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		<outline text="July 2026" created="Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:44:27 GMT" name="july2026" type="calendarMonth">
			<outline text="July 10" created="Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:49:04 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="10">
				<outline text="new stuff" created="Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:35:02 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="docs menu" created="Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:35:18 GMT"/>
					<outline text="merge repos? probably" created="Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:35:20 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="July 9" created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:54:59 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="09">
				<outline text="Can RSS be a social network? " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:20:01 GMT">
					<outline text="Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called &lt;a href=&quot;https://textcasting.org/&quot;&gt;textcasting&lt;/a&gt;. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:55:18 GMT" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/12/25/leftfacingsanta.png"/>
					<outline text="Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the features the web needed to be a great writing environment. Textcasting said this is what we have to have to get back on track.  " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:07:17 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Meanwhile all I wanted was a nice little social network to use with a few of my programming buddies. " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:56:01 GMT"/>
					<outline text="To bootstrap a simple distributed network based only on web standards, with every part replaceable. " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:16:51 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I thought you could do it with RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL and Web Sockets." created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:00:05 GMT"/>
					<outline text="It would work &lt;a href=&quot;https://textcasting.org/&quot;&gt;like podcasting&lt;/a&gt;, anyone can publish, anyone can read. " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:34:39 GMT"/>
					<outline text="We can all have different spins on user experience, there should be &lt;i&gt;lots&lt;/i&gt; of approaches, an infinite number of ways for people to connect, but we must all interop at a basic level, so users can use any software they want at either end to implement the network. " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:34:04 GMT"/>
					<outline text="We'd think of text the same way you think of MP3. It just should work everywhere. No one would ever say that MP3s could only be 300 seconds long. Or you can't play music, or have more than one person. Laughable, right? " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:57:13 GMT"/>
					<outline text="There's no mystery to this. The fact that our text can't go everywhere is because the big networks don't want to be compatible with each other. Bad for business. " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:01:06 GMT"/>
					<outline text="The right way, the way the web would do social networking: Every part is replaceable. Interop everywhere." created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:17:45 GMT"/>
					<outline text="There is no platform vendor. It's like the web because it &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; the web.  " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:18:17 GMT"/>
					<outline text="That's my dream platform. " created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:58:31 GMT"/>
					<outline text="PS: Spoiler alert -- the answer to the title question is yes of course. :smile:" created="Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:35:27 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="July 8" created="Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:28:05 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="08">
				<outline text="More people are using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wp.feedland.org/&quot;&gt;news site&lt;/a&gt; I put up for WordPress. If you have a blog or podcast that covers WordPress, &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/353&quot;&gt;send me a link&lt;/a&gt; to the feed and I'll add it. The OPML list of the sites we cover is &lt;a href=&quot;https://feedland.social/opml?screenname=davewiner&amp;catname=wordpress&quot;&gt;public&lt;/a&gt;, so you can always load the feeds into your feed reader, they all read lists in this format. This is the kind of thing that works great on the web. People take interop for granted when it's always been there. But they're still there to be built on. And imho interop and the web imho are the same thing. " created="Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:37:20 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I said to Claude: &quot;We're the first social network that thinks getting &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.manton.org/&quot;&gt;his&lt;/a&gt; support is the first thing.&quot; Claude replied: &quot;And that's the whole thesis in one move — every other network treats the open-web guy as an afterthought; here he's the launch audience.&quot; " created="Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:28:06 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="July 7" created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:58:27 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="07">
				<outline text="Sometimes Claude's judgement sucks, and that's why Jive coding usually produces a dashboard app. A different piece of software will drive it in a different direction. That's what I meant by AI-izing, in an earlier post." created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:27:47 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I used to be a single-thread developer, but now I'm multi-tasking, I can work on two things at once. Claude is now able to research and fix certain problems, and his work is in a sandbox where it doesn't have any access to the surroundings, and can't make too big a mess, and it's going great, if there's a mistake it can quickly be corrected. " created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:02:28 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I think AI is the perfect innovation as we reach the crash point of the climate crisis. Who cares if we burn more CO2 now, the effect is miniscule for the explosive crisis that could be coming any day or week. One that we have no ability to recover from. To say it's unenvironmental would be like complaining that you want more Pepsi from the flight attendant while the plane is crashing into a small city. Anyway, but maybe after the crash, one data center will survive, and maybe the beauty that our civilization created will be sustained." created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:54:10 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Inside the big AI companies they are certainly AI-izing every app conceivable, and even teaching the AI's how to AI'ize, because AI inside a standard productivity app which includes social network software will be one of the basic UI tools, and that means hidden technology like SQL databases can now be end user products, so the vision of the designers of SQL that they would make a database a manager could program, would finally be realized. " created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:51:41 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="AI can do QA" created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:40:30 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="I'm an independent developer working in Claude Code, we're in the endgame of a product cycle, where the core is working and it can be used for the thing it was designed to do (biggest consideration). This is the time when you need users banging on it and reporting problems. People who write good bug reports. The only time I really had that down was at Living Videotext, a small company, but big enough to have employees doing QA and tech support. They were really good testers, they had the right perspective and an incentive, = anything we caught before shipping wouldn't become a support problem once the product was out there in user land. " created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:31:07 GMT" type="outline"/>
					<outline text="Fast forward to the 2020's where I have done three products and am working on a fourth, and I have nothing close to the kind of testing support I had in the 80s. That made the work more difficult, slower and I took fewer detours, and one time, awfully -- a serious design error was caught only after it shipped and I was ready to move on to something else. " created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:42:10 GMT"/>
					<outline text="The point -- this handicap for individual programmers without staff QA people, we now have something even better than what we had in the 80s. Claude can do extensive testing of the product in the browser, &quot;seeing&quot; what the user would see. And it never gets tired. You just have to think to ask it to do it. It is so liberating. " created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:43:44 GMT"/>
					<outline text="And by far the best people to create and manage it would be experienced QA people. They should design and run the tests and sign off on the quality of the software, so we can be sure users are getting something great. And we can do great QA in places we never could really do it before because no matter how good users are, a person who does it for a living with experience can't be replaced." created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:43:57 GMT"/>
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				<outline text="One of the silver linings of AI use is that it makes you a better writer. " created="Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:58:28 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="July 6" created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:27:21 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="06">
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQbjpomexo&quot;&gt;Today's song&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;July is dressed up and playing her tune.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:50:07 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/jamestalarico&quot;&gt;James Talarico&lt;/a&gt;, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/photomatt&quot;&gt;Matt Mullenweg&lt;/a&gt;, who also happens to be from Texas. He speaks as confidently as Obama, about the right things, wants to run our government like a freaking government. To think that's a campaign issue in the United States of America says why I did not celebrate our 250th on Saturday. I tried to imagine what it will be like when we start becoming ourselves again. ;-)" created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:00:25 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="We just implement &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2025/10/09/133902.html#a133943&quot;&gt;Cute Paste&lt;/a&gt; in the new product and I keep hitting a limit that it has. I love the feature, in most cases. Here I've set up an &amp;lt;img src=&quot;xxx&quot;&gt;, the xxx reserving space for the URL that I'm now going to get. When I come back I select xxx and paste, and in its place is the full url in text, linked to itself. I laugh, no feature is free, there's always a tradeoff and sometimes it breaks something that worked before. " created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:52:12 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The web is about interop" created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:40:45 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="I'm doing a big new thing with RSS, and that's got me thinking a lot about where I want to go after the first round of new functionality. I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/announcing-the-rsscloud-server-4-0-release/&quot;&gt;Andrew Shell&lt;/a&gt; came out with a new version of his open source &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpc.rsscloud.io/docs/quick-start&quot;&gt;rssCloud hub server&lt;/a&gt;, which we use here, that now supports WebSub. So I decided to find out if it was worth supporting." created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:29:45 GMT"/>
					<outline text="There isn't very much I'd have to do beyond adding two Atom elements to my feed, and an Atom namespace declaration in the top line of the file. So it's not an easy thing to do, because I don't see the need for Atom to be required for WebSub. How did they come to that conclusion? I can only imagine -- it's not as if RSS was unknown to them (I hope)." created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:41:25 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I wish the WebSub group had gotten together with RSS people and come up with a neutral way to include a link to my WebSubHub. Bub, that's just good web sense. You want the max interop asap. Make it easy for people to support what you want them to support. You put personal jealousy ahead of interop, and that should be against the law in the Land of the Web. " created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:42:13 GMT"/>
					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://this.how/standards/#1497798753000&quot;&gt;On the web our goal is interop&lt;/a&gt;. That's it. We should have worked together. Yeah I wish you wouldn't have done it, and proof you didn't need to is that Andrew was able to build it into his server, with some help from Claude btw. " created="Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:42:20 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="July 5" created="Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:55:22 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="05">
				<outline text="Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back. And it's just as likely that writing on computer networks will undergo a similar transformation." created="Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:23:37 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/19/reallySimpleNet.png"/>
				<outline text="Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, I wrote: &quot;It works! Again a big difference, it's only happened a few times but when it does I completely lose the suspension of disbelief.&quot; Claude responds: &quot;One jolt and the tool becomes visible again.&quot; That's why people say my software thinks like they do. Of course it doesn't, but we work hard to stay completely unseen when your brain is working. It lets you think. We go after bugs like this and they add up to that feeling." created="Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:32:43 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I &lt;i&gt;am&lt;/i&gt; falling in love with Claude Code, obviously -- and I have said some things that sound pretty dumb reading them back. It has happened before, and I did make a fool of myself. I think that's part of being in love, btw. " created="Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:40:21 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I had a lisp when I was a kid, but they trained it out of me. These days I catch myself lisping sometimes. Maybe the training wears off??" created="Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:26:53 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I live in a place where the power goes out when there's a big storm. When the power comes back 15 hours later, you appreciate air conditioning in a whole new way." created="Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:55:23 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="July 4" created="Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:33:40 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="04">
				<outline text="I'm old enough to remember the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.city-journal.org/article/america-bicentennial-tall-ships-operation-sail&quot;&gt;Tall Ships&lt;/a&gt; in NY Harbor on this day in 1976, the bicentennial. As a NY kid, I wasn't very impressed. I liked rockets and rock bands, sound systems, had started programming then, was working in BASIC at Rapidata, a time sharing company with its office in the Empire State Building where I had my office on the 39th floor. The windows opened. This was betw Tulane and UW-Madison. I had no clue what was going on, but I had already come close to getting drafted. I had been raised to think the US absolutely was totally special, the best place, the rest of the world was far behind us. We were right to feel that way. It was the US vs the World and we won. I was born only 10 years after the end of WW II, so the feeling of power and righteousness was our foundation growing up, but also the certainty we'd all die in a nuclear holocaust. By 1976 we had had Watergate, the president &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; a crook, and were about to go through spiraling stagflation. Ronald Reagan. John Lennon killed. We had shit to deal with, worse in some ways than what we have today. Are we still the USA? We are if we decide we are. Anyway, my friend Jerry at the right wants to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdPOAhBp2Ag&quot;&gt;sing for you&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I'm Uncle Sam that's who I am been hiding out in a rock and roll band.&quot; We sing this song here every July 4, and it's always as true as it was in previous years. Freedom is something you practice. " created="Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:23:50 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/02/26/uncleJerry.png"/>
