Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Quoting TechCrunch
Try entering this into Claude or ChatGPT: "debugging an app that uses wordpress rss feeds and noticed that guids are http but other addresses in the feed are https. this causes trouble." A while back Matt was giving me grief, in a friendly way, about how scripting.com still uses http addresses, the reason apparently is the same one that keeps them from using https in the guids in their feeds. It would break a lot of things that I don't want to break. I'm not suggesting they change it, but somewhere in my codebase somehow the http addresses are getting converted to https, and I haven't (yet) been able to track it down.
Here's a screen shot of the Claude response.
Christian Heilmann
• Chris Heilmann
I was on the We l❤️ Open Source podcast and talked about the threats to open source and software. Trading openness for convenience: From app stores to AI assistants
Just added Daring Fireball to my blogroll. What a huge oversight. Glad to get this fixed.
Bluesky is actually pretty close to being on the web. The biggest missing piece is inbound RSS. They already support outbound, it could use a review and tuneup, but that half is mostly there.
Why doesn't Substack have inbound RSS? Every time I look at their home page I think what a freaking waste. They are the web's printer. But you have to use their editor.
I found some slightly unusual tiaras for this week's post featuring March's birthstone, the aquamarine.
Where Are The Wise Men?
• Mike Hostetler
I'm back doing Java stuff for a while, and a lot of our codebase uses Maps a lot. Though it's a new project, the codebase leans heavily on the style of Java 7/8 and not with the new patterns that came with Java 9 and above. Here are some …
Trump’s naive attacks or threats against Iran, Venezuela, Canada, Greenland, Cuba and lack of support for Ukraine guarantee that every country that doesn’t have nukes is going to be working overtime to get them. Assuming they don’t already have the equiv of the Strait of Hormuz. Assuming the world survives Trump do you really think they’re going to let the US have as much power as it has up until Trump? They and we have to limit the power of all countries big and small. Trump is the warning that you can’t assume things will always be as they always have been.
It is incredibly stubborn at insisting on giving you orders or deciding for itself what it will do. According to these AI's the human will isn't important, I couldn't possibly have arrived in the chat with a goal. I am blown away by what I can do, but I absolutely hate how these bots try to dominate, always, and never remembers. There should be a macro for: "I will tell you what to do."
I put another couple of hours in my from-scratch right-sized Claude project. I decided we should switch from a browser-based app with no server component to a Node.js app with a browser-based UI. I felt it would be substantially easier to develop as a server app, and would more easily be enhanced with a SQL database running behind it. So I learned how to do that with Claude Code. had to slap its wrist when it tried, twice, to look at and change code outside of the freaking sandbox. I was promised it never would do that. I have the server running in PagePark, which has a built-in Heroku-like system I wrote a few years ago so I could manage all my apps from a CLI app, on Unix at Digital Ocean. Then we created a nice UI running in the browser. Two hours. And how did it make me feel? Mind bomb!
An important best practice is to always start fresh threads by asking the old thread to prepare a handoff.md file that I can give to the next one, so we don't have to always start over. It takes some getting used to because coding doesn't work that way. Everything about your app is in three classes, CSS, JavaScript and HTML. There's also package.json for server apps. And I always have a worknotes.md file for every project. And that's it, the runtime isn't like Claude or ChatGPT. You have to get practiced at starting fresh threads because there's only so much data the app can store for your project. Somehow having the handoff.md doc it effectively does garbage collection? And there are limits to what the "make me a handoff" can do for you, it does forget things between threads. I don't understand how people with large projects don't go completely crazy.
Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Cybaa.io
Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Quoting Castro
The Artist’s Notebook
• Paul Watson
