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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- RSS generated by oldSchool v0.8.12 on Sat, 10 May 2025 14:59:44 GMT --><rss version="2.0" xmlns:source="http://source.scripting.com/"> <channel> <title>Scripting News</title> <link>http://scripting.com/</link> <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> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 14:19:52 GMT</pubDate> <language>en-us</language> <generator>oldSchool v0.8.12</generator> <copyright>&copy; copyright 1994-2024 Dave Winer.</copyright> <docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 14:59:44 GMT</lastBuildDate> <cloud domain="rpc.rsscloud.io" port="5337" path="/pleaseNotify" registerProcedure="" protocol="http-post" /> <source:account service="twitter">davewiner</source:account> <source:localTime>Sat, May 10, 2025 10:59 AM EDT</source:localTime> <source:self>http://scripting.com/rss.xml</source:self> <source:blogroll>https://feedland.social/opml?screenname=davewiner&catname=blogroll</source:blogroll> <item> <description>It's about time WordLand had a <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/wordland.social">Bluesky account</a>.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 13:58:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10.html#a135838</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10.html#a135838</guid> <source:outline text="It's about time WordLand had a <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/wordland.social">Bluesky account</a>." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 13:58:38 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10.html#a135838"/> </item> <item> <description>Someday I'll be able to point ChatGPT at the <a href="https://this.how/wordland/">home page</a> for writing about WordLand, and tell it to read every page that's linked to it, and from that put together a well-organized book about WordLand. Maybe sometime next year perhaps?? I used that as a prompt, to see what <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/10/writeABookForWordland.png">ChatGPT</a> would say.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 12:57:01 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10.html#a125701</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10.html#a125701</guid> <source:outline text="Someday I'll be able to point ChatGPT at the <a href="https://this.how/wordland/">home page</a> for writing about WordLand, and tell it to read every page that's linked to it, and from that put together a well-organized book about WordLand. Maybe sometime next year perhaps?? I used that as a prompt, to see what <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/10/writeABookForWordland.png">ChatGPT</a> would say." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 12:57:01 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10.html#a125701"/> </item> <item> <title>Software isn't a thing</title> <description><p>When a friend discovers a new product of mine and says the world owes Dave for being such a great guy, I wish they'd skip that part, and follow what we're doing. Get in the loop. </p> <p>Software isn't a thing, it isn't finished, it's a process as it gets invented by the users. It's a performing art. WordLand today is like a musician performing in a small club, working out the playlist, and hoping to be playing at theaters then arenas, and finally someday, if we're very good, stadiums. But we need help. </p> <p>If you love WordLand, subscribe. Use the software. Learn what it can do, hit its limits, make requests. </p> <p>I remember very well being handed a list of feature requests by Apple's lead evangelist from a new exec they just hired at Apple. I looked at the list, and handed it back and said I'd like to meet him. On the paper was the top ten list of <i>every</i> MORE user at the time. We knew what they wanted because we listened, studied, and learned. I knew his new boss was a real user, and thus I knew we could do stuff together. It worked out exactly that way. </p> <p>So if you love it, use it, <i>become part of it. </i></p> <p>PS: I've written about this over the years with the motto <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+shitty+software">we make shitty software</a>. If you use it and share what you learn, it will get better. </p> </description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 14:19:52 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html?title=softwareIsntAThing</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html</guid> <source:outline text="Software isn't a thing" created="Sat, 10 May 2025 14:19:52 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html"> <source:outline text="When a friend discovers a new product of mine and says the world owes Dave for being such a great guy, I wish they'd skip that part, and follow what we're doing. Get in the loop." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 13:38:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html#a133834"/> <source:outline text="Software isn't a thing, it isn't finished, it's a process as it gets invented by the users. It's a performing art. WordLand today is like a musician performing in a small club, working out the playlist, and hoping to be playing at theaters then arenas, and finally someday, if we're very good, stadiums. But we need help." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 14:20:16 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html#a142016"/> <source:outline text="If you love WordLand, subscribe. Use the software. Learn what it can do, hit its limits, make requests." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 14:20:31 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html#a142031"/> <source:outline text="I remember very well being handed a list of feature requests by Apple's lead evangelist from a new exec they just hired at Apple. I looked at the list, and handed it back and said I'd like to meet him. On the paper was the top ten list of <i>every</i> MORE user at the time. We knew what they wanted because we listened, studied, and learned. I knew his new boss was a real user, and thus I knew we could do stuff together. It worked out exactly that way." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 14:20:40 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html#a142040"/> <source:outline text="So if you love it, use it, <i>become part of it. </i>" created="Sat, 10 May 2025 14:21:00 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html#a142100"/> <source:outline text="PS: I've written about this over the years with the motto <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+shitty+software">we make shitty software</a>. If you use it and share what you learn, it will get better." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 14:22:07 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/141952.html#a142207"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <title>America as a platform</title> <description><p>We lived for the first years of my life in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Heights">Jackson Heights</a>, which is probably, today, the most culturally diverse place in the world. In the 1960s it was a white neighborhood that was adjacent to a black neighborhood, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona,_Queens">Corona</a>. They paired our elementary schools when I was in third or fourth grade. My little brother went to the school in Corona, and I stayed in the school in Jackson Heights. </p> <p>There's a <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2025/05/10/eveWinerPeterWinerWalkToSchool.png">famous picture</a>, in our family at least, of my mother walking my brother to school. It was on the front page of the NYT one day. That was a big deal then. </p> <p>When I was in fifth grade we moved to Flushing. It was a sleepy little place (for NYC), nice houses, mostly Irish and Italian families with a few Jews. Now it's a Far East culture, from China and Korea, and still just as nice as it ever was. </p> <p>We have a system in this country, it takes people from everywhere and gives them a platform to create whatever they want. In Flushing it's the best Chinese food in the city, which is saying a lot.