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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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We got past the bump, and I'm getting stuff done. I write this stuff because I will probably forget most of the frustration. Frontier is a hard piece of…
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Every day with Claude I end up debugging the things it broke overnight. Yesterday I actually got a useful script written and debugged, along the way reporting…
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The governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless he can prove he’s actually alive.
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I had watched almost three seasons of Silo, had no feeling for the characters, or the story, which was going nowhere that I could discern. I shouldn't have…
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The social web vs the software web
I launched ChatGPT for the first time in a long time because I now have access to the new version. One new thing I see is that they are popping up suggestions…
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Why Podcasting 2.0 will never work
If you want others to follow you, you have to offer them your users. And a format alone has no users. And you have to trust your users to choose the best…
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It's around this time of year that Santa makes his first appearance on my blog. Want to get out in front of the others.
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My first job after college was on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building. I wrote software for our customers, in BASIC, on a teletype in our office…
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Just said this to Claude: "This is a very broken piece of software. If you were a real developer you'd never hand off something so broken to your coding…
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More and more I'll realize that Claude doesn't do anything until you tell it to do it. We have a list of big things that need to be done before shipping…
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Why I love programming
1. I love puzzles. 2. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions. 3. I love solving problems (I have an inner-Columbo). 4. People are the biggest piece of the puzzle…
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My year with Claude Code
Everyone is introducing themselves on the Berkman community mail list, at the beginning of the fall semester, and here's the story I am telling. Good morning…
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A bunch of tech billionaires have chipped in a million each to fund a new Linux distribution. I can't imagine how this is supposed to work, all those huge…
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After saying I was putting my tech work aside, yesterday, I had a bolt of determination, and realized I don't like collaborating with Claude Code, but maybe…
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Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. Assume they consent. In the same way, the governor of Kentucky…
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Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who…
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If you View Source on a fatpage, scroll to the bottom, you'll see the code. Example. The idea is that the docs for the code are what you see in the browser…
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I begin the month of September for some reason, not feeling like working. And rather than succumb to the work ethos, I'm allowing myself to goof off with the…
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I wonder how many scenarios they're playing out in DC wrt Iran. Just guessing, probably none. We learned on Monday that the real war has yet to begin…
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I'm thinking about writing my blog over in RSS.chat. It has most of the features I like, titles are optional, no character limit, links are supported, because…
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Why do people care if Claude puts watermarks on text it wrote. It's screwing with its writing, not yours. As a person who publishes their own writing, and…
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Meanwhile Claude wrote test files in many of our S3 buckets last night, one of which knocked FeedLand off the air. It did a scan to see what other damage it…
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Frontier observations in 2026
As I've been writing test scripts for the Frontier project, I was finding omissions or mistakes one at a time. Finally I asked Claude to research this. Where…
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Another busy day programming with Claude on Frontier. I still have to come up with a codename. But we got to a milestone today. I was able to create, edit…
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Brent Simmons posted a note in RSS.chat about how to connect with NetNewsWire. I have a fairly detailed response, that says dynamic OPML is the way to go. I…
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Sometimes I need to use a Google-style search engine to find something on a reference site. That no longer works in Google. This is a major feature pullback…
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Thinking out loud on a Saturday morning
Tech is very competitive, I learned, even when you give your work away, which I have been doing for a couple of decades. Maybe even especially when you give it…
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I was looking for a good screen shot of Radio UserLand. Just found this one on Facebook, and hope to preserve it via the search feature here.
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I'm still a NYT subscriber, although I don't read it very often, but when there's news I will go there. Anyway, they used to have a 10-article per month gift…
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Days belong to me, nights to Claude
I've been doing this for all of this year, and the frustration finally led me to this rule, which I just asked Claude to play back for me. I offer it to you, a…
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WordPress as the text of the web
I wrote something candid on Twitter last week and felt it was worth repeating here. It is a bit judgmental, and for that I apologize. But I couldn't keep the…
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Make America America Again
The press is freaking out about Democratic Socialist candidates winning elections all over the country. They can relax, because the government of the United…
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I just went through hell trying to respond to an email that came to me through the gateway between WordPress and Mastodon. I clicked the link, it took me to a…
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If you run a tech company I hope you didn't lay off most of your programmers last year when that was the hype -- don't wait too long before you fire your human…
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Apparently the nightly email didn't go out last night. The problem was an error when it tried to read the Linkblog entries for the day. I've seen reports that…
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I was looking for a codename for a new scripting environment Claude and I are making attempting in every way to do exactly what Frontier does. But until it…
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Manton: "The way I think about RSS.chat is that it’s a bootstrap for getting lots of RSS feeds to play well together, for both posts and replies. Can the web…
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I have Claude update me on all posts on both RSS.chat sites when we start for a day. I read them all when they're posted, but one was in German, which Claude…
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I see the new Game of Thrones series just completed it third season. I tried getting into it, and couldn't. But then I didn't get going in the original series…
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Anyway, one of those streaming services I get now is Paramount+ which is owned by the Ellisons, which I don't like, but they have a show that is really…
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I have Spectrum cable and they recently started unbundling the cable services they provide. So I have a bunch of streaming services that I never decided to…
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Working with Claude on the user interface of RSS.chat was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and…
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Here's the sign of success. (screen shot.) I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat was automatically cross-posted to Bluesky via micro.blog. Because the post has a…
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I want to connect RSS to AT Proto, both ways, inbound and out. Toward that end, today I helped Leaflet, a very nice editor for AT Proto, make their outbound…
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A conference of AI practitioners
On Facebook I wrote this in reply to a post by John Worthington, a former Quicktime developer at Apple. We're both using AI to build things based on our past…
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BTW, Jake Savin is using Claude to build Frontier on Node too. I asked Claude for help with this, and it turned out much better than I expected. I was not…
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I'm trying to move my whole programming act from Frontier on the Mac to Electric Drummer anywhere. I need to start using the new machines everywhere. I've…
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If Claude Code were a human working for me as a human would, it would be fired several times every day. It forgets orders you gave it two minutes ago. It's…
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Like a lot of other people, I want to know where Bluesky is headed, and I learned a lot about that in this podcast interview with Bluesky's new CEO, Toni…
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I've been on quest to see if we could bridge AT Proto and RSS. I love the brightly colored-editors that are popping up inside AT Proto Land, and I want them to…
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I asked Claude for a list of popular feed readers that hook into WebSub. Turns out it wasn't a simple answer.
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RSS.chat now supports WebSub. This means that posts on RSS.chat will appear instantly in compatible feed reader apps.
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We're still socialists
I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that the Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can't believe how stupid the…