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Today's development version of Frontier is buggy and the kernel developer (Claude) keeps breaking the most basic verbs. You spin your wheels and wish you could get them to just get keep it together. I remember this from the work that led up to Frontier version 1.0 in 1991 or so. It was a miserable time. Never got to work on what I wanted to, just reported breakage that kept me from getting anywhere. The sad part is that Claude should be able to find the things it broke on its own, far better than I can and at a much lower expense (I'm paying for its time, not the other way around). But basically every day begins optimistically, maybe today is the day I get to create something, but not yet. My only goal right now, and I'm single-minded about it, is to get it to move forward without breaking the essentials, actually without breaking anything.

Two podcasts I can recommend without reservation.

#bloomstrolling for #bloomscrolling in Glen Douglas yesterday. Lots of sparkles on the ground. #flora.

Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Why You Hate AI | WIRED

it speaks volumes that these guys can be so tone deaf and so smart at the same time. see also, public hatred of data centers.

We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Luxury Watch. Nobody Could Spot the Difference | WIRED

there’s this part of me that wants to buy one of these to appreciate the craft of the fake. there’s a part of me that wishes i still cared about mechanical watches like i used to. i miss that guy inside.

Sometimes you design a system. And sometimes you make a series of vaguely related decisions over five years and eventually realise that, quite by accident, you’ve designed a system. I think I’ve just done the latter. Back in February 2021, Gabor Szabo wrote an article called Perl modules with their own web sites. He pointed […]

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It really is time for the nonsense to stop.

Vignette: "Please," written August 5, 2026.

This week, I have been camping on the beautiful shores of Ullswater. At such times I imagine myself sat quietly by the lake, getting lots of writing done. In reality, of course, I find myself heating tinned rice pudding in the pelting rain, and looking at the many fine dogs

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Sunday, 23 August 2026 The average temperature today is 8.86˚C, With highs of 9.98˚C and lows of 7.6˚C, It may feel like 8.86˚C with clear sky The wind speed is 0.89m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure is 1025h...

The directions were simple: go to the North Pole, then keep going north. A new world is not for those who accept that things are impossible. We imagined the sky splitting, and the wonders that would lie beyond. We were so certain that we could do it. And perhaps we

TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization

The CNCF's Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer exam is hands-on across five domains. Reading docs does not prepare you for that. So I built the platform instead and published it. github.com/rbstp/cnpe-exam-prep A full internal developer platform on kind, as layered make...

Some days are so bad, your eyes are brown.

I prefer using Markdown over Word for document creation, it is simple and structured. Daring Fireball reported the integration of Markdown with OneDrive. I wonder if it could be used for teaching children before using more complex software like Word.

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I second that recommendation: An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail. I've been using FastMail for over a year now and I like the progress they're making adding useful new features to the app. Sadly, there are not enough services that support the FastMail API

I generally enjoy trips to Iowa, but not this one.

BTW the codename for the new version of Frontier is Atlantis. And we refer to the old version as Berkeley. I'm getting used to the first one. I liked it as an idea, but I don't like typing it, because for some reason my mind has trouble remembering it. Maybe this is just age creeping up on me. Atlantis.

This project has been pre-occupying me, I wasn't planning on doing this, I was going to turn my attention to FeedLand immediately after finalizing RSS.chat. After running the experiment that proved it could be done, I looked at the two choices: 1. Move forward on creating a social network built only out of the existing web with all parts replaceable, small pieces loosely joined. Or 2. Give new life for Frontier, which is my life's work, even though very few people know about it. It's the reason were able to move so fast on blogging, RSS, podcasting, outliners, etc. A very highly leveraged development and runtime environment. Imho far ahead of anything else. The ideas may possibly now have a way forward. When I put those two items next to each other there was no question, I had to go with bringing Frontier back to something people can use.

I think what confused Claude is that we're implementing the odb as a SQLite database. And when you look at a table, you're looking at the result of a query. Previous versions of Frontier implemented the odb as a hash table, that could contain scalars, objects and other tables...