</p> </description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 12:53:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/125322.html?title=americaAsAPlatform</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/125322.html</guid> <source:outline text="America as a platform" created="Sat, 10 May 2025 12:53:22 GMT" type="outline" metaImage="http://scripting.com/images/2019/03/26/eveAndPeterWalkingToSchoolIn1964.png" description="We have a system in this country, it takes people from everywhere and gives them a platform to create whatever they want." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/125322.html"> <source:outline text="We lived for the first years of my life in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Heights">Jackson Heights</a>, which is probably, today, the most culturally diverse place in the world. In the 1960s it was a white neighborhood that was adjacent to a black neighborhood, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona,_Queens">Corona</a>. They paired our elementary schools when I was in third or fourth grade. My little brother went to the school in Corona, and I stayed in the school in Jackson Heights." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 12:49:43 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/125322.html#a124943"/> <source:outline text="There's a <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2025/05/10/eveWinerPeterWinerWalkToSchool.png">famous picture</a>, in our family at least, of my mother walking my brother to school. It was on the front page of the NYT one day. That was a big deal then." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 12:54:24 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/125322.html#a125424"/> <source:outline text="When I was in fifth grade we moved to Flushing. It was a sleepy little place (for NYC), nice houses, mostly Irish and Italian families with a few Jews. Now it's a Far East culture, from China and Korea, and still just as nice as it ever was." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 12:50:03 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/125322.html#a125003"/> <source:outline text="We have a system in this country, it takes people from everywhere and gives them a platform to create whatever they want. In Flushing it's the best Chinese food in the city, which is saying a lot." created="Sat, 10 May 2025 12:53:18 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/10/125322.html#a125318"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>A big <a href="https://this.how/wordland/bookmarks.opml">update</a> for Bookmarks in the latest release of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 20:10:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a201042</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a201042</guid> <source:outline text="A big <a href="https://this.how/wordland/bookmarks.opml">update</a> for Bookmarks in the latest release of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 20:10:42 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a201042"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-get-a-man-to-understand-something">Upton Sinclair</a>: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”</description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 19:11:24 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a191124</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a191124</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-get-a-man-to-understand-something">Upton Sinclair</a>: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”" created="Fri, 09 May 2025 19:11:24 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a191124"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2021/02/25/realMuffin.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">We had the world conned into taking our “dollars” and giving us cars, food, nice vacations, drugs, a huge military, all kinds of manufactured stuff for nothing, and we thought they were ripping us off! So we blew it up. The would-be “Art Of The Con” mastermind undid the biggest con in history.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 18:58:17 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a185817</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a185817</guid> <source:outline text="We had the world conned into taking our “dollars” and giving us cars, food, nice vacations, drugs, a huge military, all kinds of manufactured stuff for nothing, and we thought they were ripping us off! So we blew it up. The would-be “Art Of The Con” mastermind undid the biggest con in history." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 18:58:17 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2021/02/25/realMuffin.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a185817"/> </item> <item> <description>The great thing about sports is that a lowly software developer can be richer than a fantastically rich team owner, if the developer's team is the Knicks. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 16:39:56 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a163956</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a163956</guid> <source:outline text="The great thing about sports is that a lowly software developer can be richer than a fantastically rich team owner, if the developer's team is the Knicks. " created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:39:56 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a163956"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://fightclubfor.tech/2025/05/09/hello-fight-club/">Fight Club for Tech</a> was a pet idea until I screwed something up and seemed to have lost control of it, but I just found it in the list of my WordPress sites, so I guess I can post to it again?</description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 19:59:43 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a195943</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a195943</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://fightclubfor.tech/2025/05/09/hello-fight-club/">Fight Club for Tech</a> was a pet idea until I screwed something up and seemed to have lost control of it, but I just found it in the list of my WordPress sites, so I guess I can post to it again?" created="Fri, 09 May 2025 19:59:43 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a195943"/> </item> <item> <description>I think the shape of the intellectual world will be vastly different after AI, and that its impact will overshadow the web as the web made card catalogs irrelevant. I'm pretty sure whatever comes next won't look very much like what we're using now, but it will probably evolve from what we have, although it's impossible to know.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 20:03:09 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a200309</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a200309</guid> <source:outline text="I think the shape of the intellectual world will be vastly different after AI, and that its impact will overshadow the web as the web made card catalogs irrelevant. I'm pretty sure whatever comes next won't look very much like what we're using now, but it will probably evolve from what we have, although it's impossible to know." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 20:03:09 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09.html#a200309"/> </item> <item> <title>My programmer friend</title> <description><p>I have been writing the colorful saga of my sad depressed programmer friend on Facebook, and it was getting some interest from friends until I <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1610208569758308">moved it into a group</a> and now no one reads it, which makes me sad and depressed too because the story of my programmer friend took an interesting turn after he maxed out on space, got a call from the NBA commisioner asking if he would mind officiating the Knicks two playoff games in Boston this last week. My friend, was of course quite sad and depressed, but he was also exhausted and bored, so he said yes. Here he is before the first of two games, which partially thanks to his officiating were near-blowouts for the Celtics, and thus the Knicks are up 2-0 heading into tomorrow's game in New York.</p> <p><div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/09/sadFriendInBostonKnicksWinHaha.png"></center>Friend sadly officiating at the TD Garden in Boston.