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WordPress has remained mostly constant for its whole life, at least from the point of view of this outsider. But now the world its embedded in is turning upside down and WordPress must change, but no one really knows how that change will manifest.

I've been designing and developing software like WordPress for over thirty years. I have stong opinions about where the product should have gone, but mostly I've not been talking about that, because I don't want to interfere with what Matt is doing. I've known him since he ...

The opmlProjectEditor explainer needed a light edit. It should make a lot more sense now if you're a newcomer. Perhaps the most important thing is that it now includes an example that you can open in Drummer to see how it works in an outline editor. OPML has become a really important format for apps that use RSS, but it's far more broadly adaptable. It's a good package for a whole app, and you can teach your tools to use the common structure to make it easier to share it with others, including Claude, to keep a repo current, and to deploy the resulting code.

Link to Nuchronic.uk ⇗ The webring for the chronically ill on the indie web. A dark-mode hacker news style site that aggregates content from a variety of sources, including blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels, all focused on the blogs and lives of people with chronic illn...

A few weeks back I wrote about Maps and how MapUtils.isEmpty from Apache Commons Collections made the null-checks go away with isEmpty. Since then, I've been poking around the rest of MapUtils and it turns out the isEmpty method is not the only goodie hidden in there. MapUtils also …

A mystery tiara rockin' the colors of one of the most obnoxious Windows 3.1 color schemes.

Generally good advice, but in defence of RSS feeds, one can create them so that they contain more than just a link to the source, of course. Subscribe to find out. I’m consistently surprised by how many publishers still treat their newsletters as glorified RSS feeds, in ...

guitar trio is my life!

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-04-16, with 4 words.

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Today the work with Claude is much better, though when we got started it was even worse than yesterday. The key to getting on track was to figure out why it worked so well in previous projects and fell apart with this one. In each of the others, I passed off an existing proj...

Sectoral Financial Balances for the UK as a % of GDP, smoothed over a year

the greyboy all stars - play it back (live in denver 1995)

Someone had a good idea.

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Using Cloudflare CDN to synchronize a clock

A glitch in the matrix. The app that keeps daveverse.org in sync with scripting.com has been offline since Friday, so I'm republishing all the posts since then. They will all appear to have been posted today on daveverse. As they say -- still diggin!

I updated sally.scripting.com to support https, and updated it with posts from scripting.com in 2023-2026. I was using it as an example of prior art of user interface for Claude. I figured restoring this app on my own would be penance for believing that Claude was anywhere near as smart as I am. Not even close. Not today at least. Grrr.

I've come to the conclusion, perhaps temporarily, that Claude can't work on a programming project with an experienced developer. It doesn't check its work, it'll think it's found the problem, makes a change, or worse causes you to do a lot of work so it can make a change. It ...

Someone Turned an Old Ford Van Into a Mini Semi and It’s Fantastic

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Tech Stuff

LookAway This is one app I have to run on my Mac. It forces me to take a break every 45 minutes — not a Pomodoro break (which I never got the hang

Beneath the Storm (2025)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2026-04-14

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