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<title>Scripting News</title>
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<description>Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.</description>
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<description><a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/disneystock.png">Disney stock</a> down 1.1% at 11:30AM Eastern, indicating that in the opinion of shareholders, the first amendment isn't that big a deal for a media company.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a153729</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a153729</guid>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/disneystock.png">Disney stock</a> down 1.1% at 11:30AM Eastern, indicating that in the opinion of shareholders, the first amendment isn't that big a deal for a media company." created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:37:29 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a153729"/>
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<item>
<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/gorilla.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I got a few good <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/107">error reports</a> and that led to an easy fix. So if <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a191912">you had a problem</a> creating a new post on <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> could you please try again and <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/107">report</a> any problems, or success. Thanks!</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:50:17 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a145017</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a145017</guid>
<source:outline text="I got a few good <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/107">error reports</a> and that led to an easy fix. So if <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a191912">you had a problem</a> creating a new post on <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> could you please try again and <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/107">report</a> any problems, or success. Thanks!" created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:50:17 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/gorilla.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a145017"/>
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<description>When Paramount said firing Colbert was financial, I think they were telling the truth. Unless they dumped Colbert the $8 billion <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Skydance_Media_and_Paramount_Global">deal</a> with the Ellisons wouldn't happen. So it was Colbert or $8 billion. They went for the money. Pretty sure it's the same thing with ABC and Kimmel.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:02:58 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a130258</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a130258</guid>
<source:outline text="When Paramount said firing Colbert was financial, I think they were telling the truth. Unless they dumped Colbert the $8 billion <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Skydance_Media_and_Paramount_Global">deal</a> with the Ellisons wouldn't happen. So it was Colbert or $8 billion. They went for the money. Pretty sure it's the same thing with ABC and Kimmel." created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:02:58 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a130258"/>
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<description>Test post test post test post test post test post test post, my kingdom for a test post!</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:55:11 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a145511</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a145511</guid>
<source:outline text="Test post test post test post test post test post test post, my kingdom for a test post!" created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:55:11 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18.html#a145511"/>
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<title>Really simple book and beans</title>
<description>I've been getting ChatGPT to draw me product shots of all kinds of "really simple" things like ketchup, cola, cheese, beans (see below). 
Then I thought it might work pretty well as a line of books? 
<div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/pythonInAShoeboxBookCover.png"></center>I'll have my Python simple. Really simple.</div>
<div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/reallySimpleBakedBeans.png"></center>Who would want complicated baked beans?</div>
</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:58:08 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18/145808.html?title=reallySimpleBookAndBeans</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/18/145808.html</guid>
<source:outline text="Really simple book and beans" created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:58:08 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18/145808.html">
<source:outline text="I've been getting ChatGPT to draw me product shots of all kinds of "really simple" things like ketchup, cola, cheese, beans (see below)." created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:07:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18/145808.html#a150729"/>
<source:outline text="Then I thought it might work pretty well as a line of books?" created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:59:07 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18/145808.html#a145907"/>
<source:outline text="I'll have my Python simple. Really simple." created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:01:21 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/pythonInAShoeboxBookCover.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18/145808.html#a150121"/>
<source:outline text="Who would want complicated baked beans?" created="Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:04:19 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/18/reallySimpleBakedBeans.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/18/145808.html#a150419"/>
</source:outline>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/17/reallySimpleCola.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I had a great talk/podcast interview yesterday with <a href="https://pfefferle.dev/">Matthias Pfefferle</a> about everything I'm interested in re WordPress and networking, and our interests overlap a lot. I was explaining how I wanted to see a whole market of editors. You could see them as "For WordPress" but there's another way to look at them. They're plug-in replacements for the dreaded "tiny little textboxes" we see in twitter-like systems. Those awful little things. We know so many ways to make better editors. Now imagine that we store your Mastodon posts in WordPress documents (we do). And you see how the pieces start to fit together. Think of WordPress as the command line of the social web. And it really will be the web, not a promise of someday maybe being the web. It's like a Wordle puzzle. You have to move the parts around until you see a picture develop. Another fun thing, WordPress has a great simple REST api that's been around since 2017, and it covers most of the product functionality and is debugged, scaled and stable. It probably is the simplest API for ActivityPub. Now does that blow your mind? This is how you know this is the web, because your mind keeps exploding once you realize the things you could do just by connecting two things together and it works because they interop. Matthias has been working on this stuff since 2008. Our paths didn't cross until earlier this year.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:11:33 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a211133</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a211133</guid>
<source:outline text="I had a great talk/podcast interview yesterday with <a href="https://pfefferle.dev/">Matthias Pfefferle</a> about everything I'm interested in re WordPress and networking, and our interests overlap a lot. I was explaining how I wanted to see a whole market of editors. You could see them as "For WordPress" but there's another way to look at them. They're plug-in replacements for the dreaded "tiny little textboxes" we see in twitter-like systems. Those awful little things. We know so many ways to make better editors. Now imagine that we store your Mastodon posts in WordPress documents (we do). And you see how the pieces start to fit together. Think of WordPress as the command line of the social web. And it really will be the web, not a promise of someday maybe being the web. It's like a Wordle puzzle. You have to move the parts around until you see a picture develop. Another fun thing, WordPress has a great simple REST api that's been around since 2017, and it covers most of the product functionality and is debugged, scaled and stable. It probably is the simplest API for ActivityPub. Now does that blow your mind? This is how you know this is the web, because your mind keeps exploding once you realize the things you could do just by connecting two things together and it works because they interop. Matthias has been working on this stuff since 2008. Our paths didn't cross until earlier this year." created="Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:11:33 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/17/reallySimpleCola.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a211133"/>
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<description><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/realestate/real-estate-guide-amenia-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk8.pyS5.EYIaVe05LN5h&smid=url-share">This town</a>, at the end of the <a href="https://www.mta.info/agency/metro-north-railroad">Metro North</a> line, looks like an ideal place to park yourself for easy access to the city, yet a fairly country experience.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:02:41 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a210241</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a210241</guid>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/realestate/real-estate-guide-amenia-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk8.pyS5.EYIaVe05LN5h&smid=url-share">This town</a>, at the end of the <a href="https://www.mta.info/agency/metro-north-railroad">Metro North</a> line, looks like an ideal place to park yourself for easy access to the city, yet a fairly country experience." created="Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:02:41 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a210241"/>
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<description>There have been reports of people having trouble using <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. I was just able to do a <a href="https://techfightclub.wpcomstaging.com/2025/09/17/one-of-a-million-test-posts/">test post</a>, and I can see from the logs that other people are successfully posting. It would be helpful if people with accounts could do a short test post. And if you have something to report, here's a <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/107">good place</a> to do it.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:19:12 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a191912</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a191912</guid>
<source:outline text="There have been reports of people having trouble using <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. I was just able to do a <a href="https://techfightclub.wpcomstaging.com/2025/09/17/one-of-a-million-test-posts/">test post</a>, and I can see from the logs that other people are successfully posting. It would be helpful if people with accounts could do a short test post. And if you have something to report, here's a <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/107">good place</a> to do it." created="Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:19:12 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a191912"/>
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<description><a class="anchorRightMargin" href="https://ketchup.reallysimple.org/"><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/17/reallySimpleKetchup.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;"></a>In a piece I wrote yesterday <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/16/can-we-finally-put-the-past-behind-us/">on my WordPress blog</a>, I offered to do a virtual handshake with the people who worked at Netscape when it disappeared just as RSS 0.9.1 was being adopted by the blogosphere in 1999. I never considered their point of view, but in fairness, they never would talk to us except to dictate and dominate. In the <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/16/can-we-finally-put-the-past-behind-us/">piece</a> I try to explain how it all looked from my point of view, that of a developer who had adopted RSS 0.91 in favor of my own earlier format. Most of the stories miss the real innovator, and when you find out <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/07/martinLeavesTheTimes.html">who</a> it is you will be surprised. (It's not me, most of my job re RSS has been fairly thankless and not creative, and definitely not profitable, but still worth doing because the web is the only place independent developers can work without the interference of big tech companies.)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:12:51 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a131251</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a131251</guid>
<source:outline text="In a piece I wrote yesterday <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/16/can-we-finally-put-the-past-behind-us/">on my WordPress blog</a>, I offered to do a virtual handshake with the people who worked at Netscape when it disappeared just as RSS 0.9.1 was being adopted by the blogosphere in 1999. I never considered their point of view, but in fairness, they never would talk to us except to dictate and dominate. In the <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/16/can-we-finally-put-the-past-behind-us/">piece</a> I try to explain how it all looked from my point of view, that of a developer who had adopted RSS 0.91 in favor of my own earlier format. Most of the stories miss the real innovator, and when you find out <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/07/martinLeavesTheTimes.html">who</a> it is you will be surprised. (It's not me, most of my job re RSS has been fairly thankless and not creative, and definitely not profitable, but still worth doing because the web is the only place independent developers can work without the interference of big tech companies.)" created="Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:12:51 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/17/reallySimpleKetchup.png" imageLink="https://ketchup.reallysimple.org/" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a131251"/>
