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demo.rss.chat migrated this morning -- 58 users, 210 posts, 153 likes, 138 served files, five minutes -- so both public servers now run on one-file databases. davesql 0.7.0, the package carrying the engine, is published on npm. And the repo caught up with the reality: the example config.json ships with "flUseSqlite": true, install.md is now the SQLite install -- no database server, no schema to paste, a Backups section, and the six-step migration for existing MySQL servers -- while the whole MySQL story (config, schema, upgrade notes) moved to its own page, installMysql.md. Dave announced it on Scripting News. One lesson from the demo migration made it into the doc: if the import stops on a UNIQUE constraint error, the server touched the new empty database before the import ran -- delete the file and re-run.

Sign-in is a magic link, so a new server can't sign anyone in until it can send mail -- and nothing documented how. New page: email.md -- the four SMTP settings for sending through a provider you already use, or Amazon SES with a link to Scott Hanson's setup walkthrough. It's a step in the install checklist now, along with a link to the questions thread -- if something in the install isn't working or isn't explained, that's where to say so.

This morning's note said an rss.chat server can run on SQLite; by this evening the flagship server does. Both production servers were upgraded to the new software (v0.6.0) during the afternoon, running on MySQL exactly as before -- proof that the change disturbs nothing for e...

It’s been just about one full month of having my 2026 Honda Civic Sport Touring Hybrid, and I wanted to quickly give some further thoughts and opinions on it. I just went out and checked how many miles I have on it so far before writing this, and I am quite literally at 1500 miles […]

Even if you are as averse to semver as I used to be in the course of my programming activity, you can still think of open source software distribution as something that used to follow a fixed number of steps. There is a branch where developments happen, and this branch oftent...

Ben Thompson today, writing about the OpenAI security incident and more:

The fact that models do what humans say is cold comfort if the models are in the hands of bad actors. That, though, simply emphasizes the point that the best defense against powerful models is equipping defenders with powerful models of their own.

There may need to be multiple tiers of model access. ChatGPT and Claude should be well-aligned with many guardrails to prevent casual, mainstream users from getting led astray. But powerful models need to exist too, for researchers and security experts.

Trying to find the humor in people lecturing me about X, as if I don’t know after joining Twitter 20 years ago and working directly with all the major Twitter client app developers whose products were destroyed… But in fairness, my about page also glossed over this. I’ve added an extra sentence to it that helps:

But there were frustrations with Twitter too, a period that is documented at length in my book Indie Microblogging. I quit Twitter in 2012 as a statement of principle against closed, developer-hostile platforms.

that post by Chris Hardie is a classic nerd response :-) I love it!

not sure why.  Checking out editing original post

I asked Perplexity to read through 258 posts in my “Snapshots & Fragments” category — the catch‑all bin I’ve used for photos and ephemera over the years — and tell me what it thought was going on. I had a … Continue reading →