. I want to get it into shipping shape. And a couple of the things on the list came from Claude a...

Thinking out loud about blogging from this space.

It's pretty close to being able to do what I do in Electric Drummer in an outline, just need a few more options, they would fit in the context menu on each post as you edit. Lots of room there.

The blog rendering would run off the RSS feed. I probably would write something new and very simple, almost like an RSS feed browser.

The reason I would start with a pilot project here is because there are other people here, already. And if I said something provocative that you knew other people would see, would you be drawn to that? I trust the people I've invited here not to be spammers.

We might be ready for that. We put a lot of effort into the comment system here. We plan to use the new features to create a very new kind of web.

No one tries out new ideas in the blogging world. That could change.

Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. assume they consent.

And the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can prove he’s actually alive.

Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory.

Claude Code is like Victor Wembanyama, assuming you follow the NBA and are interested in first hand experience with CC as a programming partner for the last 8 months or so.

The latest release of FeedLand Rivers for WordPress implements Instant Updates. Similar to FeedLand itself, the rendered river uses websockets to listen for new and updated items and will update the river. It still uses no styles or scripts not bundled with the plugin itself.

I read Bill Gates' memo, and there's one thing almost no one has mentioned about AI systems, is how dependent we're getting on them. What if one day they stop working. What's the backup plan?

When we started up with PCs and then the web, it took a long time for us to build mission-critical systems around them. But this is happening very quickly.

Super, I've given it a quick run. River.

My blog post.

That was fast! ;-)

I'll link to this on Scripting News shortly.

Thanks for doing this work Scott.

I've released a WordPress plugin that shows a FeedLand river on a page or post: feedland-rivers.

Drop the shortcode `[feedland-rivers]' onto a page, point it at your FeedLand username in the settings, and it fetches the river JSON server-side and renders it in an isolated iframe. No FeedLand front-end scripts, no third-party fonts or stylesheets beyond an optional favicon lookup. Here is an example.

You can also show more than one river on a site by overriding the username, category or server per shortcode instance, e.g. '[feedland-rivers username="alice" category="tech"]'.

BTW we all know there isn't an RSS 2.0 feed, it isn't a podcast, but rather than getting all preachy, which no one likes, mention a "podcast feed" as a real thing that's expected. Always add "feed" when you say podcast.

The feed gives you and podcast producers the thing that makes podcasting so different -- freedom. For listeners it means if you don't like something the software does, you can switch without losing anything. And for producers there's no one who can stop you from speaking. There is always a way around a blockage. But only if there's an RSS feed.

Frontier work going much better today we’ve got all the built in verbs in the product reviewed tested and I’m not finding any problems as I create software for deploying this stuff.

The first thing we had to get working was being able to move objects from the 2011 frontier to the 2026 frontier and we got there today. The next thing that’s coming is being able to do updates for users with new parts and changes to existing ODB elements.

So once that’s working, we can start fixing bugs and looking for problems and things didn’t get ported correctly. We have a new gate. Every change must be vetted by reviewing the 2011 code, and doing exactly what we did then.

John Kerry asked who wants to be the last casualty in Vietnam, a lost cause like the war we are bogged down in Iran for no good reason, like Vietnam.

What happens when humans run out of things they want to do with AIs. When everything has been done and it takes ten tokens to do what used to cost ten million. What will we do with all the data centers? Will they be empty shells like the old shopping malls that were so popular before the web and Covid?

Added a chapter to the story.

https://github.com/scripting/helloFrontier/issues/1

Turns out Claude didn’t understand how Frontier calls scripts. It’s much simpler than what it concocted.

Started a new repo today.

https://github.com/scripting/helloFrontier

We have to make a fair number of decisions about all aspects of the product, esp the surprisingly huge verb set.

For the tough decisions I'll document the issue, and seek feedback from friendly people with real Frontier expertise.

Right now it's just an intro page and nothing more. Eventually, hopefully, fingers crossed, something wonderful will show up here.

In response to his post about the squeak of sphincters. 1. I was getting an exam at a urologist's office where one of the nurses actually used the word sphincter, and I, fully conscious, said something funny that got them all laughing, basically that you never hear the word...

That's okay -- I like that you're experimenting. I want to help you do more. ;-)

Oops, I did mean FeedLand. That is confusing that I wrote WordLand. Sorry about that.

Scott the confusion was you said WordLand and I think you meant FeedLand. ;-)

Also wpIdentity does more than username and password, it's how WordLand connects to everything.

I didn't use wpIdentity or smtp for my initial test with SQLite. I signed up with email, and had Claude tell me the confirmation link. 😃

I just configured wpIdentity with my WordPress client ID and secret, and it worked without any code changes.

- celld support - This is to allow standalone deployment to any host, including Digital Ocean droplet with cloud_init. Turns out D1 support is not yet available in celld so deferred.- CF temporary account support - This is to allow user to launch their own instance under a te...

I don't know about wpIdentity but rss.voice uses D1 which is a SQLite database. You can see how it's used in this file. Just find "env.DB.prepare" calls.

https://github.com/donpark/rss.voice/blob/main/apps/server/src/index.ts

Brent, great to see you here.

The OPML subscription lists is the right way to go for a popular feed reader, to get people thinking about creating subscription lists for others to subscribe to. And by then we should have a streamlined release of FeedLand for editing and combining the lists we generate here and elsewhere.

Later, once other sites are supporting the discourse features in RSS.chat format, or as others are supporting it, you might want to be in on the conversation. I think Manton is working on that. But discourse is an important function in his world, not so much in NNW but it could be.

Resources:

1. Example code for subscription lists.

2. The discourse features walkthrough.

Glad to help any way we can. ;-)

I’m currently planning the next NetNewsWire milestone (7.2), figuring out what features to add and wondering how it could start to support rss.chat. Would a good first step be adding support for OPML subscription lists?

Of course using SQLite is progress. When you're ready tell us how you did it. I assume it's being done at the wpidentity level?

I love stuff like this. Small pieces loosely joined. ;-)

I occasionally post sets of links I've collected to my blog. I've been using my instance of rss.chat to collect links.

I've figured out a simple bash script:

That pulls in the markdowntext of the last 10 links so I can edit a little then post to my blog. I run the script from TextMate, add a new tab, paste and edit.