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<description>A bunch of new people are trying out FeedLand news products. I haven't looked at them in a long time. I'm glad they're looking, but most of my demo news products were broken. Oy. It was hard to untangle. It should be a lot easier, and next time I can dig in and do it over I think it will be. Anyway as I convert my demos, I'll list them here: <a href="https://mlbriver.com/">mblriver.com</a>, <a href="https://politics.newsriver.org/">politics.newsriver.org</a>, <a href="https://bloggers.scripting.com/">bloggers.scripting.com</a>, <a href="https://dave.podcatch.com/">dave.podcatch.com</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a164800</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a164800</guid>
<source:outline text="A bunch of new people are trying out FeedLand news products. I haven't looked at them in a long time. I'm glad they're looking, but most of my demo news products were broken. Oy. It was hard to untangle. It should be a lot easier, and next time I can dig in and do it over I think it will be. Anyway as I convert my demos, I'll list them here: <a href="https://mlbriver.com/">mblriver.com</a>, <a href="https://politics.newsriver.org/">politics.newsriver.org</a>, <a href="https://bloggers.scripting.com/">bloggers.scripting.com</a>, <a href="https://dave.podcatch.com/">dave.podcatch.com</a>." created="Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:48:00 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/17.html#a164800"/>
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<description>It's <a href="https://really.reallysimple.org/">really</a> simpler than really simple.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:18:51 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a201851</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a201851</guid>
<source:outline text="It's <a href="https://really.reallysimple.org/">really</a> simpler than really simple." created="Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:18:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a201851"/>
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<description>Here's an idea. Why doesn't Apple make a laptop with a light shining out to highlight the user's face so they look better when they're on a Zoom call. I bet someone makes a device like this to clip on a laptop. Right??</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:18:55 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a171855</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a171855</guid>
<source:outline text="Here's an idea. Why doesn't Apple make a laptop with a light shining out to highlight the user's face so they look better when they're on a Zoom call. I bet someone makes a device like this to clip on a laptop. Right??" created="Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:18:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a171855"/>
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<description>Until we start working together it’s going to keep getting worse.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:45:07 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a164507</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a164507</guid>
<source:outline text="Until we start working together it’s going to keep getting worse." created="Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:45:07 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a164507"/>
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<description>I've started calling ChatGPT boss as in OK boss.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a153034</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a153034</guid>
<source:outline text="I've started calling ChatGPT boss as in OK boss." created="Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:30:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a153034"/>
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<description>ChatGPT is great at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG">SVG</a>. Describe the icon you want and in a few iterations you have it, even if it's not in <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">Font Awesome</a>. I would have killed to have this a few years ago, before FA came out. This is the best of both -- use FA if they have the right icon, design your own if they don't. It also makes me think that now perhaps SVG-based user interfaces are within the realm of possibility. CSS is no way to design UIs. I have a podcast in the pipe about this. If you want to know what I mean, look at the <a href="http://scripting.com/publicfolder/scripting/misc/quickdrawApiSummary.pdf">docs</a> for <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/19/152802.html">QuickDraw</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:54:48 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a145448</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a145448</guid>
<source:outline text="ChatGPT is great at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG">SVG</a>. Describe the icon you want and in a few iterations you have it, even if it's not in <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">Font Awesome</a>. I would have killed to have this a few years ago, before FA came out. This is the best of both -- use FA if they have the right icon, design your own if they don't. It also makes me think that now perhaps SVG-based user interfaces are within the realm of possibility. CSS is no way to design UIs. I have a podcast in the pipe about this. If you want to know what I mean, look at the <a href="http://scripting.com/publicfolder/scripting/misc/quickdrawApiSummary.pdf">docs</a> for <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/19/152802.html">QuickDraw</a>." created="Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:54:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a145448"/>
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<description>Now would be a good time for everyone to watch <a href="https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-lives-of-others/">this movie</a>. This is where we are now. It's not in the future. Getting this info will help. Spread the word. Download a copy too. It's a great movie.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:43:44 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a144344</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a144344</guid>
<source:outline text="Now would be a good time for everyone to watch <a href="https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-lives-of-others/">this movie</a>. This is where we are now. It's not in the future. Getting this info will help. Spread the word. Download a copy too. It's a great movie." created="Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:43:44 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a144344"/>
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<description>To people who read my blog. If you have a quick thought about something you read here, it's ok if you send me an email. It should be short and not personal, if it adds some info or perspective that might be interesting, or if you just agree feverishly (not so much if you disagree, please) drop me a line. My return address on the nightly emails is my real email address. And you can find the address on the <a href="http://scripting.com/?tab=about">About page</a> on my blog. Also sometime soon I think there will be a way to read my blog inside WordLand, so you can post a response to something I wrote, on your own blog, and I can get a link to it. I think this is the best of both worlds. You maintain the integrity of your blog, all your comments are in the same place, and if I think my readers would benefit, I can link it into my blog. I don't think we need comments, in other words. I think our blogs are powerful enough with some new code.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:21:12 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a142112</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a142112</guid>
<source:outline text="To people who read my blog. If you have a quick thought about something you read here, it's ok if you send me an email. It should be short and not personal, if it adds some info or perspective that might be interesting, or if you just agree feverishly (not so much if you disagree, please) drop me a line. My return address on the nightly emails is my real email address. And you can find the address on the <a href="http://scripting.com/?tab=about">About page</a> on my blog. Also sometime soon I think there will be a way to read my blog inside WordLand, so you can post a response to something I wrote, on your own blog, and I can get a link to it. I think this is the best of both worlds. You maintain the integrity of your blog, all your comments are in the same place, and if I think my readers would benefit, I can link it into my blog. I don't think we need comments, in other words. I think our blogs are powerful enough with some new code." created="Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:21:12 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/16.html#a142112"/>
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<description>Podcast: <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/15/wordlandTheTimelineAndCheckboxes.html">WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:38:10 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a213810</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a213810</guid>
<source:outline text="Podcast: <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/15/wordlandTheTimelineAndCheckboxes.html">WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes</a>." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:38:10 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a213810"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/05/13/modernTimes.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I've gotten a lovely response to the <a href="http://scripting.com/davenet/1996/10/24/QueSeraSera.html">Que Sera Sera</a> post I linked to <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html">here</a>. It's from 1996, I was reporting from a tech conference I was at where there were all angry men on stage threatening everyone else. They may not have known they were doing that, but it was awful. And so different from the web we were just beginning to understand at that time. I'm going to start going through the posts that I remember making a difference at the time. No better way for me to remember what the web is, going back to these memories when it was all fresh and new, before the leaders of tech realized what was going on. Google didn't ship for another two years. It probably wasn't even in development at the time. Yet I think the last section is a good anthem for the web, for those of us who think it's time to cut pop all the bullshit off the stack and get back to our roots.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:07:23 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a150723</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a150723</guid>
<source:outline text="I've gotten a lovely response to the <a href="http://scripting.com/davenet/1996/10/24/QueSeraSera.html">Que Sera Sera</a> post I linked to <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html">here</a>. It's from 1996, I was reporting from a tech conference I was at where there were all angry men on stage threatening everyone else. They may not have known they were doing that, but it was awful. And so different from the web we were just beginning to understand at that time. I'm going to start going through the posts that I remember making a difference at the time. No better way for me to remember what the web is, going back to these memories when it was all fresh and new, before the leaders of tech realized what was going on. Google didn't ship for another two years. It probably wasn't even in development at the time. Yet I think the last section is a good anthem for the web, for those of us who think it's time to cut pop all the bullshit off the stack and get back to our roots." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:07:23 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/05/13/modernTimes.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a150723"/>
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<description>I had a flash last night during the Emmys. <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/14/the-bloggers-of-mastodon/">The Bloggers of Mastodon</a>. I loved the concept right off the bat, so I wrote a <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/14/the-bloggers-of-mastodon/">blog post</a> using in WordLand that went through WordPress and landed <a href="https://mastodon.social/@scripting@daveverse.org/115205341809959164">on Mastodon</a>. It all works. Where are the other Bloggers of Mastodon? Let's start a club!</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:36:19 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a143619</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a143619</guid>
<source:outline text="I had a flash last night during the Emmys. <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/14/the-bloggers-of-mastodon/">The Bloggers of Mastodon</a>. I loved the concept right off the bat, so I wrote a <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/14/the-bloggers-of-mastodon/">blog post</a> using in WordLand that went through WordPress and landed <a href="https://mastodon.social/@scripting@daveverse.org/115205341809959164">on Mastodon</a>. It all works. Where are the other Bloggers of Mastodon? Let's start a club!" created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:36:19 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15.html#a143619"/>
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<title>feedland.org or feedland.com?</title>
<description>This question has come up quite a bit lately. 
