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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/nellyBly.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Yesterday Ben Thompson <a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/the-end-of-the-internet/">wrote</a> that we've reached the end of the web, and I had come to the same conclusion, just a few days ago. And his piece, which was a great milestone, said it's not totally gone, because of the advent of AI we can build small systems for each other. Which is exactly the motivation of the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">BigUndo</a> model. What's big about it is how small the parts are and how nicely they fit together. We're not leaving everything behind in the great diaspora to the new web, we're not just bringing Markdown with us. It also echoes <a href="https://marco.org/2026/10/24/community">Marco Arment</a>, who wrote a similar piece about Mastodon a few days before. Nothing wrong with Mastodon, but the idea of one model of service doing the work for everyone is ridiculous. We need a million different approaches, all we need to make it work is a standard they can all agree on for what forms of text move around the net. Once we agree on a format, we all can use whatever editor we like, and no more <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a> that lock your ideas into Substack or X or whatever. That was the crime, that's what the BigUndo is all about undoing. The web said very clearly what text is, and they all broke it by doing it differently. We're bringing RSS 2.0 and Markdown with us, and they were <a href="https://source.scripting.com/markdown.opml">joined</a> a short time ago. Almost no one noticed, but there was design here, an intent -- a hope that we'd get to the place it appears we are now at.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>Yesterday Ben Thompson [wrote](https://stratechery.com/2026/the-end-of-the-internet/) that we've reached the end of the web, and I had come to the same conclusion, just a few days ago. And his piece, which was a great milestone, said it's not totally gone, because of the advent of AI we can build small systems for each other. Which is exactly the motivation of the [BigUndo](https://bigundo.org/) model. What's big about it is how small the parts are and how nicely they fit together. We're not leaving everything behind in the great diaspora to the new web, we're not just bringing Markdown with us. It also echoes [Marco Arment](https://marco.org/2026/10/24/community), who wrote a similar piece about Mastodon a few days before. Nothing wrong with Mastodon, but the idea of one model of service doing the work for everyone is ridiculous. We need a million different approaches, all we need to make it work is a standard they can all agree on for what forms of text move around the net. Once we agree on a format, we all can use whatever editor we like, and no more [tiny little text boxes](http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html) that lock your ideas into Substack or X or whatever. That was the crime, that's what the BigUndo is all about undoing. The web said very clearly what text is, and they all broke it by doing it differently. We're bringing RSS 2.0 and Markdown with us, and they were [joined](https://source.scripting.com/markdown.opml) a short time ago. Almost no one noticed, but there was design here, an intent -- a hope that we'd get to the place it appears we are now at.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Yesterday Ben Thompson <a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/the-end-of-the-internet/">wrote</a> that we've reached the end of the web, and I had come to the same conclusion, just a few days ago. And his piece, which was a great milestone, said it's not totally gone, because of the advent of AI we can build small systems for each other. Which is exactly the motivation of the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">BigUndo</a> model. What's big about it is how small the parts are and how nicely they fit together. We're not leaving everything behind in the great diaspora to the new web, we're not just bringing Markdown with us. It also echoes <a href="https://marco.org/2026/10/24/community">Marco Arment</a>, who wrote a similar piece about Mastodon a few days before. Nothing wrong with Mastodon, but the idea of one model of service doing the work for everyone is ridiculous. We need a million different approaches, all we need to make it work is a standard they can all agree on for what forms of text move around the net. Once we agree on a format, we all can use whatever editor we like, and no more <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a> that lock your ideas into Substack or X or whatever. That was the crime, that's what the BigUndo is all about undoing. The web said very clearly what text is, and they all broke it by doing it differently. We're bringing RSS 2.0 and Markdown with us, and they were <a href="https://source.scripting.com/markdown.opml">joined</a> a short time ago. Almost no one noticed, but there was design here, an intent -- a hope that we'd get to the place it appears we are now at." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:23:41 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/nellyBly.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a142341"/>
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<description><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten">Zettelkasten</a> is an idea <a href="http://scripting.com/2023/01/24/150122.html">pioneered</a> by my great-uncle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schmidt">Arno Schmidt</a>. It's a process for organizing your data and thoughts. When I read people's descriptions of what they do with it, it sounds totally like the outliners I pioneered two generations later. I have a Zettlekasten <a href="https://zettelkasten.de/posts/note-writing-deliberate-mind-training/">blog</a> in my blogroll, <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/zettleKasten.png">screenshot</a>, so I think of <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22arno%20schmidt%22">Uncle Arno</a>, who I never met, from time to time.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:18:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>[Zettelkasten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten) is an idea [pioneered](http://scripting.com/2023/01/24/150122.html) by my great-uncle [Arno Schmidt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schmidt). It's a process for organizing your data and thoughts. When I read people's descriptions of what they do with it, it sounds totally like the outliners I pioneered two generations later. I have a Zettlekasten [blog](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/note-writing-deliberate-mind-training/) in my blogroll, [screenshot](https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/zettleKasten.png), so I think of [Uncle Arno](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22arno%20schmidt%22), who I never met, from time to time.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten">Zettelkasten</a> is an idea <a href="http://scripting.com/2023/01/24/150122.html">pioneered</a> by my great-uncle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schmidt">Arno Schmidt</a>. It's a process for organizing your data and thoughts. When I read people's descriptions of what they do with it, it sounds totally like the outliners I pioneered two generations later. I have a Zettlekasten <a href="https://zettelkasten.de/posts/note-writing-deliberate-mind-training/">blog</a> in my blogroll, <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/zettleKasten.png">screenshot</a>, so I think of <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22arno%20schmidt%22">Uncle Arno</a>, who I never met, from time to time." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:18:56 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141856"/>
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<description>If Claude Code projects had feelings, I'd wake up the Frontier project and let it know that the reason it's been asleep so long is that the software is working. I'm using it to manage the other three apps, writing code, keeping lists, everything works. Yes, the menubar is very out of date, but I know where to find everything. I look forward to coming in for a landing at some point and upgrade it work among the different BigUndo stuff we have running, no doubt we're going to use Frontier to do cross-app scripting. Some of the things AI says they need to do, Frontier can do with the resources of an early 90s Macintosh. No big data centers. Keep that in mind.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>If Claude Code projects had feelings, I'd wake up the Frontier project and let it know that the reason it's been asleep so long is that the software is working. I'm using it to manage the other three apps, writing code, keeping lists, everything works. Yes, the menubar is very out of date, but I know where to find everything. I look forward to coming in for a landing at some point and upgrade it work among the different BigUndo stuff we have running, no doubt we're going to use Frontier to do cross-app scripting. Some of the things AI says they need to do, Frontier can do with the resources of an early 90s Macintosh. No big data centers. Keep that in mind.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="If Claude Code projects had feelings, I'd wake up the Frontier project and let it know that the reason it's been asleep so long is that the software is working. I'm using it to manage the other three apps, writing code, keeping lists, everything works. Yes, the menubar is very out of date, but I know where to find everything. I look forward to coming in for a landing at some point and upgrade it work among the different BigUndo stuff we have running, no doubt we're going to use Frontier to do cross-app scripting. Some of the things AI says they need to do, Frontier can do with the resources of an early 90s Macintosh. No big data centers. Keep that in mind." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:13:42 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141342"/>
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<description>I loved the term <a href="https://bigundo.org/">Big Undo</a> so much, of course I had to get the domain. I started putting up my usual placeholder site but realized I should do this page in Markdown, not HTML. It looks fabulous. Markdown is right. It's sobriety, go back to the beginning and put the potency in the ideas, give writers the space to write. Get the F out of my way with your freaky character limits. Anyway I'm full of manifesto these days. The money people strangled the web. I think it's time for the creative people to make it work for real.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:33:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>I loved the term [Big Undo](https://bigundo.org/) so much, of course I had to get the domain. I started putting up my usual placeholder site but realized I should do this page in Markdown, not HTML. It looks fabulous. Markdown is right. It's sobriety, go back to the beginning and put the potency in the ideas, give writers the space to write. Get the F out of my way with your freaky character limits. Anyway I'm full of manifesto these days. The money people strangled the web. I think it's time for the creative people to make it work for real.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I loved the term <a href="https://bigundo.org/">Big Undo</a> so much, of course I had to get the domain. I started putting up my usual placeholder site but realized I should do this page in Markdown, not HTML. It looks fabulous. Markdown is right. It's sobriety, go back to the beginning and put the potency in the ideas, give writers the space to write. Get the F out of my way with your freaky character limits. Anyway I'm full of manifesto these days. The money people strangled the web. I think it's time for the creative people to make it work for real." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:33:27 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a003327"/>
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<description>I've never had a web browser that worked remotely like I wanted it to. But that might change soon. Big things are possible now. I have a bunch of projects that I'm working on with Claude and going back and forth between them. And they're even starting to communicate with each other, at my behest of course. It's an interesting time for people to realize that the web was much more powerful before all the big tech companies had their way with it. It makes about as much sense as the various big plans they all came up with that made the web necessary in the first place.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:14:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>I've never had a web browser that worked remotely like I wanted it to. But that might change soon. Big things are possible now. I have a bunch of projects that I'm working on with Claude and going back and forth between them. And they're even starting to communicate with each other, at my behest of course. It's an interesting time for people to realize that the web was much more powerful before all the big tech companies had their way with it. It makes about as much sense as the various big plans they all came up with that made the web necessary in the first place.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I've never had a web browser that worked remotely like I wanted it to. But that might change soon. Big things are possible now. I have a bunch of projects that I'm working on with Claude and going back and forth between them. And they're even starting to communicate with each other, at my behest of course. It's an interesting time for people to realize that the web was much more powerful before all the big tech companies had their way with it. It makes about as much sense as the various big plans they all came up with that made the web necessary in the first place." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:14:33 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a151433"/>
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<title>The Big Undo</title>
<description><p>I remember how revolutionary the first web was, but then a series of tech companies took it over and “had their way” with it. </p> <p>The first was Netscape and they added JavaScript to steal the thunder from “Sun” (a long story). </p> <p>Then Microsoft crushed Netscape by cutting off their air supply, and they piled up all kinds of nasty insecure features with predictable results, they made the web a paradise of viruses, making it largely unusable until Firefox replaced Microsoft, and their web was nicer, and smaller and they left out the viruses. </p> <p>Google came along and quickly replaced it with Chrome and all was good for a while, until they decided it was just another corporate platform like Android and threw out all the early sites, so boring, they couldn’t make billions of dollars, and now what used to be the web is all but gone.</p> <p>What’s next? It’s time for The Big Undo. 😀</p> <p><i>The Big Undo</i> came to me while I was writing my new profile on Twitter. It immediately reminded me of three things. </p> <ol> <li>Karl Anthony Towns, Knicks all-star and world champion center, is called Big Bodega. </li> <li>It sounds like a title of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis">Michael Lewis</a> book, like The Big Short.</li> <li>And for some reason Queen Latifah singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Fz-_lkWzM">When You're Good to Mama</a> in Chicago. </li> </ol> <p>And of course I bought the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">domain</a>. </p> </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:37:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>I remember how revolutionary the first web was, but then a series of tech companies took it over and “had their way” with it. The first was Netscape and they added JavaScript to steal the thunder from “Sun” (a long story). Then Microsoft crushed Netscape by cutting off their air supply, and they piled up all kinds of nasty insecure features with predictable results, they made the web a paradise of viruses, making it largely unusable until Firefox replaced Microsoft, and their web was nicer, and smaller and they left out the viruses. Google came along and quickly replaced it with Chrome and all was good for a while, until they decided it was just another corporate platform like Android and threw out all the early sites, so boring, they couldn’t make billions of dollars, and now what used to be the web is all but gone. What’s next? It’s time for The Big Undo. 😀 _The Big Undo_ came to me while I was writing my new profile on Twitter. It immediately reminded me of three things. 1. Karl Anthony Towns, Knicks all-star and world champion center, is called Big Bodega. 2. It sounds like a title of a [Michael Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis) book, like The Big Short. 3. And for some reason Queen Latifah singing [When You're Good to Mama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Fz-_lkWzM) in Chicago. And of course I bought the [domain](https://bigundo.org/).</source:markdown>
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<source:outline text="I remember how revolutionary the first web was, but then a series of tech companies took it over and “had their way” with it." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:38:44 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a233844"/>
<source:outline text="The first was Netscape and they added JavaScript to steal the thunder from “Sun” (a long story)." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Then Microsoft crushed Netscape by cutting off their air supply, and they piled up all kinds of nasty insecure features with predictable results, they made the web a paradise of viruses, making it largely unusable until Firefox replaced Microsoft, and their web was nicer, and smaller and they left out the viruses." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="Google came along and quickly replaced it with Chrome and all was good for a while, until they decided it was just another corporate platform like Android and threw out all the early sites, so boring, they couldn’t make billions of dollars, and now what used to be the web is all but gone." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:39:41 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a233941"/>
<source:outline text="What’s next? It’s time for The Big Undo. 😀" created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:40:19 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234019"/>
<source:outline text="<i>The Big Undo</i> came to me while I was writing my new profile on Twitter. It immediately reminded me of three things." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:40:51 GMT" flNumberedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234051">
<source:outline text="Karl Anthony Towns, Knicks all-star and world champion center, is called Big Bodega." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:41:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234101"/>
<source:outline text="It sounds like a title of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis">Michael Lewis</a> book, like The Big Short." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:41:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234101"/>
<source:outline text="And for some reason Queen Latifah singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Fz-_lkWzM">When You're Good to Mama</a> in Chicago." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:43:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234321"/>
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<source:outline text="And of course I bought the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">domain</a>." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:38:50 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a233850"/>
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<description>Changed <a href="https://x.com/davewiner">my bio</a> on Twitter: "I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo."</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:39:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>Changed [my bio](https://x.com/davewiner) on Twitter: "I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo."</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Changed <a href="https://x.com/davewiner">my bio</a> on Twitter: "I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo."" created="Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:39:24 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a163924"/>
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<description>Obama is doing the old Obama campaign schtick and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over. My favorite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclN6UnicMg">Obama clip</a> is him wiping the schmutz off his shoulder, I forget who he was putting down, but wow it so concise. I also really liked the time when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJeptnpNWU">HRC flirted</a> with him about her likeability. "You're likeable enough," he said. Trump gets the votes not necessarily because people are what people call them, he is a comedian, I say this so many times, that's the charm. Young folk may not remember Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, but that's Trump, and the other two probably had a sweet side, but I don't think that's ever been said about Trump. I could be wrong. There's also a bit of George Carlin in there.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:23:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>Obama is doing the old Obama campaign schtick and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over. My favorite [Obama clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclN6UnicMg) is him wiping the schmutz off his shoulder, I forget who he was putting down, but wow it so concise. I also really liked the time when [HRC flirted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJeptnpNWU) with him about her likeability. "You're likeable enough," he said. Trump gets the votes not necessarily because people are what people call them, he is a comedian, I say this so many times, that's the charm. Young folk may not remember Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, but that's Trump, and the other two probably had a sweet side, but I don't think that's ever been said about Trump. I could be wrong. There's also a bit of George Carlin in there.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Obama is doing the old Obama campaign schtick and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over. My favorite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclN6UnicMg">Obama clip</a> is him wiping the schmutz off his shoulder, I forget who he was putting down, but wow it so concise. I also really liked the time when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJeptnpNWU">HRC flirted</a> with him about her likeability. "You're likeable enough," he said. Trump gets the votes not necessarily because people are what people call them, he is a comedian, I say this so many times, that's the charm. Young folk may not remember Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, but that's Trump, and the other two probably had a sweet side, but I don't think that's ever been said about Trump. I could be wrong. There's also a bit of George Carlin in there." created="Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:23:53 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a162353"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/07/02/knicks.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZjTf0CEfN2/">relish</a> the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJjecJnuI">video</a> for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they <i>were</i> not who they are now.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:22:48 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a152248</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a152248</guid>
<source:markdown>Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will [relish](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZjTf0CEfN2/) the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJjecJnuI) for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they _were_ not who they are now.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZjTf0CEfN2/">relish</a> the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJjecJnuI">video</a> for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they <i>were</i> not who they are now." created="Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:22:48 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/07/02/knicks.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a152248"/>
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<description>Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is <a href="https://github.com/rsscloud/socketsub/blob/main/README.md">creating a connection</a> from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I've wanted this for a long time, but now I'm planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:16:28 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a151628</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a151628</guid>
<source:markdown>Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is [creating a connection](https://github.com/rsscloud/socketsub/blob/main/README.md) from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I've wanted this for a long time, but now I'm planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is <a href="https://github.com/rsscloud/socketsub/blob/main/README.md">creating a connection</a> from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I've wanted this for a long time, but now I'm planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to." created="Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:16:28 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a151628"/>
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<description>One of the reasons I'm working on the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Web of Markdown</a> is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">web religion</a> is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules."</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:57:17 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a145717</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a145717</guid>
<source:markdown>One of the reasons I'm working on the [Web of Markdown](http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=webOfMarkdown) is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the [web religion](https://this.how/googleAndHttp/) is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules."</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="One of the reasons I'm working on the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Web of Markdown</a> is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">web religion</a> is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules."" created="Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:57:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a145717"/>
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<description>A blog <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive/2017/06/03/141214.md">post</a> from Scripting, in Markdown.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:20:06 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23.html#a222006</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23.html#a222006</guid>