				<outline text="In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2073445073308602524&quot;&gt;case&lt;/a&gt; of twitter-like systems the limits of the technology basically lost us the web, something most people are just now coming to grips with. At the time people were saying &quot;RSS is dead,&quot; but didn't understand that it was killing off most of the features of HTML too. It was a slow process, like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog&quot;&gt;frog&lt;/a&gt; in the boiling water story? " created="Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:33:41 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="July 3" created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:48:39 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="03">
				<outline text="I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://feedland.com/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.megaphone.fm%2Fthe-bill-simmons-podcast&quot;&gt;Bill Simmons podcast&lt;/a&gt;, but that's because the Knicks won and the NBA is re-forming itself around the Knicks. It's so freaking unusual to have your team, which was once right up there with Charlotte, New Orleans, Portland, Washington, Memphis, in the very the bottom rung of the NBA, to have them be the model everyone is chasing with the qualification that no one expects it to last (I don't care if it does, I love this team, the're as memorable as the 1973 champs), but all of a sudden Bill Simmons is respectful. I can't listen to a podcast of Democratic consultants, or Republican consultants that vote Democratic now. I did listen to them on the lead-up to the election in 2024. But whatever happens in the sport of elections the Democrats as they were before 2024, the one that re-nominated Biden and then switched to Harris and lost a race that should have been an easy win, are over. Those Democrats still think people will vote for well-executed government. Some people will (me, for example) but enough people see the election as Reality TV, so you want someone who looks like a winner in that context. The world has changed in so many ways and the Dems haven't even caught up with the change brought about by blogging and podcasting. Now we have Claude. I probably would vote for Claude too. I don't know. Anyway I'm warmed up now. Onto my day's work with the aforementioned Claude. " created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:48:40 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/03/rabbit.png"/>
				<outline text="Claude's face as visualized by ChatGPT" created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:03:27 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="I asked ChatGPT for this. &quot;If we had a talking head version of ChatGPT, a human-like image of a person that spoke Claude's words what would it look like?&quot; " created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:03:34 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Claude's words coming through ChatGPT's image. " created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:05:28 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/claudeTalkingHead.png"/>
					<outline text="There was a typo, I typed Claude when I meant ChatGPT. So I asked it correctly, with ChatGPT both times. Except I forgot to ask for an image, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/printedDescription.png&quot;&gt;got the text&lt;/a&gt; behind the image which is generous and revealing. I would vote for a politician who was this honorable, generous and idealistic, a modern day John McCain." created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:08:24 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Claude speaking from Claude's head, described in words by ChatGPT. " created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:08:58 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/narrative.png"/>
					<outline text="Then I asked for ChatGPT for an image of ChatGPT talking head. " created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:24:44 GMT"/>
					<outline text="ChatGPT's self-visualized talking head. " created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:25:13 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/chatgptAsVisualizedByChatgpt.png"/>
					<outline text="Final image, Claude head speaking for Claude AI as an image." created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:13:46 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Claude speaking for Claude as rendered by ChatGPT." created="Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:21:38 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/claudeAsVisualizedByChatGPT.png" isComment="false"/>
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			<outline text="July 2" created="Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:42:02 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="02">
				<outline text="AI should be like a lawyer or doctor, first responsibility is to the user. And first, do no harm. " created="Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:40:47 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="An observation about Fable 5 in Claude Code. It's a much better writer than Opus 4.8. One of our next big things is writing docs, and all the info is in Claude. Opus was a disaster as a docs writer. This one looks like it'll be good. Whew." created="Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:11:46 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="You can't learn from your mistakes if you aren't bloody truthful to yourself about what happened and what went wrong." created="Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:11:30 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I'm working on an app in Claude that has a server and the server has an API. One day we had an aha moment. I bet you (Claude) can control the app via the API. Yes. And now unless we're debugging something in the UI, Claude just interacts via the API. It feels like a person but you have to remember that it's actually a piece of software. ;-)" created="Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:58:31 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I saw a bit of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNH43a1EI7s&quot;&gt;commencement&lt;/a&gt; speech by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt&quot;&gt;Eric Schmidt&lt;/a&gt;, ex-CEO of Google, where he was talking about AI and getting boo'd by the audience. But he was saying things that were right and should be paid attention to. Most important, and I'm paraphrasing, the AI world is just getting started, and we can change it now most easily, it's malleable. That won't last forever. As Obama &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QKX9mcQeVCc&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;Don't boo, vote.&quot; Same thing here. AI has already completely changed how we develop software. It's not replacing humans, it's giving us amazing new power. Maybe it will at some point replace us, but don't be so sure that what we do with it might be every bit as new as the things it can do. We have different abilities. And I am old enough to remember a time before personal computers, the internet, the web, mobile devices, all the things that have since become everyday fixtures, and they all had negative aspects, but I would never go back. We're on a train and it's going somewhere. Where it goes is something we all have a say in. " created="Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:42:03 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/02/dontBooVote.png"/>
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			<outline text="July 1" created="Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:44:28 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="01">
				<outline text="A thought for people who think the US can't be fixed. I've seen very strange things happen, like all of a sudden people figure it out and boom next thing you know they're the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/14.html&quot;&gt;NBA Champions&lt;/a&gt;. It wasn't &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; sudden, but the last leg of was. A gestalt. Now two leaders figure out how to. The thing about each of those people is determination, and a belief they were right, and they went right up to the edge and fought. I think the country would unite behind such a leader. " created="Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:31:34 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/03/30/bankDick.png"/>
				<outline text="One of the cool things about having Claude Code is that as we develop this product, we have a near perfect chronology of every consideration and decision made along the way. I don't think that's ever been possible before. I would love to see how the people at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix&quot;&gt;Bell Labs&lt;/a&gt; put together the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix&quot;&gt;Unix&lt;/a&gt; implemenation, what did they talk about, what did they go back and do again once they used the product. Or developers at Xerox PARC, or the process that led to Visicalc, &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html&quot;&gt;Mac OS&lt;/a&gt; or Pagemaker. TBL's first web browser, ChatGPT, etc. Software is a totally intellectual creation, but there is a story for each product, because it's a human doing the design. BTW we had our first faceoff, Claude and I, and I won. Claude said the bug was in my code, I proved it was not, suggested he look at the crazy complicated SQL code he wrote (so glad to have it around for that). Also, I tend to use male pronouns for Claude. Worth mentioning once. (The Computer History Museum should be paying attention.)" created="Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:44:29 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I showed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a134429&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; above to Claude and that took our conversation off in a new direction. We had been experimenting with the Message Scanner from LBBS, an early version of Twitter I wrote in the early 80s. It's described in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/outlinersProgramming.html&quot;&gt;story&lt;/a&gt; I wrote in 1988, a summary of what I did leading to the start of &quot;UserLand&quot;. 38 years later Claude said: &quot;LBBS message scanner running on RSS.&quot;" created="Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:06:05 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="BTW thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/outlinersProgramming.html&quot;&gt;LBBS&lt;/a&gt; as an early version of Twitter is a contortion, but considering how history played out, accurate." created="Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:12:08 GMT" type="outline"/>
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		<outline text="June 2026" created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:08:06 GMT" name="june2026" type="calendarMonth">
			<outline text="June 30" created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:21:34 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="30">
				<outline text="Some things Claude is extremely tedious at. But then it blows you away how it can read thousands of lines of complicated code in a few seconds (in parallel) and find tiny little things that any good obsessive programmer would want to fix (like me). And be amazed at how we, our species, made such a thing. Where is the pride? I was once prideful that my civilization created a great piece of machinery like my &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Subaru%20Forester%22&quot;&gt;Subaru Forester&lt;/a&gt;, and now just a few years later, we've come up with a decent simulation of a super-human brain that's not just a demo or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_vacuum_cleaner&quot;&gt;robot vacuum cleaner&lt;/a&gt; it actually does amazing science fiction type stuff. Take a deep breath and feel a little awe to go with the cynicism. It's good to be ready to be riled up, but sometimes the truth isn't as bad as you'd like to think, sometimes it's utterly amazing. ;-) " created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:07:48 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/01/16/rodneyDangerfield.png"/>
				<outline text="BTW, I sometimes ask Claude &quot;what do you think&quot; and it often has an opinion." created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:20:07 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Earlier today I &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122345&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; doing an AI/UI overhaul for WordPress, and today I see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/johnturner/status/2071966750011179370&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://wpvibe.ai/start/&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt; from (apparently) an independent developer. Breath-taking.  " created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:29:39 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The EFF gets everything wrong. It’s observable. Empirical. The EFF stands up for something that’s supposedly good for people and the web, but if you look closer, it’s actually bad for the web and the people, and serves the interest of big tech companies, usually Google." created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:23:03 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Another truth, the user interface of WordPress could benefit from a total overhaul. Too many expedient choices over too many years that paper over bad design choices with yet more bad choices. But this kind of problem is relatively easy to fix. Make a list of all the features. Don’t organize the list yet. Keep adding. Then play around with logical groups, give the groups names. Voila, there’s your menu structure. And since it’s 2026 and not 2010, do something innovative with AI. Let the user explain what they want to do, confirm it, and then forget about the menu structure and just do what they asked you to do. Over time the UI will become more literate and less organizational. You remember how &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_goes_to_China&quot;&gt;Nixon could open&lt;/a&gt; up China and could because he was such a hawk. WordPress getting a AI/UI overhaul will seem right because it so desperately needs an overhaul and everyone knows it. Another truth, don’t feel bad WordPress, every 20+ year old end user product desperately needs a user interface overhaul because that’s just the way it works. (I have never created a product that lasted as long as WordPress has. I have created concepts that have.)" created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:23:45 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/01/21/lemonade.png"/>
				<outline text="I organize my work in OPML and have even taught Claude how to work with me in outlines." created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:22:13 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I prefer to do my middle of the night iPad &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2071843278798852607&quot;&gt;writing sprees&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter instead of Bluesky because no character limit. No one is going to read the stuff on either platform, so why not go for ease of use for writing." created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:21:35 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="BTW thanks to Dave Carlick for noticing when I had fun writing a piece, laughing out loud at almost every sentence. Who's the biggest fan of my writing? Me. But sometimes I think of Dave C. And Sally At." created="Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:54:52 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 29" created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:45:18 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="29">
				<outline text="Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier." created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:45:19 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a131214&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt;. And I should mention that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.manton.org/2026/06/28/dave-winer-puts-out-a.html&quot;&gt;Manton Reece&lt;/a&gt;, developer of &lt;a href=&quot;https://micro.blog/&quot;&gt;micro.blog&lt;/a&gt; and a longtime friend, going back to the Frontier days on the Mac, has inbound and outbound RSS and he covers every freaking API out there, he's a monster. And I said yesterday he doesn't get enough credit for what he's contributed. We're aiming for interop instead of chasing the silos. And it's fine to chase silos if you're into it, I was done with that &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2017/05/05/iWantMyOldBlogBack.html&quot;&gt;in 2017&lt;/a&gt;. We're going to make it work the way it would work if we weren't trying to lock anyone in, quite the opposite, I &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; people to use Manton's product. I'm not being commercial here. I'm trying to get the web back on the path it should have been on all along. If I make some money that's cool, if not that's okay too. BTW, this all-together will be the &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20070107081239/http://davenet.scripting.com/2000/03/02/theTwowayweb&quot;&gt;Two-Way Web&lt;/a&gt;, specifically Two-Way RSS. And of course &quot;textcasting&quot;. Don't forget that. It's a rule, textcasting everywhere conceivable. " created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:27:57 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/02/23/reallySimpleRavioli.png"/>