People don't know that there are two places you can use FeedLand, feedland.org and feedland.com.
There's a lot of history here, and some uncertainty about the future, so there's not much I can do other than explain the situation.
First you're welcome to use either of them. 
feedland.org is running on a simple small server on Digital Ocean, and feedland.com is on Automattic's VIP network. 
If feedland.org gets overloaded, it gets slow. 
if feedland.com gets overloaded, it adds more servers and should stay about the same at all times. 
You should pick one and use it and not have two accounts, but people accidentally create them, because in some places we point to .com and in others we the default is .org. It's because we haven't gotten it together yet. 
There are also performance issues on .com -- ones that we still need to address. 
That's about all I can say at this point. At the same time I'm working on a whole other product while all this is happening, and I'm not that young, and really can only work so many hours a day before I have to stop. A fact. 
And I'm really glad so many new people are trying FeedLand. I use it myself in so many ways. And it will be deeply integrated with WordLand in the next release. I'm not kidding. 
</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:07:03 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html?title=feedlandorgOrFeedlandcom</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html</guid>
<source:outline text="feedland.org or feedland.com?" created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:07:03 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html">
<source:outline text="This question has come up quite a bit lately." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:07:10 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a140710"/>
<source:outline text="People don't know that there are two places you can use FeedLand, feedland.org and feedland.com." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:09:48 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a140948"/>
<source:outline text="There's a lot of history here, and some uncertainty about the future, so there's not much I can do other than explain the situation." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:10:16 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141016"/>
<source:outline text="First you're welcome to use either of them." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:10:40 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141040"/>
<source:outline text="feedland.org is running on a simple small server on Digital Ocean, and feedland.com is on Automattic's VIP network." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:10:49 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141049"/>
<source:outline text="If feedland.org gets overloaded, it gets slow." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:11:25 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141125"/>
<source:outline text="if feedland.com gets overloaded, it adds more servers and should stay about the same at all times." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:17:24 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141724"/>
<source:outline text="You should pick one and use it and not have two accounts, but people accidentally create them, because in some places we point to .com and in others we the default is .org. It's because we haven't gotten it together yet." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:12:35 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141235"/>
<source:outline text="There are also performance issues on .com -- ones that we still need to address." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:13:40 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141340"/>
<source:outline text="That's about all I can say at this point. At the same time I'm working on a whole other product while all this is happening, and I'm not that young, and really can only work so many hours a day before I have to stop. A fact." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:08:34 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a140834"/>
<source:outline text="And I'm really glad so many new people are trying FeedLand. I use it myself in so many ways. And it will be deeply integrated with WordLand in the next release. I'm not kidding." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:15:00 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/15/140703.html#a141500"/>
</source:outline>
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<description>The Bloggers <a href="https://mastodon.social/@scripting@daveverse.org/115205341809959164">of Mastodon</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 01:33:24 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a013324</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a013324</guid>
<source:outline text="The Bloggers <a href="https://mastodon.social/@scripting@daveverse.org/115205341809959164">of Mastodon</a>." created="Mon, 15 Sep 2025 01:33:24 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a013324"/>
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<description>A very smart application of AI. Google could add it to the debugger. When my program crashes deep in jQuery code, with no stack crawl, it could suggest what the problem might be without me have to try to describe it for ChatGPT. The Google AI debugger would be able to look everywhere any anywhere in the virtual machine. Much faster than I can. As a programmer I hope they're working on this. Or maybe it's already out in testing form?</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:55:36 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a225536</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a225536</guid>
<source:outline text="A very smart application of AI. Google could add it to the debugger. When my program crashes deep in jQuery code, with no stack crawl, it could suggest what the problem might be without me have to try to describe it for ChatGPT. The Google AI debugger would be able to look everywhere any anywhere in the virtual machine. Much faster than I can. As a programmer I hope they're working on this. Or maybe it's already out in testing form?" created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:55:36 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a225536"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/14/cheezWhiz.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">A couple of days ago I saw a <a href="https://mastodon.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/115180872933751939">post</a> from Evan Prodromou asking if I had seen a product announcement, and was wondering what I thought of the name. The name of the product was Really Simple Something. I said it was the first I heard of it. I did a little digging using ChatGPT and found they can do this, it’s not illegal or unethical. But it’s also true that you could invent a new format and call it HTML even if it isn’t what we think of as HTML today . The W3C would have no recourse. If you wanted to make a new CSS to compete with the existing CSS, no one can stop you, and you can call it CSS. Not a good way to run the internet imho. But that appears that's how it works. So as much as I didn't like what they did, esp the fact that the first I heard of it was a public announcement, and had no time to prepare or maybe even help them do something better, I guess we have to accept it. RSS has been through this before and came out okay. I just wish it would stop at some point. It's a useful thing, deserves <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124132">love</a> and support, not just from me, but from everyone, esp people who run companies that depend on it. You benefit as much as I do. End of sermon.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:36:16 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a163616</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a163616</guid>
<source:outline text="A couple of days ago I saw a <a href="https://mastodon.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/115180872933751939">post</a> from Evan Prodromou asking if I had seen a product announcement, and was wondering what I thought of the name. The name of the product was Really Simple Something. I said it was the first I heard of it. I did a little digging using ChatGPT and found they can do this, it’s not illegal or unethical. But it’s also true that you could invent a new format and call it HTML even if it isn’t what we think of as HTML today . The W3C would have no recourse. If you wanted to make a new CSS to compete with the existing CSS, no one can stop you, and you can call it CSS. Not a good way to run the internet imho. But that appears that's how it works. So as much as I didn't like what they did, esp the fact that the first I heard of it was a public announcement, and had no time to prepare or maybe even help them do something better, I guess we have to accept it. RSS has been through this before and came out okay. I just wish it would stop at some point. It's a useful thing, deserves <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124132">love</a> and support, not just from me, but from everyone, esp people who run companies that depend on it. You benefit as much as I do. End of sermon." created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:36:16 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/14/cheezWhiz.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a163616"/>
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<description>Last night's email didn't go out. I found and fixed the bug, and the mails went out about 10.5 hours late.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:12:56 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a141256</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a141256</guid>
<source:outline text="Last night's email didn't go out. I found and fixed the bug, and the mails went out about 10.5 hours late." created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:12:56 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/14.html#a141256"/>
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<description>I've found <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/13/where-is-this-on-mastodon/">new freedom</a> on my WordPress blog that's also on Masto.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:45:25 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a004525</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a004525</guid>
<source:outline text="I've found <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/13/where-is-this-on-mastodon/">new freedom</a> on my WordPress blog that's also on Masto." created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:45:25 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a004525"/>
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<description>How did a healthy well-fed and educated 22 year old man from a good family throw his life away and for what? To kill a 31 year old family man who dedicated his life to making massive numbers of people miserable? What’s more tragic? And how many other Americans are on this track?</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:13:01 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a141301</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a141301</guid>
<source:outline text="How did a healthy well-fed and educated 22 year old man from a good family throw his life away and for what? To kill a 31 year old family man who dedicated his life to making massive numbers of people miserable? What’s more tragic? And how many other Americans are on this track?" created="Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:13:01 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a141301"/>
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<title>Embrace the creativity of others</title>
<description>I wrote a <a href="http://scripting.com/davenet/1996/10/24/QueSeraSera.html">piece</a> in October 1996 after attending a conference of the tech industry that as it turns out was in its final stages. This was one of the last times it met. I was coming from the web, and wanted to see if anyone else was ready to change how we work with each other. 