<source:markdown>A blog [post](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive/2017/06/03/141214.md) from Scripting, in Markdown.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="A blog <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive/2017/06/03/141214.md">post</a> from Scripting, in Markdown." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:20:06 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23.html#a222006"/>
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<title>The web of Markdown, part 3</title>
<description><p>Previous posts on this topic: <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Oct 6</a> and <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">Oct 8</a>.</p> <p>What's new? I've got a browser running, and have been using it for a few weeks. We're not releasing it today because first I want people to think about the format we're using to represent a story, and get feedback, and see if other people can build on the same basis. </p> <p>Three things to look at today.</p> <ul> <li>The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/readme.md">top level</a> picture. </li> <li><a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/readme.md">Nine examples</a>.</li> <li>Download the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive.zip">archive</a>. (Chrome will complain about this link not being "secure," but the archive comes from GitHub, so it's plenty secure -- they must be on a campaign to give sites like mine a black eye. I wouldn't put a link to a download that wasn't from a reputable site. People who read my blog know that, why doesn't Google with all their fancy AI servers? Feh.)</li> </ul> <p>And if you have questions or comments.</p> <ul> <li>Use the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/issues/1">Issues section</a> in the repo.</li> </ul> </description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:19:45 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=theWebOfMarkdownPart3</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html</guid>
<source:markdown>Previous posts on this topic: [Oct 6](http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=webOfMarkdown) and [Oct 8](http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html). What's new? I've got a browser running, and have been using it for a few weeks. We're not releasing it today because first I want people to think about the format we're using to represent a story, and get feedback, and see if other people can build on the same basis. Three things to look at today. * The [top level](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/readme.md) picture. * [Nine examples](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/readme.md). * Download the [archive](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive.zip). (Chrome will complain about this link not being "secure," but the archive comes from GitHub, so it's plenty secure -- they must be on a campaign to give sites like mine a black eye. I wouldn't put a link to a download that wasn't from a reputable site. People who read my blog know that, why doesn't Google with all their fancy AI servers? Feh.) And if you have questions or comments. * Use the [Issues section](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/issues/1) in the repo.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="The web of Markdown, part 3" created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:19:45 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html">
<source:outline text="Previous posts on this topic: <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Oct 6</a> and <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">Oct 8</a>." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:04:31 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a150431"/>
<source:outline text="What's new? I've got a browser running, and have been using it for a few weeks. We're not releasing it today because first I want people to think about the format we're using to represent a story, and get feedback, and see if other people can build on the same basis." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:06:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a150629"/>
<source:outline text="Three things to look at today." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:10:46 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151046">
<source:outline text="The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/readme.md">top level</a> picture." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:10:51 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151051"/>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/readme.md">Nine examples</a>." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151101"/>
<source:outline text="Download the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive.zip">archive</a>. (Chrome will complain about this link not being "secure," but the archive comes from GitHub, so it's plenty secure -- they must be on a campaign to give sites like mine a black eye. I wouldn't put a link to a download that wasn't from a reputable site. People who read my blog know that, why doesn't Google with all their fancy AI servers? Feh.)" created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:06 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151106"/>
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<source:outline text="And if you have questions or comments." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:17 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151117">
<source:outline text="Use the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/issues/1">Issues section</a> in the repo." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:23 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151123"/>
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<description>I hope to see the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">The Web of Markdown</a> idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. <i>Still diggin!</i></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:00:31 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a160031</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a160031</guid>
<source:markdown>I hope to see the [The Web of Markdown](http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html) idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. _Still diggin!_</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I hope to see the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">The Web of Markdown</a> idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. <i>Still diggin!</i>" created="Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:00:31 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a160031"/>
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<description>Ooops, didn't get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. :-)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:58:19 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a235819</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a235819</guid>
<source:markdown>Ooops, didn't get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. :-)</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Ooops, didn't get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. :-)" created="Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:58:19 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a235819"/>
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<description>Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:44:32 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/21.html#a234432</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/21.html#a234432</guid>
<source:markdown>Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow." created="Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:44:32 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/21.html#a234432"/>
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<description><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRvJLH_-vU">Today's song</a>, for the Knicks. "And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again." <i>Knicks in 5! </i></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:47:22 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a124722</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a124722</guid>
<source:markdown>[Today's song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRvJLH_-vU), for the Knicks. "And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again." _Knicks in 5!_</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRvJLH_-vU">Today's song</a>, for the Knicks. "And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again." <i>Knicks in 5! </i>" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:47:22 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a124722"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/20/guyKawasakiHeadShot.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">My friend <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-saying-that-a-players-hire-a">Guy Kawasaki</a> has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. "Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies." You see this over and over among the very rich in tech. The money is supposed to make them invincible, but they don't hire the best people, I guess, for fear of being found out to not be the genius that the money says they are.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:12:41 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a121241</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a121241</guid>
<source:markdown>My friend [Guy Kawasaki](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-saying-that-a-players-hire-a) has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. "Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies." You see this over and over among the very rich in tech. The money is supposed to make them invincible, but they don't hire the best people, I guess, for fear of being found out to not be the genius that the money says they are.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="My friend <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-saying-that-a-players-hire-a">Guy Kawasaki</a> has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. "Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies." You see this over and over among the very rich in tech. The money is supposed to make them invincible, but they don't hire the best people, I guess, for fear of being found out to not be the genius that the money says they are." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:12:41 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/20/guyKawasakiHeadShot.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a121241"/>
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<description>I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight's game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic Division teams who are gunning for the champion Knicks. But after the first jump ball in tonight's game the score is zero-zero, everyone is in first place and everyone is in last place. No one expected the Knicks to win, not even a die-hard fan like myself who often wore a <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/01/20/170415.html">paper bag</a> on his head to avoid having to defend the bozosity of the hometown team. They had some truly awful teams since 1999, last time they were in the finals. So what happened to the Knicks? How did they do it? See the quote from Guy Kawaski above. We hired an A team guy in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rose">Leon Rose</a>, and he used his great insight into the sport of NBA basketball to assemble a team of second round but A team players who had the special magic that when you put them together on court, they blossomed into the most improbable winners ever. They were good, but no one but the players and the management knew how good they could be. Anyway I empathized with my Spurs fan friend, a very unusual thing for a NY sports fan, we prefer to find annoying ways of making fun of the fans of teams we have <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vanquished">vanquished</a>, but just this one time, well until the jump ball tonight, then Knicks own the NBA, then they're just another team who have to prove themselves all over again, from scratch. And we wouldn't have it any other way. <i>Knicks in 5!</i></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:26:02 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a122602</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a122602</guid>
<source:markdown>I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight's game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic Division teams who are gunning for the champion Knicks. But after the first jump ball in tonight's game the score is zero-zero, everyone is in first place and everyone is in last place. No one expected the Knicks to win, not even a die-hard fan like myself who often wore a [paper bag](http://scripting.com/2026/01/20/170415.html) on his head to avoid having to defend the bozosity of the hometown team. They had some truly awful teams since 1999, last time they were in the finals. So what happened to the Knicks? How did they do it? See the quote from Guy Kawaski above. We hired an A team guy in [Leon Rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rose), and he used his great insight into the sport of NBA basketball to assemble a team of second round but A team players who had the special magic that when you put them together on court, they blossomed into the most improbable winners ever. They were good, but no one but the players and the management knew how good they could be. Anyway I empathized with my Spurs fan friend, a very unusual thing for a NY sports fan, we prefer to find annoying ways of making fun of the fans of teams we have [vanquished](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vanquished), but just this one time, well until the jump ball tonight, then Knicks own the NBA, then they're just another team who have to prove themselves all over again, from scratch. And we wouldn't have it any other way. _Knicks in 5!_</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight's game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic Division teams who are gunning for the champion Knicks. But after the first jump ball in tonight's game the score is zero-zero, everyone is in first place and everyone is in last place. No one expected the Knicks to win, not even a die-hard fan like myself who often wore a <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/01/20/170415.html">paper bag</a> on his head to avoid having to defend the bozosity of the hometown team. They had some truly awful teams since 1999, last time they were in the finals. So what happened to the Knicks? How did they do it? See the quote from Guy Kawaski above. We hired an A team guy in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rose">Leon Rose</a>, and he used his great insight into the sport of NBA basketball to assemble a team of second round but A team players who had the special magic that when you put them together on court, they blossomed into the most improbable winners ever. They were good, but no one but the players and the management knew how good they could be. Anyway I empathized with my Spurs fan friend, a very unusual thing for a NY sports fan, we prefer to find annoying ways of making fun of the fans of teams we have <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vanquished">vanquished</a>, but just this one time, well until the jump ball tonight, then Knicks own the NBA, then they're just another team who have to prove themselves all over again, from scratch. And we wouldn't have it any other way. <i>Knicks in 5!</i>" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:26:02 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a122602"/>
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<title>We do know what's going on</title>
<description><p><a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22occam%27s%20news%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. </p> <p>Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. </p> <p>That's all that's going on there. </p> <p>All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. </p> <p>In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</p> </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:14 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html?title=weDoKnowWhatsGoingOn</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html</guid>
<source:markdown>[Occam's News](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22occam%27s%20news%22) reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="We do know what's going on" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:14 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html">
<source:outline text="<a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22occam%27s%20news%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#a125121"/>
<source:outline text="Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:38:22 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#a213822"/>
<source:outline text="That's all that's going on there." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/>
<source:outline text="In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:59 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#a125159"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/10/andNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/03/13/132830.html">writer's web</a>. The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:45:39 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a004539</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a004539</guid>
<source:markdown>Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a [writer's web](http://scripting.com/2025/03/13/132830.html). The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity [text](https://textcasting.org/). Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/03/13/132830.html">writer's web</a>. The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:45:39 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/10/andNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a004539"/>
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<description>I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:51:44 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a135144</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a135144</guid>
<source:markdown>I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year." created="Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:51:44 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a135144"/>
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<description>Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:38:52 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a003852</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a003852</guid>
<source:markdown>Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:38:52 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a003852"/>
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<description>About <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT">XSLT</a> -- I remembered that I <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xslt">thought</a> it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:55:02 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a005502</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a005502</guid>
<source:markdown>About [XSLT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT) -- I remembered that I [thought](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xslt) it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="About <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT">XSLT</a> -- I remembered that I <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xslt">thought</a> it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:55:02 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a005502"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/18/samwellTarly.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I wrote a piece entitled <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html">The Web of Markdown</a> on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:55:32 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a155532</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a155532</guid>
<source:markdown>I wrote a piece entitled [The Web of Markdown](http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html) on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I wrote a piece entitled <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html">The Web of Markdown</a> on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:55:32 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/18/samwellTarly.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a155532"/>
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<description>Anyway, what this means is we're building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you're reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably be joining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch">Night's Watch</a>. We have work to do and it might be related to what the Other Web wants to do, but it probably (hopefully) doesn't. I will continue to publish in HTML, and it's up to Google and the EFF if the quality of my writing is suitable for their web. I have no say in it, they have not shown up to negotiate or even discuss. They are silent. Somewhat like the maesters of the Citadel? There must be a bigger plan! :-)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:12:48 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a161248</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a161248</guid>
<source:markdown>Anyway, what this means is we're building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you're reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably be joining the [Night's Watch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch). We have work to do and it might be related to what the Other Web wants to do, but it probably (hopefully) doesn't. I will continue to publish in HTML, and it's up to Google and the EFF if the quality of my writing is suitable for their web. I have no say in it, they have not shown up to negotiate or even discuss. They are silent. Somewhat like the maesters of the Citadel? There must be a bigger plan! :-)</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Anyway, what this means is we're building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you're reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably be joining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch">Night's Watch</a>. We have work to do and it might be related to what the Other Web wants to do, but it probably (hopefully) doesn't. I will continue to publish in HTML, and it's up to Google and the EFF if the quality of my writing is suitable for their web. I have no say in it, they have not shown up to negotiate or even discuss. They are silent. Somewhat like the maesters of the Citadel? There must be a bigger plan! :-)" created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:12:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a161248"/>
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<title>Health care is phone tag in US</title>
<description><p>The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients. </p> <p>Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients. </p> <p>They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag. </p> <p>I don't know if it's this way in other countries, but it is universally a phone-voice-based comm system in the US.</p> </description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:23 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html?title=healthCareIsPhoneTagInUs</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html</guid>
<source:markdown>The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients. Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients. They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag. I don't know if it's this way in other countries, but it is universally a phone-voice-based comm system in the US.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Health care is phone tag in US" created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:23 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html">
<source:outline text="The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:37 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204137"/>
<source:outline text="Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:55 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204155"/>
<source:outline text="They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:42:25 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204225"/>
<source:outline text="I don't know if it's this way in other countries, but it is universally a phone-voice-based comm system in the US." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:42:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204229"/>
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<description>Try going to <a href="http://web.org/">web.org</a> in a recent version of Chrome.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:13:14 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a171314</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a171314</guid>
<source:markdown>Try going to [web.org](http://web.org/) in a recent version of Chrome.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Try going to <a href="http://web.org/">web.org</a> in a recent version of Chrome." created="Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:13:14 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a171314"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/17/emilyDickinson.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed -- and they also called it the web. The confusion -- you could read it in a web browser, but that didn't make it <i>of</i> the web. My regret, looking back, is I tried to make software in the VC-web. Never got traction, anywhere. My heart, mind and home was always in the first web. And I think what we're coming to terms with now is that has been languishing for 20+ years, it didn't realize its promise, lots of interesting stuff to read that stimulated more thought and thus writing. We should be way ahead of where we are. Because writing has become something for the elite (Substack) to speak through, and limited to grunts and snorts, "social media," for the rest of us. They basically recreated the publishing environment the web was meant to route around. What a story. Can the web reboot? Same old thing, if you want it badly enough, it might be possible.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:48:51 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a144851</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a144851</guid>