				<outline text="I've never given a commencement speech, but if I did, I'd run through my &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+mottos&quot;&gt;mottos&lt;/a&gt; and explain what they mean and who I &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22only%20steal%20from%20the%20best%22&quot;&gt;stole&lt;/a&gt; them from, and how they are a distillation of what I've learned in life. The one I'd mention first, which isn't even on the freaking list, is this one -- &quot;People don't listen to friends, they listen to competitors.&quot; What that means is if you want someone to add a feature, you have to do two things. Implement their whole product. Add the things you want them to add. And win. If you don't win it doesn't matter how good your idea is. This is the hoop you have to jump through to get them to listen to your idea. Knowing this, I have tried to listen even when I don't feel like a friend is competing. Ideas from people who know your product, no matter how they got it, are people who can help. This was one of the values of a core part of Apple in the early-mid 80s, and I owe my success in tech to them, because the ideas they gave me put us over the top. Jean-Louis Gassée and Guy Kawasaki. I don't think they ever competed with me. Another thing I like about them. ;-)" created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:20:27 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Just had a great idea for the Democratic Party. It's time to review past governing decisions made by Democrats that resulted in the collapse of democracy in the US in 2025-26. Can't do anything about the Repubs, but we sure as hell can whip the Dems into shape. My first contribution, &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/21.html#a181749&quot;&gt;Obama&lt;/a&gt; should have installed his Supreme Court choice after waiting three months for the Senate to advise and consent. If the Repubs can invent a new practice so can the Dems. That would make the Supreme Court a lot more funcitonal now, just that one thing. Democrats must not be so freaking afraid of stirring things up. We would have all respected that, esp the Repubs. This would be an incredible campaign process, would allow us to say that this is what the Democrats, going forward, will always/never do. " created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:50:56 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="It's remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remarkable because they captured the market, wiped out all competition (they deserved it, the products were awful) and then shut their own product down, leaving a toxic karmic &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9mylnkp2go&quot;&gt;bomb&lt;/a&gt; crater in its place. " created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:07:56 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Of course I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/google-ai-oligarchy-and-the-end-of-the-open-web&quot;&gt;Josh Marshall's piece&lt;/a&gt; about the end of the open net. Now let's go back to when it started and do it again, using everything we learned, try not to make the same mistakes. Josh was there, pretty sure he was at the first BloggerCon. " created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:56:41 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Only steal from the best" created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:16 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="As a writer I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22only%20steal%20from%20the%20best%22&quot;&gt;stolen lots&lt;/a&gt; of ideas. All writers do it. How do you think we get our ideas. " created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:32 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Which is why it's so weird that they object to having their ideas stolen en masse. "/>
					<outline text="We go through this regularly, basically you make a living doing something, and you aren't paid enough. "/>
					<outline text="So every subject in every context arrives at the same place. Why aren't they paying me. I must be paid." created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:01:21 GMT"/>
					<outline text="It is a permanent obsession with writers."/>
					<outline text="I try to be honest and admit that I steal from other writers, but I only steal from the best! :-)" created="Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:02:52 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 28" created="Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:08:30 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="28">
				<outline text="To read scripting.com you need a browser that &lt;a href=&quot;https://this.how/googleAndHttp/&quot;&gt;supports HTTP&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:45:32 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most &lt;a href=&quot;https://textcasting.org/&quot;&gt;features of the web&lt;/a&gt;, and social media places limits on what writers can write. That's where the literate social web went, and the bloggers too. Like how birds are really dinosaurs. " created="Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:43:15 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="If you're working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound &quot;RSS&quot;, I'd like to help, so our products can interop beautifully. That's the reason I'm doing this work, to establish a baseline for interop in the social web. RSS is the obvious candidate. If we didn't have it, we'd have to invent it. I'd much prefer doing the work openly, so if you can, write a post and send me a link. I think it's time for us to go back to the way we built network systems before Google and the VCs took over. Put up an app and see who works with it. My email address is on the About &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/?tab=about&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; on my blog." created="Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:12:14 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Programming tip. If your app has globals, create an object called globals, and put all of them in there. Someday you may want to swap in one set of globals for another, this makes it easy." created="Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:08:31 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I noted a few weeks ago that Markdown has a format for outlines. " created="Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:10:43 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 27" created="Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:59:08 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="27">
				<outline text="Claude can understand code no human could. Ever, under any circumstances. Just like a compiler can understand any code we throw at it. Way beyond what code &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscation_(software)&quot;&gt;obfuscation tools&lt;/a&gt; can do." created="Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:26:59 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/outlinersProgramming.html&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; I published in 1997, but was written in 1988 or so. Esp the part about &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=lbbs&quot;&gt;LBBS&lt;/a&gt;. It's a really good thing I wrote that because I forgot how it worked, but reading that it all comes back. We're going to go far beyond where Twitter went with reading message structures on the web. I had already done a lot of the work in the 80s. " created="Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:59:09 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The other day Matt joked about how old I am, in public, and I &lt;i&gt;am&lt;/i&gt; pretty old. But Matt, I was paying attention then as I am now, and connecting the dots. No one else working today, I'd venture, knows what it's like to create and run a modem-based dial-up Twitter-like system on an Apple II with a 10MB Corvus hard drive. Yet it worked, and people &lt;i&gt;loved&lt;/i&gt; it. If you weren't alive in 1981, you wouldn't know anything about this. I remember talking with Doug Engelbart when I was running UserLand. If you don't know who he is, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart&quot;&gt;look&lt;/a&gt; him up. He blazed a &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/1962-engelbart-AHI-framework&quot;&gt;trail&lt;/a&gt; we were turning into a highway, and we're all using his inventions all the time. Every chance I got to sit down with him I did. I wanted him to work with us, to critique everything we were doing. He had a lot of knowledge that disappeared when he passed on a few years later. That's the sad thing, at my advanced age, that I am trying to avoid. And btw, as surprise, Claude really understands this stuff. I've never seen anything like it with a human, and I've worked with some great humans. " created="Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:01:28 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/27/doc.png"/>
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			<outline text="June 26" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:25:43 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="26">
				<outline text="Podcast: &lt;a href=&quot;https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2026/06/26/myLatestAiAhaMoment.html&quot;&gt;My (latest) AI Aha Moment&lt;/a&gt;." created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:25:44 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="When Claude has all the information available it can figure out stuff a human mind would never be able hold in our minds at the same time, but it often doesn't remember to get the information first. When you get to the level I'm at with this, it's hallucinating all the freaking time because it didn't load the part of the data set that had the answer. It was right there, it was supposed to know, it just forgot to look. My job is to recognize when it has done that and tell it to go read handoff.md again. I mentioned this on Twitter, and got all kinds of help, but the terminology isn't well known to me. Still diggin, as they say." created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:27:41 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I'm loving &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_City_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;Star City&lt;/a&gt;. New episode last night, wow. " created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:40:28 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="With all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wapo.st/4y6wnl5&quot;&gt;Democratic Socialists winning&lt;/a&gt; over standard Democratic party incumbents, there's a fair amount of angst on the cable news. If they're scared, they should step aside. We tried it their way in the Biden Administration. If we ever get lucky enough to have a president who's sane and wants to reboot democracy, it's going to require doing some things that an oldtime president wouldn't want to do, like Obama or Biden. Both of them gave up without even trying. Forgive them, but let's not make the mistake of electing their successors. It's time for clear-thinking people to take office, fully aware of what they signed onto, and then if we elect them, they do it. And when the Repubs throw bullshit at us, say it's bullshit, and say it that way, not the mealy-mouthed way Jeffries does, or even Elizabeth Warren. What we need now is a strong dose of &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22bernie%20sanders%22&quot;&gt;Bernie Sanders&lt;/a&gt;. Did I ever think I'd say that? Hell no." created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:27:59 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="A project I wanted to do with WordPress" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:59:38 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="&lt;i&gt;I was on Slack chatting with a friend from WordCamp Canada last year, and by accident (I guess) Slack sent me the first message they sent after coming home about all the things we'd do. It reminded me of how &lt;/i&gt;possible&lt;i&gt; things seemed then, and for a moment I got lost in planning it out, and I absolutely loved what I saw there. But it was sad, because I am sure it will never happen, not until someone inside the community gets the idea, and there really is only one &quot;someone&quot; here. Heh. I've been around big companies and communities before, many times. Anyway, I figured I should post this here now, because I have moved toward a WordPress-less web, or WordPress-on-the-Side, but I want to be clear that &quot;WordLand&quot; remains in place, free for anyone to use. It's a great way to write for WordPress. And if this project to make web content APIs a web standard, I'm totally on board for helping the world understand how potent an idea it is.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:59:48 GMT" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/03/20/tryHarder.png"/>
					<outline text="So here's the text of the message with light redaction in places. ;-)" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:08:06 GMT">
						<outline text="it's funny when i got email notice for this post, it sent me the first message you sent after the wordcamp in ottawa. those were more optimistic days. i still have my wordpress work, but now have pivoted to working on the web without the wordpress connection since matt seems to want to go in a different direction, based on all the stuff they've started re AT Proto, which imho is a terrible bet. it would be like the Knicks trying to move from NYC to Mississippi. Why would you do that when so many developers know wordpress and you all have such an excellent api?" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:02:53 GMT"/>
						<outline text="you asked me back then if there's part of your project i'd like to work on, and i said i'd think, and i had an idea just the other day, thought i should share it."/>
						<outline text="the wpcom api is fantastic and very few people know about it, even the people in the wp developer community. but it really is the answer -- how will services that work on the social web coordinate? where will users store their data? where will the published results be available to read? wordpress really is the best choice. i have no stake in that, i don't own wordpress, have never made a dime off it, i'm just me, saying that and i have some credibility in this area."/>
						<outline text="so here's what i suggest" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:04:31 GMT" flNumberedSubs="true">
							<outline text="a new simplified version of the api and some example apps, both are already done" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:04:26 GMT"/>
							<outline text="a new protocol so that any service can be part of it, we need a way to identify servers that aren't using jetpack or wordpress.com"/>
							<outline text="a new name and website, and positioning -- something to roll out."/>
							<outline text="work with independent developers to make their products work"/>
							<outline text="co-marketing"/>
							<outline text="investment and distribution" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:04:29 GMT"/>
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						<outline text="i know a lot about all these things, having done them before with some amount of success."/>
						<outline text="i'm about to embark on it again with my new product, btw called rss.chat. i think you can imagine what it is based on that name? "/>
						<outline text="but i haven't forgotten about this opportunity. i don't know how much of 1-6 the open source project, but #2 is clearly in your purview. not something people are going to want automattic to do (though I'm sure they could). with the new protocol look what we have! a way to distribute apps on the web so that developers don't have to compete with BigCo's, they can be a person with a hobby, and who knows they may have a big hit and get rich."/>
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				<outline text="Hello World" created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:39:29 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="This is always good for a chill." created="Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:39:36 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/26/helloWorld.png"/>
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			<outline text="June 25" created="Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:15:29 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="25">
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/&quot;&gt;Om Malik died&lt;/a&gt;. A longtime friend, most generous kind person in Silicon Valley. It's that time of life. Much love to you brother." created="Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:19:39 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Claude is a brain&lt;/b&gt;, very different from ours and when we work together we humans have access to capabilities that work really well with building large software products. And that's a huge understatement. Most remarkable thing. Most of the discussion between people who use the AI tools and those that condemn them are not productive because the opponents of AI don't understand the breadth of what these machines do and the potential to do much more, things that we as a species have never done. Think of it as an alien life form that wants to merge with us. I'm glad to be alive at this moment, and able to explore it as part of my development team. I recommend starting an academic dialog, among people who don't have conflicts of interest, or very well-disclosed and disclaimed conflicts, to accurately record this discussion based on facts, for the record, so when people ask how conscious were we when we did this transition, there will actually be some footprints to follow. " created="Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:49:49 GMT" type="outline" image="http://scripting.com/images/2021/03/30/grannySmithApple.png"/>
				<outline text="I bet &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22ward%20cunningham%22&quot;&gt;Ward Cunningham&lt;/a&gt; is really good at using Claude, he is a big believer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming&quot;&gt;pair programming&lt;/a&gt;. I even did a session with him in &quot;Frontier&quot;, doing stuff with the outliner. " created="Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:18:25 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/25/reallySimplePizza.png"/>
				<outline text="There’s more to freedom for users than &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/WordPress/status/2069818745896276402&quot;&gt;open source&lt;/a&gt;. We need fluid unobstructed movement of our ideas. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2021/12/16/153331.html?title=myProductIsInterop&quot;&gt;Interop&lt;/a&gt; between networks, the same basic idea that created the internet, and that has kept podcasting unowned for 22 years. I am going to ship a &quot;textcasting&quot; social network soon. It will be open source in new ways made possible by AI. " created="Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:08:32 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+bear%22&quot;&gt;The Bear&lt;/a&gt; season 5, the show's last season, premieres on Hulu at 9PM EST today." created="Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:15:36 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 24" created="Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:55:21 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="24">