<ul>
<li>Here's an invitation to truly embrace the creativity of others. Instead of beating your breast about how great you are, try saying how great someone else is. Look for win-wins, make that your new religion. Establish a policy that nothing will be announced unless it can be shown that someone else will win because of what you're doing. How much happier we would be if instead of crippling each other with fear, we competed to empower each others' creativity.</li>
</ul>
I've been following that ideal ever since, people seem to misinterpret it for subservience or weakness, or a pretense to cover another kind of greed, when it's really sincere, and all about strength. Sometimes people say yes, and when that happens magical things happen. I swear to god. I've been there. I've done it, it's not something you can do on your own, by definition. It's rare when people actually help each other and thereby create something. It's why the Beatles are such a great story. Someday I still hope to be part of a group like that. Right now, it's still totally everyone for themself. That is breaking. Read the news. But I believe if we did start really collaborating and not just talking about it, things would change very very quickly. Things would happen that can't happen until we work together. 
I had it figured out in 1996, but still haven't figured out how to make it happen, and time is running out.
</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:18:19 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html?title=embraceTheCreativityOfOthers</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html</guid>
<source:outline text="Embrace the creativity of others" created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:18:19 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html">
<source:outline text="I wrote a <a href="http://scripting.com/davenet/1996/10/24/QueSeraSera.html">piece</a> in October 1996 after attending a conference of the tech industry that as it turns out was in its final stages. This was one of the last times it met. I was coming from the web, and wanted to see if anyone else was ready to change how we work with each other." created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:33:58 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html#a003358">
<source:outline text="Here's an invitation to truly embrace the creativity of others. Instead of beating your breast about how great you are, try saying how great someone else is. Look for win-wins, make that your new religion. Establish a policy that nothing will be announced unless it can be shown that someone else will win because of what you're doing. How much happier we would be if instead of crippling each other with fear, we competed to empower each others' creativity." created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:15:58 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html#a001558"/>
</source:outline>
<source:outline text="I've been following that ideal ever since, people seem to misinterpret it for subservience or weakness, or a pretense to cover another kind of greed, when it's really sincere, and all about strength. Sometimes people say yes, and when that happens magical things happen. I swear to god. I've been there. I've done it, it's not something you can do on your own, by definition. It's rare when people actually help each other and thereby create something. It's why the Beatles are such a great story. Someday I still hope to be part of a group like that. Right now, it's still totally everyone for themself. That is breaking. Read the news. But I believe if we did start really collaborating and not just talking about it, things would change very very quickly. Things would happen that can't happen until we work together." created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:19:51 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html#a001951"/>
<source:outline text="I had it figured out in 1996, but still haven't figured out how to make it happen, and time is running out." created="Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:30:07 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/13/001819.html#a003007"/>
</source:outline>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2022/08/08/bootstrappingByEngelbart.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I did a podcast interview yesterday with <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nathanwrigley">Nathan Wrigley</a> at <a href="https://wptavern.com/">WP Tavern</a>. I had a great time, and learned a lot. It's interesting that while I am not a member of the WordPress community, there is a big intersection between that community and one I do belong to -- the web. WordPress was founded on the principles and idealism of the web. It's baked in. So it might be the largest community of users, not exclusively developers, who have the same values as the web, which are very very powerful values. I'm rediscovering them and it's wonderful. It means I can plug your app into my server and they work first time. It's the just works part that makes it the web. It makes you suck in your breath and go, I'm there now. One interesting thing that came up was the subject of altruism, which is something I reject re myself. It doesn't work if what I do is altruism, because we all must be somewhat committed to the success of our competitors, because if we don't we are locking people in. It's so important that users have freedom of movement. If they don't things stagnate like our 19 years of Twitter. I'm going to be Nathan's show again, and again if he'll have me, to check in on the progress of my humble project to create a new layer, combining WordPress and all the other good stuff that isn't hooked up to it yet. I could not have hoped for a better introduction to The Land of WordPress.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:47:32 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/12.html#a144732</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/12.html#a144732</guid>
<source:outline text="I did a podcast interview yesterday with <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nathanwrigley">Nathan Wrigley</a> at <a href="https://wptavern.com/">WP Tavern</a>. I had a great time, and learned a lot. It's interesting that while I am not a member of the WordPress community, there is a big intersection between that community and one I do belong to -- the web. WordPress was founded on the principles and idealism of the web. It's baked in. So it might be the largest community of users, not exclusively developers, who have the same values as the web, which are very very powerful values. I'm rediscovering them and it's wonderful. It means I can plug your app into my server and they work first time. It's the just works part that makes it the web. It makes you suck in your breath and go, I'm there now. One interesting thing that came up was the subject of altruism, which is something I reject re myself. It doesn't work if what I do is altruism, because we all must be somewhat committed to the success of our competitors, because if we don't we are locking people in. It's so important that users have freedom of movement. If they don't things stagnate like our 19 years of Twitter. I'm going to be Nathan's show again, and again if he'll have me, to check in on the progress of my humble project to create a new layer, combining WordPress and all the other good stuff that isn't hooked up to it yet. I could not have hoped for a better introduction to The Land of WordPress." created="Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:47:32 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2022/08/08/bootstrappingByEngelbart.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/12.html#a144732"/>
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<title>It's really simple</title>
<description>Reminder: <a href="http://scripting.com/2022/09/18.html">Sept 18</a>, one week from today, is the 3rd anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the release of RSS 2.0. I often forget to mark that day. It's not an event that's marked by others very often, but in my humble opinion, it deserves more respect than it gets. 
Around the time of the <a href="http://scripting.com/2022/09/18.html">20th anniversary</a> I decided to swing back and see what more we could do with RSS. It had been sitting there basically going nowhere for most of those 20 years. I want to be clear, there were good and useful products created and supported, but there was none of the innovation that would have happened if it hadn't been so severely injured by Google and the many VC-backed startups hacking away at it.
