Please follow me at my new Twitter address: bullmancuso. Whatever anyone thinks of the company the product is still unique, there are people and communities there that I need to communicate with, and I just don't have that kind of network anywhere else.
My first real post in the New Dave On Twitter, or N-DOT.
When I think of "Slack" my brain immediately translates it to "AOL." I'm not kidding.
Yesterday I wrote about AI introducing doubt with something as fundamental as how software is created now with the advent of AI software that can be used effectively to write software. Behind that I wondered if the open source developers of WordPress had changed their methodo...
Continuing, isn't it a shame that CloudFlare didn't take a different approach? What if they had created a fantastic WordPress runtime, which seems to be where most of their effort went, and that's where their expertise lies, not in crafting new user experiences. A service yo...
perfect sound forever
Video - Version 2.0 of Hiyd out now
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Hello Kitty Tiaras
You might think, given the date, this is a joke post. But no, it's real! Not one but TWO haute joaillerie Hello Kitty tiaras exist in this world!
BTW, suggestion to web-based companies that send out notices via email. It's good to do that, but make sure somewhere there's a link to exactly the same material on the web. It can only build traffic for your ideas, earned media.
The fog of tech
Got an email from Automattic about MCP support in WordPress, which is now available on their servers. With this new interface you can write prompts in Claude etc that do things in your WordPress workspace. Kind of like a scripting language, but English, like this -- "In Word...
What April 1 means here
There's so much bullshit, why deliberately add more -- in hope of being either funny or memorable -- and only succede at annoying.
We prefer to try to keep things real here. Archived Scripting News OPML source for March 2026.
Why your coding-agent should be writing Go
Go (or Golang for some) may not be the best-in-class language for everything, but I think it's ideally suited for LLM coding.
The community is special in a way that is a bit differrent than communities of other programming languages. There's a strong feeling of doing things ...
Log: Wednesday April 1st
I just started reading W. Ross Ashby's An Introduction to Cybernetics last
month. I'm amazed to find that the operand, operator, transform and
transformation concepts introduced right away in the book seem to encompass
functional programming, relational database design and other fundamental
concepts embedded deep into programming languages and systems, including machine
learning.
I guess it makes sense! My understanding is that information theory and cybernetics drove a lot of early applied theory in computing, but I'm curious to learn more...
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Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Quoting The Guardian
Linked - Disabled people face lower benefits if not lifelong
Ludicrous. As if pushing people into poverty is any indication of improving health outcomes.
Hundreds of thousands of severely ill and disabled people making new claims will have their benefits cut if the government assesses that their condition might improve, charities ...
Ways - How to use Ollama from the terminal
Just for testing LLMs locally to see what the fuss is about, here is a short cheat sheet on using Ollama in the terminal. For this example I’ve used the Qwen 3.5 4B model, but it can be replaced with any model one has installed.
For more details, see the Ollama documentatio...
I keep starting new books. Did I ever finish them?
I keep starting new books. Did I ever finish them?
It's peeve time. I've just listened to a song that inspires me on Amazon Music. A song I've been humming and singing in my head all morning. After it's done, the voice of Alexa comes on and says "BTW, you have two new messages. Would you like to hear them?" Now I have to think about how much I hate this. I had an exalting experience I want to savor and the frickin robot intervenes. If I say "don't do that again" it says basically "Sorry Dave."
BTW the latest episode of 500 Songs is about The Who and Tommy. I of course had the album, which means every song is deeply embedded in my personal LLM. This episode, in two parts, was one of the best most recent ones. As with what Get Back did for the Beatles, when you know more about the people creating the art it has so much more value.
YouTube now puts commercials in front of songs. I used to be able to point to a low rez recording of a song as part of my blog. Now I have to think about all the links I've put in my archive that lead to shittified Google. I had never used that adjective before, I think, this certainly qualifies.