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Scripting News
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
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For reference, some links: Kim Parker's blog home, and the github repo for the project, which uses HTML. It's been 13 years since it was updated. I can only…
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We're doing a demo site for BonBon, as part of the docs, and as I was planning it out I remembered we did one for a "newly hired senior evangelist" at a…
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Yesterday's braintrust query got lots of responses on Mastodon, and some interesting combinations of products. But none of them streamlined for writers who…
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What to do with billions of dollars?
The founders of tech companies, no matter how rich they get, are still human with human limits, issues and fantasies. Which is great until they get it into…
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Braintrust query: If you're a writer, but not a techie, do you like Markdown? If so, what do you use to write your MD text? Is any of it public? If so how do…
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Listen to Bernie
Whoever leads the Democratic majority in the Senate must have the support of Bernie Sanders. At the beginning of Sanders' running for president, I didn't like…
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A parable from the West Wing
President Bartlet is the president we all wish we could have but can't. He's a rich chocolate cake with ice cream and hot fudge topped with whipped cream and…
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Google's web is falling apart in front of us. It's objecting to sites that support HTTPS as if they were those oldfashioned HTTP pages. I'm sorry I wrote them…
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Next frontier in AI? Communicate with eyes. So Claude would know I haven't finished asking questions or providing instructions. If I can turn on my camera and…
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I am working on a new bit of functionality in BonBonWeb. If all goes well we'll have something to show for it later today or tomorrow. (Update: Things you…
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What they don’t say about corruption, when you take a payoff you’re selling out the people.
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Same thing has been happening in tech for decades. Technology gets captured by a bigco, they kill all the inspiration, in order to lock it down it for ROI…
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John Palfrey, a friend and former colleague from Berkman wrote a fantastic post about people at the lawfirms who caved to Trump.
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To Phil Windley: "We both remember what the web was like before it became a CSS and JavaScript platform." But most young users and developers have no memory of…
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The Markdown version of my blog is getting more traffic than the HTML version. So much so that I'm getting complaints about all the political stuff. I love…
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Dems: the campaign never ends
Urgent note to Dems. Keep your campaign websites going. This is the mistake Dems always make. When you have news to get out, the MSM will mangle or ignore it…
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The sound on my TV is a fraction of a second faster than the picture. Just enough of a delay so I know a shot is going in before I see it go in.
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A while back I must have read a review of JBL Tune Flex earbuds and bought a pair. The sound was awful, almost no bass, flat, low volume. I have always been…
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John Gruber: "Markdown is my sole creation. Aaron Swartz was my best, by far, beta tester and the first person other than me to get excited about it." I am…
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Flushing is a cultural center!??
This is so heartening. America never disappeared, it just was asleep, lulled into naivete by the dashing figure Trump cast on his TV show, and he said some of…
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I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat and you can read it on BonBonWeb. Markdown and RSS 2.0. We will provide a user-level way to connect between the two, but we're…
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What the big tech companies don't get is that independent developers can come up with big ideas and if they put limits in the way of those ideas being done in…
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Poll: If we want democracy we have to have a web that isn't controlled by the big tech companies.
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Yesterday's rollout of BonBonWeb was a great success. I think we have actually launched a new genre of the web, based on the original web before it was taken…
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Who do I think I am to create a web that works so differently? Just a developer with an idea.
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Now in BonBonWeb, the content has no say in how the text is displayed, that belongs to the reader. You can play with that with the A icon next to the address…
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There will be comments in BonBonWeb. How will that work? You can see in demo.rss.chat. Not hooked up yet, but that's the plan.
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Now I know this can be confusing. That's because it's tough to make a web browser that runs inside another web browser. Bonbon, the full product, is itself a…
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I'm going to post lots of links to my demo page, and on scripting.com. Example, here's a link to the Scripting News home page in Bonbon.
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Good morning and welcome to my idea of a new web. You'll be hearing a lot about this, it's a prototype for the web of Markdown, aka the Writers Web or…
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Why do they have repos that are handling thousands of agents pushing into a single repository at once.
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One thing to know about Claude -- it will never welcome you when you start a session with the news that it had a gestalt and now has figured out how to do…
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I still can't believe we had a normal election in the US. All the effort the Repubs went to, to build and train a secret police, and they didn't use them?
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When working with Claude I learn more about the way my mind works. I am building a demo for a new product and see some quirky behavior. Should I pause and tell…
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I want to find all the recent podcast interviews that Jamie Raskin has done. Is there a service that can do that?
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It's time for citizens to really unite
The mid-term election was a blowout for Democrats. I am so happy today to be able to write those words. So many things to say, first a few notes. Citizens…
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Frontier's debugger is back
The Frontier debugger now works in Atlantis, the version of Frontier that runs on modern systems, the one I have been using for everyday work for a month or…
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This was the post I was talking about in the podcast. I ended up using the post that was published before it was ready. On re-reading it wasn't that bad. A few…
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Podcast: A web for writers. How Twitter has become a blogging platform, but how the differences between its editor and Claude's editor illustrates how we need…
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What's on my plate
Atlantis is the new version of UserLand Frontier that runs on modern systems. As I've said earlier, I'm surprised how well we covered all the bases, it's…
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I don't know if you noticed but I've been including sidebar pics of people like Nelly Bly, Plato and Emily Dickinson. I did one of myself, but I think it's too…
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Jeff Jarvis pointed to an article asking if Claude is conscious. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, on walks and in the hot tub. It's an interesting…
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Feature request for twitter. I'd like to have a page listing all my tweets today on one page, so I can link to them from my blog. I would like to see twitter…
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Two new attributes added to the source:inReplyTo element in RSS.chat feeds, feedUrl and feedTitle. These were requested by developers, and they seemed useful…
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BTW, I have been writing on Twitter the way I used to write on my blog. Paragraph after paragraph, and I go on, but I do eventually re-read it and it has the…
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I've been watching short videos about training dogs, and really opening my eyes, and it helps when working with Claude. Always try to be positive, until there…
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Highly recommend the interview between Scott Galloway and Heather Cox Richardson. Quite a combination of minds. Don't skip to the end but don't miss it, they…
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New header graphic for scripting.com. Did this one with ChatGPT, asked it to make a Burma-Shave sign sequence and gave it a few examples, and now it knows how…
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Yesterday I called the Knicks championship the "greatest sports win in a long time," but I have to say the fans of the Milwaukee Brewers would have cause to…
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Yesteday I sent a snapshot of the scripting.com bucket from AWS to Claude and asked it to analyze it, what's in it, what's taking up all the space, and got…
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People in ChatGPT-land are talking about Frontier. Not sure who they are or what the context is, but I agree, and want to do more integrations between our…
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Knicks settle down
I was pretty sure the Knicks just needed to settle down, but the fans and the city and journalists and to some extent the team were still living mentally in…
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I'm doing a little project on rss.chat today and dusting off the cobwebs of my brain. Since I last worked on this project, I have converted Frontier to run on…