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NetNewsWire via AppleScript via MCP… I wonder what the future of scriptability is. We’ve got AppleScript, Shortcuts, App Intents, and MCP. But meanwhile you have agents which are fine just firing up command-line tools.

Jelly writes on the NetNewsWire Discourse forum:

I’ve drafted a naive implementation of NNW MCP support through AppleScript. It supports listing feeds, getting/searching articles, subscribing new feeds…

I can now schedule a daily task that lets Claude summarize that day’s new articles and order them based on my previous behaviors every morning.

We love how AppleScript support is worth way more than the effort we put into it — users can keep creating cool things that we couldn’t have imagined back then.

To be clear: we didn’t do anything in NetNewsWire to support AI, LLMs, or MCP, but, since the app is scriptable, you can do all kinds of useful things with it.

Here’s the netnewswire-mcp repo on GitHub.

Andy Baio noted that it was 20 years ago today that Jack Dorsey posted his first tweet. He also noted it was the day that Ze Frank did his first YouTube video. It got me looking around my own world to see what happened on Mar 21, 2006. Nothing earth shaking but it was inter...

BTW one big advantage Claude has over ChatGPT is the brevity of its name. One syllable vs four.

Finished reading: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. Starts with a girl discovering a dragon egg, but really a story about indigenous people, race, class, and colonialism. 📚

It is sometimes difficult to capture just how popular OpenClaw is around the world. Then there are reports like one

The post Anthropic’s response to the AI tool that caused lines around the block in Shenzhen appeared first on The New Stack.

My gut reaction has often been to compare WebAssembly to Kubernetes. Flash back to over four years ago: Then, I

The post Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure appeared first on The New Stack.

We are pretty much done clearing out my mom’s house. I’ve found many little memories, keepsakes, books, and other things. One surprise was this letter my mom wrote from Greece in 1980. Preserving it here on my blog as a snapshot in time.

I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

The post Cursor beats Opus at 10x less, Meta’s agent goes rogue, and the 300-page Trump America AI Act appeared first on The New Stack.

The text below as written by Claude. I didn't ask for it, but was blown away when I read it. There's a reason the original web worked: it was built on open formats that anyone could read, write, and extend. RSS was part of that story. So was OPML. When people ask why these...

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

Gov. Hochul Hopes to Delay Implementing Climate Law (First) | The Growth of DHS Detention Camps (Starts at :40) | Opera and Democracy (Starts at 1:15)

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Image: An original poster for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera, The Marriage of Figaro (not stated, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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Following the 7-step approach and the 1-step approach, and also channelling the spirit of the longstanding tradition of learning how to draw owls on the internet:

1. Think about a subject and then start typing
2. Type the rest of the fucking post and then hit publish

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I've written a bunch of pieces with this premise, what if I were CEO of Apple being the first, in January 1996, before Steve Jobs returned. This time I'm writing as if I were CEO of Bluesky, a company that just got a new interim CEO, Toni Schneider, formerly of Automattic, t...

Scientists have narrowed the hunt for alien life to 45 rocky worlds where liquid water could make life possible.

I blogged briefly last year about feature creep when there is no cost to adding features with AI. Need to keep reminding myself of this. I’ve been adding podcast support to Inkwell, but it’s not intended to be a podcast player that can do everything… Just the right set of features.

Get your fix of tech, true crime, pop culture, or comedy with these audio adventures.

Now outfitted with AI computer vision, this new pool cleaner can actively search for debris.

I recorded videos of myself doing laundry, scrambling eggs, and walking around the park in DoorDash’s new Tasks app, where gig workers are paid to train AI.

Plus: The FBI admits it’s buying phone data to track Americans, Iranian hackers disrupt medical care at Maryland hospitals, and more.

The Amazon Prime prank series amplifies the hijinks of workplace dynamics, while showing how people find purpose—and community—in their jobs despite impossible situations.