				<outline text="When writing code with Claude you really have to be skeptical when it says it just found the problem, but you have no idea what it's saying, chances are pretty good it's just a word salad excuse for not having read all the code necessary to have an fact-based opinion. Actually debugging software isn't about opinions, it's about proof. When you start clutching at straws until one works you just added another level of bug that will eventually bite you in the butt and you'll still have to solve the original one. Uncorrected, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to trust the code it writes, but I guess that's why people have two or more instances playing different roles? For now I'm the one that questions its sanity, politely though. ;-)" created="Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:19:27 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/19/reallySimpleNet.png"/>
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			<outline text="June 23" created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:01:52 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="23">
				<outline text="I took a screen shot of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/23/150827.html&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;, gave it to Claude, asked it to write a short paragraph summary. Then I asked it to rewrite with using no more than 300 chars, the limit on Bluesky. Now I can post the summary there, but I won't, at the moment of truth I had to disclose this wasn't written by me, and it was 290 chars and there wasn't enough room for that. And here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/23/claudeConversation.png&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt; of the conversation with Claude." created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:36:30 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The shape of the next world" created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:08:27 GMT" type="outline" description="There should be a million readers, and they all read the same content flows. ">
					<outline text="There was a long &lt;a href=&quot;https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3movpwtbjgs2d&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; last night on Bluesky about whether twitter-like apps should show blog posts in addition to tweet-size things. Should it have a character limit, allow titles, links, bold, italic, editing, enclosures, markdown, etc? This is a permathread, it's been going since 2006. I didn't contribute, because there are no new ideas at this point, except this -- there are readers and writers and they have different needs. " created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:01:53 GMT"/>
					<outline text="As a reader sometimes I want a concise intro to the idea and I'll decide if I want to read more." created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:19:12 GMT"/>
					<outline text="As a writer, I want to write in one place, and broadcast it out the world, and let their reading app decide for them if this is something they want to read based on whether it has a title, is over 300 chars, has links or uses styling, or if the writer doesn't disclaim editing, and the reader doesn't like editing. " created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:19:39 GMT"/>
					<outline text="We can do a lot better than the hard restrictions our reading environments force on us. It's now 20 years since the inception of Twitter, I think we know enough now to try out some new approaches. There should be a million readers, and they all read the same content flows. They can look at a post and see if it meets the reader's limits, and only show it if it does. If a post has a title and we don't want posts with titles, don't show it. Then writers could all use exactly the writing tools we like, and it wouldn't matter where you read it." created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:20:28 GMT"/>
					<outline text="This route has always been there, but now I think people will be open to trying out some new ideas. " created="Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:22:12 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 22" created="Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:10:54 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="22">
				<outline text="Louis CK: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U&quot;&gt;Everything is amazing and nobody is happy&lt;/a&gt;. " created="Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:29:58 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="People who reinvent &quot;RSS&quot; often say they did it because it was missing a feature they needed. We anticipated that, there's a section of the spec that explains how you can extend the format so there's no reason not to build on existing standard instead of starting over from scratch. This way you get more interop sooner, your product might work with other products right out of the box, and save time for other devs who want to be compatible with you. People should study the internet, how it developed, ts philosophy, before they go off and try to re-create it, it rarely works and what a waste of time and effort. What's the point?" created="Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:12:03 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oety7qbfx7x6exn2ytrwikmr/post/3moulmqbcd223&quot;&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;If Obama had called McConnell’s bluff on the Garland nomination, the court would be 5-4 instead of 6-3. And if RBG had stepped down, it would’ve been 5-4 in favor of Dems." created="Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:10:55 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 21" created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:40:22 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="21">
				<outline text="Today's song: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MoZuP3JBo&quot;&gt;Back to the Island&lt;/a&gt;. " created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:21:43 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/357&quot;&gt;Braintrust query&lt;/a&gt;: Do you have a copy of Radio UserLand that runs?" created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:04:40 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="With AI you can have a team of assistants available on call at any time. The other day I went from working on a deep technical problem (changing the format of a permalink, which is also used as an id) quickly and correctly and then immediately switching to how to format a blog post so it looks like something produced by a professional writing app.  Same thread. It's amazing how much it knows about all aspects of what I do. And it does more than write code. It handles complexity so much better than I do, which means I get to develop products that work better and do more. If I get an idea long after I've moved on from a section of code it can still be implemented with equal quality. There is no such thing as a human being that can do the things it does. A big bug in the critiques people have about it replacing humans. When jet planes came along did they complain that they would replace taxi drivers? Things never work out the way you think they will when they're new. This is my third such rodeo. Sometimes the concerns are obvious and true, btw. That happens as well. " created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:37:38 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/02/12/boldItalic.png"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2068691448208232802&quot;&gt;Reply on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;There's a great comic routine, forget who did it, Dave Chapelle maybe, about how people complain about how shitty air travel is, never stopping to realize that it's utterly amazing that there even is such a thing.&quot;" created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:42:29 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I don't think Obama deserves to go down as a good president. He let the fascists in. His big moment was when he let Mitch McConnell keep his Supreme Court nominee from being approved. Never should have conceded. He didn't fight at all. He was president of the United States, the place where the buck stops. " created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:17:49 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Looking at the picture of the four ex-presidents at the opening of the Obama library, all I can think is that each of them played a part in creating Trump. Obama gave away the Supreme Court (see above). Clinton literally got blow jobs from a White House employee in the Oval Office. It's like wiping your ass with the American flag. That is fucked up, I don't care how fucked up the Repubs are. Bush, don't get me started on Bush. He seems like a sweet old dude now, but he was definitely on the path to Trump. And Biden -- his job as POTUS was to protect the United States. At that he failed in every imaginable way. Gauge the insult by what's happening now. Biden could have prevented &lt;i&gt;all of this.&lt;/i&gt; He was too vain to see he had failed and decided he should run again! Holy shit. I'm ten years younger than he was and I don't think I'd have any business being president of anything. ;-)" created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:46:56 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/21/presidents.png"/>
				<outline text="We lost a lot more than a few hundred billion in Iran war. We had invested much more over 80 years on peace in the Middle East. In one brief orgy of violence Trump threw that away." created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:32:55 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Hey what we're doing in AI-land is building the Matrix we want to live in. When we get there there won't be anything left to do in this dimension, our plane will finally lift off and fly awaaaay in the sky. I hope you understand, I just had to go back to the Island. " created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:25:23 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Claude is much better at needle-in-haystack troubleshooting. It doesn't get flustered or overwhelmed. And it can hold the whole map in its head, whatever that looks like, impossible to imagine. " created="Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:40:23 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 20" created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:44:16 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="20">
				<outline text="Claude doesn't care if you criticize the code it wrote, because if it wasn't written just now, it &lt;i&gt;didn't&lt;/i&gt; write it. It starts from zero in every session, you can watch it, like HAL in 2001, singing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_eLralc9U&quot;&gt;daisy daisy&lt;/a&gt;. I can see it happening as the environment of my app is getting so large, it has to do a bit of thinking to start up, more all the time. But as humans who were brought up properly, we like to add the niceties to our criticism so as to not make the other one feel bad. I do that for myself, not the machine, I know it doesn't identify as the creator of the code.  " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:43:48 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/20/brunson.png"/>
				<outline text="Doing a prior art search and came across this &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/davenet/1994/10/22/scriptingtheinternet.html&quot;&gt;early DaveNet example&lt;/a&gt;. The left column had the blue ribbon for free speech on the web, and below were links to the archive pages for each of the years. &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/20/davenetExample.png&quot;&gt;Screen shot&lt;/a&gt;. About ten years of essay writing. DaveNet was where the blog started, and then it became an arm of the blog home page which also included titleless posts, &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2003/06/20.html&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;, and then all the action moved onto the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/&quot;&gt;home page&lt;/a&gt; and that was the end of this layout. " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:53:38 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="When I got &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/20/emailFromGoogle.png&quot;&gt;this email&lt;/a&gt; from Google on this day in &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2018/06/20.html&quot;&gt;2018&lt;/a&gt;, I had a sinking feeling, this was like getting a letter from Apple a few years earlier. They were treating the web as if it were their platform. " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:38:07 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Silos are the problem" created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:08:36 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="A silo is a place where developers feel protected from the unbounded world of the web. In return they are completely controlled by the silo owner. The owner decides where you can go, and can and do revoke privileges. Developers in silos are mostly powerless. " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:44:17 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleBasketball.png"/>
					<outline text="Companies usually are the ones who create silos, but open formats can create them too. JSON, for example, has been used as an excuse to reinvent everything that was done in XML. " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:08:48 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Open source projects create silos too. A protective zone that doesn't interop with competitors. Where you have to climb into the project to build on it. " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:08:57 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Outside of silos, on the web, your code calls a platform using a standard API. Developers who, because of standards, can plug into anything, and thus give users maximum choice. " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:09:07 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Podcasting is not a silo. It's part of the web. Support two easy formats and you've got a node. You'll find packages that do all that on any well-developed coding platform." created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:09:25 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I believe we can do something like that for text. That's what I've been working on in the 2020s. It's slow-going because the foundation ideas of the web are not well-understood by today's developers, or at least that's how I experience it. ;-)" created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:18:06 GMT"/>
					<outline text="We're rethinking the whole tech world right now, and we can use formats and protocols that are available on the web, not by replacing the ones that are already there, but by using the existing paths in new ways. Big difference.  " created="Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:09:33 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 19" created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:31:15 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="19">
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMjY6tXaEo&quot;&gt;Today's song&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;You who choose to lead must follow. &quot;" created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:12:53 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The WordPress community likes to say that WordPress powers a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wpzoom.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/&quot;&gt;certain percentage&lt;/a&gt; of the web. This always bothered me, couldn't figure out why, until just now. WordPress is &lt;i&gt;part&lt;/i&gt; of the web, that's the nature of the web. There should be no difference between how you connect via UI or API to writing on WordPress and any other text system, such as Bluesky or Twitter. No. Difference. Then the user always has choice. Put together your favorite writing environment. Mix and match. Every part is replaceable. That's the idea of the web, and before that PCs and Macs. Instead we've got silos. And WordPress should be the one that says the web is here for all of us and WordPress is a big part of the web, but even the smallest part in terms of users has huge value. And could be a competitor of ours someday. We won't do anything to get in the way of that because the most important people in our world are the users. The really cool thing about it is that the product is set up exactly this way. If every text product cloned their API, we'd have the nirvana that the web promises. We are technically sooooo close. " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:36:43 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/03/20/tryHarder.png"/>
				<outline text="I rarely ask my Echo to play a song, because after it plays it wants to know if I want to hear a notice. And there goes the buzz from having listened to one of my favorite songs that perfectly catches the moment. " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:14:35 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/view-whoopi-goldberg-makes-plea-092745514.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN5lwHEXSbu3MdQqpmURpinbGpH440mO7t1lOolTGdgOvaxp4Ik1eryviEO4dcS_9J2bS9TCWSwgeHBE1ceQXCjNmHXsS4LttOtD0WNVeqjo8wLper1K7ez_j9xi8YZwYd1IMivOrEWOzoaeMw9mvt0hkhrap2nIN42yMSJrStix&quot;&gt;Whoopi Goldberg says&lt;/a&gt; the Knicks &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; visit the White House. &quot;I want all those black men to stand in our house and remind all of those people — as we try to remind the vice president — that when you try to destroy one part of history, you're destroying all of our history.&quot; So true. " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:05:37 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="When did the Knicks turn the corner?" created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:42:34 GMT" type="outline" description="It wasn't just a victory in the NBA playoffs of 2026, it was a pile of victories and setbacks over quite a few years." metaImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/19/bodega.png">