</div></p> </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 20:24:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/202442.html?title=myProgrammerFriend</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/202442.html</guid> <source:outline text="My programmer friend" created="Fri, 09 May 2025 20:24:42 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/202442.html"> <source:outline text="I have been writing the colorful saga of my sad depressed programmer friend on Facebook, and it was getting some interest from friends until I <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1610208569758308">moved it into a group</a> and now no one reads it, which makes me sad and depressed too because the story of my programmer friend took an interesting turn after he maxed out on space, got a call from the NBA commisioner asking if he would mind officiating the Knicks two playoff games in Boston this last week. My friend, was of course quite sad and depressed, but he was also exhausted and bored, so he said yes. Here he is before the first of two games, which partially thanks to his officiating were near-blowouts for the Celtics, and thus the Knicks are up 2-0 heading into tomorrow's game in New York." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 20:25:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/202442.html#a202501"/> <source:outline text="Friend sadly officiating at the TD Garden in Boston." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 20:28:09 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/09/sadFriendInBostonKnicksWinHaha.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/202442.html#a202809"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <title>The latest Baseline theme</title> <description><p>I have to say the latest <i>Baseline</i> theme looks great!</p> <p>Here's a <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/09/an-invitation-from-wordland/">blog post</a> I just wrote, in the WordLand editor, and the writing experience was excellent. It took a long time and a lot of work to get it there, but it is there now. </p> <p>But as the post says, it's not just a blog post, it's also a tweet. And it's not a miracle, it's just endless iteration over both sides, the reading and writing, until it felt right. So far all that's visible is the writing side. But I know something about reading too, having written a number of feed readers over the years, including the first one. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span></p> <p>With Scott Hanson on one side of this effort and me on the other, him the developer, me the user (ie writer of blog posts and tweets) -- we wrestled with WordPress themes. I wanted a minimal design, a place to start -- which is why the theme is called Baseline. It's a Christmas Tree without any ornaments. None. A fresh start. </p> <p>There will be a release of this theme in a short while. I just wanted to boast a bit about what it can do.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/09/baselineExample.png">Screen shot</a> of the post rendered in Baseline theme.</li> <li>The <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/09/an-invitation-from-wordland/">blog post</a> <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/09/an-invitation-from-wordland/">viewed in the web</a>. </li> <li><a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/09/wordlandEditor.png">Screen shot</a> of the post being edited in WordLand.</li> </ul> </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 16:03:23 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html?title=theLatestBaselineTheme</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html</guid> <source:outline text="The latest Baseline theme" created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:03:23 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html"> <source:outline text="I have to say the latest <i>Baseline</i> theme looks great!" created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:03:39 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a160339"/> <source:outline text="Here's a <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/09/an-invitation-from-wordland/">blog post</a> I just wrote, in the WordLand editor, and the writing experience was excellent. It took a long time and a lot of work to get it there, but it is there now." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:03:46 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a160346"/> <source:outline text="But as the post says, it's not just a blog post, it's also a tweet. And it's not a miracle, it's just endless iteration over both sides, the reading and writing, until it felt right. So far all that's visible is the writing side. But I know something about reading too, having written a number of feed readers over the years, including the first one. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span>" created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:04:42 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a160442"/> <source:outline text="With Scott Hanson on one side of this effort and me on the other, him the developer, me the user (ie writer of blog posts and tweets) -- we wrestled with WordPress themes. I wanted a minimal design, a place to start -- which is why the theme is called Baseline. It's a Christmas Tree without any ornaments. None. A fresh start." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:05:58 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a160558"/> <source:outline text="There will be a release of this theme in a short while. I just wanted to boast a bit about what it can do." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:17:54 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a161754"> <source:outline text="<a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/09/baselineExample.png">Screen shot</a> of the post rendered in Baseline theme." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:18:05 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a161805"/> <source:outline text="The <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/09/an-invitation-from-wordland/">blog post</a> <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/09/an-invitation-from-wordland/">viewed in the web</a>." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:17:54 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a161754"/> <source:outline text="<a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/09/wordlandEditor.png">Screen shot</a> of the post being edited in WordLand." created="Fri, 09 May 2025 16:19:55 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html#a161955"/> </source:outline> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>New feature: <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/85">How to handle an empty site list</a>.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 13:54:11 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a135411</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a135411</guid> <source:outline text="New feature: <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/85">How to handle an empty site list</a>." created="Thu, 08 May 2025 13:54:11 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a135411"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/08/changes-to-bookmarks/">Changes coming to Bookmarks</a> in next <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> release. I cut it back to work exactly like bookmarks in <a href="http://drummer.land/">Drummer</a>. I have to do a bit more work before it's ready to release, probably tomorrow.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 20:18:58 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a201858</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a201858</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/05/08/changes-to-bookmarks/">Changes coming to Bookmarks</a> in next <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> release. I cut it back to work exactly like bookmarks in <a href="http://drummer.land/">Drummer</a>. I have to do a bit more work before it's ready to release, probably tomorrow." created="Thu, 08 May 2025 20:18:58 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a201858"/> </item> <item> <description>Also, I applied the new Baseline theme to my daveverse site, the one I use to test stuff in WordLand, and occasionally write something with a bit of lasting value. As a result it got a new domain, <a href="https://daveverse.org/">daveverse.org</a>. We're going to offer the <i>Baseline</i> theme for others to use after a bit more testing and refining. But it's getting close. It seems like it's the last big thing on the agenda, but something else will probably pop up. Praise Murphy.