A format like <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html">RSS</a> has to be loved. And if you make it too complicated or vague, with too much political shuffling of the deck what you get is ActivityPub. That's what RSS would have become if it went down the path the tech industry wanted to take it down. We have a perfect artifact to look at. An A-B comparison. Couldn't be more stark. And, after almost 23 years, RSS is still simple.
Anyway, around the 20th anniversary, in the leadup to it, I decided if no one else was going to invest in RSS, I would, and let's see what comes of it.
The result was <a href="https://feedland.com/">FeedLand</a> which is fundamentally different from all the other feed readers in that its subscription model is patterned after the twitter-like social media apps. Everyone's subscription list is public. I can look at your list and you can look at mine. You can also put categories on the feeds you subscribe to and route them to other servers doing other things, through the magic of the web. And get this -- you can even subscribe to a category of my subscriptions. Lots of power there, but still it's simple.
FeedLand is the perfect back-end for a twitter-like system, for the feeds part. And for the words, the perfect back-end is <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/08/28/140604.html">WordPress</a>. I only discovered that about 1.5 years ago. And I had to see what it looks like. No more <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a>, WordLand is a <a href="https://this.how/wordland/">real editor</a> that supports the basic writing features of the web. How do I know? Because it saves its data in <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/">Markdown</a>. That has come to be the defining format for the text-based web. One which has been totally ignored by the twitter-like systems. Markdown is like MP3. If you're mixing <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/08/20/141957.html">sound into feeds</a> you use MP3 of course. It's there for you to use. As was Markdown. If you're mixing text you're mixing Markdown. 
So while everyone was dancing on Twitter's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_fire">dumpster fire</a> of a social network I decided to build on something much bigger. The web. RSS and <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/">Markdown</a>. WordPress and FeedLand. 
The name Really Simple Syndication is supposed to make you smile, while most techie formats make you want to pull your hair out. RSS reads pretty well even if you know nothing about feeds and XML. I wish the browser people hadn't insisted on masking it with ugly CSS style sheets. I like lifting the hood of a car to see what's there even though I don't know what many of the things in there do. I learn by doing it. 
RSS isn't ugly, it's brilliant, and shouldn't be fear-inducing, hence the promise: it's really simple.
<a href="http://scripting.com/wavs/curly1.wav"><img src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/11/30/curly.png" width="53" height="63" border="0" alt="I'm trying to think but nothing happens!"></a>
</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:39:36 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html?title=itsReallySimple</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html</guid>
<source:outline text="It's really simple" created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:39:36 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html">
<source:outline text="Reminder: <a href="http://scripting.com/2022/09/18.html">Sept 18</a>, one week from today, is the 3rd anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the release of RSS 2.0. I often forget to mark that day. It's not an event that's marked by others very often, but in my humble opinion, it deserves more respect than it gets." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:29:24 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a122924"/>
<source:outline text="Around the time of the <a href="http://scripting.com/2022/09/18.html">20th anniversary</a> I decided to swing back and see what more we could do with RSS. It had been sitting there basically going nowhere for most of those 20 years. I want to be clear, there were good and useful products created and supported, but there was none of the innovation that would have happened if it hadn't been so severely injured by Google and the many VC-backed startups hacking away at it." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:53:18 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a125318"/>
<source:outline text="A format like <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html">RSS</a> has to be loved. And if you make it too complicated or vague, with too much political shuffling of the deck what you get is ActivityPub. That's what RSS would have become if it went down the path the tech industry wanted to take it down. We have a perfect artifact to look at. An A-B comparison. Couldn't be more stark. And, after almost 23 years, RSS is still simple." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:41:32 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124132"/>
<source:outline text="Anyway, around the 20th anniversary, in the leadup to it, I decided if no one else was going to invest in RSS, I would, and let's see what comes of it." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:42:42 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124242"/>
<source:outline text="The result was <a href="https://feedland.com/">FeedLand</a> which is fundamentally different from all the other feed readers in that its subscription model is patterned after the twitter-like social media apps. Everyone's subscription list is public. I can look at your list and you can look at mine. You can also put categories on the feeds you subscribe to and route them to other servers doing other things, through the magic of the web. And get this -- you can even subscribe to a category of my subscriptions. Lots of power there, but still it's simple." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:43:17 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124317"/>
<source:outline text="FeedLand is the perfect back-end for a twitter-like system, for the feeds part. And for the words, the perfect back-end is <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/08/28/140604.html">WordPress</a>. I only discovered that about 1.5 years ago. And I had to see what it looks like. No more <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a>, WordLand is a <a href="https://this.how/wordland/">real editor</a> that supports the basic writing features of the web. How do I know? Because it saves its data in <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/">Markdown</a>. That has come to be the defining format for the text-based web. One which has been totally ignored by the twitter-like systems. Markdown is like MP3. If you're mixing <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/08/20/141957.html">sound into feeds</a> you use MP3 of course. It's there for you to use. As was Markdown. If you're mixing text you're mixing Markdown." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:45:40 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124540"/>
<source:outline text="So while everyone was dancing on Twitter's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_fire">dumpster fire</a> of a social network I decided to build on something much bigger. The web. RSS and <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/">Markdown</a>. WordPress and FeedLand." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:47:46 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124746"/>
<source:outline text="The name Really Simple Syndication is supposed to make you smile, while most techie formats make you want to pull your hair out. RSS reads pretty well even if you know nothing about feeds and XML. I wish the browser people hadn't insisted on masking it with ugly CSS style sheets. I like lifting the hood of a car to see what's there even though I don't know what many of the things in there do. I learn by doing it." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:48:41 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a124841"/>
<source:outline text="RSS isn't ugly, it's brilliant, and shouldn't be fear-inducing, hence the promise: it's really simple." created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:55:02 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a135502"/>
<source:outline text="<a href="http://scripting.com/wavs/curly1.wav"><img src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/11/30/curly.png" width="53" height="63" border="0" alt="I'm trying to think but nothing happens!"></a>" created="Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:55:27 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/11/123936.html#a135527"/>
</source:outline>
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<description>Today's song: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0bvKJaTB2s">When you awake</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:10:58 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a161058</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a161058</guid>
<source:outline text="Today's song: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0bvKJaTB2s">When you awake</a>." created="Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:10:58 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a161058"/>
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<description>Podcast: <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/10/aNewModelForBlogDiscourse.html">A new model for blog discourse</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140016</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140016</guid>
<source:outline text="Podcast: <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/10/aNewModelForBlogDiscourse.html">A new model for blog discourse</a>." created="Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:00:16 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140016"/>
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<description><a href="https://climbtothestars.org/">Stephanie Booth</a>, an OG blogger of great renown, now has a FeedLand <a href="https://github.com/a8cteam51/feedland-blogroll">blogroll</a> on her WordPress blog. It is I believe going to make her blog feel less <a href="https://manuelmoreale.com/blogs-don-t-need-to-be-so-lonely">lonely</a>. If anyone else wants to get one going, I have more confidence that it's pretty do-able. <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/10/stephanieBlogroll.png">Screen shot</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:08:55 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140855</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140855</guid>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://climbtothestars.org/">Stephanie Booth</a>, an OG blogger of great renown, now has a FeedLand <a href="https://github.com/a8cteam51/feedland-blogroll">blogroll</a> on her WordPress blog. It is I believe going to make her blog feel less <a href="https://manuelmoreale.com/blogs-don-t-need-to-be-so-lonely">lonely</a>. If anyone else wants to get one going, I have more confidence that it's pretty do-able. <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/10/stephanieBlogroll.png">Screen shot</a>." created="Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:08:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140855"/>
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<description>Heh. Yesterday I started writing a post about something Brent wrote on his blog, and then I must've gotten distracted and didn't finish it. I will now proceed to explain.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:02:45 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140245</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140245</guid>
<source:outline text="Heh. Yesterday I started writing a post about something Brent wrote on his blog, and then I must've gotten distracted and didn't finish it. I will now proceed to explain." created="Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:02:45 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140245"/>
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<description>Brent <a href="https://inessential.com/2025/08/28/easy-app-writing.html">said</a> he cares about desktop software but not about phone and tablet versions of same. I found that liberating. It's always been a pain in the ass to do something beautiful on the desktop only to have to destroy its utility by squeezing it into a space with no keyboard or pointing device that's more accurate than my finger (I have huge fingers, and a normal size phone). I found it liberating, but -- I'm working on the design of an app that should work well on either a phone or a laptop, and I've had that in mind the whole life of the product. But now I realize in a new way that it's a choice. It always was, but it didn't feel that way.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140321</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140321</guid>