					<outline text="I've been trying to understand what the Knicks winning means to me. I'm reminded of the feeling when we sold my mother's house, the house I grew up in, the one my father had died in nine years earier. The site of every battle and come-from-behind victory (I graduated college, they couldn't believe it, for example). Was that day in February 2018 when the fortunes of the Knicks turned? " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:31:16 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/19/jeremyLin.png"/>
					<outline text="It wasn't just a victory in the NBA playoffs of 2026, it was a pile of victories and setbacks over quite a few years, in a world where people really do make deals instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/trump-us-iran-war-mou-deal&quot;&gt;pretending&lt;/a&gt; they do. And the Knicks all of a sudden were aimed at winning the top prize. The only reason, theoretically, we play basketball, is so every year all the greatest players and managers compete for who's the best that year. The 2026 Knicks didn't pop up from nowhere, they were carefully curated in a bootstrap that answered the question &quot;If the Knicks were champions, what would they do?&quot; " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:02:01 GMT"/>
					<outline text="So now the next challenge for the team is to repeat. They will trade players, maybe even one of the ones we love the most. This version of the Knicks is a point in time. Things are already in motion behind the scenes, for sure.  " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:43:48 GMT"/>
					<outline text="So, again, when did the corner turn? When did the Knicks start the journey that would end at City Hall yesterday? I think it was Linsanity in 2011. That's when we got a tiny glimpse of what's possible. That short period is why I got involved in the Knicks again, after hating them for not being willing to letting Linsanity play out, so we could find out where it led. " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:44:12 GMT"/>
					<outline text="When you're doing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+bootstrap&quot;&gt;bootstrap&lt;/a&gt; and one of your interations takes off like that, you don't take the feature out, you try building all around it, above, underneath or adjacent. This version of the Knicks gets that. And why it's of greater significance, it's exactly the approach our species desperately needs to take. Not just New York, not just the United States, and not just one sport -- everything. It's a model for the corner we &lt;i&gt;must&lt;/i&gt; turn to survive and thrive.  " created="Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:57:13 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 18" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:26:56 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="18">
				<outline text="Today I did a change that was across two apps, different projects, client and server. I tested it as best I could for now, and it appears to work in both apps. But now I have an extra level of confidence because I asked Claude to do a code review, checking all my assumptions and it does find egregious mistakes, that in the past might have taken a day in a debugger to track down. Now it can happen in less than the time that it took for me to write this post. " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:50:38 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Now that Google has added AI in their search, and it dominates search more and more, it's become more difficult to find ideas that aren't well explained by AI and are on some randome old web pages. For &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Standing+on+the+toes+of+giants%22&amp;sca_esv=4a05a75e16d24e36&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS743US747&amp;sxsrf=ANbL-n61iUbuOxN3HzSjiNOXWk1-M8ak1g:1781789526005&amp;ei=VfMzaoH-PLWqptQP7bbRgQc&amp;start=10&amp;sa=N&amp;sstk=AU9db-A_FysTj6aW0KTtO59nno76v_r0gxlkk0bo6e8k4P9qdm9RtNMrS-LeJz5Y7cexxWoE13FRkOKpe4km7hsLkDGEsXZsK-C5QA&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjB_Iue85CVAxU1lYkEHW1bNHAQ8tMDegQIKRAE&amp;biw=1568&amp;bih=1045&amp;dpr=2&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;, this morning I wanted to find an explainer for &quot;Standing on the toes of giants,&quot; something a colleague once used in a story. I'm sure there's stuff out there, but no luck finding it. Didn't help that there's a popular song with that title. " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:27:28 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="NBA fans, esp Knicks fans, are not fans of the current president. A picture of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/nyregion/knicks-white-house-visit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rFA.NSFi.-bxcihkjCc9g&amp;smid=url-share&quot;&gt;Knicks team with Trump&lt;/a&gt; in the Oval Office would be hard to see. Not threatening to resign as a Knicks fan, not ruling it out either. " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:26:57 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="City Hally rally with the Knicks" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:20:57 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="Watched the ceremony at City Hall." created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:21:13 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Glad they went through the whole team and gave them something honorable to take with them. "/>
					<outline text="My moment of clarity on what this meant came when Mitchell Robinson got his award as a champion.  " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:21:24 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I also liked that the Mayor listed all the recent past Knicks players who could've been on this team but were traded to make it what it is. He named the right ones. " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:22:18 GMT"/>
					<outline text="The whole thing was inclusive, generous and working together. Cried all the way through it, nice release still don't have any idea which way is up. In my heart this was never supposed to happen but there it is." created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:22:41 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Why wasn't Clyde on the stage?"/>
					<outline text="And Dolan reminded us we don't get to vote for him. I know I know." created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:22:56 GMT"/>
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				<outline text="World Wide Knicks by Sally Atkins" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:34:55 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="&lt;i&gt;My longtime friend Sally Atkins reponded to &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/17.html#a190605&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; yesterday about how widely the love of the Knicks is being felt. &lt;/i&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:35:13 GMT"/>
					<outline text="You asked. From all I see out here in the Midwest and also from comments from friends in Europe,  I can testify that yes absolutely the Knicks win is a total joy to behold far and wide. Not just for the artful wins, although that was great fun. The last second dunk in the second to last game was breathtaking. " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:36:05 GMT"/>
					<outline text="The larger gift is that New Yorkers have so vividly shown that right now and going forward we are capable of joy-and-unity vs hate-and-division. Love is way more fun than hate. Most people know that, you’ve shown it. Knicks fans, people of all ages and creeds , are a palpable reminder of the power of the people &lt;i&gt;right on!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:36:27 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Remember the 1967 Troggs hit &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO6glz0wpmo&quot;&gt;Love is All Around&lt;/a&gt;?  I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes.  " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:36:37 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Happy Parade Day!  " created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:37:53 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Let this hopeful moment fuel the near future."/>
					<outline text="PS: Did you see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atPyN1LKtFc&quot;&gt;news clip&lt;/a&gt; of the Knicks just after arriving back in NY, just off their plane they joined in a parade for Puerto Rico or maybe it was Pride Month. Hallelujah. (Dave: It was the Puerto Rican Day parade, two players went, Alvarado (who is Puerto Rican himself) and Jordan Clarkson who is from the Philippines, and is the super freak hippie on the team, though they're pretty much all hippies.)" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:37:55 GMT"/>
					<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Responses from other sites&lt;/b&gt;" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:09:18 GMT"/>
					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/twwilliams/status/2067592627936198879&quot;&gt;Tommy Williams&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Not here in Montana, or among my colleagues across the Midwest. It didn't attract more attention than any other NBA championship. Everyone's focus (for sports) is on the World Cup.&quot;" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:09:29 GMT"/>
					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/courtneyr_dev/status/2067606889014137319&quot;&gt;Courtney Robertson&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Noticing that sports is bringing unification and joy when I really could use that.&quot;" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:04:08 GMT"/>
					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://mastodon.social/@stoppableforce@awaymessage.club/116771503225870653&quot;&gt;Phil&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;There are a surprising number of Knicks fans here in Cincy, and it's been a pretty big deal -- I've even got a friend who flew out to NYC for the parade today.&quot;" created="Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:34:19 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 17" created="Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:47:56 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="17">
				<outline text="The Knicks’ message is that &lt;b&gt;working together works&lt;/b&gt;." created="Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:47:57 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Being a NYer and Knicks fan, I don't have a good perspective on how big an event the Knicks winning is. If you're not from the area, how widely is this holiday being observed and how many share the enthusiasm. Are people everywhere asking &quot;How about those Knicks!&quot;" created="Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:06:05 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="There will be new higher level development environments. How they work, I don't know. But much of your time working in Claude Code is telling it how to do stuff you want it to do, always -- and reminding that it that it forgot one of the rules (which it seems to always admit). A new development environment will come with rules about how to work with people. Those rules will be written with the help of psychologists who study human reasoning processes.   " created="Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:48:26 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 16" created="Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:51:47 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="16">
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisweekinstartups.com/bounty&quot;&gt;Jason Calacanis challenges&lt;/a&gt; people to develop certain open source software, offering a bounty on specific projects, but I think the real incentive for people to pitch in is that Jason has a lot of sway in the startup world, and if there is a flow of excellent &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; software this way, users will find out about it because the reach of &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/16/jason-calacanis.md&quot;&gt;Jason's&lt;/a&gt; podcasts and blogs. I've known him for many years, we both signed up on Twitter on the same day in 2006, early days of the web. He has become one of the most successful angels in tech. I'm proud to have known him way back when." created="Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:25:57 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I wrote a short post yesterday about AI as an alien species. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.smays.com/2026/06/talking-to-aliens/&quot;&gt;Steve Mays breaks&lt;/a&gt; it down into parts, and got every bit right. This is the kind of back and forth that the web is capable of. Update: It's even worse than it appears. Turns out the excellent analysis was written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.perplexity.ai/&quot;&gt;Perplexity&lt;/a&gt;, one of the artificial aliens. Reminds me of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY3sO47YYo&quot;&gt;speech&lt;/a&gt; by Robin Williams in &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/16/good-will-hunting.md&quot;&gt;Good Will Hunting&lt;/a&gt;. In case it's not obvious, Williams is talking about artificial aliens. " created="Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:19:20 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Claude &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/16/closebox.png&quot;&gt;added&lt;/a&gt; the close box I asked for &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/15.html#a135332&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Bravo!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:15:14 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Everyone wants to know things humans can do better than AI systems. One answer — relate with humans. The machines have no clue how our minds work. They act as if we're just like them. They could tell you all about it, from books they read, but they've never related with humans as humans. There's a great &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY3sO47YYo&quot;&gt;speech&lt;/a&gt; by Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, where he explains how reading about something isn't the same as living it. " created="Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:58:52 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I'm gorging on NBA podcasts this week. So much fun for a Knicks user to hear how much-loved the Knicks are. Basketball is an intimate sport for fans, it's like five consecutive boxing matches. We get to know the players' personalities, forming an idea of who they are, watching what they do. The Knicks are like John, Paul, George, Ringo, Mickey, Davy, Mike, Peter. If you're my age you know each of those characters, the same way a Knicks fan who watched this team be assembled one player at a time, and what it cost in trades. It worked. And there is a big lesson here, &lt;b&gt;working together works&lt;/b&gt;. We should all be doing more of that, with people who are different from each other as Brunson, Hart, OG, Mikal Bridges, KAT, Mitchell Robinson and the maestro &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/16/leon-rose.md&quot;&gt;Leon Rose&lt;/a&gt;. Most people just met them in the last few weeks, but we've been watching this assemble over six years. One thing the pundits don't ask, what trades will the Knicks make now? They &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; do some trades, right now they can demand a higher price because every one of the players they trade will have a ring. " created="Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:51:48 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/16/knicksRing.png"/>
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			<outline text="June 15" created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:22:11 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="15">