<source:markdown>Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed -- and they also called it the web. The confusion -- you could read it in a web browser, but that didn't make it _of_ the web. My regret, looking back, is I tried to make software in the VC-web. Never got traction, anywhere. My heart, mind and home was always in the first web. And I think what we're coming to terms with now is that has been languishing for 20+ years, it didn't realize its promise, lots of interesting stuff to read that stimulated more thought and thus writing. We should be way ahead of where we are. Because writing has become something for the elite (Substack) to speak through, and limited to grunts and snorts, "social media," for the rest of us. They basically recreated the publishing environment the web was meant to route around. What a story. Can the web reboot? Same old thing, if you want it badly enough, it might be possible.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed -- and they also called it the web. The confusion -- you could read it in a web browser, but that didn't make it <i>of</i> the web. My regret, looking back, is I tried to make software in the VC-web. Never got traction, anywhere. My heart, mind and home was always in the first web. And I think what we're coming to terms with now is that has been languishing for 20+ years, it didn't realize its promise, lots of interesting stuff to read that stimulated more thought and thus writing. We should be way ahead of where we are. Because writing has become something for the elite (Substack) to speak through, and limited to grunts and snorts, "social media," for the rest of us. They basically recreated the publishing environment the web was meant to route around. What a story. Can the web reboot? Same old thing, if you want it badly enough, it might be possible." created="Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:48:51 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/17/emilyDickinson.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a144851"/>
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<description>I didn't notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of it came from the power we gave them by making everyone's voice supposedly equal. Of course they weren't all equal. Power has to be a function of your contribution. And as it says in <a href="https://this.how/standards/#1497798790000">Rules</a>, power comes from users of your product. If being compatible with you means I have access to more users, then I will listen. I will also listen if you remain respectful -- and don't presume to give me an order. Someone just did that today, and it froze me, then I re-read the message and it was an order, and not nicely phrased, condescending, presumptive, and very wrong. I started writing a reply, even posted one, then realized what was going on, and deleted my reply and blocked the person.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:50:55 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a155055</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a155055</guid>
<source:markdown>I didn't notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of it came from the power we gave them by making everyone's voice supposedly equal. Of course they weren't all equal. Power has to be a function of your contribution. And as it says in [Rules](https://this.how/standards/#1497798790000), power comes from users of your product. If being compatible with you means I have access to more users, then I will listen. I will also listen if you remain respectful -- and don't presume to give me an order. Someone just did that today, and it froze me, then I re-read the message and it was an order, and not nicely phrased, condescending, presumptive, and very wrong. I started writing a reply, even posted one, then realized what was going on, and deleted my reply and blocked the person.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I didn't notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of it came from the power we gave them by making everyone's voice supposedly equal. Of course they weren't all equal. Power has to be a function of your contribution. And as it says in <a href="https://this.how/standards/#1497798790000">Rules</a>, power comes from users of your product. If being compatible with you means I have access to more users, then I will listen. I will also listen if you remain respectful -- and don't presume to give me an order. Someone just did that today, and it froze me, then I re-read the message and it was an order, and not nicely phrased, condescending, presumptive, and very wrong. I started writing a reply, even posted one, then realized what was going on, and deleted my reply and blocked the person." created="Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:50:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a155055"/>
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<description>Tried a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/podcasts/the-best-soundbars.html">Wirecutter podcast</a> about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was also quickly giggling after a giggle-worthy intro, I guess to try to make what they're saying more interesting but he was just agreeing with them about how they don't know anything. I waited and waited for them to get to something new, some new development I might learn about or something I had been doing wrong, but I gave up after five minutes or so, while I was skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time. It would be much better to err on the side of assuming your listeners know a bit about consumer electronics, these are not actually very exotic things. The NYT does this with their podcasts, I'm rarely willing to risk any time on them, they always end up with giggling people some of whom probably know something I want to learn about but they fill the time with giggles about how stupid the other people are. The seem to be quite proud of their ignorance. (Could have read the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundbar">Wikipedia page</a> on soundbars so they aren't quite so ignorant, is this a way to make their ignorant listenters more comfortable, yeah probably.)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:26:44 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a182644</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a182644</guid>
<source:markdown>Tried a [Wirecutter podcast](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/podcasts/the-best-soundbars.html) about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was also quickly giggling after a giggle-worthy intro, I guess to try to make what they're saying more interesting but he was just agreeing with them about how they don't know anything. I waited and waited for them to get to something new, some new development I might learn about or something I had been doing wrong, but I gave up after five minutes or so, while I was skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time. It would be much better to err on the side of assuming your listeners know a bit about consumer electronics, these are not actually very exotic things. The NYT does this with their podcasts, I'm rarely willing to risk any time on them, they always end up with giggling people some of whom probably know something I want to learn about but they fill the time with giggles about how stupid the other people are. The seem to be quite proud of their ignorance. (Could have read the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundbar) on soundbars so they aren't quite so ignorant, is this a way to make their ignorant listenters more comfortable, yeah probably.)</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Tried a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/podcasts/the-best-soundbars.html">Wirecutter podcast</a> about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was also quickly giggling after a giggle-worthy intro, I guess to try to make what they're saying more interesting but he was just agreeing with them about how they don't know anything. I waited and waited for them to get to something new, some new development I might learn about or something I had been doing wrong, but I gave up after five minutes or so, while I was skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time. It would be much better to err on the side of assuming your listeners know a bit about consumer electronics, these are not actually very exotic things. The NYT does this with their podcasts, I'm rarely willing to risk any time on them, they always end up with giggling people some of whom probably know something I want to learn about but they fill the time with giggles about how stupid the other people are. The seem to be quite proud of their ignorance. (Could have read the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundbar">Wikipedia page</a> on soundbars so they aren't quite so ignorant, is this a way to make their ignorant listenters more comfortable, yeah probably.)" created="Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:26:44 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a182644"/>
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<description><a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Worth repeating</a>: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:50:51 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a145051</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a145051</guid>
<source:markdown>[Worth repeating](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065): Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Worth repeating</a>: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs." created="Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:50:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a145051"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/09/12/plato.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Reminder, <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Atlantis">Atlantis</a> is the codename for the new Frontier that runs in Electron. As I work on other projects now, it's not on my front burner, but in a way it is, because I'm using it constantly as I work on FeedLand and the other project. We just released a new set of parts that make it possible for it to open a Markdown file for reading when you 2-click on it in the Finder. Things like that are great to add, because they fit into the 2026 web environment. How did I discover that? Accidentally 2-clicked on a .md file, expecting Atlantis to open it, and it just sat there. Filling in things like that. And for some reason it can't get the find command ported from the C kernel to the new JavaScript one. I have told it countless times that the source of truth is the 2014 repo. I told it again. A neat way to follow this project is to subscribe to the <a href="https://bits.codecasting.org/frontier.root/rss.xml">codecasting feed</a>, the comment for each new part release gives you an idea where some of the work is going on.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:51:49 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a135149</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a135149</guid>
<source:markdown>Reminder, [Atlantis](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Atlantis) is the codename for the new Frontier that runs in Electron. As I work on other projects now, it's not on my front burner, but in a way it is, because I'm using it constantly as I work on FeedLand and the other project. We just released a new set of parts that make it possible for it to open a Markdown file for reading when you 2-click on it in the Finder. Things like that are great to add, because they fit into the 2026 web environment. How did I discover that? Accidentally 2-clicked on a .md file, expecting Atlantis to open it, and it just sat there. Filling in things like that. And for some reason it can't get the find command ported from the C kernel to the new JavaScript one. I have told it countless times that the source of truth is the 2014 repo. I told it again. A neat way to follow this project is to subscribe to the [codecasting feed](https://bits.codecasting.org/frontier.root/rss.xml), the comment for each new part release gives you an idea where some of the work is going on.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Reminder, <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Atlantis">Atlantis</a> is the codename for the new Frontier that runs in Electron. As I work on other projects now, it's not on my front burner, but in a way it is, because I'm using it constantly as I work on FeedLand and the other project. We just released a new set of parts that make it possible for it to open a Markdown file for reading when you 2-click on it in the Finder. Things like that are great to add, because they fit into the 2026 web environment. How did I discover that? Accidentally 2-clicked on a .md file, expecting Atlantis to open it, and it just sat there. Filling in things like that. And for some reason it can't get the find command ported from the C kernel to the new JavaScript one. I have told it countless times that the source of truth is the 2014 repo. I told it again. A neat way to follow this project is to subscribe to the <a href="https://bits.codecasting.org/frontier.root/rss.xml">codecasting feed</a>, the comment for each new part release gives you an idea where some of the work is going on." created="Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:51:49 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/09/12/plato.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a135149"/>
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<description>Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com <a href="http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/18/continuingWithCodecasting.html">blog post</a> from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/15/googleDefamesScriptingCom.png">look</a> for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is <i>easy</i> to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a140802</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a140802</guid>
<source:markdown>Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com [blog post](http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/18/continuingWithCodecasting.html) from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good [look](https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/15/googleDefamesScriptingCom.png) for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is _easy_ to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com <a href="http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/18/continuingWithCodecasting.html">blog post</a> from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/15/googleDefamesScriptingCom.png">look</a> for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is <i>easy</i> to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)" created="Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:08:02 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a140802"/>
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<description><a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2110362631538085958">Thread</a>: "Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles."</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:22:47 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192247</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192247</guid>
<source:markdown>[Thread](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2110362631538085958): "Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles."</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2110362631538085958">Thread</a>: "Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles."" created="Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:22:47 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192247"/>
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<description><a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Occam%27s%20News%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:18:51 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a191851</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a191851</guid>
<source:markdown>[Occam's News](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Occam%27s%20News%22) reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Occam%27s%20News%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time." created="Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:18:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a191851"/>
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<description>Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:21:32 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192132</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192132</guid>
<source:markdown>Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing." created="Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:21:32 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192132"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/13/reallySimpleCandy.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I'm a recent convert to new versions of the MacOS, last version I was using was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_High_Sierra">High Sierra</a>. In this version, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Tahoe">Tahoe</a>, it's entirely too easy to make a window go full screen with no obvious keystroke to undo the mistake. I learned if you move the mouse up to the top of the screen you get the menubar, but unfortunately there is no obvious command in the menu for undoing the mistake. I still don't know which gesture does this. And btw, the longtime Mac bug where some keystroke moves the dock to another window, that's still here. I can tell as I'm clicking the mouse, too late to stop, that this is one of those times. I've memorized a finger macro to get it back, but it used to piss me off a lot, but now it's kind of a gentle reassurance that someone is remembering how we got here.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:13:46 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a131346</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a131346</guid>
<source:markdown>I'm a recent convert to new versions of the MacOS, last version I was using was [High Sierra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_High_Sierra). In this version, [Tahoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Tahoe), it's entirely too easy to make a window go full screen with no obvious keystroke to undo the mistake. I learned if you move the mouse up to the top of the screen you get the menubar, but unfortunately there is no obvious command in the menu for undoing the mistake. I still don't know which gesture does this. And btw, the longtime Mac bug where some keystroke moves the dock to another window, that's still here. I can tell as I'm clicking the mouse, too late to stop, that this is one of those times. I've memorized a finger macro to get it back, but it used to piss me off a lot, but now it's kind of a gentle reassurance that someone is remembering how we got here.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I'm a recent convert to new versions of the MacOS, last version I was using was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_High_Sierra">High Sierra</a>. In this version, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Tahoe">Tahoe</a>, it's entirely too easy to make a window go full screen with no obvious keystroke to undo the mistake. I learned if you move the mouse up to the top of the screen you get the menubar, but unfortunately there is no obvious command in the menu for undoing the mistake. I still don't know which gesture does this. And btw, the longtime Mac bug where some keystroke moves the dock to another window, that's still here. I can tell as I'm clicking the mouse, too late to stop, that this is one of those times. I've memorized a finger macro to get it back, but it used to piss me off a lot, but now it's kind of a gentle reassurance that someone is remembering how we got here." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:13:46 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/13/reallySimpleCandy.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a131346"/>
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<description><a href="https://gist.github.com/scripting/5e9a9a1d79f13176f8b6b11dd3da6cbf">firstSentence</a>, a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:24:34 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a152434</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a152434</guid>
<source:markdown>[firstSentence](https://gist.github.com/scripting/5e9a9a1d79f13176f8b6b11dd3da6cbf), a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://gist.github.com/scripting/5e9a9a1d79f13176f8b6b11dd3da6cbf">firstSentence</a>, a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:24:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a152434"/>
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<title>The web of hairballs</title>
<description><p>The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball.</p> <p>The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic. </p> <p>Each in turn has <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20one%27s%20way%20with">had their way</a> with the web. </p> <p>The stack of hair defines a "web" that is far far away from the <a href="https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html">web</a> we started with. </p> <p>The tech industry kicked the web out of the web. </p> <p>It was going pretty good for a while, if you could live with the all the modal <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover">popovers</a> and paywalls, but now the current owners are <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">excluding</a> old sites, and imho when you do that, it's not the web any longer. </p> </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:20 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html?title=theWebOfHairballs</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html</guid>
<source:markdown>The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball. The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic. Each in turn has [had their way](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20one%27s%20way%20with) with the web. The stack of hair defines a "web" that is far far away from the [web](https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html) we started with. The tech industry kicked the web out of the web. It was going pretty good for a while, if you could live with the all the modal [popovers](https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover) and paywalls, but now the current owners are [excluding](https://this.how/googleAndHttp/) old sites, and imho when you do that, it's not the web any longer.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="The web of hairballs" created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:20 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html">
<source:outline text="The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:27 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153327"/>
<source:outline text="The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:44 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153344"/>
<source:outline text="Each in turn has <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20one%27s%20way%20with">had their way</a> with the web." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:39:36 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153936"/>
<source:outline text="The stack of hair defines a "web" that is far far away from the <a href="https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html">web</a> we started with." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:34:41 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153441"/>
<source:outline text="The tech industry kicked the web out of the web." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:55:20 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a155520"/>
<source:outline text="It was going pretty good for a while, if you could live with the all the modal <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover">popovers</a> and paywalls, but now the current owners are <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">excluding</a> old sites, and imho when you do that, it's not the web any longer." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:34:42 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153442"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/03/26/reallySimpleNetwork.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;"><a href="https://x.com/gruber/status/2109418123548074082">Gruber is right</a>. The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They're acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren't doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn't. It killed the web as a writer's platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter joined you. They have the same kind of competitive spirit that successful big companies have. It's time for their competitors to not win users through guilt, rather by providing a better service. Back in the day, we hated Microsoft's plan to suffocate the web, but we admired their tenacity and the way they kept the pressure on their competitors. We've had 20 years of stagnation in social networking. Time to stop being so sensitive. Bluesky made huge promises, and they aren't happening, and that was already <i>years</i> ago. Time for Plan B. I don't really care about the others, Masto isn't going to move and Threads? Wtf is that. Inbound and outbound RSS 2.0, is the way to go. And Markdown is the way you do <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. This is what matters, you all are making something that's really simple so unbearably complicated.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:15:26 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a221526</link>
<guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a221526</guid>
<source:markdown>[Gruber is right](https://x.com/gruber/status/2109418123548074082). The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They're acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren't doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn't. It killed the web as a writer's platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter joined you. They have the same kind of competitive spirit that successful big companies have. It's time for their competitors to not win users through guilt, rather by providing a better service. Back in the day, we hated Microsoft's plan to suffocate the web, but we admired their tenacity and the way they kept the pressure on their competitors. We've had 20 years of stagnation in social networking. Time to stop being so sensitive. Bluesky made huge promises, and they aren't happening, and that was already _years_ ago. Time for Plan B. I don't really care about the others, Masto isn't going to move and Threads? Wtf is that. Inbound and outbound RSS 2.0, is the way to go. And Markdown is the way you do [text](https://textcasting.org/). This is what matters, you all are making something that's really simple so unbearably complicated.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/gruber/status/2109418123548074082">Gruber is right</a>. The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They're acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren't doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn't. It killed the web as a writer's platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter joined you. They have the same kind of competitive spirit that successful big companies have. It's time for their competitors to not win users through guilt, rather by providing a better service. Back in the day, we hated Microsoft's plan to suffocate the web, but we admired their tenacity and the way they kept the pressure on their competitors. We've had 20 years of stagnation in social networking. Time to stop being so sensitive. Bluesky made huge promises, and they aren't happening, and that was already <i>years</i> ago. Time for Plan B. I don't really care about the others, Masto isn't going to move and Threads? Wtf is that. Inbound and outbound RSS 2.0, is the way to go. And Markdown is the way you do <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. This is what matters, you all are making something that's really simple so unbearably complicated." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:15:26 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/03/26/reallySimpleNetwork.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a221526"/>
