Scripting News podcast - A web for writers

Adam's Favorite Podcasts · Nov 2, 2026 · 1m

As before I asked Claude.ai to do the show notes As always if you really want to know what I said you have to listen to the podcast.

Dave was writing a long post on Twitter, which now allows 10,000 characters, and was enjoying it. It felt like blogging: the character limit had receded far enough that he’d stopped thinking about it, which he argues is the precondition for any real writing. He’s been saying for twenty years that character limits on Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon split a writer’s attention between the ideas and the counter, and that this is why discourse on the web has degraded…