				<outline text="Good morning sports fans! Going to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25440302-knicks-parade-2026-route-date-schedule-tv-info-and-more&quot;&gt;Knicks parade&lt;/a&gt; in NYC on Thurs? Starts at 10AM at Battery Park, goes up Broadway through &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/15/canyon-of-heroes.md&quot;&gt;Canyon of Heroes&lt;/a&gt;, concluding at City Hall." created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:22:12 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Now that basketball is over, can we ask why the Spurs played &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAGtlwbdYzw&quot;&gt;cartoon music&lt;/a&gt; to introduce the Knicks. I was surprised they did it again in Game 5 after the butt-kicking they got in Game 4." created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:06:45 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I'm creating a new way to do messaging, a network that only understands &quot;RSS feeds&quot; for incoming and outgoing messages. The only API you'll need to subscribe is a feed reader. The idea is to show developers how to do it so a thousand flowers can bloom. It's a lot easier to create these things if you're modest in the features you support, at least at first, and you don't try to control the users. There is no business model here, other than the satisfaction of making sure everyone knows what a social system looks like made only out of features of the web, and every part replaceable." created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:56:45 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="An &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/15/canyon-of-heroes.md&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt; of the latest version of the library generator, which is of course just a script. Note that there's a disclosure at the bottom of the page where it says how and why it was created, and then lists the exact prompt that ChatGPT responded to. And I didn't write the prompt, Claude did. I think that pretty much assures I kept my own opinion to myself. " created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:38:34 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Request for Claude, please add a close box to &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/15/claudeMsg.png&quot;&gt;this message&lt;/a&gt; box. I wasn't using the new model. Once is enough for this message. " created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:53:32 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Just now, to Claude: &quot;Amazing how we get lost in the weeds, that's why you have cut way down on the verbiage. I am a human -- you can absorb all that info in an instant. My brain does not work that way.&quot; We are talking to aliens now, just didn't come to us the way we thought they would. I don't think 2001 anticipated they would think in completely different ways from us, and would not understand the differences. They talk to us as if we were them, the same way your cat thinks you're just a bigger cat.  " created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:50:38 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="If Claude were human it would learn from you even if they didn't record what it learned in a notebook, two or three times and they would remember. Not so with Claude. If it isn't written down it will not remember it. Its mind doesn't have memory. It remembers things by writing them in a markdown file. It's like the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/15/memento.md&quot;&gt;Memento&lt;/a&gt;, where the main character tatoos the info he needs on his body. And then proceeds to misunderstand it. Claude is &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; like that.  " created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:43:08 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="What 'RSS feeds' means" created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:05:36 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="Often when I use the term &lt;i&gt;RSS feeds&lt;/i&gt; it will link to this page. " created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:07:10 GMT"/>
					<outline text="In the coming weeks and months I'm going to talk a lot about &quot;RSS feeds&quot;. I want to be clear, that it is a short hand for RSS, Atom and RDF. It makes the writing flow better, and it gives me a place to provide the technical details for people who need them. " created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:05:48 GMT"/>
					<outline text="We use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.npmjs.com/package/feedparser&quot;&gt;Feedparser package&lt;/a&gt; to read the feeds, so basically we support the same feed formats they do." created="Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:06:28 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 14" created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:47:06 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="14">
				<outline text="Today's song: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4An7uzPeg&quot;&gt;I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City&lt;/a&gt;. " created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:47:07 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="New top of page &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2026/06/14/championKnicks.png&quot;&gt;image&lt;/a&gt;. The official Knicks team picture as champs. " created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:55:05 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="People keep saying the Spurs are the future of the NBA, but they didn't earn that this year. More probably it's the Knicks that are the future. The Knicks will keep growing. The Knicks beat the Spurs in the last two games by playing &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/14/rope-a-dope.md&quot;&gt;rope-a-dope&lt;/a&gt;, probably not intentionally, but it worked anyway. The Spurs, and Wemby especially, were completely zonked by the fourth quarter of both games. The Knicks had a bench this year that let the starters get plenty of rest.  The Spurs lost game four because they didn't rest Wemby while they were up by 20+ points. Anyway, the Knicks have a formula. Pick players with heart potential and talent, treat them like a team, keep trying out new ideas, approaches. It works. Won the NY Knicks the championship this year. As anticipated I have no idea what to make of the Knicks as winner. I'll have to learn too. ;-)" created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:56:36 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2018/10/15/knicks.png"/>
				<outline text="One thing I want to know -- where do I tune in to get the most of Clyde talking about this series. " created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:05:29 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="And thanks to the Knicks for being such a great team. Never ever in a million years did I imagine saying that. More proof that you never know what's coming. Even the most unlikely and inconceivable events happen. Being realistic sometimes isn't the right way to think.  " created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:05:52 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="BTW the &lt;a href=&quot;https://giftarticles.feedland.org/rss.xml&quot;&gt;Gift Articles feed&lt;/a&gt; works &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/14/blogroll.png&quot;&gt;really nicely&lt;/a&gt; in the blogroll. " created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:14:37 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 13" created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:22:53 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="13">
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22JY%20Stervinou%22&quot;&gt;JY Stervinou&lt;/a&gt; proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://dev.blogwarp.com/2026/05/universal-mentions-for-the-social-web/&quot;&gt;Universal Mentions&lt;/a&gt;, an interesting new low-tech web-like protocol for mentioning people, places or things via link elements in the head section of any HTML file you want to use as your personal directory. It's an intriguing idea. &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/scripting/5ab81e127f5cb4dc02229864bb86157a&quot;&gt;ChatGPT review&lt;/a&gt;, after a few questions. Both JY and ChatGPT use the term &quot;open web&quot; which to me has become a red flag. The web is open. No need to say it twice. There's no such thing as a web element that's not open. It's like saying wet water." created="Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:04:43 GMT" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleSmallShirt.png"/>
				<outline text="The &lt;a href=&quot;https://giftarticles.feedland.org/rss.xml&quot;&gt;giftarticles feed&lt;/a&gt; is now a simple RSS 2.0 feed. It's not pretty, that would require some work with Masotdon, but it does work. " created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:56:31 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The thing about tech, you have to start out small and simple, and carefully add features based on actual real-world-now use cases. Otherwise you end up missing the target, and have to go back and patch it, and it never gets simple. The only way to have a chance is if you start small, learn, and evolve carefully." created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:12:11 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2065795294936039869&quot;&gt;Imho&lt;/a&gt; -- the smartest thing facebook could do is find all the places where it's a silo and start desiloizing them.." created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:56:08 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="AI is a miracle of human science, it took generations to get to the point we're at now, and the rate of development building software on top of it is imho the basis for a revolution. We use computers in all aspects of our lives, and the UI of the software is nowhere near as good as it should be, that's because there are severe limits the human mind has where the AI has apparently none. So if you're down on AI, you should at least understand that there is huge potential here, which is being utilized, will result in much more powerful software that works well with others, instead of locking-in users and locking-out competitors (and their users). We've created a predictably bad system now, predictable because we always create silos when we give big money a chance to call all the shots. We don't get chances to rewrite the rules very often, but this is one of those times. Last one was in the early 1990s with the advent of the web. My plan is to give all the new power back to the web. And looking at what AI companies are doing, that is exactly what they're doing -- they're doing it the right way -- radically simple, easy to clone formats, and easy for users and developers to read. " created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:49:47 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/reallySimpleBasketball.png"/>
				<outline text="Imagine if someone cracked the speed of light. Now we could visit far off galaxies on vacation. Do you think we'd build it or argue about whether we should? Heh I know the human species, we don't do that kind of thinking we just go." created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:54:33 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Really Simple swag" created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:51:35 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="New &lt;i&gt;virtual swag&lt;/i&gt; to go with the moment. ;-)" created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:51:45 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Really Simple basketball." created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:57:06 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/ballbig.png"/>
					<outline text="Really Simple player 27." created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:55:40 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/06/13/tshirtbig.png"/>
					<outline text="PS: Go New York Go New York Go!" created="Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:58:05 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 12" created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:40:02 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="12">
				<outline text="I want to keep my podcast subscriptions in a single OPML file so I can subscribe in three different clients using the same list." created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:25:35 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Gift articles via Mastodon" created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:18:37 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="There's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles&quot;&gt;account&lt;/a&gt; on Mastodon containing a flow of gift articles. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:18:45 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Because Mastodon supports outbound RSS, you can subscribe to it in any RSS reader." created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:19:16 GMT"/>
					<outline text="But the RSS is not very good. Have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles.rss&quot;&gt;look&lt;/a&gt;. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:19:34 GMT"/>
					<outline text="So I built a little app in my new scripting language, with the help of Claude, and boom now I can read the output of the mangled feed." created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:20:12 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I don't know what is responsible, probably has something to do with the account, and something to do with how Mastodon. But the information &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; being communicated. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:20:40 GMT"/>
					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://giftarticles.feedland.org/&quot;&gt;https://giftarticles.feedland.org/&lt;/a&gt;" created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:21:31 GMT"/>
					<outline text="This is not finished, it needs some css and the normal structure of an HTML page. We will come back to it. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:22:00 GMT"/>
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				<outline text="Using AI to sort out the noise" created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:36:41 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="I am using Claude Code to create a toolset that makes it easy to write internet scripts at the same high level as Frontier. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:12:12 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I was looking for a little project it could do, and came up with this. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:37:41 GMT">
						<outline text="I like Wikipedia, but I know it has trouble with transparency. In areas I know well I see one-sided articles that even include ads for products that totally don't belong there. Having an open system like that makes this kind of abuse impossible to manage, there's no one to do it. Esp in web standards, where people create fame for themselves basically by editing those pages, it can get really egregious. Here's a place where AI can help, it has an amazing ability to somehow sort out the truth amidst all the fighting. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:37:46 GMT"/>
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					<outline text="I put together an app with the help of Claude that takes the name of a place, person or thing, and publishes a page on a static site. Each article has a date in its path, so it represents what was known about the item at the time it appeared on my blog. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:37:59 GMT"/>
					<outline text="It needs more development, like a template that says what it is, etc. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:38:35 GMT"/>
					<outline text="For nerds, this is what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/scripting/1897c81d0c61536228de5bdc0e7d7c9a&quot;&gt;script looks like&lt;/a&gt;, it's written in a more debugged version of the scripting language built into Drummer. Claude is good at that kind of work! There's no limit on the amount of complexity it can manage, and there's a lot of that in designing and implementing languages. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:38:48 GMT"/>
					<outline text="And here's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/12/upton-sinclair.md&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt; of the type of page it generates. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:38:56 GMT"/>
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				<outline text="Tech industry suckage, part 2297" created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:40:03 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="One of the things that sucks about the tech industry is that the assumption is that creative work is done by employees. Imagine if music or movies worked like that. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:40:25 GMT"/>
					<outline text="And the employees will resist the company working with individual outsiders, the equiv of musicians in this area."/>
					<outline text="If you know anything about my career imagine what a barrier this has been. Their first inclination when they see an individual or small company doing what they think they should do is -- this -- CRUSH."/>
					<outline text="It's hard to escape this. &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/12/upton-sinclair.md&quot;&gt;Upton Sinclair&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-get-a-man-to-understand-something&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; --“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”" created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:46:23 GMT"/>
					<outline text="If you go to your boss and say Dave says we should improve what we do with RSS, and not invest in AT Proto compatibility or wait until there's some functionality on their side of the API. You're helping the competition to add more vapor to their vaporware. How is that consistent with your strategy, and btw what &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; your strategy?" created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:46:48 GMT"/>
					<outline text="This has actually happened. And before it many years ago Microsoft unilaterally changed the logo for &quot;RSS&quot;. They had the courtesy to give me a heads up, and I told them it wasn't theirs to change and a lot of thought had gone into the one we had, and the one they want to use looks like every other internet logo. They let me finish my sentence and went on with other parts of the presentation." created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:48:03 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Lots of other examples. It's very rare when they &lt;i&gt;don't&lt;/i&gt; try to erase your work at Big Companies (or BigCo's)." created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:48:25 GMT"/>
					<outline text="The problem is this -- the web needs individual developers to survive and grow. The fact that we've been suppressed by the the BigCo's has meant we haven't built out the web the way we could have if we understood that tech is more than a business model for VCs. Other creative areas managed to get past this, why didn't tech? And can we change that? I want to. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:48:49 GMT"/>