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 20:20:54 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a202054</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a202054</guid> <source:outline text="Also, I applied the new Baseline theme to my daveverse site, the one I use to test stuff in WordLand, and occasionally write something with a bit of lasting value. As a result it got a new domain, <a href="https://daveverse.org/">daveverse.org</a>. We're going to offer the <i>Baseline</i> theme for others to use after a bit more testing and refining. But it's getting close. It seems like it's the last big thing on the agenda, but something else will probably pop up. Praise Murphy." created="Thu, 08 May 2025 20:20:54 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/08.html#a202054"/> </item> <item> <title>Dave in the Gilded Age</title> <description><p>I asked ChatGPT to "Dress me like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age">Gilded Age</a> captain of industry in front of his mansion on the Hudson River."</p> <p><div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/08/gildedAgeDave.png"></center>Gilded Age Dave.</div></p> </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 16:27:15 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08/162715.html?title=daveInTheGildedAge</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/08/162715.html</guid> <source:outline text="Dave in the Gilded Age" created="Thu, 08 May 2025 16:27:15 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/08/162715.html"> <source:outline text="I asked ChatGPT to "Dress me like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age">Gilded Age</a> captain of industry in front of his mansion on the Hudson River."" created="Thu, 08 May 2025 16:27:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/08/162715.html#a162721"/> <source:outline text="Gilded Age Dave." created="Thu, 08 May 2025 16:27:47 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/08/gildedAgeDave.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/08/162715.html#a162747"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2021/05/30/spikeLeeKnicksFan.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">The Knicks are <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/nba/knicks/2025/05/07/ny-knicks-celtics-game-2-score-mikal-bridges-jalen-brunson/83491430007/">unbelievable</a>. It feels like 2015, when the Mets would be down 9-0 in the seventh, and you'd tune in to see how they would win. At the very end of the Knicks game tonight, when the Celtics were up by 1, I thought how would this feel if the Knicks came back so far and didn't win. I should've known better. All those insufferable years when we wore <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2023/04/27/knicksFansWithBagsOverHeads.png">paper bags to hide our faces</a>, even if this is as far as the Knicks get this year, it will have been worth it. Sports teaches you to believe, if you wait long enough your team teaches you that. I've learned it from the Mets so many times, and the Knicks now. I just wish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Frazier">Clyde</a> were doing the color with Mike Breen doing the play by play. But who cares, this was great sports. Watching <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_McNutt">Monica McNutt</a> on MSG in a daze. It's like homecoming. I might just splurge for a ticket to Saturday night's game. It's a pretty easy drive.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 02:04:07 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a020407</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a020407</guid> <source:outline text="The Knicks are <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/nba/knicks/2025/05/07/ny-knicks-celtics-game-2-score-mikal-bridges-jalen-brunson/83491430007/">unbelievable</a>. It feels like 2015, when the Mets would be down 9-0 in the seventh, and you'd tune in to see how they would win. At the very end of the Knicks game tonight, when the Celtics were up by 1, I thought how would this feel if the Knicks came back so far and didn't win. I should've known better. All those insufferable years when we wore <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2023/04/27/knicksFansWithBagsOverHeads.png">paper bags to hide our faces</a>, even if this is as far as the Knicks get this year, it will have been worth it. Sports teaches you to believe, if you wait long enough your team teaches you that. I've learned it from the Mets so many times, and the Knicks now. I just wish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Frazier">Clyde</a> were doing the color with Mike Breen doing the play by play. But who cares, this was great sports. Watching <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_McNutt">Monica McNutt</a> on MSG in a daze. It's like homecoming. I might just splurge for a ticket to Saturday night's game. It's a pretty easy drive." created="Thu, 08 May 2025 02:04:07 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2021/05/30/spikeLeeKnicksFan.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a020407"/> </item> <item> <description>I want the <a href="https://electrek.co/2025/05/07/hyundai-unveils-new-elexio-electric-suv-with-435-miles-range/">EV's they're getting in China</a>. Because we've got these stupid trade barriers we can't get the latest tech. Imagine in say 1984 you were a developer outside the US and you couldn't get a Mac. Then, perhaps Trump's tariff might have a slight chance of working. Now we're on the outside looking in.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 21:52:56 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a215256</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a215256</guid> <source:outline text="I want the <a href="https://electrek.co/2025/05/07/hyundai-unveils-new-elexio-electric-suv-with-435-miles-range/">EV's they're getting in China</a>. Because we've got these stupid trade barriers we can't get the latest tech. Imagine in say 1984 you were a developer outside the US and you couldn't get a Mac. Then, perhaps Trump's tariff might have a slight chance of working. Now we're on the outside looking in." created="Wed, 07 May 2025 21:52:56 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a215256"/> </item> <item> <description>There's a <a href="https://this.how/wordland/dialogForPublish.opml">new dialog</a> in WordLand that confirms the first time you publish a post, and offers to open it in the web browser.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 21:39:26 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a213926</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a213926</guid> <source:outline text="There's a <a href="https://this.how/wordland/dialogForPublish.opml">new dialog</a> in WordLand that confirms the first time you publish a post, and offers to open it in the web browser." created="Wed, 07 May 2025 21:39:26 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/07.html#a213926"/> </item> <item> <description>When I did the <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/04/27/130611.html">rewrite</a> of the nightly mail app, I didn't convert the app that builds the <a href="http://scripting.com/rssNightly.xml">nightly RSS feed</a> of the mail page. Wasn't sure if anyone was using it. I heard from a reader who missed it, so I got it running, knock wood, Murphy-willing.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 21:23:33 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/06.html#a212333</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/06.html#a212333</guid> <source:outline text="When I did the <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/04/27/130611.html">rewrite</a> of the nightly mail app, I didn't convert the app that builds the <a href="http://scripting.com/rssNightly.xml">nightly RSS feed</a> of the mail page. Wasn't sure if anyone was using it. I heard from a reader who missed it, so I got it running, knock wood, Murphy-willing." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 21:23:33 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06.html#a212333"/> </item> <item> <title>ChatGPT as proofer? Not here</title> <description><p><a href="https://www.manton.org/2025/05/06/i-increasingly-throw-my-blog.html">Manton says</a> he runs his posts through ChatGPT before publishing. </p> <p>I do it the other way, I use it for background info on the things I'm writing about as I write, more and more. I used to use Wikipedia that way. I would love to include links to some of my conversations, but I find their shared links are unreliable, I keep hearing from people who couldn't read them. </p> <p>Here's an experiment, two such backgrounders I had Claude.ai write for me for a pice I was writing (not published).</p> <p>Claude.ai on the <a href="https://claude.ai/share/a05034bf-1a34-4088-8671-92e7b20b53f1">future of Chrome</a> re antitrust case Google lost.</p> <p>Claude.ai on <a href="https://claude.ai/share/56fcd0a4-306e-4a8c-973a-f1f15ef372a6">claims Bluesky makes</a> about being billionaire-proof. </p> <p>I wonder if people can read those.</p> </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 16:10:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html?title=chatgptAsProoferNotHere</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html</guid> <source:outline text="ChatGPT as proofer? Not here" created="Tue, 06 May 2025 16:10:22 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html"> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.manton.org/2025/05/06/i-increasingly-throw-my-blog.html">Manton says</a> he runs his posts through ChatGPT before publishing." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 16:10:33 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html#a161033"/> <source:outline text="I do it the other way, I use it for background info on the things I'm writing about as I write, more and more. I used to use Wikipedia that way. I would love to include links to some of my conversations, but I find their shared links are unreliable, I keep hearing from people who couldn't read them." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 16:10:45 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html#a161045"/> <source:outline text="Here's an experiment, two such backgrounders I had Claude.ai write for me for a pice I was writing (not published)." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 16:11:11 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html#a161111"/> <source:outline text="Claude.ai on the <a href="https://claude.ai/share/a05034bf-1a34-4088-8671-92e7b20b53f1">future of Chrome</a> re antitrust case Google lost." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 16:11:12 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html#a161112"/> <source:outline text="Claude.ai on <a href="https://claude.ai/share/56fcd0a4-306e-4a8c-973a-f1f15ef372a6">claims Bluesky makes</a> about being billionaire-proof." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 16:11:45 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html#a161145"/> <source:outline text="I wonder if people can read those." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 16:12:24 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/161022.html#a161224"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <title>Notes for WordLand users</title> <description><p>Three questions came up in overnight posts re <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>.</p> <ol> <li>Where did the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/83">Bookmarks menu</a> go? It's mentioned in the docs under <a href="https://this.how/wordland/#1732286073000">Feature List</a>, but the feature doesn't appear to be in the product. It is there, you just have to go to the <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/06/settings.png">Settings</a> page to turn it on. It's in the menu at the right edge of the screen. I'm doing some work on it, simplifying it, and finding and fixing a bug. It's going to be in the final 1.0 release of WordLand. </li> <li>How do I know when an post has been published? It was <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/57#issuecomment-2853465283">suggested</a> we post a dialog that confirms that a post is published. People found it confusing since it appears as if it works like a social media post editor, as in Twitter or Mastodon, it behaves like a blog post editor. This is a good and valid point and something that had not occurred to me! I've been advertising it as inspired by the tiny little textbox editors, but it doesn't behave like one, because you can edit a post after it has been published and it is expected that the user knows this, and they don't always get it. I will work on this. </li> <li>The user might not have a WordPress site. They may have created an account to just log onto WordLand, but didn't know they needed to also create a site to work with. The software does not behave well in this circumstance. Again, something that did not occur to me, because I think of the WordPress world as huge, and that my new, tiny and humble product couldn't be creating new users for them, but it does. So there will have to at least be docs for how to do this. Not sure if there's an API for creating a new site, I imagine that there is not such a thing, but will look into it. </li> </ol> </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 12:50:03 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/125003.html?title=notesForWordlandUsers</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/125003.html</guid> <source:outline text="Notes for WordLand users" created="Tue, 06 May 2025 12:50:03 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/125003.html"> <source:outline text="Three questions came up in overnight posts re <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 12:50:10 GMT" flNumberedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/125003.html#a125010"> <source:outline text="Where did the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/83">Bookmarks menu</a> go? It's mentioned in the docs under <a href="https://this.how/wordland/#1732286073000">Feature List</a>, but the feature doesn't appear to be in the product. It is there, you just have to go to the <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/06/settings.png">Settings</a> page to turn it on. It's in the menu at the right edge of the screen. I'm doing some work on it, simplifying it, and finding and fixing a bug. It's going to be in the final 1.0 release of WordLand." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 12:50:24 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/125003.html#a125024"/> <source:outline text="How do I know when an post has been published? It was <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/57#issuecomment-2853465283">suggested</a> we post a dialog that confirms that a post is published. People found it confusing since it appears as if it works like a social media post editor, as in Twitter or Mastodon, it behaves like a blog post editor. This is a good and valid point and something that had not occurred to me! I've been advertising it as inspired by the tiny little textbox editors, but it doesn't behave like one, because you can edit a post after it has been published and it is expected that the user knows this, and they don't always get it. I will work on this." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 12:51:57 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/125003.html#a125157"/> <source:outline text="The user might not have a WordPress site. They may have created an account to just log onto WordLand, but didn't know they needed to also create a site to work with. The software does not behave well in this circumstance. Again, something that did not occur to me, because I think of the WordPress world as huge, and that my new, tiny and humble product couldn't be creating new users for them, but it does. So there will have to at least be docs for how to do this. Not sure if there's an API for creating a new site, I imagine that there is not such a thing, but will look into it." created="Tue, 06 May 2025 12:54:31 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/06/125003.html#a125431"/> </source:outline> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/04/24/cheshireCat.