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<description>I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:33:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:33:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a153348"/>
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<description>I'm still on my sabatical from working with Claude re Frontier, but have now started working with Claude on FeedLand, and another project, not yet named, experimental, might never see the light of day. Yesterday I worked on FeedLand and have a fix for the problem that showed up in signing on to feedland.com. It's been sitting there for quite a while. I have some mostly small fixes in mind for FeedLand, that will allow it to hook into other apps more easily, esp via WebSockets, the mostly unexplored developer superpower. The difference is I'm going slowly and carefully. Everything in my system now is new. New computer, screen, and my main writing tool for code and docs -- Frontier. And I know the heavy lifting can be done by Claude. That is Claude's superpower.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>I'm still on my sabatical from working with Claude re Frontier, but have now started working with Claude on FeedLand, and another project, not yet named, experimental, might never see the light of day. Yesterday I worked on FeedLand and have a fix for the problem that showed up in signing on to feedland.com. It's been sitting there for quite a while. I have some mostly small fixes in mind for FeedLand, that will allow it to hook into other apps more easily, esp via WebSockets, the mostly unexplored developer superpower. The difference is I'm going slowly and carefully. Everything in my system now is new. New computer, screen, and my main writing tool for code and docs -- Frontier. And I know the heavy lifting can be done by Claude. That is Claude's superpower.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="I'm still on my sabatical from working with Claude re Frontier, but have now started working with Claude on FeedLand, and another project, not yet named, experimental, might never see the light of day. Yesterday I worked on FeedLand and have a fix for the problem that showed up in signing on to feedland.com. It's been sitting there for quite a while. I have some mostly small fixes in mind for FeedLand, that will allow it to hook into other apps more easily, esp via WebSockets, the mostly unexplored developer superpower. The difference is I'm going slowly and carefully. Everything in my system now is new. New computer, screen, and my main writing tool for code and docs -- Frontier. And I know the heavy lifting can be done by Claude. That is Claude's superpower." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:13:30 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141330"/>
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<description>In Manhattan, I lived on 57th St and Eighth Ave. Best location. The Columbus Circle subway station is under the building. Whole Foods a block away. Three Starbucks one block or less from the apartment (one was on 58th on the same block). Central Park has a six mile bike-only road (at least that's how bikers view it) and down the hill there's a much longer path along the Hudson River. Everywhere you look, a skyscraper is going up. Two were visible from my 50th floor window. New York is an amazing city because it can start up a huge gravity-defying construction project with almost no impact on the surrounding area. If I didn't know where to look I'd never see it. One of the biggest industries in the city is building the city. It's never finished. That's the way good software is too. And we just got a whole new tool for software construction, and it's like nothing we've ever had before.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:18:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>In Manhattan, I lived on 57th St and Eighth Ave. Best location. The Columbus Circle subway station is under the building. Whole Foods a block away. Three Starbucks one block or less from the apartment (one was on 58th on the same block). Central Park has a six mile bike-only road (at least that's how bikers view it) and down the hill there's a much longer path along the Hudson River. Everywhere you look, a skyscraper is going up. Two were visible from my 50th floor window. New York is an amazing city because it can start up a huge gravity-defying construction project with almost no impact on the surrounding area. If I didn't know where to look I'd never see it. One of the biggest industries in the city is building the city. It's never finished. That's the way good software is too. And we just got a whole new tool for software construction, and it's like nothing we've ever had before.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="In Manhattan, I lived on 57th St and Eighth Ave. Best location. The Columbus Circle subway station is under the building. Whole Foods a block away. Three Starbucks one block or less from the apartment (one was on 58th on the same block). Central Park has a six mile bike-only road (at least that's how bikers view it) and down the hill there's a much longer path along the Hudson River. Everywhere you look, a skyscraper is going up. Two were visible from my 50th floor window. New York is an amazing city because it can start up a huge gravity-defying construction project with almost no impact on the surrounding area. If I didn't know where to look I'd never see it. One of the biggest industries in the city is building the city. It's never finished. That's the way good software is too. And we just got a whole new tool for software construction, and it's like nothing we've ever had before." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:18:04 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141804"/>
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<description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleBasketball.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Basic lesson for people who use Claude Code -- it's <i>your</i> time that's valuable, not the bot's. If you find you're lost in the weeds supporting Claude for whatever reason, find a good stopping point, pick up another project, that doesn't use AI to do your code-writing. If you have a question ask ChatGPT browser version, but only for the kind of stuff you'd ask it in 2025. You're not co-developing. You're doing it yourself. It's very important to be clear about your coding, not Claude's output. Here's the key point -- it's your time that's limited, that has all the value. You can get Claude to develop something, but if you don't have time to use it, to nurture it, nothing will come of the work. I was surprised at how I'd lost the rhythm of writing my own code, and also how much I liked doing it myself. It's easy to get lost in the miracle of AI, good to pop up for air every so often.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:56:09 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a145609</link>
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<source:markdown>Basic lesson for people who use Claude Code -- it's _your_ time that's valuable, not the bot's. If you find you're lost in the weeds supporting Claude for whatever reason, find a good stopping point, pick up another project, that doesn't use AI to do your code-writing. If you have a question ask ChatGPT browser version, but only for the kind of stuff you'd ask it in 2025. You're not co-developing. You're doing it yourself. It's very important to be clear about your coding, not Claude's output. Here's the key point -- it's your time that's limited, that has all the value. You can get Claude to develop something, but if you don't have time to use it, to nurture it, nothing will come of the work. I was surprised at how I'd lost the rhythm of writing my own code, and also how much I liked doing it myself. It's easy to get lost in the miracle of AI, good to pop up for air every so often.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Basic lesson for people who use Claude Code -- it's <i>your</i> time that's valuable, not the bot's. If you find you're lost in the weeds supporting Claude for whatever reason, find a good stopping point, pick up another project, that doesn't use AI to do your code-writing. If you have a question ask ChatGPT browser version, but only for the kind of stuff you'd ask it in 2025. You're not co-developing. You're doing it yourself. It's very important to be clear about your coding, not Claude's output. Here's the key point -- it's your time that's limited, that has all the value. You can get Claude to develop something, but if you don't have time to use it, to nurture it, nothing will come of the work. I was surprised at how I'd lost the rhythm of writing my own code, and also how much I liked doing it myself. It's easy to get lost in the miracle of AI, good to pop up for air every so often." created="Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:56:09 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleBasketball.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a145609"/>
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<description>Automattic has created a <a href="https://stewartbrand.org/">Stewart Brand website</a> to honor one of the most creative and respected people of my generation of the web. Chronicling his work is time well spent. "I'm envious," I <a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2109373850731331838">wrote</a> in response. "The tech industry is gradually disconnecting the early web, pre-https. A hundred years from now they may have your writing and pictures, but the early web will be gone. The web as designed was very resilient, but it can’t survive deliberate attempt to destroy." I think Stewart would understand why we should help the web we loved so much, archive itself. Think about it this way. Would you rather visit the Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or read about it in a book? You'd want to do both. I want my work to survive a hundred years as it was when it was first published. This would be a good thing for us to work on, together, imho. I did the first <a href="https://longbets.org/2/">Long Now bet</a> for Stewart's Long Now foundation. I always thought it was the first, now they say it's the second? Did someone pull rank? :-)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:34:17 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a203417</link>
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<source:markdown>Automattic has created a [Stewart Brand website](https://stewartbrand.org/) to honor one of the most creative and respected people of my generation of the web. Chronicling his work is time well spent. "I'm envious," I [wrote](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2109373850731331838) in response. "The tech industry is gradually disconnecting the early web, pre-https. A hundred years from now they may have your writing and pictures, but the early web will be gone. The web as designed was very resilient, but it can’t survive deliberate attempt to destroy." I think Stewart would understand why we should help the web we loved so much, archive itself. Think about it this way. Would you rather visit the Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or read about it in a book? You'd want to do both. I want my work to survive a hundred years as it was when it was first published. This would be a good thing for us to work on, together, imho. I did the first [Long Now bet](https://longbets.org/2/) for Stewart's Long Now foundation. I always thought it was the first, now they say it's the second? Did someone pull rank? :-)</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Automattic has created a <a href="https://stewartbrand.org/">Stewart Brand website</a> to honor one of the most creative and respected people of my generation of the web. Chronicling his work is time well spent. "I'm envious," I <a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2109373850731331838">wrote</a> in response. "The tech industry is gradually disconnecting the early web, pre-https. A hundred years from now they may have your writing and pictures, but the early web will be gone. The web as designed was very resilient, but it can’t survive deliberate attempt to destroy." I think Stewart would understand why we should help the web we loved so much, archive itself. Think about it this way. Would you rather visit the Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or read about it in a book? You'd want to do both. I want my work to survive a hundred years as it was when it was first published. This would be a good thing for us to work on, together, imho. I did the first <a href="https://longbets.org/2/">Long Now bet</a> for Stewart's Long Now foundation. I always thought it was the first, now they say it's the second? Did someone pull rank? :-)" created="Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:34:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a203417"/>
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<description>Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:53:25 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/10.html#a165325</link>
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<source:markdown>Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start." created="Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:53:25 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/10.html#a165325"/>
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<description><a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Twitter</a>: "Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs."</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:22:46 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a012246</link>
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<source:markdown>[Twitter](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065): "Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs."</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Twitter</a>: "Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs."" created="Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:22:46 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a012246"/>
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<description>Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans. It has no information about how our minds work.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:04:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<source:markdown>Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans. It has no information about how our minds work.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans. It has no information about how our minds work." created="Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:04:38 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a140438"/>
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<description>Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an <a href="https://claude.ai/artifact/XbtUNCGWdZW8MSmYQGe5c9#a28046b2-100c">example</a>, a report Claude did for me. An obvious next step but a big one. AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. There's been so little movement in this space, but now things are moving very quickly.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:14:08 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a171408</link>
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<source:markdown>Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an [example](https://claude.ai/artifact/XbtUNCGWdZW8MSmYQGe5c9#a28046b2-100c), a report Claude did for me. An obvious next step but a big one. AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. There's been so little movement in this space, but now things are moving very quickly.</source:markdown>
<source:outline text="Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an <a href="https://claude.ai/artifact/XbtUNCGWdZW8MSmYQGe5c9#a28046b2-100c">example</a>, a report Claude did for me. An obvious next step but a big one. AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. There's been so little movement in this space, but now things are moving very quickly." created="Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:14:08 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a171408"/>
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It's even worse than it appears.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:23:41 GMT</pubDate> <language>en-us</language> <generator>oldSchool v0.8.16</generator> <copyright>&copy; copyright 1994-2026 Dave Winer.</copyright> <docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:34:42 GMT</lastBuildDate> <cloud domain="rpc.rsscloud.io" port="5337" path="/pleaseNotify" registerProcedure="" protocol="http-post" /> <image> <title>Scripting News</title> <url>https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/04/curly.png</url> <link>http://scripting.com/</link> <description>Scripting News gets an image because it's part of a network that uses them. 6/4/25 by DW</description> </image> <source:account service="bluesky">@scripting.com</source:account> <source:account service="mastodon">@davew@mastodon.social</source:account> <source:account service="twitter">bullmancuso</source:account> <source:localTime>Tue, October 27, 2026 5:34 PM 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><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/nellyBly.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Yesterday Ben Thompson <a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/the-end-of-the-internet/">wrote</a> that we've reached the end of the web, and I had come to the same conclusion, just a few days ago. And his piece, which was a great milestone, said it's not totally gone, because of the advent of AI we can build small systems for each other. Which is exactly the motivation of the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">BigUndo</a> model. What's big about it is how small the parts are and how nicely they fit together. We're not leaving everything behind in the great diaspora to the new web, we're not just bringing Markdown with us. It also echoes <a href="https://marco.org/2026/10/24/community">Marco Arment</a>, who wrote a similar piece about Mastodon a few days before. Nothing wrong with Mastodon, but the idea of one model of service doing the work for everyone is ridiculous. We need a million different approaches, all we need to make it work is a standard they can all agree on for what forms of text move around the net. Once we agree on a format, we all can use whatever editor we like, and no more <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a> that lock your ideas into Substack or X or whatever. That was the crime, that's what the BigUndo is all about undoing. The web said very clearly what text is, and they all broke it by doing it differently. We're bringing RSS 2.0 and Markdown with us, and they were <a href="https://source.scripting.com/markdown.opml">joined</a> a short time ago. Almost no one noticed, but there was design here, an intent -- a hope that we'd get to the place it appears we are now at.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:23:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a142341</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a142341</guid> <source:markdown>Yesterday Ben Thompson [wrote](https://stratechery.com/2026/the-end-of-the-internet/) that we've reached the end of the web, and I had come to the same conclusion, just a few days ago. And his piece, which was a great milestone, said it's not totally gone, because of the advent of AI we can build small systems for each other. Which is exactly the motivation of the [BigUndo](https://bigundo.org/) model. What's big about it is how small the parts are and how nicely they fit together. We're not leaving everything behind in the great diaspora to the new web, we're not just bringing Markdown with us. It also echoes [Marco Arment](https://marco.org/2026/10/24/community), who wrote a similar piece about Mastodon a few days before. Nothing wrong with Mastodon, but the idea of one model of service doing the work for everyone is ridiculous. We need a million different approaches, all we need to make it work is a standard they can all agree on for what forms of text move around the net. Once we agree on a format, we all can use whatever editor we like, and no more [tiny little text boxes](http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html) that lock your ideas into Substack or X or whatever. That was the crime, that's what the BigUndo is all about undoing. The web said very clearly what text is, and they all broke it by doing it differently. We're bringing RSS 2.0 and Markdown with us, and they were [joined](https://source.scripting.com/markdown.opml) a short time ago. Almost no one noticed, but there was design here, an intent -- a hope that we'd get to the place it appears we are now at.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Yesterday Ben Thompson <a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/the-end-of-the-internet/">wrote</a> that we've reached the end of the web, and I had come to the same conclusion, just a few days ago. And his piece, which was a great milestone, said it's not totally gone, because of the advent of AI we can build small systems for each other. Which is exactly the motivation of the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">BigUndo</a> model. What's big about it is how small the parts are and how nicely they fit together. We're not leaving everything behind in the great diaspora to the new web, we're not just bringing Markdown with us. It also echoes <a href="https://marco.org/2026/10/24/community">Marco Arment</a>, who wrote a similar piece about Mastodon a few days before. Nothing wrong with Mastodon, but the idea of one model of service doing the work for everyone is ridiculous. We need a million different approaches, all we need to make it work is a standard they can all agree on for what forms of text move around the net. Once we agree on a format, we all can use whatever editor we like, and no more <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a> that lock your ideas into Substack or X or whatever. That was the crime, that's what the BigUndo is all about undoing. The web said very clearly what text is, and they all broke it by doing it differently. We're bringing RSS 2.0 and Markdown with us, and they were <a href="https://source.scripting.com/markdown.opml">joined</a> a short time ago. Almost no one noticed, but there was design here, an intent -- a hope that we'd get to the place it appears we are now at." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:23:41 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/nellyBly.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a142341"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten">Zettelkasten</a> is an idea <a href="http://scripting.com/2023/01/24/150122.html">pioneered</a> by my great-uncle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schmidt">Arno Schmidt</a>. It's a process for organizing your data and thoughts. When I read people's descriptions of what they do with it, it sounds totally like the outliners I pioneered two generations later. I have a Zettlekasten <a href="https://zettelkasten.de/posts/note-writing-deliberate-mind-training/">blog</a> in my blogroll, <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/zettleKasten.png">screenshot</a>, so I think of <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22arno%20schmidt%22">Uncle Arno</a>, who I never met, from time to time.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:18:56 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141856</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141856</guid> <source:markdown>[Zettelkasten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten) is an idea [pioneered](http://scripting.com/2023/01/24/150122.html) by my great-uncle [Arno Schmidt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schmidt). It's a process for organizing your data and thoughts. When I read people's descriptions of what they do with it, it sounds totally like the outliners I pioneered two generations later. I have a Zettlekasten [blog](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/note-writing-deliberate-mind-training/) in my blogroll, [screenshot](https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/zettleKasten.png), so I think of [Uncle Arno](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22arno%20schmidt%22), who I never met, from time to time.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten">Zettelkasten</a> is an idea <a href="http://scripting.com/2023/01/24/150122.html">pioneered</a> by my great-uncle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schmidt">Arno Schmidt</a>. It's a process for organizing your data and thoughts. When I read people's descriptions of what they do with it, it sounds totally like the outliners I pioneered two generations later. I have a Zettlekasten <a href="https://zettelkasten.de/posts/note-writing-deliberate-mind-training/">blog</a> in my blogroll, <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/27/zettleKasten.png">screenshot</a>, so I think of <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22arno%20schmidt%22">Uncle Arno</a>, who I never met, from time to time." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:18:56 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141856"/> </item> <item> <description>If Claude Code projects had feelings, I'd wake up the Frontier project and let it know that the reason it's been asleep so long is that the software is working. I'm using it to manage the other three apps, writing code, keeping lists, everything works. Yes, the menubar is very out of date, but I know where to find everything. I look forward to coming in for a landing at some point and upgrade it work among the different BigUndo stuff we have running, no doubt we're going to use Frontier to do cross-app scripting. Some of the things AI says they need to do, Frontier can do with the resources of an early 90s Macintosh. No big data centers. Keep that in mind.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:13:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141342</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141342</guid> <source:markdown>If Claude Code projects had feelings, I'd wake up the Frontier project and let it know that the reason it's been asleep so long is that the software is working. I'm using it to manage the other three apps, writing code, keeping lists, everything works. Yes, the menubar is very out of date, but I know where to find everything. I look forward to coming in for a landing at some point and upgrade it work among the different BigUndo stuff we have running, no doubt we're going to use Frontier to do cross-app scripting. Some of the things AI says they need to do, Frontier can do with the resources of an early 90s Macintosh. No big data centers. Keep that in mind.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="If Claude Code projects had feelings, I'd wake up the Frontier project and let it know that the reason it's been asleep so long is that the software is working. I'm using it to manage the other three apps, writing code, keeping lists, everything works. Yes, the menubar is very out of date, but I know where to find everything. I look forward to coming in for a landing at some point and upgrade it work among the different BigUndo stuff we have running, no doubt we're going to use Frontier to do cross-app scripting. Some of the things AI says they need to do, Frontier can do with the resources of an early 90s Macintosh. No big data centers. Keep that in mind." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:13:42 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/27.html#a141342"/> </item> <item> <description>I loved the term <a href="https://bigundo.org/">Big Undo</a> so much, of course I had to get the domain. I started putting up my usual placeholder site but realized I should do this page in Markdown, not HTML. It looks fabulous. Markdown is right. It's sobriety, go back to the beginning and put the potency in the ideas, give writers the space to write. Get the F out of my way with your freaky character limits. Anyway I'm full of manifesto these days. The money people strangled the web. I think it's time for the creative people to make it work for real.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:33:27 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a003327</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a003327</guid> <source:markdown>I loved the term [Big Undo](https://bigundo.org/) so much, of course I had to get the domain. I started putting up my usual placeholder site but realized I should do this page in Markdown, not HTML. It looks fabulous. Markdown is right. It's sobriety, go back to the beginning and put the potency in the ideas, give writers the space to write. Get the F out of my way with your freaky character limits. Anyway I'm full of manifesto these days. The money people strangled the web. I think it's time for the creative people to make it work for real.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I loved the term <a href="https://bigundo.org/">Big Undo</a> so much, of course I had to get the domain. I started putting up my usual placeholder site but realized I should do this page in Markdown, not HTML. It looks fabulous. Markdown is right. It's sobriety, go back to the beginning and put the potency in the ideas, give writers the space to write. Get the F out of my way with your freaky character limits. Anyway I'm full of manifesto these days. The money people strangled the web. I think it's time for the creative people to make it work for real." created="Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:33:27 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a003327"/> </item> <item> <description>I've never had a web browser that worked remotely like I wanted it to. But that might change soon. Big things are possible now. I have a bunch of projects that I'm working on with Claude and going back and forth between them. And they're even starting to communicate with each other, at my behest of course. It's an interesting time for people to realize that the web was much more powerful before all the big tech companies had their way with it. It makes about as much sense as the various big plans they all came up with that made the web necessary in the first place.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:14:33 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a151433</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a151433</guid> <source:markdown>I've never had a web browser that worked remotely like I wanted it to. But that might change soon. Big things are possible now. I have a bunch of projects that I'm working on with Claude and going back and forth between them. And they're even starting to communicate with each other, at my behest of course. It's an interesting time for people to realize that the web was much more powerful before all the big tech companies had their way with it. It makes about as much sense as the various big plans they all came up with that made the web necessary in the first place.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I've never had a web browser that worked remotely like I wanted it to. But that might change soon. Big things are possible now. I have a bunch of projects that I'm working on with Claude and going back and forth between them. And they're even starting to communicate with each other, at my behest of course. It's an interesting time for people to realize that the web was much more powerful before all the big tech companies had their way with it. It makes about as much sense as the various big plans they all came up with that made the web necessary in the first place." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:14:33 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26.html#a151433"/> </item> <item> <title>The Big Undo</title> <description><p>I remember how revolutionary the first web was, but then a series of tech companies took it over and “had their way” with it. </p> <p>The first was Netscape and they added JavaScript to steal the thunder from “Sun” (a long story). </p> <p>Then Microsoft crushed Netscape by cutting off their air supply, and they piled up all kinds of nasty insecure features with predictable results, they made the web a paradise of viruses, making it largely unusable until Firefox replaced Microsoft, and their web was nicer, and smaller and they left out the viruses. </p> <p>Google came along and quickly replaced it with Chrome and all was good for a while, until they decided it was just another corporate platform like Android and threw out all the early sites, so boring, they couldn’t make billions of dollars, and now what used to be the web is all but gone.</p> <p>What’s next? It’s time for The Big Undo. 😀</p> <p><i>The Big Undo</i> came to me while I was writing my new profile on Twitter. It immediately reminded me of three things. </p> <ol> <li>Karl Anthony Towns, Knicks all-star and world champion center, is called Big Bodega. </li> <li>It sounds like a title of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis">Michael Lewis</a> book, like The Big Short.</li> <li>And for some reason Queen Latifah singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Fz-_lkWzM">When You're Good to Mama</a> in Chicago. </li> </ol> <p>And of course I bought the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">domain</a>. </p> </description> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:37:52 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html?title=theBigUndo</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html</guid> <source:markdown>I remember how revolutionary the first web was, but then a series of tech companies took it over and “had their way” with it. The first was Netscape and they added JavaScript to steal the thunder from “Sun” (a long story). Then Microsoft crushed Netscape by cutting off their air supply, and they piled up all kinds of nasty insecure features with predictable results, they made the web a paradise of viruses, making it largely unusable until Firefox replaced Microsoft, and their web was nicer, and smaller and they left out the viruses. Google came along and quickly replaced it with Chrome and all was good for a while, until they decided it was just another corporate platform like Android and threw out all the early sites, so boring, they couldn’t make billions of dollars, and now what used to be the web is all but gone. What’s next? It’s time for The Big Undo. 😀 _The Big Undo_ came to me while I was writing my new profile on Twitter. It immediately reminded me of three things. 1. Karl Anthony Towns, Knicks all-star and world champion center, is called Big Bodega. 2. It sounds like a title of a [Michael Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis) book, like The Big Short. 3. And for some reason Queen Latifah singing [When You're Good to Mama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Fz-_lkWzM) in Chicago. And of course I bought the [domain](https://bigundo.org/).</source:markdown> <source:outline text="The Big Undo" created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:37:52 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html"> <source:outline text="I remember how revolutionary the first web was, but then a series of tech companies took it over and “had their way” with it." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:38:44 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a233844"/> <source:outline text="The first was Netscape and they added JavaScript to steal the thunder from “Sun” (a long story)." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="Then Microsoft crushed Netscape by cutting off their air supply, and they piled up all kinds of nasty insecure features with predictable results, they made the web a paradise of viruses, making it largely unusable until Firefox replaced Microsoft, and their web was nicer, and smaller and they left out the viruses." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="Google came along and quickly replaced it with Chrome and all was good for a while, until they decided it was just another corporate platform like Android and threw out all the early sites, so boring, they couldn’t make billions of dollars, and now what used to be the web is all but gone." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:39:41 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a233941"/> <source:outline text="What’s next? It’s time for The Big Undo. 😀" created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:40:19 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234019"/> <source:outline text="<i>The Big Undo</i> came to me while I was writing my new profile on Twitter. It immediately reminded me of three things." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:40:51 GMT" flNumberedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234051"> <source:outline text="Karl Anthony Towns, Knicks all-star and world champion center, is called Big Bodega." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:41:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234101"/> <source:outline text="It sounds like a title of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis">Michael Lewis</a> book, like The Big Short." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:41:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234101"/> <source:outline text="And for some reason Queen Latifah singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Fz-_lkWzM">When You're Good to Mama</a> in Chicago." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:43:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a234321"/> </source:outline> <source:outline text="And of course I bought the <a href="https://bigundo.org/">domain</a>." created="Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:38:50 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/26/233752.html#a233850"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>Changed <a href="https://x.com/davewiner">my bio</a> on Twitter: "I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo."</description> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:39:24 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a163924</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a163924</guid> <source:markdown>Changed [my bio](https://x.com/davewiner) on Twitter: "I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo."</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Changed <a href="https://x.com/davewiner">my bio</a> on Twitter: "I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo."" created="Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:39:24 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a163924"/> </item> <item> <description>Obama is doing the old Obama campaign schtick and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over. My favorite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclN6UnicMg">Obama clip</a> is him wiping the schmutz off his shoulder, I forget who he was putting down, but wow it so concise. I also really liked the time when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJeptnpNWU">HRC flirted</a> with him about her likeability. "You're likeable enough," he said. Trump gets the votes not necessarily because people are what people call them, he is a comedian, I say this so many times, that's the charm. Young folk may not remember Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, but that's Trump, and the other two probably had a sweet side, but I don't think that's ever been said about Trump. I could be wrong. There's also a bit of George Carlin in there.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:23:53 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a162353</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a162353</guid> <source:markdown>Obama is doing the old Obama campaign schtick and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over. My favorite [Obama clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclN6UnicMg) is him wiping the schmutz off his shoulder, I forget who he was putting down, but wow it so concise. I also really liked the time when [HRC flirted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJeptnpNWU) with him about her likeability. "You're likeable enough," he said. Trump gets the votes not necessarily because people are what people call them, he is a comedian, I say this so many times, that's the charm. Young folk may not remember Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, but that's Trump, and the other two probably had a sweet side, but I don't think that's ever been said about Trump. I could be wrong. There's also a bit of George Carlin in there.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Obama is doing the old Obama campaign schtick and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over. My favorite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclN6UnicMg">Obama clip</a> is him wiping the schmutz off his shoulder, I forget who he was putting down, but wow it so concise. I also really liked the time when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJeptnpNWU">HRC flirted</a> with him about her likeability. "You're likeable enough," he said. Trump gets the votes not necessarily because people are what people call them, he is a comedian, I say this so many times, that's the charm. Young folk may not remember Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, but that's Trump, and the other two probably had a sweet side, but I don't think that's ever been said about Trump. I could be wrong. There's also a bit of George Carlin in there." created="Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:23:53 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/25.html#a162353"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/07/02/knicks.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZjTf0CEfN2/">relish</a> the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJjecJnuI">video</a> for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they <i>were</i> not who they are now.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:22:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a152248</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a152248</guid> <source:markdown>Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will [relish](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZjTf0CEfN2/) the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJjecJnuI) for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they _were_ not who they are now.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZjTf0CEfN2/">relish</a> the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJjecJnuI">video</a> for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they <i>were</i> not who they are now." created="Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:22:48 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/07/02/knicks.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a152248"/> </item> <item> <description>Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is <a href="https://github.com/rsscloud/socketsub/blob/main/README.md">creating a connection</a> from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I've wanted this for a long time, but now I'm planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:16:28 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a151628</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a151628</guid> <source:markdown>Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is [creating a connection](https://github.com/rsscloud/socketsub/blob/main/README.md) from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I've wanted this for a long time, but now I'm planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is <a href="https://github.com/rsscloud/socketsub/blob/main/README.md">creating a connection</a> from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I've wanted this for a long time, but now I'm planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to." created="Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:16:28 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a151628"/> </item> <item> <description>One of the reasons I'm working on the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Web of Markdown</a> is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">web religion</a> is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules."</description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:57:17 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a145717</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a145717</guid> <source:markdown>One of the reasons I'm working on the [Web of Markdown](http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=webOfMarkdown) is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the [web religion](https://this.how/googleAndHttp/) is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules."</source:markdown> <source:outline text="One of the reasons I'm working on the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Web of Markdown</a> is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">web religion</a> is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules."" created="Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:57:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/24.html#a145717"/> </item> <item> <description>A blog <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive/2017/06/03/141214.md">post</a> from Scripting, in Markdown.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:20:06 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23.html#a222006</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23.html#a222006</guid> <source:markdown>A blog [post](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive/2017/06/03/141214.md) from Scripting, in Markdown.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="A blog <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive/2017/06/03/141214.md">post</a> from Scripting, in Markdown." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:20:06 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23.html#a222006"/> </item> <item> <title>The web of Markdown, part 3</title> <description><p>Previous posts on this topic: <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Oct 6</a> and <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">Oct 8</a>.</p> <p>What's new? I've got a browser running, and have been using it for a few weeks. We're not releasing it today because first I want people to think about the format we're using to represent a story, and get feedback, and see if other people can build on the same basis. </p> <p>Three things to look at today.</p> <ul> <li>The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/readme.md">top level</a> picture. </li> <li><a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/readme.md">Nine examples</a>.</li> <li>Download the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive.zip">archive</a>. (Chrome will complain about this link not being "secure," but the archive comes from GitHub, so it's plenty secure -- they must be on a campaign to give sites like mine a black eye. I wouldn't put a link to a download that wasn't from a reputable site. People who read my blog know that, why doesn't Google with all their fancy AI servers? Feh.)</li> </ul> <p>And if you have questions or comments.</p> <ul> <li>Use the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/issues/1">Issues section</a> in the repo.</li> </ul> </description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:19:45 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html?title=theWebOfMarkdownPart3</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html</guid> <source:markdown>Previous posts on this topic: [Oct 6](http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=webOfMarkdown) and [Oct 8](http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html). What's new? I've got a browser running, and have been using it for a few weeks. We're not releasing it today because first I want people to think about the format we're using to represent a story, and get feedback, and see if other people can build on the same basis. Three things to look at today. * The [top level](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/readme.md) picture. * [Nine examples](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/readme.md). * Download the [archive](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive.zip). (Chrome will complain about this link not being "secure," but the archive comes from GitHub, so it's plenty secure -- they must be on a campaign to give sites like mine a black eye. I wouldn't put a link to a download that wasn't from a reputable site. People who read my blog know that, why doesn't Google with all their fancy AI servers? Feh.) And if you have questions or comments. * Use the [Issues section](https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/issues/1) in the repo.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="The web of Markdown, part 3" created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:19:45 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html"> <source:outline text="Previous posts on this topic: <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=webOfMarkdown">Oct 6</a> and <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">Oct 8</a>." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:04:31 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a150431"/> <source:outline text="What's new? I've got a browser running, and have been using it for a few weeks. We're not releasing it today because first I want people to think about the format we're using to represent a story, and get feedback, and see if other people can build on the same basis." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:06:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a150629"/> <source:outline text="Three things to look at today." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:10:46 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151046"> <source:outline text="The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/readme.md">top level</a> picture." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:10:51 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151051"/> <source:outline text="<a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/blob/main/examples/readme.md">Nine examples</a>." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151101"/> <source:outline text="Download the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/scriptingInMarkdown/archive.zip">archive</a>. (Chrome will complain about this link not being "secure," but the archive comes from GitHub, so it's plenty secure -- they must be on a campaign to give sites like mine a black eye. I wouldn't put a link to a download that wasn't from a reputable site. People who read my blog know that, why doesn't Google with all their fancy AI servers? Feh.)" created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:06 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151106"/> </source:outline> <source:outline text="And if you have questions or comments." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:17 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151117"> <source:outline text="Use the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/markdownWeb/issues/1">Issues section</a> in the repo." created="Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:11:23 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/23/151945.html#a151123"/> </source:outline> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>I hope to see the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">The Web of Markdown</a> idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. <i>Still diggin!</i></description> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a160031</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a160031</guid> <source:markdown>I hope to see the [The Web of Markdown](http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html) idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. _Still diggin!_</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I hope to see the <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/08/135551.html">The Web of Markdown</a> idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. <i>Still diggin!</i>" created="Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:00:31 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a160031"/> </item> <item> <description>Ooops, didn't get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. :-)</description> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:58:19 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a235819</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a235819</guid> <source:markdown>Ooops, didn't get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. :-)</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Ooops, didn't get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. :-)" created="Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:58:19 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/22.html#a235819"/> </item> <item> <description>Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:44:32 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/21.html#a234432</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/21.html#a234432</guid> <source:markdown>Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow." created="Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:44:32 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/21.html#a234432"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRvJLH_-vU">Today's song</a>, for the Knicks. "And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again." <i>Knicks in 5! </i></description> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:47:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a124722</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a124722</guid> <source:markdown>[Today's song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRvJLH_-vU), for the Knicks. "And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again." _Knicks in 5!_</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRvJLH_-vU">Today's song</a>, for the Knicks. "And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again." <i>Knicks in 5! </i>" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:47:22 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a124722"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/20/guyKawasakiHeadShot.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">My friend <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-saying-that-a-players-hire-a">Guy Kawasaki</a> has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. "Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies." You see this over and over among the very rich in tech. The money is supposed to make them invincible, but they don't hire the best people, I guess, for fear of being found out to not be the genius that the money says they are.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:12:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a121241</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a121241</guid> <source:markdown>My friend [Guy Kawasaki](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-saying-that-a-players-hire-a) has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. "Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies." You see this over and over among the very rich in tech. The money is supposed to make them invincible, but they don't hire the best people, I guess, for fear of being found out to not be the genius that the money says they are.