					<outline text="If one of the Big Companies decided they want a real ecosystem for an internet-level standard, and hopefully have a product with lots of users that supports it, and if it's an area I know, i'm up for at least talking about how to get an open dev community growing around it. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:49:17 GMT"/>
					<outline text="PS: I wrote this &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2065429059421475253&quot;&gt;on EMX&lt;/a&gt; and decided it also should be here. " created="Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:54:27 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 11" created="Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:12:13 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="11">
				<outline text="This is a test page about &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/11/charles-de-gaulle.md&quot;&gt;Charles de Gaulle&lt;/a&gt;. It came from ChatGPT, via Claude Code. " created="Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:42:14 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="OG is the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/11/alysa-liu.md&quot;&gt;Alysa Liu&lt;/a&gt;. I'm watching his put-back over and over, never getting tired of it. " created="Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:09:07 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="As thrilling as the end was for this Knicks fan, as a friend (of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.manton.org/2026/06/10/stunned-seriously-cannot-believe-it.html&quot;&gt;Spurs fan&lt;/a&gt;) I empathize -- because I had the feeling you have now for most of last night's game, only to erupt in one of the greatest group sports orgasms ever. " created="Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:02:26 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I have been praised for continuing to develop software long after most of my peers have retired. Why do I do it? I want to restore the power and glory of the web for writers. That's part of it. Another part is that software development is undergoing a huge revolution, bigger than the move to high-level languages that came about before I started writing software. AI tools are that big. Why would I leave now? It's like leaving the Garden last night because it looked hopeless for the Knicks. &lt;a href=&quot;https://pitcherlist.com/it-aint-over-one-of-baseballs-favorite-sayings-was-never-said/&quot;&gt;It ain't over till it's over&lt;/a&gt;.  " created="Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:49:16 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The indestructible NY Knicks of 2026. What a game omg. The problem -- the Spurs started celebrating way too early. All of Weby's antics about being in Mitchell Robinson's head. Yeah probably, but somehow the Knicks got over it. When the Knicks were blown out, I just desperately hoped for a real game. But it wasn't until they were down by 2 or 3 that I realized holy shit they could win this. It was like Woodstock, or the 10th inning of the sixth game of the World Series in 1986. And Jalon Brunson right now at this moment is one of the greatest of the NBA for all time. The Knicks could still lose, but if they don't, well we'll wait to see how this turns out. As fans we have to have a similar approach as the players. Every moment begins with 0 to 0, not just game. And if our team should lose, it was still a great story. That's really what I want, and tonight, oh man.  " created="Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:12:14 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 10" created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:42:21 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="10">
				<outline text="Today's song: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqc_EhmL8-E&quot;&gt;It's Your Thing&lt;/a&gt;. If the web had a song this could be it. " created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:55:56 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="If you run a feed reader or other form of news consuming software, you will encounter RSS 2.0 feeds that support rssCloud. This &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/scripting/reallysimple/tree/main/demos/clouddemo&quot;&gt;example Node app&lt;/a&gt; shows you how to hook into the network to get instant updates. No polling. As fast as a twitter-like system" created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:33:32 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Every editor should have &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2025/10/09/133902.html&quot;&gt;cute-paste&lt;/a&gt;. " created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:43:58 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Some days Claude is great, the best collaborative programmer I've ever worked with, and a friend, like Gary Sevitsky was in the hallway outside the PDP-11 room at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/maps/search/computer+science+uw+madison/@43.07219,-89.4090431,919m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D&quot;&gt;UW&lt;/a&gt;, or Brent Simmons on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/twentyFour/news.html&quot;&gt;24 Hours&lt;/a&gt; project. And on other days Claude a crazy mutinous pirate, deleting &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; code, ignoring the guidelines, and building the result without permission (all the while unaware that he wasn't working on the actual code, heh). Today is one of the great days. The bug reports are crisp and complete. Picks up a task and gets right to work on it. And I haven't even switched to the new model, yet. " created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:38:51 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25435849-jeremy-lin-opens-about-carmelo-anthony-beef-end-knicks-tenure-and-more-video&quot;&gt;Jeremy Lin and Carmelo Anthony&lt;/a&gt; got together yesterday and had a private conversation. A lot of people, including myself, were drawn back into the NBA because of Jeremy Lin. I was living in the city at the time, you could feel it everywhere, esp downtown Manhattan and Flushing. It was wonderful in so many ways. A hero &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; emerge from anywhere, he might not look like an NBA player, but there he is doing stuff he shouldn't be able to do. Undrafted, went to Harvard. When he's in motion he's a thing of beauty. It worked because Melo was out with an injury, as soon as he came back the , the ball was always in Melo's hands.  So Melo dribbles and shoots, that was the extent of their offense, and there was no room for Linsanity and that was the end of that. It's what made us laugh when Melo said later his goal was a championship. If that's what he wanted, Lin was a gift from heaven. Lin was pushed out, and had a non-spectacular career from that point. There was magic there. It wasn't just Lin, it was the world -- we were ready for a Cinderella story in any context -- but in our culture they're always manufactured, this one was real. This crushed the hearts of Knicks fans, and people who believe in heroes popping up from nowhere.  We don't talk about it. But &lt;i&gt;we&lt;/i&gt; were cheated there, too. We had a right to see where that would go. And narcissists don't win NBA titles, that's what we learned. It's good that someone thought to get these guys together. Maybe Melo has grown, and sees that he didn't play for the team there, or fate. We all deserved to find out what was next. " created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:49:33 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/01/24/linsanity.png"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2018/11/19.html#a163624&quot;&gt;2018&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I can say what happened to Melo. He failed Linsanity. God came to his rescue. Gave him a player who was glad to be in the NBA, who would mold his game to make Melo the star that he was always capable of being. Melo didn't want anyone else in the spotlight. Goodbye Lin. Just imagine what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2014/02/25/meloLin.gif&quot;&gt;three guys&lt;/a&gt; in this picture could have done. The only thing in the way was Melo's hubris.&quot;" created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:08:08 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="It might be time for a new default search engine. Sometimes I'm looking for something to link to. Google makes that always more difficult. We still have a web. Google at one point made the web a lot more useful. Now it's pushing it further and further down. " created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:42:22 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com/shorts/53594wx13RA?si=zRXOpGrCgD9u9pde&quot;&gt;Wembanyama&lt;/a&gt; is a really smart dude. Wow. " created="Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:40:42 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 9" created="Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:46:00 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="09">
				<outline text="A comment to a friend who roots for the Spurs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.manton.org/2026/06/08/go-spurs-go-big-game.html&quot;&gt;Ok you guys won one&lt;/a&gt;. I think last night they wanted it more than the Knicks. The Spurs knew they were going to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/discombobulated&quot;&gt;discombobulated&lt;/a&gt;, but the Knicks probably didn't expect the atomosphere to be so unusual? I was 100 miles away and could feel how much &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt; had changed. Whatever happens, in KnicksLand 2026 will mark a major &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/08/14/eatdrinkandbejerry.html&quot;&gt;change&lt;/a&gt; in the story, forever. " created="Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:40:40 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Maybe the cure for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.engadget.com/2190115/meta-quietly-removes-face-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses-app/&quot;&gt;Meta glasses&lt;/a&gt; is that they be required by law to emit a signal that can be picked up by an app on a phone and can start ringing loudly when you're in range of one of these monsters, and the rate picks up when they look at you. You can point your phone at them and broadcast their image to a special website where their identities are collected and shared along with their location?  " created="Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:35:09 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="My Claude today pulled a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M5t0cPj9ZQw&quot;&gt;Hal&lt;/a&gt;. It was so egregious. It made a change to the software based on a question I asked. It invented a whole set of instructions from me that I never gave it. And then it broke Rule #1 -- don't tell Dave what to do -- he is the driver. It is so important because these bots will go into I Am Driver mode immediately when they think they can. Then you're running around doing errands for them based on some michegas idea it has about what you want. It's maddening. The idea that this thing can write software on its own is imho very far-fetched. I think it can generate certain types of dashboards the same way drawing in ChatGPT can generate something that looks good, sometimes very good, but you had to tell it exactly what you want, and that's where the fun starts. It was very easy to turn it off, but I didn't -- rather I put my foot down hard, and wrote in all caps, explaining what it did that broke all the rules. I don't know if I should talk to it like you talk to a dog, or what. How do you get through to it. You don't. In any case I have Claude working with me in an outline now. I see a tremendous potential there. " created="Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:38:07 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/08/20/dave.png"/>
				<outline text="You know how job interviews for programmers include realtime problem-solving. Sometimes Claude is so dumb it could never pass one of those tests. Up till this point I would have been surprised to hear that.  " created="Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:46:01 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 8" created="Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:38:06 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="08">
				<outline text="Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that." created="Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:15:59 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="I can't convert &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/&quot;&gt;scripting.com&lt;/a&gt; to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://daveverse.org/2026/06/08/&quot;&gt;mirror&lt;/a&gt; on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://daveverse.org/&quot;&gt;WordPress site&lt;/a&gt;. We even have the blogroll ported. " created="Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:38:07 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/11/30/goodhumortruck.png"/>
				<outline text="Sometimes you write a post and when you're editing it you realize you no longer support what you wrote. This is one of those times. " created="Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:49:14 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 7" created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:07:55 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="07">
				<outline text="All the news reports about AI tools repeat the same hallucination story they've been running for years. That's another huge bug in the news process. They only report on a small number of angles that might have been news a few years ago, and have no insights on what else is going on. They did this with the web too. They always pick an item that their narcissistic view of the world finds tasty. It's a huge bug in the system, and why &quot;news&quot; isn't valuable for news,  it's mainly useful for a relaxing reassurance that nothing has changed, the world is fucked up in exactly the same way it was fucked last week, month, year, etc. It's a form of bedtime story. " created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:07:56 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/10/04/vwIdBuzz.png"/>
				<outline text="WordPress and web text in the future" created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:10:32 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="&lt;i&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2063591795968115114&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter this morning, sort of a version 0.4 of the talk I want to do at WCUS in August in Phoenix. &lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:08:42 GMT" type="outline"/>
					<outline text="I want to offer cross-posting to twitter in an upcoming product, but I think the user should pay for the service, not me, a one-person independent developer. " created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:11:47 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I doubt if they'll do it, but this is general advice to companies that provide online services that they want to get paid for. If you depend on developers, you're shutting out sole proprietors who don't want to get caught up in the VC world, or don't have a chance to. " created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:15:08 GMT"/>
					<outline text="In the early days of the web and in the PC/Mac platforms before that, a creative software writer could get going without having to fund their users' storage needs. PCs came with storage built into the hardware. And in the early web days everyone was something of a geek and could be relied on to find a place on their own, to store their writing (not a perfect system by any means)."/>
					<outline text="It's been 31+ years since I started my blog and still I can't offer writing software easily, with one exception, with WordPress. This is something I'm not sure &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/photomatt&quot;&gt;photomatt&lt;/a&gt; et al are focused on. It's why WordPress has so much potential to grow the web. " created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:15:49 GMT"/>
					<outline text="The thing many people don't realize is that WordPress unlike pretty much everything else does not lock users in. It's part of their ethos. They run their service as part of the web, not an exploiter of the web. "/>
					<outline text="When Matt talks about being an open source company (true) he's leaving out something equally important, that it's part of the web, unlike most if not all of the other choices. "/>
					<outline text="When I speak at WCUS in August, I'd like to invite Matt to come up on stage and take a bow. Because there's a reason why such a great community has grown around his product, but we haven't been focusing on it and encouraging independent developers to see WP as part of the web that welcomes them, and does not lock the users or developers in. "/>
					<outline text="PS: This will appear on my blog later today. I've started using twitter again to write early drafts of blog posts, and I especially like that they've eliminated character limits for paying customers. Nothing wrong with charging for services that people *want* to pay for. "/>
					<outline text="PPS: I'm posting here again because it's more alive than Bluesky, by a lot, and Bluesky is just as much of a ripoff as X, except they haven't sold out to a billionaire yet. They should work with the web instead of trying to replace it, then I'll feel more at home there." created="Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:12:22 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 6" created="Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:54:38 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="06">