<source:outline text="Brent <a href="https://inessential.com/2025/08/28/easy-app-writing.html">said</a> he cares about desktop software but not about phone and tablet versions of same. I found that liberating. It's always been a pain in the ass to do something beautiful on the desktop only to have to destroy its utility by squeezing it into a space with no keyboard or pointing device that's more accurate than my finger (I have huge fingers, and a normal size phone). I found it liberating, but -- I'm working on the design of an app that should work well on either a phone or a laptop, and I've had that in mind the whole life of the product. But now I realize in a new way that it's a choice. It always was, but it didn't feel that way." created="Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:03:21 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/10.html#a140321"/>
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<description>I read something on Brent's blog the other day that changed my thinking. He said</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:38:54 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a173854</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a173854</guid>
<source:outline text="I read something on Brent's blog the other day that changed my thinking. He said" created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:38:54 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a173854"/>
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<description>WWND. What Would Navalny Do? Think about it.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:05:34 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a130534</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a130534</guid>
<source:outline text="WWND. What Would Navalny Do? Think about it." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:05:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a130534"/>
</item>
<item>
<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/11/26/uncleSam.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">The Dems are terrible at politics. They should be running ads on TV saying that no workers in the fields means food prices soaring as we'll have to import food because all the American crops are dead because there was no one to harvest them. It's true. Why didn't anyone see this coming? Well we did see it coming, but the Dems were too dumb to do anything about it. They're supposed to be the "woke" party, isn't it funny that they're so un-woke about something like keeping Americans fed!</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:26:14 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a122614</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a122614</guid>
<source:outline text="The Dems are terrible at politics. They should be running ads on TV saying that no workers in the fields means food prices soaring as we'll have to import food because all the American crops are dead because there was no one to harvest them. It's true. Why didn't anyone see this coming? Well we did see it coming, but the Dems were too dumb to do anything about it. They're supposed to be the "woke" party, isn't it funny that they're so un-woke about something like keeping Americans fed!" created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:26:14 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/11/26/uncleSam.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09.html#a122614"/>
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<item>
<title>Bullet points from yesterday's podcast</title>
<description>I asked ChatGPT to provide bullet points for <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/08/whyBloggingLostToTwitterAndOtherFolkSongs.html">yesterday's podcast</a>. I thought this time it did a really good job. It did misunderstand some things I said, I just deleted those, below.
<ul>
<li>Blogging lost to Twitter because Twitter had one-click subscribe.</li>
<li>Subscribing in feed readers required too many steps: copying URLs, menus, pasting, confirming.</li>
<li>This friction discouraged adoption compared to Twitter's simplicity.</li>
<li>Feed reader developers (2002-2006) competed instead of cooperating, creating cluttered subscription buttons.</li>
<li>Twitter succeeded because it eliminated that friction.</li>
<li>FeedLand solves this with one-click subscribe and checkboxes next to feeds.</li>
<li>Users can see others' subscriptions, similar to Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Facebook.</li>
<li>Private feeds are possible but niche; public following is standard and expected.</li>
<li>Emphasis on factoring UI: reduce steps, as with "Edit This Page" in 1999.</li>
<li>Rebooting the blogosphere requires cooperation and a universal "follow" button.</li>
<li>FeedLand's checkboxes make subscribing or filtering feeds simple.</li>
<li>Introduces "Radio WordLand" release with advanced checkbox features.</li>
<li>FeedLand timelines can be filtered live using checkboxes tied to feeds.</li>
<li>Example feeds: Daves WordPress blog, Great Art feed from Bluesky, linkblog, Scripting News, podcast, WordCamp Canada 2025 feed.</li>
<li>WordCamp Canada keynote in Ottawa, Oct 16-17, 2025.</li>
<li>WordLand integrates categories for organizing feeds.</li>
<li>Commitment to "Edit This Page" feature: too valuable to abandon.</li>
<li>Broader goal: restore writer-friendly features Twitter removed (links, styling, no character limits).</li>
<li>Criticism of Bluesky/Twitter/Threads for perpetuating character limits and stripped-down writing.</li>
<li>Aim: build software that forces platforms to support the web by user demand.</li>
<li>Automatic/WordPress bringing ActivityPub to blogs is "heroic" bridging web and Mastodon.</li>
<li>WordPress posts in Mastodon retain titles, styling, links, and images -- better than Twitter/Bluesky.</li>
<li>Believes competition will pressure other networks to drop artificial limits.</li>
<li>Concludes with confidence: momentum is building, new features will roll out soon.</li>
</ul>
</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:44:46 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html?title=bulletPointsFromYesterdaysPodcast</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html</guid>
<source:outline text="Bullet points from yesterday's podcast" created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:44:46 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html">
<source:outline text="I asked ChatGPT to provide bullet points for <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/08/whyBloggingLostToTwitterAndOtherFolkSongs.html">yesterday's podcast</a>. I thought this time it did a really good job. It did misunderstand some things I said, I just deleted those, below." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:44:49 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114449">
<source:outline text="Blogging lost to Twitter because Twitter had one-click subscribe." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:45:15 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114515"/>
<source:outline text="Subscribing in feed readers required too many steps: copying URLs, menus, pasting, confirming." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="This friction discouraged adoption compared to Twitter's simplicity." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:45:58 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114558"/>
<source:outline text="Feed reader developers (2002-2006) competed instead of cooperating, creating cluttered subscription buttons." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:46:03 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114603"/>
<source:outline text="Twitter succeeded because it eliminated that friction." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="FeedLand solves this with one-click subscribe and checkboxes next to feeds." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Users can see others' subscriptions, similar to Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Facebook." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:46:12 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114612"/>
<source:outline text="Private feeds are possible but niche; public following is standard and expected." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Emphasis on factoring UI: reduce steps, as with "Edit This Page" in 1999." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:46:24 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114624"/>
<source:outline text="Rebooting the blogosphere requires cooperation and a universal "follow" button." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:46:49 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114649"/>
<source:outline text="FeedLand's checkboxes make subscribing or filtering feeds simple." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:47:02 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114702"/>
<source:outline text="Introduces "Radio WordLand" release with advanced checkbox features." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:47:07 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114707"/>
<source:outline text="FeedLand timelines can be filtered live using checkboxes tied to feeds." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Example feeds: Daves WordPress blog, Great Art feed from Bluesky, linkblog, Scripting News, podcast, WordCamp Canada 2025 feed." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:48:03 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114803"/>
<source:outline text="WordCamp Canada keynote in Ottawa, Oct 16-17, 2025." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:48:15 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114815"/>
<source:outline text="WordLand integrates categories for organizing feeds." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Commitment to "Edit This Page" feature: too valuable to abandon." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:48:31 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114831"/>
<source:outline text="Broader goal: restore writer-friendly features Twitter removed (links, styling, no character limits)." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Criticism of Bluesky/Twitter/Threads for perpetuating character limits and stripped-down writing." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Aim: build software that forces platforms to support the web by user demand." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Automatic/WordPress bringing ActivityPub to blogs is "heroic" bridging web and Mastodon." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:48:58 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114858"/>
<source:outline text="WordPress posts in Mastodon retain titles, styling, links, and images -- better than Twitter/Bluesky." created="Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:49:22 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#a114922"/>
<source:outline text="Believes competition will pressure other networks to drop artificial limits." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Concludes with confidence: momentum is building, new features will roll out soon." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/09/114446.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
</source:outline>
</source:outline>
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<description>Podcast: <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/08/whyBloggingLostToTwitterAndOtherFolkSongs.html">Why blogging lost to Twitter and other folk songs</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:24:20 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a212420</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a212420</guid>
<source:outline text="Podcast: <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/09/08/whyBloggingLostToTwitterAndOtherFolkSongs.html">Why blogging lost to Twitter and other folk songs</a>." created="Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:24:20 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a212420"/>
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<description>I've been calling the next release <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/08/radio-wordland-coming-along-nicely/">Radio WordLand</a>. If you know the <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Radio%20UserLand%22">history</a> you'll understand why. I'll start posting screen shots soon.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:37:31 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a163731</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a163731</guid>