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="My friend <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-saying-that-a-players-hire-a">Guy Kawasaki</a> has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. "Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies." You see this over and over among the very rich in tech. The money is supposed to make them invincible, but they don't hire the best people, I guess, for fear of being found out to not be the genius that the money says they are." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:12:41 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/20/guyKawasakiHeadShot.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a121241"/> </item> <item> <description>I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight's game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic Division teams who are gunning for the champion Knicks. But after the first jump ball in tonight's game the score is zero-zero, everyone is in first place and everyone is in last place. No one expected the Knicks to win, not even a die-hard fan like myself who often wore a <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/01/20/170415.html">paper bag</a> on his head to avoid having to defend the bozosity of the hometown team. They had some truly awful teams since 1999, last time they were in the finals. So what happened to the Knicks? How did they do it? See the quote from Guy Kawaski above. We hired an A team guy in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rose">Leon Rose</a>, and he used his great insight into the sport of NBA basketball to assemble a team of second round but A team players who had the special magic that when you put them together on court, they blossomed into the most improbable winners ever. They were good, but no one but the players and the management knew how good they could be. Anyway I empathized with my Spurs fan friend, a very unusual thing for a NY sports fan, we prefer to find annoying ways of making fun of the fans of teams we have <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vanquished">vanquished</a>, but just this one time, well until the jump ball tonight, then Knicks own the NBA, then they're just another team who have to prove themselves all over again, from scratch. And we wouldn't have it any other way. <i>Knicks in 5!</i></description> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:26:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a122602</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a122602</guid> <source:markdown>I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight's game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic Division teams who are gunning for the champion Knicks. But after the first jump ball in tonight's game the score is zero-zero, everyone is in first place and everyone is in last place. No one expected the Knicks to win, not even a die-hard fan like myself who often wore a [paper bag](http://scripting.com/2026/01/20/170415.html) on his head to avoid having to defend the bozosity of the hometown team. They had some truly awful teams since 1999, last time they were in the finals. So what happened to the Knicks? How did they do it? See the quote from Guy Kawaski above. We hired an A team guy in [Leon Rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rose), and he used his great insight into the sport of NBA basketball to assemble a team of second round but A team players who had the special magic that when you put them together on court, they blossomed into the most improbable winners ever. They were good, but no one but the players and the management knew how good they could be. Anyway I empathized with my Spurs fan friend, a very unusual thing for a NY sports fan, we prefer to find annoying ways of making fun of the fans of teams we have [vanquished](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vanquished), but just this one time, well until the jump ball tonight, then Knicks own the NBA, then they're just another team who have to prove themselves all over again, from scratch. And we wouldn't have it any other way. _Knicks in 5!_</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight's game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic Division teams who are gunning for the champion Knicks. But after the first jump ball in tonight's game the score is zero-zero, everyone is in first place and everyone is in last place. No one expected the Knicks to win, not even a die-hard fan like myself who often wore a <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/01/20/170415.html">paper bag</a> on his head to avoid having to defend the bozosity of the hometown team. They had some truly awful teams since 1999, last time they were in the finals. So what happened to the Knicks? How did they do it? See the quote from Guy Kawaski above. We hired an A team guy in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rose">Leon Rose</a>, and he used his great insight into the sport of NBA basketball to assemble a team of second round but A team players who had the special magic that when you put them together on court, they blossomed into the most improbable winners ever. They were good, but no one but the players and the management knew how good they could be. Anyway I empathized with my Spurs fan friend, a very unusual thing for a NY sports fan, we prefer to find annoying ways of making fun of the fans of teams we have <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vanquished">vanquished</a>, but just this one time, well until the jump ball tonight, then Knicks own the NBA, then they're just another team who have to prove themselves all over again, from scratch. And we wouldn't have it any other way. <i>Knicks in 5!</i>" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:26:02 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20.html#a122602"/> </item> <item> <title>We do know what's going on</title> <description><p><a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22occam%27s%20news%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. </p> <p>Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. </p> <p>That's all that's going on there. </p> <p>All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. </p> <p>In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</p> </description> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:14 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html?title=weDoKnowWhatsGoingOn</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html</guid> <source:markdown>[Occam's News](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22occam%27s%20news%22) reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="We do know what's going on" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:14 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html"> <source:outline text="<a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22occam%27s%20news%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#a125121"/> <source:outline text="Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:38:22 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#a213822"/> <source:outline text="That's all that's going on there." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:59 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html#a125159"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/10/andNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/03/13/132830.html">writer's web</a>. The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)</description> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:45:39 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a004539</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a004539</guid> <source:markdown>Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a [writer's web](http://scripting.com/2025/03/13/132830.html). The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity [text](https://textcasting.org/). Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/03/13/132830.html">writer's web</a>. The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)" created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:45:39 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/10/andNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a004539"/> </item> <item> <description>I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:51:44 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a135144</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a135144</guid> <source:markdown>I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year." created="Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:51:44 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a135144"/> </item> <item> <description>Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:38:52 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a003852</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a003852</guid> <source:markdown>Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:38:52 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a003852"/> </item> <item> <description>About <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT">XSLT</a> -- I remembered that I <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xslt">thought</a> it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:55:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a005502</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a005502</guid> <source:markdown>About [XSLT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT) -- I remembered that I [thought](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xslt) it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="About <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT">XSLT</a> -- I remembered that I <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xslt">thought</a> it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying." created="Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:55:02 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a005502"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/18/samwellTarly.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I wrote a piece entitled <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html">The Web of Markdown</a> on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:55:32 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a155532</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a155532</guid> <source:markdown>I wrote a piece entitled [The Web of Markdown](http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html) on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I wrote a piece entitled <a href="http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html">The Web of Markdown</a> on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:55:32 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/18/samwellTarly.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a155532"/> </item> <item> <description>Anyway, what this means is we're building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you're reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably be joining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch">Night's Watch</a>. We have work to do and it might be related to what the Other Web wants to do, but it probably (hopefully) doesn't. I will continue to publish in HTML, and it's up to Google and the EFF if the quality of my writing is suitable for their web. I have no say in it, they have not shown up to negotiate or even discuss. They are silent. Somewhat like the maesters of the Citadel? There must be a bigger plan! :-)</description> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:12:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a161248</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a161248</guid> <source:markdown>Anyway, what this means is we're building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you're reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably be joining the [Night's Watch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch). We have work to do and it might be related to what the Other Web wants to do, but it probably (hopefully) doesn't. I will continue to publish in HTML, and it's up to Google and the EFF if the quality of my writing is suitable for their web. I have no say in it, they have not shown up to negotiate or even discuss. They are silent. Somewhat like the maesters of the Citadel? There must be a bigger plan! :-)</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Anyway, what this means is we're building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you're reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably be joining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch">Night's Watch</a>. We have work to do and it might be related to what the Other Web wants to do, but it probably (hopefully) doesn't. I will continue to publish in HTML, and it's up to Google and the EFF if the quality of my writing is suitable for their web. I have no say in it, they have not shown up to negotiate or even discuss. They are silent. Somewhat like the maesters of the Citadel? There must be a bigger plan! :-)" created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:12:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a161248"/> </item> <item> <title>Health care is phone tag in US</title> <description><p>The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients. </p> <p>Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients. </p> <p>They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag. </p> <p>I don't know if it's this way in other countries, but it is universally a phone-voice-based comm system in the US.</p> </description> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:23 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html?title=healthCareIsPhoneTagInUs</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html</guid> <source:markdown>The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients. Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients. They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag. I don't know if it's this way in other countries, but it is universally a phone-voice-based comm system in the US.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Health care is phone tag in US" created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:23 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html"> <source:outline text="The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:37 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204137"/> <source:outline text="Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:41:55 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204155"/> <source:outline text="They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:42:25 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204225"/> <source:outline text="I don't know if it's this way in other countries, but it is universally a phone-voice-based comm system in the US." created="Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:42:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html#a204229"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>Try going to <a href="http://web.org/">web.org</a> in a recent version of Chrome.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:13:14 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a171314</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a171314</guid> <source:markdown>Try going to [web.org](http://web.org/) in a recent version of Chrome.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Try going to <a href="http://web.org/">web.org</a> in a recent version of Chrome." created="Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:13:14 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a171314"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/17/emilyDickinson.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed -- and they also called it the web. The confusion -- you could read it in a web browser, but that didn't make it <i>of</i> the web. My regret, looking back, is I tried to make software in the VC-web. Never got traction, anywhere. My heart, mind and home was always in the first web. And I think what we're coming to terms with now is that has been languishing for 20+ years, it didn't realize its promise, lots of interesting stuff to read that stimulated more thought and thus writing. We should be way ahead of where we are. Because writing has become something for the elite (Substack) to speak through, and limited to grunts and snorts, "social media," for the rest of us. They basically recreated the publishing environment the web was meant to route around. What a story. Can the web reboot? Same old thing, if you want it badly enough, it might be possible.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:48:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a144851</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a144851</guid> <source:markdown>Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed -- and they also called it the web. The confusion -- you could read it in a web browser, but that didn't make it _of_ the web. My regret, looking back, is I tried to make software in the VC-web. Never got traction, anywhere. My heart, mind and home was always in the first web. And I think what we're coming to terms with now is that has been languishing for 20+ years, it didn't realize its promise, lots of interesting stuff to read that stimulated more thought and thus writing. We should be way ahead of where we are. Because writing has become something for the elite (Substack) to speak through, and limited to grunts and snorts, "social media," for the rest of us. They basically recreated the publishing environment the web was meant to route around. What a story. Can the web reboot? Same old thing, if you want it badly enough, it might be possible.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed -- and they also called it the web. The confusion -- you could read it in a web browser, but that didn't make it <i>of</i> the web. My regret, looking back, is I tried to make software in the VC-web. Never got traction, anywhere. My heart, mind and home was always in the first web. And I think what we're coming to terms with now is that has been languishing for 20+ years, it didn't realize its promise, lots of interesting stuff to read that stimulated more thought and thus writing. We should be way ahead of where we are. Because writing has become something for the elite (Substack) to speak through, and limited to grunts and snorts, "social media," for the rest of us. They basically recreated the publishing environment the web was meant to route around. What a story. Can the web reboot? Same old thing, if you want it badly enough, it might be possible." created="Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:48:51 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/17/emilyDickinson.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a144851"/> </item> <item> <description>I didn't notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of it came from the power we gave them by making everyone's voice supposedly equal. Of course they weren't all equal. Power has to be a function of your contribution. And as it says in <a href="https://this.how/standards/#1497798790000">Rules</a>, power comes from users of your product. If being compatible with you means I have access to more users, then I will listen. I will also listen if you remain respectful -- and don't presume to give me an order. Someone just did that today, and it froze me, then I re-read the message and it was an order, and not nicely phrased, condescending, presumptive, and very wrong. I started writing a reply, even posted one, then realized what was going on, and deleted my reply and blocked the person.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:50:55 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a155055</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a155055</guid> <source:markdown>I didn't notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of it came from the power we gave them by making everyone's voice supposedly equal. Of course they weren't all equal. Power has to be a function of your contribution. And as it says in [Rules](https://this.how/standards/#1497798790000), power comes from users of your product. If being compatible with you means I have access to more users, then I will listen. I will also listen if you remain respectful -- and don't presume to give me an order. Someone just did that today, and it froze me, then I re-read the message and it was an order, and not nicely phrased, condescending, presumptive, and very wrong. I started writing a reply, even posted one, then realized what was going on, and deleted my reply and blocked the person.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I didn't notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of it came from the power we gave them by making everyone's voice supposedly equal. Of course they weren't all equal. Power has to be a function of your contribution. And as it says in <a href="https://this.how/standards/#1497798790000">Rules</a>, power comes from users of your product. If being compatible with you means I have access to more users, then I will listen. I will also listen if you remain respectful -- and don't presume to give me an order. Someone just did that today, and it froze me, then I re-read the message and it was an order, and not nicely phrased, condescending, presumptive, and very wrong. I started writing a reply, even posted one, then realized what was going on, and deleted my reply and blocked the person." created="Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:50:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a155055"/> </item> <item> <description>Tried a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/podcasts/the-best-soundbars.html">Wirecutter podcast</a> about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was also quickly giggling after a giggle-worthy intro, I guess to try to make what they're saying more interesting but he was just agreeing with them about how they don't know anything. I waited and waited for them to get to something new, some new development I might learn about or something I had been doing wrong, but I gave up after five minutes or so, while I was skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time. It would be much better to err on the side of assuming your listeners know a bit about consumer electronics, these are not actually very exotic things. The NYT does this with their podcasts, I'm rarely willing to risk any time on them, they always end up with giggling people some of whom probably know something I want to learn about but they fill the time with giggles about how stupid the other people are. The seem to be quite proud of their ignorance. (Could have read the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundbar">Wikipedia page</a> on soundbars so they aren't quite so ignorant, is this a way to make their ignorant listenters more comfortable, yeah probably.)</description> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:26:44 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a182644</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a182644</guid> <source:markdown>Tried a [Wirecutter podcast](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/podcasts/the-best-soundbars.html) about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was also quickly giggling after a giggle-worthy intro, I guess to try to make what they're saying more interesting but he was just agreeing with them about how they don't know anything. I waited and waited for them to get to something new, some new development I might learn about or something I had been doing wrong, but I gave up after five minutes or so, while I was skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time. It would be much better to err on the side of assuming your listeners know a bit about consumer electronics, these are not actually very exotic things. The NYT does this with their podcasts, I'm rarely willing to risk any time on them, they always end up with giggling people some of whom probably know something I want to learn about but they fill the time with giggles about how stupid the other people are. The seem to be quite proud of their ignorance. (Could have read the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundbar) on soundbars so they aren't quite so ignorant, is this a way to make their ignorant listenters more comfortable, yeah probably.)</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Tried a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/podcasts/the-best-soundbars.html">Wirecutter podcast</a> about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was also quickly giggling after a giggle-worthy intro, I guess to try to make what they're saying more interesting but he was just agreeing with them about how they don't know anything. I waited and waited for them to get to something new, some new development I might learn about or something I had been doing wrong, but I gave up after five minutes or so, while I was skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time. It would be much better to err on the side of assuming your listeners know a bit about consumer electronics, these are not actually very exotic things. The NYT does this with their podcasts, I'm rarely willing to risk any time on them, they always end up with giggling people some of whom probably know something I want to learn about but they fill the time with giggles about how stupid the other people are. The seem to be quite proud of their ignorance. (Could have read the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundbar">Wikipedia page</a> on soundbars so they aren't quite so ignorant, is this a way to make their ignorant listenters more comfortable, yeah probably.)" created="Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:26:44 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a182644"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Worth repeating</a>: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:50:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a145051</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a145051</guid> <source:markdown>[Worth repeating](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065): Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Worth repeating</a>: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs." created="Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:50:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/16.html#a145051"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/09/12/plato.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Reminder, <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Atlantis">Atlantis</a> is the codename for the new Frontier that runs in Electron. As I work on other projects now, it's not on my front burner, but in a way it is, because I'm using it constantly as I work on FeedLand and the other project. We just released a new set of parts that make it possible for it to open a Markdown file for reading when you 2-click on it in the Finder. Things like that are great to add, because they fit into the 2026 web environment. How did I discover that? Accidentally 2-clicked on a .md file, expecting Atlantis to open it, and it just sat there. Filling in things like that. And for some reason it can't get the find command ported from the C kernel to the new JavaScript one. I have told it countless times that the source of truth is the 2014 repo. I told it again. A neat way to follow this project is to subscribe to the <a href="https://bits.codecasting.org/frontier.root/rss.xml">codecasting feed</a>, the comment for each new part release gives you an idea where some of the work is going on.