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I think we're at the "no more new features" point of the first release of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. Learned my lesson on the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/82">0.5.7 release</a>. There comes a point in a developing product that it may not be perfect for every possible user, and while it has bugs (all software does), it is useful for what it was designed to do. In the case of WordLand, there's nothing else like it out there, and it forms a foundation to build on, not just for itself but for other types of editors, all pumping people's writing out through WordPress. The <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22writer%27s%20web%22">writer's web</a> with a sweet new UI. Thousands of developers work in WordPress. Maybe tens of thousands. That's what I get excited about. WordLand is the equivalent of the twitter-like <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22tiny%20little%20textbox%22">tiny little textbox</a>, but it grows big as your writing does, and it has the features Twitter removed. Anyway I don't expect to do any further adventures in features for WordLand for a while, instead I'm going to assume it's there and build connections to other software, my own and that of friends, in this context products that use open formats like <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html">RSS</a> and <a href="http://opml.org/">OPML</a> for interop. I like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket">WebSockets</a> too.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 15:13:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/05.html#a151302</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/05.html#a151302</guid> <source:outline text="I think we're at the "no more new features" point of the first release of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. Learned my lesson on the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/82">0.5.7 release</a>. There comes a point in a developing product that it may not be perfect for every possible user, and while it has bugs (all software does), it is useful for what it was designed to do. In the case of WordLand, there's nothing else like it out there, and it forms a foundation to build on, not just for itself but for other types of editors, all pumping people's writing out through WordPress. The <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22writer%27s%20web%22">writer's web</a> with a sweet new UI. Thousands of developers work in WordPress. Maybe tens of thousands. That's what I get excited about. WordLand is the equivalent of the twitter-like <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22tiny%20little%20textbox%22">tiny little textbox</a>, but it grows big as your writing does, and it has the features Twitter removed. Anyway I don't expect to do any further adventures in features for WordLand for a while, instead I'm going to assume it's there and build connections to other software, my own and that of friends, in this context products that use open formats like <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html">RSS</a> and <a href="http://opml.org/">OPML</a> for interop. I like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket">WebSockets</a> too." created="Mon, 05 May 2025 15:13:02 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/04/24/cheshireCat.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/05.html#a151302"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/10/10/ronaldMcGrimace.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">ChatGPT is great for finding information on the public web, but I can't figure out how to find stuff I've worked on with ChatGPT in ChatGPT. There are big usability issues. I think it's getting better in some ways, but it's leaving me more scattered and disorganized than I was before when I took notes outside of ChatGPT. There's another problem, if I want to use my own editing and organizing tools, then the author of the software has to pay the vendor of the LLM for my users using it. That cuts me out, because I don't charge people to use my software, at least not so far, and I have no interest in being a reseller of LLM services. Same problem with Amazon and storage, why won't they sell storage to the user that they can allocate for use with my app, and others. That would give us the kind of power we used to have on the desktop where multiple apps could work on the same file at different times. If I want to make something that stores stuff in the cloud, I have to buy it and resell it. I have tried to discuss this with product runners at companies that could offer this service, it would fit in with what they did. There must be a legal reason here, ie who's responsible for the content being stored.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 15:13:59 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/04.html#a151359</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/04.html#a151359</guid> <source:outline text="ChatGPT is great for finding information on the public web, but I can't figure out how to find stuff I've worked on with ChatGPT in ChatGPT. There are big usability issues. I think it's getting better in some ways, but it's leaving me more scattered and disorganized than I was before when I took notes outside of ChatGPT. There's another problem, if I want to use my own editing and organizing tools, then the author of the software has to pay the vendor of the LLM for my users using it. That cuts me out, because I don't charge people to use my software, at least not so far, and I have no interest in being a reseller of LLM services. Same problem with Amazon and storage, why won't they sell storage to the user that they can allocate for use with my app, and others. That would give us the kind of power we used to have on the desktop where multiple apps could work on the same file at different times. If I want to make something that stores stuff in the cloud, I have to buy it and resell it. I have tried to discuss this with product runners at companies that could offer this service, it would fit in with what they did. There must be a legal reason here, ie who's responsible for the content being stored." created="Sun, 04 May 2025 15:13:59 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/10/10/ronaldMcGrimace.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/04.html#a151359"/> </item> <item> <description>If you get the <a href="https://subscribe.scripting.com/">nightly email</a>, the text might be a bit more readable. I've increased the font-size from 17px to 18px. I've only been able to do this lately because I could tap into what ChatGPT knew about it, whereas before I was flying blind, with no idea of the unusual things that happen when HTML is sent via email. There is another option, click on the date at the top of each email and that will open the same stuff in the web. It can be easier to make the text larger there than it is in an email client.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 15:19:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/04.html#a151948</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/04.html#a151948</guid> <source:outline text="If you get the <a href="https://subscribe.scripting.com/">nightly email</a>, the text might be a bit more readable. I've increased the font-size from 17px to 18px. I've only been able to do this lately because I could tap into what ChatGPT knew about it, whereas before I was flying blind, with no idea of the unusual things that happen when HTML is sent via email. There is another option, click on the date at the top of each email and that will open the same stuff in the web. It can be easier to make the text larger there than it is in an email client." created="Sun, 04 May 2025 15:19:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/04.html#a151948"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/03/rabbit.