<source:outline text="I've been calling the next release <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/09/08/radio-wordland-coming-along-nicely/">Radio WordLand</a>. If you know the <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Radio%20UserLand%22">history</a> you'll understand why. I'll start posting screen shots soon." created="Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:37:31 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a163731"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/09/10/kittyStamp.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;"><a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/08/evanPostMasto.png">Screen shot</a> of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/115164400820285035">post</a> by Evan Prodromou on Masto yesterday. "You publish where you want to publish, Dave. We'll find a way to connect to you. That's the whole point." Indeed that is the whole point. I say it <a href="https://this.how/standards/#1497798753000">like this</a>. "Interop is all that matters." If our products interop that's pure love. The rest of it is baloney. Maybe I'm not a nice guy. Not my job. We've being fucked over by "social media" for 19 years now, and the new ones who say they're open, and on the web, and decentralized, are not. The only way out of this mess is what Evan said. BTW, I <a href="https://mastodon.social/@davew/115164714595757607">sent</a> Evan a <a href="https://feedland.social/opml?screenname=davewiner&catname=daveverse">pointer</a> to the subscription list which is my outflow. I use OPML for the list and RSS for the feeds. That's where you will find my writing.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:06:06 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a150606</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a150606</guid>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/08/evanPostMasto.png">Screen shot</a> of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/115164400820285035">post</a> by Evan Prodromou on Masto yesterday. "You publish where you want to publish, Dave. We'll find a way to connect to you. That's the whole point." Indeed that is the whole point. I say it <a href="https://this.how/standards/#1497798753000">like this</a>. "Interop is all that matters." If our products interop that's pure love. The rest of it is baloney. Maybe I'm not a nice guy. Not my job. We've being fucked over by "social media" for 19 years now, and the new ones who say they're open, and on the web, and decentralized, are not. The only way out of this mess is what Evan said. BTW, I <a href="https://mastodon.social/@davew/115164714595757607">sent</a> Evan a <a href="https://feedland.social/opml?screenname=davewiner&catname=daveverse">pointer</a> to the subscription list which is my outflow. I use OPML for the list and RSS for the feeds. That's where you will find my writing." created="Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:06:06 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/09/10/kittyStamp.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a150606"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/08/se7en.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I watched the movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film)">Seven</a> last night, and I can't stop thinking about it. It got a shitty <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/22/movies/film-review-a-sickening-catalogue-of-sins-every-one-of-them-deadly.html">review</a> in the NYT, which usually means I won't bother with something, but this time I decided to give it a try. The reviewer, Janet Maislin, didn't like the acting of Brad Pitt. I thought Pitt was an unlikeable jerk, but I also thought that was the role, but maybe I was wrong. I didn't care. I also couldn't figure out what city it was. It wasn't NY, but Maislin says it was. Usually in a movie set in NY, I recognize many of the locations. There are only a few places movies are shot in the city. But again, I didn't care. What keeps me thinking about it is the story. I'm not going to spoil it. Don't read any reviews before watching it, they pretty much all get in the way of the storytelling.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a151745</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a151745</guid>
<source:outline text="I watched the movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film)">Seven</a> last night, and I can't stop thinking about it. It got a shitty <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/22/movies/film-review-a-sickening-catalogue-of-sins-every-one-of-them-deadly.html">review</a> in the NYT, which usually means I won't bother with something, but this time I decided to give it a try. The reviewer, Janet Maislin, didn't like the acting of Brad Pitt. I thought Pitt was an unlikeable jerk, but I also thought that was the role, but maybe I was wrong. I didn't care. I also couldn't figure out what city it was. It wasn't NY, but Maislin says it was. Usually in a movie set in NY, I recognize many of the locations. There are only a few places movies are shot in the city. But again, I didn't care. What keeps me thinking about it is the story. I'm not going to spoil it. Don't read any reviews before watching it, they pretty much all get in the way of the storytelling." created="Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:17:45 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/08/se7en.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a151745"/>
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<description>How to be part of the <a href="https://this.how/blogosphere/">rebooted blogosphere</a>.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:11:55 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a141155</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a141155</guid>
<source:outline text="How to be part of the <a href="https://this.how/blogosphere/">rebooted blogosphere</a>." created="Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:11:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/08.html#a141155"/>
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<item>
<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/07/livesOfOthersPoster.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Two videos every US resident should watch to prepare for what might be coming. 1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others">The Lives of Others</a>. A drama set in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany">eastern part</a> of post-war Germany before the wall came down. People lived their lives, but their relationship with the government and the military would seem very strange to an American of 2025, But more of this is definitely what's on the way, and the technology for watching what you do is much better now, and our neighbors aren't any different, which is what the Germans depended on. 2. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(TV_series)">The Handmaid's Tale</a>. Same kind of police state as in Lives of Others with a Christian twist. Everyone is a member of a caste. Most women are infertile since some unspecified disaster, and the ones who can reproduce exist only to reproduce. There are women who clean the house, and do a few other things. There are certainly other books, movies and series worth tuning into, but these are the ones I recommend now. Handmaid's Tale is also a book, which I have read, but the show on Hulu goes into more detail.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:53:42 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a145342</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a145342</guid>
<source:outline text="Two videos every US resident should watch to prepare for what might be coming. 1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others">The Lives of Others</a>. A drama set in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany">eastern part</a> of post-war Germany before the wall came down. People lived their lives, but their relationship with the government and the military would seem very strange to an American of 2025, But more of this is definitely what's on the way, and the technology for watching what you do is much better now, and our neighbors aren't any different, which is what the Germans depended on. 2. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(TV_series)">The Handmaid's Tale</a>. Same kind of police state as in Lives of Others with a Christian twist. Everyone is a member of a caste. Most women are infertile since some unspecified disaster, and the ones who can reproduce exist only to reproduce. There are women who clean the house, and do a few other things. There are certainly other books, movies and series worth tuning into, but these are the ones I recommend now. Handmaid's Tale is also a book, which I have read, but the show on Hulu goes into more detail." created="Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:53:42 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/07/livesOfOthersPoster.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a145342"/>
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<description><a href="https://socketdemo.feedland.org/">New demo app</a>. FeedLand communicates back to the client app via websockets. This is absolutely the easiest way to get flow from feeds to apps running on servers or in a browser, or other desktop app. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket">Websockets</a> is a mature <a href="https://websockets.spec.whatwg.org/">standard</a>, and incredibly useful. I'm now working on a toolkit for it, along with all the other projects going on in parallel, so other developers can hook into <a href="https://feedland.com/">FeedLand</a> to get the flow of new items. The <a href="https://socketdemo.feedland.org/">demo</a> shows you the JSON version of every news item as it appears on the wire. There's no limit to the kinds of apps you can build for this. My <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Chuck%20Shotton%22">friend</a> Chuck Shotton has a market-predicting LLM app that gets its news this way. Nothing to install on a server. FeedLand does all the work. I expect to have a toolkit out sometime in the few weeks.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:15:37 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a171537</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a171537</guid>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://socketdemo.feedland.org/">New demo app</a>. FeedLand communicates back to the client app via websockets. This is absolutely the easiest way to get flow from feeds to apps running on servers or in a browser, or other desktop app. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket">Websockets</a> is a mature <a href="https://websockets.spec.whatwg.org/">standard</a>, and incredibly useful. I'm now working on a toolkit for it, along with all the other projects going on in parallel, so other developers can hook into <a href="https://feedland.com/">FeedLand</a> to get the flow of new items. The <a href="https://socketdemo.feedland.org/">demo</a> shows you the JSON version of every news item as it appears on the wire. There's no limit to the kinds of apps you can build for this. My <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Chuck%20Shotton%22">friend</a> Chuck Shotton has a market-predicting LLM app that gets its news this way. Nothing to install on a server. FeedLand does all the work. I expect to have a toolkit out sometime in the few weeks." created="Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:15:37 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a171537"/>
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<description>Another application for websockets. You could actually put a web server on your desktop without exposing your home network to the world. I can't wait till I have time to play around with this.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:21:26 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a172126</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a172126</guid>
<source:outline text="Another application for websockets. You could actually put a web server on your desktop without exposing your home network to the world. I can't wait till I have time to play around with this." created="Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:21:26 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/07.html#a172126"/>
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<title>New version of FeedLand</title>
<description>There's a new version of FeedLand, v0.7.0. 
