Podcast: I was able to write a post that appeared on Mastodon using ActivityPub. Via the WordPress API. Congrats to the ActivtyPub community, Automattic and Mastodon. "It just worked."
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A quick podcast to explain what happened here.
BTW, it also supports HTML pretty well, but the title does not appear on the Mastodon version. That's going to be a problem. Actually the title is visible at the bottom. Let's call that an anachronism. Of course the title should/must be at the top.
Okay this is blowing my mind. My friends at Automattic showed me how to turn on ActivityPub on a test WordPress site I've been using. I wrote a test post in my simple WordPress editor, forgetting that it would be cross-posted to Mastodon. I'm following my WordPress site on my...
Guy Kawasaki, proto-evangelist
Guy Kawasaki and I have been going back and forth privately about what we want from our personal ChatGPT. Here's one thing for the list. When I go to Google and search for NBB, it should take me to this page on my blog. It shouldn't even require me to click on Feelin Lucky. ...
Guy Kawasaki and I have been going back and forth privately about what we want from our personal ChatGPT. Here's one thing for the list. When I go to Google and search for NBB, it should take me to this page on my blog. It shouldn't even require me to click on Feelin Lucky. That's the problem with Google. It's had a million years to get to know me, and it still thinks I might mean National Bank of Blacksburg. Google is clueless compared to what I've become accustomed to with ChatGPT. They and everyone else are completely missing the boat here. Folks, this is my blog, read it and use it when I ask a question. Also they don't have to even read my blog, NBB is defined in my glossary, which I make public and is used in rendering all my pages.
I'm really proud of what John Gruber said about me as a blogger in his Daring Fireball yesterday: "Winer is rightfully renowned for his technical achievements — outliners as an application genre, RSS in general, and RSS in the specific context of podcasting in particular — but what’s kept me reading Scripting News for the entirety of Scripting News’s 30-years-and-counting run is his writing. He has such a distinctive writing voice that is impossible to imagine in any medium other than the web. But I think that’s because he helped define what writing not just on the web, but for the web, even meant."
I've mentioned the wpIdentity package a few times recently, and thought I should explain its purpose and history.
The Talk Show: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’
Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.
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Judge Bends Google Over the Barrel in Final Epic v. Google Ruling
theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores
Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge:
Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it
will have to change. Today, Judge James Donato issued his final
ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively
open up the Google Play app store to competition...
Daring Fireball
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[Sponsor] 1Password: Without C-Suite Buy-In, Security Is Just Rearranging Deck Chairs
There’s a line in Titanic that any IT or security professional can relate to. The ship’s architect explains that he wanted to include enough lifeboats for all the passengers, “but it was felt the deck would look too cluttered.”
That decision takes on a tragic significance i...
Chinese Government Hackers Compromise ‘Back Door for the Good Guys’ in U.S. Communication Networks
wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b
Sarah Krouse, Dustin Volz, Aruna Viswanatha, and Robert McMillan, reporting for The Wall Street Journal:
For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to
network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful U.S. requests
for communications data, according to p...
John Naughton on Dave Winer
John Naughton, writing for The Guardian:
Once the use of RSS feeds had become common, someone had the idea
that audio files could be attached to them, and Dave implemented
the idea with a nice geeky touch — attaching a song by the
Grateful Dead. Initially the new technol...
30 Years of Dave Winer’s Seminal Blog, Scripting News
Dave Winer:
Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog. Hola!
I did a roundup of thoughts when this blog turned 25. I
stand by what I wrote then, but I’d add this. My blog started
because I needed content to test a script I had written that sent
emails on my Mac using E...
Croissant 1.0
Aaron Vegh and Ben Rice McCarthy (of Obscura renown) have teamed up to create Croissant, a new app — currently iPhone-only — for cross-posting to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. 15 years ago I wrote “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground” and that piece stands up, but i...
I did a roundup of thoughts when this blog turned 25. I stand by what I wrote then, but I'd add this. My blog started because I needed content to test a script I had written that sent emails on my Mac using Eudora, which was an early scriptable app and I had a nice scripting...
Pseudo code and kitchen table conversations
Today's podcast has nothing to do with the 30 year milestone, except that it is totally unscripted, stream of consciousness, for 30 minutes, on two topics.
The idea of what a programming language is, is about to be completely overturned. The verbs and nouns will, at least a...
Interestingly, the clock at the bottom of the nightly emails does not agree with the clock on the home page of Scripting News. It's a hard thing to test in real life. And it's completely fitting, given the motto of the blog is "It's even worse than it appears," which could be the motto of programmers everywhere, and probably bloggers too. We always focus on the bad news, of course -- that's human nature -- but always remember, it could be worse. 😄
Today's the big day. Thanks to John Naughton's wonderful piece in the Guardian, I'm hearing from people all over the world about what blogging means to them. I appreciate all of the messages, but would appreciate them even more if they were on your blog. We need to keep using the tech. Blogging is kind of lost, and I would like to see that change. Every time you post something you're proud of on a social media site, how about taking a moment and posting it to your blog too. And while there, if appropriate, link to something from some part of your post, even though the social media sites don't support linking, the web is still there and it still does.