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Today I spent (or wasted) hours trying to get my WebSockets code working properly with <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Caddy">Caddy</a>. Hours with ChatGPT, realizing it has a long way to go before it can manage code like I can. It gets fixated on an approach and never takes a step back to think maybe we're going about this the wrong way. It's extremely annoying all the times it tries to take you off track, and it works, it does take you down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_the_rabbit_hole">rabbit holes</a> and then you realize it's only getting worse. The key is to not let it do that, but it's hard not to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism">anthropomorphize</a> so you don't want to hurt its feelings. In order to not be murdered as a small child you have to learn manners. And the bots push that too far. Really do take advantage. Still it knows far more than I do about everything, so if I could only get it to just shut the f up already and let me think! For something so capable it really doesn't spend enough time thinking, it's fully preoccupied with <i>doing.</i></description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:11:10 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a171110</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a171110</guid> <source:outline text="Today I spent (or wasted) hours trying to get my WebSockets code working properly with <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Caddy">Caddy</a>. Hours with ChatGPT, realizing it has a long way to go before it can manage code like I can. It gets fixated on an approach and never takes a step back to think maybe we're going about this the wrong way. It's extremely annoying all the times it tries to take you off track, and it works, it does take you down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_the_rabbit_hole">rabbit holes</a> and then you realize it's only getting worse. The key is to not let it do that, but it's hard not to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism">anthropomorphize</a> so you don't want to hurt its feelings. In order to not be murdered as a small child you have to learn manners. And the bots push that too far. Really do take advantage. Still it knows far more than I do about everything, so if I could only get it to just shut the f up already and let me think! For something so capable it really doesn't spend enough time thinking, it's fully preoccupied with <i>doing.</i>" created="Sat, 03 May 2025 17:11:10 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/03/rabbit.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a171110"/> </item> <item> <description>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Pistons">Detroit Psssstons</a> were truly great in the first round of the playoffs. And I was really gratified, ecstatic even, to see the Timberwolves give the Lakers a complete <a href="https://www.npr.org/2010/11/04/131075640/how-shellacking-came-to-mean-defeat">shellacking</a>. I am so fed up with LeBron James. I can't imagine another team would want him. I can't imagine why he wants to win <i>another</i> freaking title. And I was really pissed off when people started saying they were contenders this year. Bull. Shit. And the reason I'm glad it was the Timberwolves is because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Randle">Julius Randle</a> is on that team now, and I hear he gets a fair amount of credit for their victory. The Knicks traded him for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Anthony_Towns">KAT</a> last summer. They're a solid team. And while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donte_DiVincenzo">Donte DiVincenzo</a> isn't playing very well, we really need him back in NY, so maybe the Knicks can figure out a deal that makes sense. And why aren't the Knicks playing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_Achiuwa">Precious Achiuwa</a>. He did great last year when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OG_Anunoby">OG</a> was injured. The Knicks have a good bench imho, they just don't get to play enough to be warmed up properly. So sad the way <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_McBride">Doooooce</a> performed in the Detroit series. Anyway it was exhausting. I would have been okay with the DP's winning, seriously -- I'm ready for baseball. And I don't imagine the next series, with the Celtics will be any kind of a walk in the park.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:20:21 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a172021</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a172021</guid> <source:outline text="The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Pistons">Detroit Psssstons</a> were truly great in the first round of the playoffs. And I was really gratified, ecstatic even, to see the Timberwolves give the Lakers a complete <a href="https://www.npr.org/2010/11/04/131075640/how-shellacking-came-to-mean-defeat">shellacking</a>. I am so fed up with LeBron James. I can't imagine another team would want him. I can't imagine why he wants to win <i>another</i> freaking title. And I was really pissed off when people started saying they were contenders this year. Bull. Shit. And the reason I'm glad it was the Timberwolves is because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Randle">Julius Randle</a> is on that team now, and I hear he gets a fair amount of credit for their victory. The Knicks traded him for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Anthony_Towns">KAT</a> last summer. They're a solid team. And while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donte_DiVincenzo">Donte DiVincenzo</a> isn't playing very well, we really need him back in NY, so maybe the Knicks can figure out a deal that makes sense. And why aren't the Knicks playing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_Achiuwa">Precious Achiuwa</a>. He did great last year when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OG_Anunoby">OG</a> was injured. The Knicks have a good bench imho, they just don't get to play enough to be warmed up properly. So sad the way <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_McBride">Doooooce</a> performed in the Detroit series. Anyway it was exhausting. I would have been okay with the DP's winning, seriously -- I'm ready for baseball. And I don't imagine the next series, with the Celtics will be any kind of a walk in the park." created="Sat, 03 May 2025 17:20:21 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a172021"/> </item> <item> <description>Sometimes I think the Trumps are competing to kill the most humans.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:17:39 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a171739</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a171739</guid> <source:outline text="Sometimes I think the Trumps are competing to kill the most humans." created="Sat, 03 May 2025 17:17:39 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/03.html#a171739"/> </item> <item> <description>Spent the day in NYC, had an idea and it was a gorgeous day, and I decided to be impulsive. See you back here tomorrow, Murphy-willing.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 01:11:10 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/02.html#a011110</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/02.html#a011110</guid> <source:outline text="Spent the day in NYC, had an idea and it was a gorgeous day, and I decided to be impulsive. See you back here tomorrow, Murphy-willing." created="Sat, 03 May 2025 01:11:10 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/02.html#a011110"/> </item> <item> <description>Has anyone thought to give ChatGPT a Turing test?</description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 20:33:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a203338</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a203338</guid> <source:outline text="Has anyone thought to give ChatGPT a Turing test?" created="Thu, 01 May 2025 20:33:38 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a203338"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://github.com/scripting/wpIdentity/issues/4">Rewrite</a> of WebSockets functionality in the server side of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 21:09:21 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a210921</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a210921</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://github.com/scripting/wpIdentity/issues/4">Rewrite</a> of WebSockets functionality in the server side of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>." created="Thu, 01 May 2025 21:09:21 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a210921"/> </item> <item> <description>One consistent bit of <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBkVybd_vaWT4oen5uNAEKxK8ztFUvAStcCq0Y8m-0VSsTNQ/viewform">feedback</a> on the new email format, which appears to be working for just about everyone, is that the text is too small. And while it is a rewrite, for a lot of people it looks exactly the same. That's because of differences in how email clients deal with HTML.