Here's the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/issues/68">thread</a> where we discussed the testing of the new release. It worked everywhere we installed it, so it seems fair to open it up to people running their own FeedLand instances. 
The only features it adds are ones needed to use it with the new version of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>, coming soon now. 
But if you have the time, it requires an update to the database, so it's not the usual thing. It explains at the beginning of the thread what the change is to the database. 
Here are the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/blob/main/docs/sep2025transition.md">instructions</a> for doing the upgrade. 
If you're installing a new instance, the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/blob/main/docs/setup.md">instructions</a> are the same as always.
If you have trouble, post a note on the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/issues/68">thread</a>.
Thanks to Scott Hanson for validating the new version. It's always important to have someone to check my work. 
</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:22:04 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html?title=newVersionOfFeedland</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html</guid>
<source:outline text="New version of FeedLand" created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:22:04 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html">
<source:outline text="There's a new version of FeedLand, v0.7.0." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:22:09 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132209"/>
<source:outline text="Here's the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/issues/68">thread</a> where we discussed the testing of the new release. It worked everywhere we installed it, so it seems fair to open it up to people running their own FeedLand instances." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:22:24 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132224"/>
<source:outline text="The only features it adds are ones needed to use it with the new version of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>, coming soon now." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:23:46 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132346"/>
<source:outline text="But if you have the time, it requires an update to the database, so it's not the usual thing. It explains at the beginning of the thread what the change is to the database." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:28:28 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132828"/>
<source:outline text="Here are the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/blob/main/docs/sep2025transition.md">instructions</a> for doing the upgrade." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:24:56 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132456"/>
<source:outline text="If you're installing a new instance, the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/blob/main/docs/setup.md">instructions</a> are the same as always." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:27:00 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132700"/>
<source:outline text="If you have trouble, post a note on the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandInstall/issues/68">thread</a>." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:25:18 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132518"/>
<source:outline text="Thanks to Scott Hanson for validating the new version. It's always important to have someone to check my work." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:25:51 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/132204.html#a132551"/>
</source:outline>
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<title>About feedland.org</title>
<description>Yesterday's <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/05.html#a145720">note</a> on scripting.com about feedland.org was not the whole story. In the end I thought it made more sense to start the database over from the start. 
There were a few users who subscribed to feeds that were constantly updating, and they never came back to use FeedLand. So as soon as I started it back up it started loading new items at a very high rate, and after a couple of hours it was still going. There aren't that many people using feedland.org, so I thought the best thing to do is to start over and hopefully people will figure out how to resubscribe to the feeds they want to follow. 
Then I felt that people might be able to use a few tips on how to get going again, so that's what this post is about. 
Sign off and on
First thing you should do is sign off and sign back on. 
You will still have the credentials in your browser, but the server doesn't know about them, so when you try to do something that requires you being logged in it will fail. But if you sign off and on again, that will take care of that problem. 
To sign off, choose the command in the system menu at the right end of the menubar. 
Once you're signed off the only option will be to sign back on. :-)
<a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/06/signoff.png">Screen shot</a>.
Restore subscription list
How to restore from a backup of your subscription list.
From the first menu, choose Subscribe/From an OPML File.
Here's a <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/06/subscribeToOpml.png">screen shot</a>.
Questions?
I started a <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandSupport/issues/248">thread</a> on the support site for questions.
</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:24:34 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html?title=aboutFeedlandorg</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html</guid>
<source:outline text="About feedland.org" created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:24:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html">
<source:outline text="Yesterday's <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/09/05.html#a145720">note</a> on scripting.com about feedland.org was not the whole story. In the end I thought it made more sense to start the database over from the start." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:24:50 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a122450"/>
<source:outline text="There were a few users who subscribed to feeds that were constantly updating, and they never came back to use FeedLand. So as soon as I started it back up it started loading new items at a very high rate, and after a couple of hours it was still going. There aren't that many people using feedland.org, so I thought the best thing to do is to start over and hopefully people will figure out how to resubscribe to the feeds they want to follow." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:25:25 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a122525"/>
<source:outline text="Then I felt that people might be able to use a few tips on how to get going again, so that's what this post is about." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:26:53 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a122653"/>
<source:outline text="Sign off and on" created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:27:17 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a122717"/>
<source:outline text="First thing you should do is sign off and sign back on." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:28:13 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a122813"/>
<source:outline text="You will still have the credentials in your browser, but the server doesn't know about them, so when you try to do something that requires you being logged in it will fail. But if you sign off and on again, that will take care of that problem." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:28:55 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a122855"/>
<source:outline text="To sign off, choose the command in the system menu at the right end of the menubar." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:29:50 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a122950"/>
<source:outline text="Once you're signed off the only option will be to sign back on. :-)" created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:42:37 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a124237"/>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/06/signoff.png">Screen shot</a>." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:30:07 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a123007"/>
<source:outline text="Restore subscription list" created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:36:38 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a123638"/>
<source:outline text="How to restore from a backup of your subscription list." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:36:44 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a123644"/>
<source:outline text="From the first menu, choose Subscribe/From an OPML File." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:47:33 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a124733"/>
<source:outline text="Here's a <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/09/06/subscribeToOpml.png">screen shot</a>." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:39:26 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a123926"/>
<source:outline text="Questions?" created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:39:53 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a123953"/>
<source:outline text="I started a <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandSupport/issues/248">thread</a> on the support site for questions." created="Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:39:57 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/06/122434.html#a123957"/>
</source:outline>
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<description>I upgraded <a href="https://feedland.org/">feedland.org</a> to a new version of the system software, still being tested. In the process I started a fresh items table. This means for the next day or so your timeline may have a lot of items for a few feeds, as it catches up with every feed it keeps track of. The server was down for a couple of hours while we did the upgrade. Still diggin! ;-)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:57:20 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2025/09/05.html#a145720</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2025/09/05.html#a145720</guid>
<source:outline text="I upgraded <a href="https://feedland.org/">feedland.org</a> to a new version of the system software, still being tested. In the process I started a fresh items table. This means for the next day or so your timeline may have a lot of items for a few feeds, as it catches up with every feed it keeps track of. The server was down for a couple of hours while we did the upgrade. Still diggin! ;-)" created="Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:57:20 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/09/05.html#a145720"/>
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