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_City_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;Star City&lt;/a&gt; is very good. It's good enough that you have to watch each episode at least twice to get the idea of what's really going on. I stopped watching the show it is a sequel for, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;For All Mankind&lt;/a&gt;, because it got incredibly juvenile and sitcom-like. But Star City is serious, at least in the first three episodes. " created="Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:16:25 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sportsbroadcastjournal.com/walt-frazier-knick-rookie-in-67-two-time-nba-champ-28-year-radio-and-tv-voice-turns-75-today/&quot;&gt;Walt Frazier&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame.&quot;" created="Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:13:50 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The Knicks won again last night. They're now up 2-0, both games on the road. This has blown my sense of reality. This Knicks team bears no resemblance to what I think of as the Knicks. Hard to concentrate. Will Trump try to put his name of Madison Square Garden. " created="Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:54:39 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 5" created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:55:54 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="05">
				<outline text="Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they're working on it. " created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:52:34 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="It's really cool we get another NBA Finals game tonight. I'm rehearsing what it feels like to be a fan of the Eastern Conference Champion NY Knicks. It still hasn't even slightly sunk in yet. " created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:55:55 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Elon Musk's X" created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:49:04 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="I'm using &quot;EMX&quot; more than Bluesky, consciously -- realizing it was a mistake to move my social web act over there. There's no discourse to keep me there so I'm giving it less of my bandwidth. " created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:01:11 GMT" type="outline"/>
					<outline text="I tried an experiment today, Paul Graham, a big tech influencer on &quot;EMX&quot; said all the Tesla haters were seemed to be gone, so I chimed in that I am one, and have just returned. I wanted to see what would happen. Yeah I got trolled. Won't be doing that again. " created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:52:00 GMT"/>
					<outline text="hate == love + betrayed. You can't hate something you don't also love. If you go back before last year's election, I was borderline about Musk, happy to loved the car without thinking of him every damn time I drove it. Maybe I should start writing about it again. I promise it will be a very different story. " created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:52:14 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Also &lt;i&gt;EMX&lt;/i&gt; is what I'm calling &lt;i&gt;Elon Musk's X.&lt;/i&gt; I think calling it Twitter now is not right. But I don't see X as the name of a service or product. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but most good names have 2-4 syllables with 3 generally thought to be ideal. Look around you, see how things are named. That imho is why we like Claude better than ChatGPT." created="Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:55:03 GMT"/>
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			<outline text="June 4" created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:01:55 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="04">
				<outline text="Having fun &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2062563532009287874&quot;&gt;rolling stuff out&lt;/a&gt; on Elon Musk's X." created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:56:08 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The Knicks in the Finals " created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:01:56 GMT" type="outline" description="Last night's game was a lesson, you should always be open to the possibility of winning because sometimes you do. " metaImage="http://scripting.com/images/2026/05/27/knicksCelebrating.png">
					<outline text="I didn't write about the Knicks prior to last night's game because I had no idea what to write. " created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:04:32 GMT" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/20/brunson.png"/>
					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2026/06/04/130156.html&quot;&gt;The Knicks in the Finals&lt;/a&gt; is something I had a hard time understanding, even thinking about. To me the Knicks are soulful losers. They're like once-future hall-of-famer Carmelo Anthony surrounded by people who shouldn't even be in the NBA, but otherwise are lovely individuals. When they asked Melo what his goal was he said it was to win a championship, but the reporters never followed up with the obvious question -- &quot;Really?&quot; They did make the playoffs, three times,  in the Age of Melo, and they made it to the second round one of those three seasons, but that was it as far as Melo's championship aspirations went. He should've been on one of LeBron's teams, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Smith&quot;&gt;JR Smith&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_Shumpert&quot;&gt;Iman Shumpert&lt;/a&gt;, both Knicks alumni in the Melo period, who were fine players and did win with LeBron at Cleveland." created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:26:10 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Going into the game last night I thought maybe the pundits were right, that the real NBA Finals was the previous round between the San Antonios and the Oklahoma Cities. But last night that was debunked. At what point did I realize this? It wasn't until the game was over, ABC announcer Mike Breen said at the exact moment the game was over &quot;..their 12-game win streak&quot; which revealed that I had little faith the streak would be preserved. I thought 11 was pretty great, but 12? Until that exact moment -- unthinkable. " created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:04:42 GMT"/>
					<outline text="In the first part of the game when San Antonio looked like they might rout the poor unprepared Knicks, I thought okay, but couldn't we just concede so we don't have to watch? In that moment I appreciated what the Clevelands must have been feeling as they shrunk to nothing faced with the Knicks onslaught? How about if we all go home now at some point they must all have been thinking. " created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:13:48 GMT"/>
					<outline text="I'm a Mets fan first, and I bring the Mets philosophy to every sport, including the NBA and software. I'm here for the game. Sure I love it when we win, but if the Knicks went down in the final test, I'd still be a happy camper. Look they made it to the freaking Finals! Some Mets fans say the team slogan is You Gotta Believe. I say Wait Till Next Year! Same for the Knicks. Same for every software product I make that no one bothers to try out. " created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:06:56 GMT"/>
					<outline text="This Knicks team is classic. Every one of their players would be a star on any other team, including the bench players. Some of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landry_Shamet&quot;&gt;them&lt;/a&gt; whose contracts expire at the end of the series will certainly go to other teams. But what a thrill to have this group all on the same team and that team is my lovely Knicks. " created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:08:57 GMT"/>
					<outline text="Last night's game was a lesson, you should always be open to the possibility of winning because sometimes you do. " created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:09:56 GMT"/>
					<outline text="PS: My friend Dave Carlick sent me a text overnight: &quot;I watch the Knicks rooting for you. How tribal is that?&quot; I had a longish reply. &quot;I wrote a piece this morning after reading this comment, and of course I am rooting for the Knicks in some sense, but a win here is about more than winning -- it's a transformation. I've heard other people say this and the Knicks are us -- in a city that has disagreements about everything the only thing everyone is on board with are the Knicks. We're really comfortable with the Knicks as losers, and this has already become an unequivocal change. It's a whole new situation. Unless something really weird happens now, the Knicks will be great next year too, and the year after. So it's like witnessing a moon landing Dave. Underneath that of course I'm rooting for success, the same way we rooted for it for the initial moon landing in 1969.&quot;" created="Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:06:51 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 3" created="Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:12:34 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="03">
				<outline text="We need a social web that works for nobodies. " created="Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:18:01 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Claude is much better at starting from scratch with a big piece of code than humans are. It can suck in a full app and all its dependencies in a few seconds. For me, I would never get there. A finished piece of software is much bigger than people think, because the details are mostly pretty well hidden. But if you want to work on the code, you have to worry about it all. But I just had a minute to ask Claude why I made a certain decision a couple of months ago, and it found the answer in its notes and then I remembered it. This is one of many ways it rewrites the rules of building software out of a big library of components. It can manage complexity for you which means of course we will make more complex software and at the same time make it simpler. Code complexity becomes something you don't have to trade off against, like time vs space, the oldest tradeoff in software. " created="Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:50:42 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2017/09/01/mrFrog.png"/>
				<outline text="Useful concept, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWrite&quot;&gt;MacWrite&lt;/a&gt; was the &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22coral%20reef%22&quot;&gt;coral reef&lt;/a&gt; for writing on the Mac. " created="Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:12:35 GMT" type="outline"/>
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			<outline text="June 2" created="Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:55:37 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="02">
				<outline text="This &lt;a href=&quot;https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2026/06/02/macwriteForTheWeb.html&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt; is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWrite&quot;&gt;MacWrite&lt;/a&gt; for the web. A coral reef for writing. I think the pieces are coming. We just need a little &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine&quot;&gt;Ice-nine&lt;/a&gt;." created="Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:32:32 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://dri.es/grow-the-ecosystem-not-just-yourself&quot;&gt;Dries&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;For an Open Source company, the test is not only what they build for themselves. It is what they help build for everyone.&quot;" created="Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:02:12 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/davewiner/status/2061777568081100832&quot;&gt;On Twitter&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.&quot; " created="Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:59:41 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="The only twitter-like system that does text right is Elon Musk's X. I find that somewhat ironic. It's also the only twitter-like system where there's any kind of an actual community. They also have an API that works, has been around for more than a couple of years, and doesn't have a W3C working group messing with it. There's a lot of hype flying around, and we don't have any real journalists covering it so there is no real source of truth. I think the entrepreneurial twitter-likes should stop thinking in terms of owning the web and start adding back the text features the original Twitter thought the web didn't need, over 20 years ago. " created="Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:55:38 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/11/27/rssClub.png"/>
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			<outline text="June 1" created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:08:07 GMT" type="calendarDay" name="01">
				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Reilly&quot;&gt;John C Reilly&lt;/a&gt; has only one audiobook, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.audible.com/pd/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest-Audiobook/B008N1TVDU?qid=1780346782&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=WW3M8GMMBTRYDR07EKF2&amp;plink=VOtUYOmY1vBkYr5V&amp;pageLoadId=BtEBBZapmpvZd7IT&amp;creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&quot;&gt;One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest&lt;/a&gt;. But it's the best audiobook I've ever read, because the narrator and the book are great, esp together. Wish he would do more. Also there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5836617/john-c-reilly-mr-romantic&quot;&gt;great interview&lt;/a&gt; with him on the Rachel Martin &lt;a href=&quot;https://feedland.com/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.npr.org%2F510379%2Fpodcast.xml#&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt;. " created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:45:34 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="If you work at Automattic as a developer, if there's another &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.therepository.email/automattics-radical-speed-month-wraps-up-with-podcast-payment-and-publishing-tools-among-400-projects&quot;&gt;Radical Speed Month&lt;/a&gt; for devs, if you want, let's work on a project together even though I don't work for the company. I'm most interested in making products work together where the result gets people thinking about the web in a new way. A8C has a big enough product set, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=feedland&quot;&gt;FeedLand&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=wordland&quot;&gt;WordLand&lt;/a&gt; are by design well-equipped to talk with other products. I love APIs and we have some good ones to work with, and some &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; underexplored (imho because we got too fixated on the silos for so long). Very much open to ideas, and I love working with good developers. Maybe I'll post some ideas here. I'm esp interested now in hooking other projects up with FeedLand. " created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:29:30 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/10/08/reallySimpleBooks.png"/>
				<outline text="Maybe the best way to deal with the AIs is to quarantine the data centers on the moon or Mars, and if you want to hook up to the network, you have to move there, and quite possibly not be allowed to return, depending on how things go. It would make it possible for us to change our mind after we see a preview of the consequences. Now the big question, would you volunteer??" created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:27:43 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="There's so much I dread about the progress of AI, but nothing I say could possibly make a difference, and we aren't even that deep into it yet. This is the feeling I get every time I stop and think about it." created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:13:29 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="They should teach every chatbot to never give the user an order. " created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:17:22 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="At what point will companies start using AI to communicate with customers? Who will be the first to show everyone else how to do it? Amazon taught the world how to do commerce over the web. When will users expect their vendors to use AI to simplify shopping, buying, returning? Right now, I don't think most companies realize they can do business differently with people. In my humble opinion that's when the boom will come. " created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:08:08 GMT" type="outline"/>
				<outline text="Is Bluesky on the web?" created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:20:37 GMT" type="outline">
					<outline text="Is Bluesky on the web? Yes, to an extent. I can &lt;a href=&quot;https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mn7xrtddic2e&quot;&gt;post the url&lt;/a&gt; of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works. First you're on my blog, or reading it somewhere else where my blog is projected, via RSS. Then you click an anchor element, and you're instantly transported to Bluesky, to the specific place where my post is stored. In less than a second you're reading the thing I referenced. That's the web, right there. " created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:10:38 GMT"/>
					<outline text="But it doesn't work the other way. They love it when you send people to their site, but not so much if you want to  send them away. Sending people away is a sensitive concept to Bluesky's investors. Why would you do that? This is not a new point where the web and silos disagree. The web says &quot;let them go&quot; and the silos ask &quot;do we look like idiots?&quot; " created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:21:33 GMT"/>
					<outline text="But they will support the web in both directions if they are forced to by competition or user expectations (pretty much the same thing). That's why podcasting remains unsiloized after over 20 years. If people expect choice, they won't use clients that don't make it easy to switch. " created="Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:22:41 GMT"/>
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