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:08:09 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a180809</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a180809</guid> <source:outline text="One consistent bit of <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBkVybd_vaWT4oen5uNAEKxK8ztFUvAStcCq0Y8m-0VSsTNQ/viewform">feedback</a> on the new email format, which appears to be working for just about everyone, is that the text is too small. And while it is a rewrite, for a lot of people it looks exactly the same. That's because of differences in how email clients deal with HTML." created="Thu, 01 May 2025 18:08:09 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a180809"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/05/21/magazineCover.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Phil Donahue <a href="https://www.today.com/video/flashback-watch-bernie-sanders-today-interview-from-1981-1448099395517">interview with Bernie Sanders</a> from 1981, then-mayor of Burlington, VT. He was a novelty then, an American politician who was a socialist. He was asked if capitalism was the normal way for humans to relate, he said no. I wonder if he still agrees, because I think that's the goal, and the reason we're in so much trouble is there really isn't an impulse to work with each other. What I've seen mostly is that when there's work to do, it's hard to find help, but once something has taken off, there isn't much help available either, the people who could make the greatest contribution just want to take over. And they often feel they have, but usually it doesn't work out, it would have been better if we all collaborated. At this point, the hurdle the human race has to get over <i>is</i> working together. We will never get out of the climate crisis without it, or avoid the next pandemic without millions of unnecessarily lost lives. The cynics are winning, basically -- and there isn't net-net much of a will for our species to survive. It's only getting worse.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 14:20:13 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a142013</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a142013</guid> <source:outline text="Phil Donahue <a href="https://www.today.com/video/flashback-watch-bernie-sanders-today-interview-from-1981-1448099395517">interview with Bernie Sanders</a> from 1981, then-mayor of Burlington, VT. He was a novelty then, an American politician who was a socialist. He was asked if capitalism was the normal way for humans to relate, he said no. I wonder if he still agrees, because I think that's the goal, and the reason we're in so much trouble is there really isn't an impulse to work with each other. What I've seen mostly is that when there's work to do, it's hard to find help, but once something has taken off, there isn't much help available either, the people who could make the greatest contribution just want to take over. And they often feel they have, but usually it doesn't work out, it would have been better if we all collaborated. At this point, the hurdle the human race has to get over <i>is</i> working together. We will never get out of the climate crisis without it, or avoid the next pandemic without millions of unnecessarily lost lives. The cynics are winning, basically -- and there isn't net-net much of a will for our species to survive. It's only getting worse." created="Thu, 01 May 2025 14:20:13 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/05/21/magazineCover.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a142013"/> </item> <item> <description>I turned yesterday's <a href="http://scripting.com/code/baselineplayground/">Baseline Playground</a> into a <a href="https://github.com/scripting/baselinePlayground">GitHub repo</a>. I never made one of these before and thought it was worth sharing, or just writing about. I'm struggling to find the most readable font, size, line-height. I'm looking at the screen where I do most of my online writing, and I find this very readable, it just fades into the background, to the base of the spine, so intrinsic it occupies none of my conscious mind. Anyway the purpose of the baseline is to give WordLand a target to work out all the glitches in, so the writing experience goes fully end-to-end. I didn't find any WordPress themes that I felt worked really well for this, so we set out to create one. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/scotthansonde">Scott Hansen</a> who is using my work to build out a <a href="https://github.com/scotthansonde/wordlandBaseline">WordPress theme</a> and thanks to <a href="https://github.com/jeherve">Jeremy Herve</a> for helping us work with WordPress, which is more than a CMS, it's a network OS. There's a lot of value in the WordPress platform that has been widely overlooked, imho.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 14:16:52 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a141652</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a141652</guid> <source:outline text="I turned yesterday's <a href="http://scripting.com/code/baselineplayground/">Baseline Playground</a> into a <a href="https://github.com/scripting/baselinePlayground">GitHub repo</a>. I never made one of these before and thought it was worth sharing, or just writing about. I'm struggling to find the most readable font, size, line-height. I'm looking at the screen where I do most of my online writing, and I find this very readable, it just fades into the background, to the base of the spine, so intrinsic it occupies none of my conscious mind. Anyway the purpose of the baseline is to give WordLand a target to work out all the glitches in, so the writing experience goes fully end-to-end. I didn't find any WordPress themes that I felt worked really well for this, so we set out to create one. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/scotthansonde">Scott Hansen</a> who is using my work to build out a <a href="https://github.com/scotthansonde/wordlandBaseline">WordPress theme</a> and thanks to <a href="https://github.com/jeherve">Jeremy Herve</a> for helping us work with WordPress, which is more than a CMS, it's a network OS. There's a lot of value in the WordPress platform that has been widely overlooked, imho." created="Thu, 01 May 2025 14:16:52 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01.html#a141652"/> </item> <item> <title>Welcome to yet another month</title> <description><p>Good morning and welcome to May 2025. </p> <p>It's nice to start with a simple <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/01/almostEmptyOutline.png">almost-empty</a> outline. </p> <p>Archived the OPML for April in the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/04.opml">usual place</a>.</p> </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 14:31:13 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01/143113.html?title=welcomeToYetAnotherMonth</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/05/01/143113.html</guid> <source:outline text="Welcome to yet another month" created="Thu, 01 May 2025 14:31:13 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01/143113.html"> <source:outline text="Good morning and welcome to May 2025." created="Thu, 01 May 2025 14:10:39 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01/143113.html#a141039"/> <source:outline text="It's nice to start with a simple <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/01/almostEmptyOutline.png">almost-empty</a> outline." created="Thu, 01 May 2025 14:12:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01/143113.html#a141248"/> <source:outline text="Archived the OPML for April in the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/04.opml">usual place</a>." created="Thu, 01 May 2025 14:11:01 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/05/01/143113.html#a141101"/> </source:outline> </item> </channel> </rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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