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:51:49 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a135149</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a135149</guid> <source:markdown>Reminder, [Atlantis](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Atlantis) is the codename for the new Frontier that runs in Electron. As I work on other projects now, it's not on my front burner, but in a way it is, because I'm using it constantly as I work on FeedLand and the other project. We just released a new set of parts that make it possible for it to open a Markdown file for reading when you 2-click on it in the Finder. Things like that are great to add, because they fit into the 2026 web environment. How did I discover that? Accidentally 2-clicked on a .md file, expecting Atlantis to open it, and it just sat there. Filling in things like that. And for some reason it can't get the find command ported from the C kernel to the new JavaScript one. I have told it countless times that the source of truth is the 2014 repo. I told it again. A neat way to follow this project is to subscribe to the [codecasting feed](https://bits.codecasting.org/frontier.root/rss.xml), the comment for each new part release gives you an idea where some of the work is going on.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Reminder, <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Atlantis">Atlantis</a> is the codename for the new Frontier that runs in Electron. As I work on other projects now, it's not on my front burner, but in a way it is, because I'm using it constantly as I work on FeedLand and the other project. We just released a new set of parts that make it possible for it to open a Markdown file for reading when you 2-click on it in the Finder. Things like that are great to add, because they fit into the 2026 web environment. How did I discover that? Accidentally 2-clicked on a .md file, expecting Atlantis to open it, and it just sat there. Filling in things like that. And for some reason it can't get the find command ported from the C kernel to the new JavaScript one. I have told it countless times that the source of truth is the 2014 repo. I told it again. A neat way to follow this project is to subscribe to the <a href="https://bits.codecasting.org/frontier.root/rss.xml">codecasting feed</a>, the comment for each new part release gives you an idea where some of the work is going on." created="Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:51:49 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/09/12/plato.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a135149"/> </item> <item> <description>Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com <a href="http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/18/continuingWithCodecasting.html">blog post</a> from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/15/googleDefamesScriptingCom.png">look</a> for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is <i>easy</i> to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)</description> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:08:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a140802</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a140802</guid> <source:markdown>Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com [blog post](http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/18/continuingWithCodecasting.html) from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good [look](https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/15/googleDefamesScriptingCom.png) for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is _easy_ to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com <a href="http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/18/continuingWithCodecasting.html">blog post</a> from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/15/googleDefamesScriptingCom.png">look</a> for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is <i>easy</i> to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)" created="Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:08:02 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/15.html#a140802"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2110362631538085958">Thread</a>: "Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles."</description> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:22:47 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192247</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192247</guid> <source:markdown>[Thread](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2110362631538085958): "Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles."</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2110362631538085958">Thread</a>: "Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles."" created="Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:22:47 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192247"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Occam%27s%20News%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:18:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a191851</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a191851</guid> <source:markdown>[Occam's News](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Occam%27s%20News%22) reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Occam%27s%20News%22">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time." created="Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:18:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a191851"/> </item> <item> <description>Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:21:32 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192132</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192132</guid> <source:markdown>Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing." created="Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:21:32 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/14.html#a192132"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/13/reallySimpleCandy.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I'm a recent convert to new versions of the MacOS, last version I was using was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_High_Sierra">High Sierra</a>. In this version, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Tahoe">Tahoe</a>, it's entirely too easy to make a window go full screen with no obvious keystroke to undo the mistake. I learned if you move the mouse up to the top of the screen you get the menubar, but unfortunately there is no obvious command in the menu for undoing the mistake. I still don't know which gesture does this. And btw, the longtime Mac bug where some keystroke moves the dock to another window, that's still here. I can tell as I'm clicking the mouse, too late to stop, that this is one of those times. I've memorized a finger macro to get it back, but it used to piss me off a lot, but now it's kind of a gentle reassurance that someone is remembering how we got here.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:13:46 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a131346</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a131346</guid> <source:markdown>I'm a recent convert to new versions of the MacOS, last version I was using was [High Sierra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_High_Sierra). In this version, [Tahoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Tahoe), it's entirely too easy to make a window go full screen with no obvious keystroke to undo the mistake. I learned if you move the mouse up to the top of the screen you get the menubar, but unfortunately there is no obvious command in the menu for undoing the mistake. I still don't know which gesture does this. And btw, the longtime Mac bug where some keystroke moves the dock to another window, that's still here. I can tell as I'm clicking the mouse, too late to stop, that this is one of those times. I've memorized a finger macro to get it back, but it used to piss me off a lot, but now it's kind of a gentle reassurance that someone is remembering how we got here.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I'm a recent convert to new versions of the MacOS, last version I was using was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_High_Sierra">High Sierra</a>. In this version, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Tahoe">Tahoe</a>, it's entirely too easy to make a window go full screen with no obvious keystroke to undo the mistake. I learned if you move the mouse up to the top of the screen you get the menubar, but unfortunately there is no obvious command in the menu for undoing the mistake. I still don't know which gesture does this. And btw, the longtime Mac bug where some keystroke moves the dock to another window, that's still here. I can tell as I'm clicking the mouse, too late to stop, that this is one of those times. I've memorized a finger macro to get it back, but it used to piss me off a lot, but now it's kind of a gentle reassurance that someone is remembering how we got here." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:13:46 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/13/reallySimpleCandy.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a131346"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://gist.github.com/scripting/5e9a9a1d79f13176f8b6b11dd3da6cbf">firstSentence</a>, a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:24:34 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a152434</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a152434</guid> <source:markdown>[firstSentence](https://gist.github.com/scripting/5e9a9a1d79f13176f8b6b11dd3da6cbf), a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://gist.github.com/scripting/5e9a9a1d79f13176f8b6b11dd3da6cbf">firstSentence</a>, a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:24:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a152434"/> </item> <item> <title>The web of hairballs</title> <description><p>The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball.</p> <p>The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic. </p> <p>Each in turn has <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20one%27s%20way%20with">had their way</a> with the web. </p> <p>The stack of hair defines a "web" that is far far away from the <a href="https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html">web</a> we started with. </p> <p>The tech industry kicked the web out of the web. </p> <p>It was going pretty good for a while, if you could live with the all the modal <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover">popovers</a> and paywalls, but now the current owners are <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">excluding</a> old sites, and imho when you do that, it's not the web any longer. </p> </description> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:20 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html?title=theWebOfHairballs</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html</guid> <source:markdown>The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball. The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic. Each in turn has [had their way](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20one%27s%20way%20with) with the web. The stack of hair defines a "web" that is far far away from the [web](https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html) we started with. The tech industry kicked the web out of the web. It was going pretty good for a while, if you could live with the all the modal [popovers](https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover) and paywalls, but now the current owners are [excluding](https://this.how/googleAndHttp/) old sites, and imho when you do that, it's not the web any longer.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="The web of hairballs" created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:20 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html"> <source:outline text="The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:27 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153327"/> <source:outline text="The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:33:44 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153344"/> <source:outline text="Each in turn has <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20one%27s%20way%20with">had their way</a> with the web." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:39:36 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153936"/> <source:outline text="The stack of hair defines a "web" that is far far away from the <a href="https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html">web</a> we started with." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:34:41 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153441"/> <source:outline text="The tech industry kicked the web out of the web." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:55:20 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a155520"/> <source:outline text="It was going pretty good for a while, if you could live with the all the modal <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover">popovers</a> and paywalls, but now the current owners are <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">excluding</a> old sites, and imho when you do that, it's not the web any longer." created="Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:34:42 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html#a153442"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/03/26/reallySimpleNetwork.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;"><a href="https://x.com/gruber/status/2109418123548074082">Gruber is right</a>. The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They're acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren't doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn't. It killed the web as a writer's platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter joined you. They have the same kind of competitive spirit that successful big companies have. It's time for their competitors to not win users through guilt, rather by providing a better service. Back in the day, we hated Microsoft's plan to suffocate the web, but we admired their tenacity and the way they kept the pressure on their competitors. We've had 20 years of stagnation in social networking. Time to stop being so sensitive. Bluesky made huge promises, and they aren't happening, and that was already <i>years</i> ago. Time for Plan B. I don't really care about the others, Masto isn't going to move and Threads? Wtf is that. Inbound and outbound RSS 2.0, is the way to go. And Markdown is the way you do <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. This is what matters, you all are making something that's really simple so unbearably complicated.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:15:26 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a221526</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a221526</guid> <source:markdown>[Gruber is right](https://x.com/gruber/status/2109418123548074082). The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They're acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren't doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn't. It killed the web as a writer's platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter joined you. They have the same kind of competitive spirit that successful big companies have. It's time for their competitors to not win users through guilt, rather by providing a better service. Back in the day, we hated Microsoft's plan to suffocate the web, but we admired their tenacity and the way they kept the pressure on their competitors. We've had 20 years of stagnation in social networking. Time to stop being so sensitive. Bluesky made huge promises, and they aren't happening, and that was already _years_ ago. Time for Plan B. I don't really care about the others, Masto isn't going to move and Threads? Wtf is that. Inbound and outbound RSS 2.0, is the way to go. And Markdown is the way you do [text](https://textcasting.org/). This is what matters, you all are making something that's really simple so unbearably complicated.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/gruber/status/2109418123548074082">Gruber is right</a>. The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They're acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren't doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn't. It killed the web as a writer's platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter joined you. They have the same kind of competitive spirit that successful big companies have. It's time for their competitors to not win users through guilt, rather by providing a better service. Back in the day, we hated Microsoft's plan to suffocate the web, but we admired their tenacity and the way they kept the pressure on their competitors. We've had 20 years of stagnation in social networking. Time to stop being so sensitive. Bluesky made huge promises, and they aren't happening, and that was already <i>years</i> ago. Time for Plan B. I don't really care about the others, Masto isn't going to move and Threads? Wtf is that. Inbound and outbound RSS 2.0, is the way to go. And Markdown is the way you do <a href="https://textcasting.org/">text</a>. This is what matters, you all are making something that's really simple so unbearably complicated." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:15:26 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/03/26/reallySimpleNetwork.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a221526"/> </item> <item> <description>I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:33:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a153348</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a153348</guid> <source:markdown>I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:33:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a153348"/> </item> <item> <description>I'm still on my sabatical from working with Claude re Frontier, but have now started working with Claude on FeedLand, and another project, not yet named, experimental, might never see the light of day. Yesterday I worked on FeedLand and have a fix for the problem that showed up in signing on to feedland.com. It's been sitting there for quite a while. I have some mostly small fixes in mind for FeedLand, that will allow it to hook into other apps more easily, esp via WebSockets, the mostly unexplored developer superpower. The difference is I'm going slowly and carefully. Everything in my system now is new. New computer, screen, and my main writing tool for code and docs -- Frontier. And I know the heavy lifting can be done by Claude. That is Claude's superpower.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:13:30 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141330</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141330</guid> <source:markdown>I'm still on my sabatical from working with Claude re Frontier, but have now started working with Claude on FeedLand, and another project, not yet named, experimental, might never see the light of day. Yesterday I worked on FeedLand and have a fix for the problem that showed up in signing on to feedland.com. It's been sitting there for quite a while. I have some mostly small fixes in mind for FeedLand, that will allow it to hook into other apps more easily, esp via WebSockets, the mostly unexplored developer superpower. The difference is I'm going slowly and carefully. Everything in my system now is new. New computer, screen, and my main writing tool for code and docs -- Frontier. And I know the heavy lifting can be done by Claude. That is Claude's superpower.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="I'm still on my sabatical from working with Claude re Frontier, but have now started working with Claude on FeedLand, and another project, not yet named, experimental, might never see the light of day. Yesterday I worked on FeedLand and have a fix for the problem that showed up in signing on to feedland.com. It's been sitting there for quite a while. I have some mostly small fixes in mind for FeedLand, that will allow it to hook into other apps more easily, esp via WebSockets, the mostly unexplored developer superpower. The difference is I'm going slowly and carefully. Everything in my system now is new. New computer, screen, and my main writing tool for code and docs -- Frontier. And I know the heavy lifting can be done by Claude. That is Claude's superpower." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:13:30 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141330"/> </item> <item> <description>In Manhattan, I lived on 57th St and Eighth Ave. Best location. The Columbus Circle subway station is under the building. Whole Foods a block away. Three Starbucks one block or less from the apartment (one was on 58th on the same block). Central Park has a six mile bike-only road (at least that's how bikers view it) and down the hill there's a much longer path along the Hudson River. Everywhere you look, a skyscraper is going up. Two were visible from my 50th floor window. New York is an amazing city because it can start up a huge gravity-defying construction project with almost no impact on the surrounding area. If I didn't know where to look I'd never see it. One of the biggest industries in the city is building the city. It's never finished. That's the way good software is too. And we just got a whole new tool for software construction, and it's like nothing we've ever had before.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:18:04 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141804</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141804</guid> <source:markdown>In Manhattan, I lived on 57th St and Eighth Ave. Best location. The Columbus Circle subway station is under the building. Whole Foods a block away. Three Starbucks one block or less from the apartment (one was on 58th on the same block). Central Park has a six mile bike-only road (at least that's how bikers view it) and down the hill there's a much longer path along the Hudson River. Everywhere you look, a skyscraper is going up. Two were visible from my 50th floor window. New York is an amazing city because it can start up a huge gravity-defying construction project with almost no impact on the surrounding area. If I didn't know where to look I'd never see it. One of the biggest industries in the city is building the city. It's never finished. That's the way good software is too. And we just got a whole new tool for software construction, and it's like nothing we've ever had before.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="In Manhattan, I lived on 57th St and Eighth Ave. Best location. The Columbus Circle subway station is under the building. Whole Foods a block away. Three Starbucks one block or less from the apartment (one was on 58th on the same block). Central Park has a six mile bike-only road (at least that's how bikers view it) and down the hill there's a much longer path along the Hudson River. Everywhere you look, a skyscraper is going up. Two were visible from my 50th floor window. New York is an amazing city because it can start up a huge gravity-defying construction project with almost no impact on the surrounding area. If I didn't know where to look I'd never see it. One of the biggest industries in the city is building the city. It's never finished. That's the way good software is too. And we just got a whole new tool for software construction, and it's like nothing we've ever had before." created="Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:18:04 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141804"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleBasketball.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Basic lesson for people who use Claude Code -- it's <i>your</i> time that's valuable, not the bot's. If you find you're lost in the weeds supporting Claude for whatever reason, find a good stopping point, pick up another project, that doesn't use AI to do your code-writing. If you have a question ask ChatGPT browser version, but only for the kind of stuff you'd ask it in 2025. You're not co-developing. You're doing it yourself. It's very important to be clear about your coding, not Claude's output. Here's the key point -- it's your time that's limited, that has all the value. You can get Claude to develop something, but if you don't have time to use it, to nurture it, nothing will come of the work. I was surprised at how I'd lost the rhythm of writing my own code, and also how much I liked doing it myself. It's easy to get lost in the miracle of AI, good to pop up for air every so often.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:56:09 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a145609</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a145609</guid> <source:markdown>Basic lesson for people who use Claude Code -- it's _your_ time that's valuable, not the bot's. If you find you're lost in the weeds supporting Claude for whatever reason, find a good stopping point, pick up another project, that doesn't use AI to do your code-writing. If you have a question ask ChatGPT browser version, but only for the kind of stuff you'd ask it in 2025. You're not co-developing. You're doing it yourself. It's very important to be clear about your coding, not Claude's output. Here's the key point -- it's your time that's limited, that has all the value. You can get Claude to develop something, but if you don't have time to use it, to nurture it, nothing will come of the work. I was surprised at how I'd lost the rhythm of writing my own code, and also how much I liked doing it myself. It's easy to get lost in the miracle of AI, good to pop up for air every so often.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Basic lesson for people who use Claude Code -- it's <i>your</i> time that's valuable, not the bot's. If you find you're lost in the weeds supporting Claude for whatever reason, find a good stopping point, pick up another project, that doesn't use AI to do your code-writing. If you have a question ask ChatGPT browser version, but only for the kind of stuff you'd ask it in 2025. You're not co-developing. You're doing it yourself. It's very important to be clear about your coding, not Claude's output. Here's the key point -- it's your time that's limited, that has all the value. You can get Claude to develop something, but if you don't have time to use it, to nurture it, nothing will come of the work. I was surprised at how I'd lost the rhythm of writing my own code, and also how much I liked doing it myself. It's easy to get lost in the miracle of AI, good to pop up for air every so often." created="Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:56:09 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleBasketball.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a145609"/> </item> <item> <description>Automattic has created a <a href="https://stewartbrand.org/">Stewart Brand website</a> to honor one of the most creative and respected people of my generation of the web. Chronicling his work is time well spent. "I'm envious," I <a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2109373850731331838">wrote</a> in response. "The tech industry is gradually disconnecting the early web, pre-https. A hundred years from now they may have your writing and pictures, but the early web will be gone. The web as designed was very resilient, but it can’t survive deliberate attempt to destroy." I think Stewart would understand why we should help the web we loved so much, archive itself. Think about it this way. Would you rather visit the Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or read about it in a book? You'd want to do both. I want my work to survive a hundred years as it was when it was first published. This would be a good thing for us to work on, together, imho. I did the first <a href="https://longbets.org/2/">Long Now bet</a> for Stewart's Long Now foundation. I always thought it was the first, now they say it's the second? Did someone pull rank? :-)</description> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:34:17 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a203417</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a203417</guid> <source:markdown>Automattic has created a [Stewart Brand website](https://stewartbrand.org/) to honor one of the most creative and respected people of my generation of the web. Chronicling his work is time well spent. "I'm envious," I [wrote](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2109373850731331838) in response. "The tech industry is gradually disconnecting the early web, pre-https. A hundred years from now they may have your writing and pictures, but the early web will be gone. The web as designed was very resilient, but it can’t survive deliberate attempt to destroy." I think Stewart would understand why we should help the web we loved so much, archive itself. Think about it this way. Would you rather visit the Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or read about it in a book? You'd want to do both. I want my work to survive a hundred years as it was when it was first published. This would be a good thing for us to work on, together, imho. I did the first [Long Now bet](https://longbets.org/2/) for Stewart's Long Now foundation. I always thought it was the first, now they say it's the second? Did someone pull rank? :-)</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Automattic has created a <a href="https://stewartbrand.org/">Stewart Brand website</a> to honor one of the most creative and respected people of my generation of the web. Chronicling his work is time well spent. "I'm envious," I <a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2109373850731331838">wrote</a> in response. "The tech industry is gradually disconnecting the early web, pre-https. A hundred years from now they may have your writing and pictures, but the early web will be gone. The web as designed was very resilient, but it can’t survive deliberate attempt to destroy." I think Stewart would understand why we should help the web we loved so much, archive itself. Think about it this way. Would you rather visit the Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or read about it in a book? You'd want to do both. I want my work to survive a hundred years as it was when it was first published. This would be a good thing for us to work on, together, imho. I did the first <a href="https://longbets.org/2/">Long Now bet</a> for Stewart's Long Now foundation. I always thought it was the first, now they say it's the second? Did someone pull rank? :-)" created="Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:34:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a203417"/> </item> <item> <description>Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:53:25 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/10.html#a165325</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/10.html#a165325</guid> <source:markdown>Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start." created="Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:53:25 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/10.html#a165325"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Twitter</a>: "Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs."</description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:22:46 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a012246</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a012246</guid> <source:markdown>[Twitter](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065): "Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs."</source:markdown> <source:outline text="<a href="https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065">Twitter</a>: "Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs."" created="Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:22:46 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a012246"/> </item> <item> <description>Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans. It has no information about how our minds work.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:04:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a140438</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a140438</guid> <source:markdown>Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans. It has no information about how our minds work.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans. It has no information about how our minds work." created="Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:04:38 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a140438"/> </item> <item> <description>Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an <a href="https://claude.ai/artifact/XbtUNCGWdZW8MSmYQGe5c9#a28046b2-100c">example</a>, a report Claude did for me. An obvious next step but a big one. AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. There's been so little movement in this space, but now things are moving very quickly.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:14:08 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a171408</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a171408</guid> <source:markdown>Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an [example](https://claude.ai/artifact/XbtUNCGWdZW8MSmYQGe5c9#a28046b2-100c), a report Claude did for me. An obvious next step but a big one. AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. There's been so little movement in this space, but now things are moving very quickly.</source:markdown> <source:outline text="Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an <a href="https://claude.ai/artifact/XbtUNCGWdZW8MSmYQGe5c9#a28046b2-100c">example</a>, a report Claude did for me. An obvious next step but a big one. AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. There's been so little movement in this space, but now things are moving very quickly." created="Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:14:08 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a171408"/> </item> </channel> </rss>
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"description": "Changed <a href=\"https://x.com/davewiner\">my bio</a> on Twitter: \"I make software to interop. Working on a new web designed for writers and readers and in place of HTML we use Markdown. Keep it super simple. The big undo.\"",
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"description": "Obama is doing the old Obama campaign schtick and it's something to see. He's got a few gray hairs, but he's still got the energy and chutzpah. I'd love to see him and Bernie Sanders on the same stage before this campaign is over. My favorite <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclN6UnicMg\">Obama clip</a> is him wiping the schmutz off his shoulder, I forget who he was putting down, but wow it so concise. I also really liked the time when <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJeptnpNWU\">HRC flirted</a> with him about her likeability. \"You're likeable enough,\" he said. Trump gets the votes not necessarily because people are what people call them, he is a comedian, I say this so many times, that's the charm. Young folk may not remember Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, but that's Trump, and the other two probably had a sweet side, but I don't think that's ever been said about Trump. I could be wrong. There's also a bit of George Carlin in there.",
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"description": "<img class=\"imgRightMargin\" src=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/07/02/knicks.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;\">Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZjTf0CEfN2/\">relish</a> the <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJjecJnuI\">video</a> for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they <i>were</i> not who they are now.",
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"description": "Ooops, didn't get it done today. Please come back tomorrow. :-)",
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"description": "Perfect autumn day in the mountains spent mostly away from the computer. Still, some interesting new stuff to show tomorrow.",
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"description": "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRvJLH_-vU\">Today's song</a>, for the Knicks. \"And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again.\" <i>Knicks in 5! </i>",
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"published": "2026-10-20T12:47:22.000Z",
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"description": "<img class=\"imgRightMargin\" src=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/20/guyKawasakiHeadShot.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;\">My friend <a href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-saying-that-a-players-hire-a\">Guy Kawasaki</a> has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. \"Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players. But B players hire C players, and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to F players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.\" You see this over and over among the very rich in tech. The money is supposed to make them invincible, but they don't hire the best people, I guess, for fear of being found out to not be the genius that the money says they are.",
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"description": "I have a longtime friend from tech who is a San Antonio Spurs fan. I am from New York, and thus am a lifelong Knicks fan. Until tonight's game starts at the Garden between the Knicks and the Sixers with their new acquisitions from Boston and the Lakers, share the hopes of many other Atlantic Division teams who are gunning for the champion Knicks. But after the first jump ball in tonight's game the score is zero-zero, everyone is in first place and everyone is in last place. No one expected the Knicks to win, not even a die-hard fan like myself who often wore a <a href=\"http://scripting.com/2026/01/20/170415.html\">paper bag</a> on his head to avoid having to defend the bozosity of the hometown team. They had some truly awful teams since 1999, last time they were in the finals. So what happened to the Knicks? How did they do it? See the quote from Guy Kawaski above. We hired an A team guy in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rose\">Leon Rose</a>, and he used his great insight into the sport of NBA basketball to assemble a team of second round but A team players who had the special magic that when you put them together on court, they blossomed into the most improbable winners ever. They were good, but no one but the players and the management knew how good they could be. Anyway I empathized with my Spurs fan friend, a very unusual thing for a NY sports fan, we prefer to find annoying ways of making fun of the fans of teams we have <a href=\"https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vanquished\">vanquished</a>, but just this one time, well until the jump ball tonight, then Knicks own the NBA, then they're just another team who have to prove themselves all over again, from scratch. And we wouldn't have it any other way. <i>Knicks in 5!</i>",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/20/125114.html",
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"description": "<p><a href=\"https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22occam%27s%20news%22\">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. </p>\n<p>Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. </p>\n<p>That's all that's going on there. </p>\n<p>All of the feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. </p>\n<p>In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.</p>\n",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/19.html#a004539",
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"description": "<img class=\"imgRightMargin\" src=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/10/andNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;\">Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a <a href=\"http://scripting.com/2025/03/13/132830.html\">writer's web</a>. The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity <a href=\"https://textcasting.org/\">text</a>. Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)",
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"description": "I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year.",
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"description": "Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end.",
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"description": "About <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT\">XSLT</a> -- I remembered that I <a href=\"https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xslt\">thought</a> it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying.",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/18.html#a155532",
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"description": "<img class=\"imgRightMargin\" src=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/18/samwellTarly.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;\">I wrote a piece entitled <a href=\"http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html\">The Web of Markdown</a> on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it.",
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"description": "Anyway, what this means is we're building a site of files that live in Markdown-Land while what you're reading right now is in HTML-land (although someday soon you will read them in Markdown too, confusing). Chrome is the authority of HTML. It owns the web. We give up. If this were Westeros I would probably be joining the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch\">Night's Watch</a>. We have work to do and it might be related to what the Other Web wants to do, but it probably (hopefully) doesn't. I will continue to publish in HTML, and it's up to Google and the EFF if the quality of my writing is suitable for their web. I have no say in it, they have not shown up to negotiate or even discuss. They are silent. Somewhat like the maesters of the Citadel? There must be a bigger plan! :-)",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/18/204123.html",
"title": "Health care is phone tag in US",
"description": "<p>The healthcare system in the US is grossly inefficient, incredibly bad and getting info to and from patients. </p>\n<p>Teach everyone in healthcare to try to use their portals as their first resort of communicating with patients. </p>\n<p>They waste so much of their time and our time playing phone tag. </p>\n<p>I don't know if it's this way in other countries, but it is universally a phone-voice-based comm system in the US.</p>\n",
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"description": "Try going to <a href=\"http://web.org/\">web.org</a> in a recent version of Chrome.",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/17.html#a144851",
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"description": "<img class=\"imgRightMargin\" src=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/17/emilyDickinson.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;\">Realization: There are two webs, one created by TBL that flourished until about 2006, and the VC-web that appealed to the masses, and grew like a weed -- and they also called it the web. The confusion -- you could read it in a web browser, but that didn't make it <i>of</i> the web. My regret, looking back, is I tried to make software in the VC-web. Never got traction, anywhere. My heart, mind and home was always in the first web. And I think what we're coming to terms with now is that has been languishing for 20+ years, it didn't realize its promise, lots of interesting stuff to read that stimulated more thought and thus writing. We should be way ahead of where we are. Because writing has become something for the elite (Substack) to speak through, and limited to grunts and snorts, \"social media,\" for the rest of us. They basically recreated the publishing environment the web was meant to route around. What a story. Can the web reboot? Same old thing, if you want it badly enough, it might be possible.",
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"description": "Tried a <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/podcasts/the-best-soundbars.html\">Wirecutter podcast</a> about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except that they suck. The person they were interviewing was also quickly giggling after a giggle-worthy intro, I guess to try to make what they're saying more interesting but he was just agreeing with them about how they don't know anything. I waited and waited for them to get to something new, some new development I might learn about or something I had been doing wrong, but I gave up after five minutes or so, while I was skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time. It would be much better to err on the side of assuming your listeners know a bit about consumer electronics, these are not actually very exotic things. The NYT does this with their podcasts, I'm rarely willing to risk any time on them, they always end up with giggling people some of whom probably know something I want to learn about but they fill the time with giggles about how stupid the other people are. The seem to be quite proud of their ignorance. (Could have read the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundbar\">Wikipedia page</a> on soundbars so they aren't quite so ignorant, is this a way to make their ignorant listenters more comfortable, yeah probably.)",
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"description": "<a href=\"https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065\">Worth repeating</a>: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.",
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"description": "Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com <a href=\"http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/18/continuingWithCodecasting.html\">blog post</a> from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good <a href=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/10/15/googleDefamesScriptingCom.png\">look</a> for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is <i>easy</i> to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)",
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"description": "<a href=\"https://x.com/davewiner/status/2110362631538085958\">Thread</a>: \"Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles.\"",
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"description": "<a href=\"https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Occam%27s%20News%22\">Occam's News</a> reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That's all that's going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It's totally obvious what's going on. And don't forget Musk has the world encircled with satellites. If he doesn't want you communicating, you don't communicate. In other words the selling-out has been going on for some time.",
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"description": "Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a131346",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/13.html#a152434",
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"description": "<a href=\"https://gist.github.com/scripting/5e9a9a1d79f13176f8b6b11dd3da6cbf\">firstSentence</a>, a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you.",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/13/153320.html",
"title": "The web of hairballs",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a221526",
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"description": "<img class=\"imgRightMargin\" src=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/03/26/reallySimpleNetwork.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;\"><a href=\"https://x.com/gruber/status/2109418123548074082\">Gruber is right</a>. The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They're acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren't doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn't. It killed the web as a writer's platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter joined you. They have the same kind of competitive spirit that successful big companies have. It's time for their competitors to not win users through guilt, rather by providing a better service. Back in the day, we hated Microsoft's plan to suffocate the web, but we admired their tenacity and the way they kept the pressure on their competitors. We've had 20 years of stagnation in social networking. Time to stop being so sensitive. Bluesky made huge promises, and they aren't happening, and that was already <i>years</i> ago. Time for Plan B. I don't really care about the others, Masto isn't going to move and Threads? Wtf is that. Inbound and outbound RSS 2.0, is the way to go. And Markdown is the way you do <a href=\"https://textcasting.org/\">text</a>. This is what matters, you all are making something that's really simple so unbearably complicated.",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a153348",
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"description": "I like the web for people, sites that live and grow, like people. 100 years from now you should feel the people who lived there.",
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"published": "2026-10-12T15:33:48.000Z",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141330",
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"description": "I'm still on my sabatical from working with Claude re Frontier, but have now started working with Claude on FeedLand, and another project, not yet named, experimental, might never see the light of day. Yesterday I worked on FeedLand and have a fix for the problem that showed up in signing on to feedland.com. It's been sitting there for quite a while. I have some mostly small fixes in mind for FeedLand, that will allow it to hook into other apps more easily, esp via WebSockets, the mostly unexplored developer superpower. The difference is I'm going slowly and carefully. Everything in my system now is new. New computer, screen, and my main writing tool for code and docs -- Frontier. And I know the heavy lifting can be done by Claude. That is Claude's superpower.",
"url": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141330",
"published": "2026-10-12T14:13:30.000Z",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/12.html#a141804",
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"description": "In Manhattan, I lived on 57th St and Eighth Ave. Best location. The Columbus Circle subway station is under the building. Whole Foods a block away. Three Starbucks one block or less from the apartment (one was on 58th on the same block). Central Park has a six mile bike-only road (at least that's how bikers view it) and down the hill there's a much longer path along the Hudson River. Everywhere you look, a skyscraper is going up. Two were visible from my 50th floor window. New York is an amazing city because it can start up a huge gravity-defying construction project with almost no impact on the surrounding area. If I didn't know where to look I'd never see it. One of the biggest industries in the city is building the city. It's never finished. That's the way good software is too. And we just got a whole new tool for software construction, and it's like nothing we've ever had before.",
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"published": "2026-10-12T14:18:04.000Z",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/11.html#a145609",
"title": null,
"description": "<img class=\"imgRightMargin\" src=\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleBasketball.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;\">Basic lesson for people who use Claude Code -- it's <i>your</i> time that's valuable, not the bot's. If you find you're lost in the weeds supporting Claude for whatever reason, find a good stopping point, pick up another project, that doesn't use AI to do your code-writing. If you have a question ask ChatGPT browser version, but only for the kind of stuff you'd ask it in 2025. You're not co-developing. You're doing it yourself. It's very important to be clear about your coding, not Claude's output. Here's the key point -- it's your time that's limited, that has all the value. You can get Claude to develop something, but if you don't have time to use it, to nurture it, nothing will come of the work. I was surprised at how I'd lost the rhythm of writing my own code, and also how much I liked doing it myself. It's easy to get lost in the miracle of AI, good to pop up for air every so often.",
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"description": "Automattic has created a <a href=\"https://stewartbrand.org/\">Stewart Brand website</a> to honor one of the most creative and respected people of my generation of the web. Chronicling his work is time well spent. \"I'm envious,\" I <a href=\"https://x.com/davewiner/status/2109373850731331838\">wrote</a> in response. \"The tech industry is gradually disconnecting the early web, pre-https. A hundred years from now they may have your writing and pictures, but the early web will be gone. The web as designed was very resilient, but it can’t survive deliberate attempt to destroy.\" I think Stewart would understand why we should help the web we loved so much, archive itself. Think about it this way. Would you rather visit the Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or read about it in a book? You'd want to do both. I want my work to survive a hundred years as it was when it was first published. This would be a good thing for us to work on, together, imho. I did the first <a href=\"https://longbets.org/2/\">Long Now bet</a> for Stewart's Long Now foundation. I always thought it was the first, now they say it's the second? Did someone pull rank? :-)",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/10.html#a165325",
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"description": "Today I did something different. I wrote a little Node app, without Claude's help. It was a revelation. It's been most of a year since I actually started even a test app and wrote it from beginning to end. I used to do this routinely. Nothing routine about it anymore. What this app does, it generates a Markdown-only version of scripting.com for testing. I want to see what such a site looks like. It'll be a start.",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a012246",
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"description": "<a href=\"https://x.com/davewiner/status/2108723020260946065\">Twitter</a>: \"Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.\"",
"url": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a012246",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a140438",
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"description": "Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans. It has no information about how our minds work.",
"url": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a140438",
"published": "2026-10-09T14:04:38.000Z",
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"id": "http://scripting.com/2026/10/09.html#a171408",
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"description": "Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an <a href=\"https://claude.ai/artifact/XbtUNCGWdZW8MSmYQGe5c9#a28046b2-100c\">example</a>, a report Claude did for me. An obvious next step but a big one. AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. There's been so little movement in this space, but now things are moving very quickly.",
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