Written in Gutenberg: With great respect for Claude.
We reached a milestone this morning, we completed the project to add a Gutenberg version of the wpEditorDemo app. Claude did the programming on the new version. It required changes to the server app, which I made. It took 2.5 days to do the work, which was more than I thought it would. A lot of was learned. Now I'm figuring out what my next project will be.
Screenshot of the Gutenberg demo app.
Heard a report on NPR re why the Dems might win the mid-terms in November. They mentioned gas prices but not concentration camps for immigrants. They mentioned inflation but not the military occupation of Minneapolis and DC. They also forgot to mention that he keeps threatening to nuke Iran.
Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Quoting Chris
Linked - New tax year, new plan
Love seeing finances talked about on the indie web. Money market funds for the win.
Worth a reminder cash ISA limits for under 65s drops to £12k next tax year from £20k this year. one can still use the overall £20k by using a stocks and shares ISA.
For day to day expens...
Government is also enshittified
The logic of Cory Doctorow's enshittification model applies to government too.
Both parties view the electorate as sources of money or people who are manipulated by ads and PR bought with the money.
The wants and needs of people, in both government and social media, have a...
Weekly Wrap Up 105
My weekly blog post. Links this week include slime mold macrophotography, a font based on gerrymandering and the ins and outs (mostly outs, to be honest) of poop. I'm sad about the loss of internet history with Lycos letting Angelfire and Tripod die. I saved a little on my own but so much is just gone. Link Lagniappe is going strong! Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
Karn Wong
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2026-04-13
I got started with humanities. Turns out I used it for software engineering, and that was before I put two and two together. Wild, isn't it.
Once you can see that systems are communication patterns there's a lot of things you can play with to get desired results.
https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/
ส่วนตัวพื้นมาจากทางมนุษย์ศาสตร์ (หนังสือยืนหนึ่งในใจฝั่งนี้ คือ Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson) แต่มาจับ software ตอนหลัง พอมองออกว่า systems มันก็คือการสื่อสาร ทีนี้สนุกละ เห็นท่าเล่นเยอะเลย
(เหมือนที่เขาพูดกัน ว่า ถ้าเป็นปัญหาเทคป่านนี้จบไปนานแล้ว แต่ปัญหาส่วนใหญ่คือปัญหาคน ตกลงกันไม่ได้ก็จะลำบากหน่อย)
short update
I’m writing this in haste before packing my laptop for travel. This will be a short one.
- The bust is finished! I’m calling it “Syzygy”.
- We finished A Knight of Seven Kingdoms. I loved it!
- We started watching the new season of The Boys.
- I talked about my recent inability to read in analysis. Unsurprisingly, I started reading again. I’ll probably finish the current read tomorrow on the plane.
Perl Hacks
• Dave Cross
Summarising a Month of Git Activity with Perl (and a Little Help from AI)
Every month, I write a newsletter which (among other things) discusses some of the technical projects I’ve been working on. It’s a useful exercise — partly as a record for other people, but mostly as a way for me to remember what I’ve actually done. Because, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, it’s very easy to […]
The post Summarising a Month of Git Activity with Perl (and a Little Help from AI) first appeared on Perl Hacks.
BTW one thing you haven't heard is that as you get deeper into the AI environment the user gets smarter. Not just better informed, that's what the web has been doing for us. Can it help us work better together? Remains to be seen. Perhaps each of us is forming our own multi-billion dollar company, and training the people we want working for us.
The demo for Gutenberg is at demo.gutenberg.land. Easy to remember, and makes the point. If you want Gutenberg instead of WordLand, you can have it. Hopefully this reinforces what my goals are here. I do not want to favor any one kind of editor. I want every kind of editor here. I want there to be a web of great editors that runs on the web.
BTW, when playing around with Gutenberg, I wonder why it doesn't allow me to move blocks around, as if it were an outliner? Or maybe it does and I don't know the UI for that?
Programming in overdrive
I've now done two projects with Claude Code, I added a feature to the server running behind WordLand, and adapted wpEditorDemo to work have a second example, using Gutenberg as the editing user interface. Haven't released the Gutenberg app yet, that should happen today, Murp...
Rss - Pompidou section 3 - Refactor post types
After setting up collections on my Jekyll blog for various post types I’ve refactored to use post.type in the post front matter instead of collections.
The main reason is to pump all the content into the _posts folder. The idea here is that by default everything will be loa...
Log: Sunday April 12th
Today I'm going to try to fix the amplifer module in the contraption.
There are two stereo amplifier boards stacked on standoffs behind the module
panel. They are each connected to a gain pot, an audio breakout and the lead
to the power supply.
The bottom board produces...
Film Review - Meg 2: The Trench
we're drunk on language
we're drunk on language
I'm working with Claude today to finish Gutenberg Land. Figuring it out as we go along. It can run the app itself because it's browser-based. I look forward to a project that runs on a server so it can run it locally and we can really make things hum. This, if I guess correctly, is how Jake is working with Headless Frontier. He just got the debugger working. Why? I asked, given that we have bigger more immediate priorities, like getting Manila running on Digital Ocean (what a trip that will be) -- he explained that's because he wants the AI bot to use the freaking debugger.