![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/claudeTalkingHead.png\")
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.
\nFast 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.
\nThe 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, \"seeing\" 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.
\nAnd 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.
", "pubDate": "2026-07-07T13:40:30.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html?title=aiCanDoQa", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html", "outline": { "text": "AI can do QA", "created": "Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:40:30 GMT", "type": "outline", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html", "subs": [ { "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html#a133107" }, { "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html#a134210" }, { "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, \"seeing\" 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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html#a134344" }, { "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html#a134357" } ] }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07/134030.html", "markdowntext": "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.\n\nFast 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.\n\nThe 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, \"seeing\" 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.\n\nAnd 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." }, { "description": "One of the silver linings of AI use is that it makes you a better writer.", "pubDate": "2026-07-07T12:58:28.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07.html#a125828", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07.html#a125828", "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07.html#a125828" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/07.html#a125828", "markdowntext": "One of the silver linings of AI use is that it makes you a better writer." }, { "description": "Today's song: \"July is dressed up and playing her tune.\"", "pubDate": "2026-07-06T15:50:07.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155007", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155007", "outline": { "text": "Today's song: \"July is dressed up and playing her tune.\"", "created": "Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:50:07 GMT", "type": "outline", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155007" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155007", "markdowntext": "[Today's song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQbjpomexo): \"July is dressed up and playing her tune.\"" }, { "description": "James Talarico, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg, 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. ;-)", "pubDate": "2026-07-06T16:00:25.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a160025", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a160025", "outline": { "text": "James Talarico, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg, 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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a160025" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a160025", "markdowntext": "[James Talarico](https://x.com/jamestalarico), Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of [Matt Mullenweg](https://x.com/photomatt), 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. ;-)" }, { "description": "We just implement Cute Paste 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 <img src=\"xxx\">, 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.", "pubDate": "2026-07-06T15:52:12.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155212", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155212", "outline": { "text": "We just implement Cute Paste 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 <img src=\"xxx\">, 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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155212" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06.html#a155212", "markdowntext": "We just implement [Cute Paste](http://scripting.com/2025/10/09/133902.html#a133943) 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 anI'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 Andrew Shell came out with a new version of his open source rssCloud hub server, which we use here, that now supports WebSub. So I decided to find out if it was worth supporting.
\nThere 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).
\nI 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.
\nOn the web our goal is interop. 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.
", "pubDate": "2026-07-06T13:40:45.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html?title=theWebIsAboutInterop", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html", "outline": { "text": "The web is about interop", "created": "Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:40:45 GMT", "type": "outline", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html", "subs": [ { "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 Andrew Shell came out with a new version of his open source rssCloud hub server, 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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html#a132945" }, { "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html#a134125" }, { "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html#a134213" }, { "text": "On the web our goal is interop. 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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html#a134220" } ] }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/06/134045.html", "markdowntext": "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 [Andrew Shell](https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/announcing-the-rsscloud-server-4-0-release/) came out with a new version of his open source [rssCloud hub server](https://rpc.rsscloud.io/docs/quick-start), which we use here, that now supports WebSub. So I decided to find out if it was worth supporting.\n\nThere 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).\n\nI 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.\n\n[On the web our goal is interop](https://this.how/standards/#1497798753000). 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." }, { "description": "![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/19/reallySimpleNet.png\")
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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-05T19:23:37.000Z",
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"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",
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"markdowntext": "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."
},
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"description": "Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, I wrote: \"It works! Again a big difference, it's only happened a few times but when it does I completely lose the suspension of disbelief.\" Claude responds: \"One jolt and the tool becomes visible again.\" 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-05T19:32:43.000Z",
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"text": "Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, I wrote: \"It works! Again a big difference, it's only happened a few times but when it does I completely lose the suspension of disbelief.\" Claude responds: \"One jolt and the tool becomes visible again.\" 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",
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},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a193243",
"markdowntext": "Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, I wrote: \"It works! Again a big difference, it's only happened a few times but when it does I completely lose the suspension of disbelief.\" Claude responds: \"One jolt and the tool becomes visible again.\" 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."
},
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"description": "I am 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-05T21:40:21.000Z",
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"outline": {
"text": "I am 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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a214021"
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"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a214021",
"markdowntext": "I _am_ 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."
},
{
"description": "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??",
"pubDate": "2026-07-05T19:26:53.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a192653",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a192653",
"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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a192653"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a192653",
"markdowntext": "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??"
},
{
"description": "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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-05T14:55:23.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a145523",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a145523",
"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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a145523"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/05.html#a145523",
"markdowntext": "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."
},
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"description": "![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/02/26/uncleJerry.png\")
I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships 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 was 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 sing for you: \"I'm Uncle Sam that's who I am been hiding out in a rock and roll band.\" 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-04T17:23:50.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/04.html#a172350",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/04.html#a172350",
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"text": "I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships 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 was 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 sing for you: \"I'm Uncle Sam that's who I am been hiding out in a rock and roll band.\" 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.",
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"markdowntext": "I'm old enough to remember the [Tall Ships](https://www.city-journal.org/article/america-bicentennial-tall-ships-operation-sail) 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 _was_ 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 [sing for you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdPOAhBp2Ag): \"I'm Uncle Sam that's who I am been hiding out in a rock and roll band.\" 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."
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"description": "In the case 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 \"RSS is dead,\" but didn't understand that it was killing off most of the features of HTML too. It was a slow process, like the frog in the boiling water story?",
"pubDate": "2026-07-04T16:33:41.000Z",
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"text": "In the case 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 \"RSS is dead,\" but didn't understand that it was killing off most of the features of HTML too. It was a slow process, like the frog in the boiling water story?",
"created": "Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:33:41 GMT",
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"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/04.html#a163341",
"markdowntext": "In the [case](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2073445073308602524) 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 \"RSS is dead,\" but didn't understand that it was killing off most of the features of HTML too. It was a slow process, like the [frog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog) in the boiling water story?"
},
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"description": "![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/05/03/rabbit.png\")
I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-03T11:48:40.000Z",
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"text": "I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the Bill Simmons podcast, 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.",
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"markdowntext": "I need new podcasts. The only one I listen to regularly now is the [Bill Simmons podcast](https://feedland.com/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.megaphone.fm%2Fthe-bill-simmons-podcast), 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."
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"title": "Claude's face as visualized by ChatGPT",
"description": "I asked ChatGPT for this. \"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?\"
\nThere 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 got the text 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.
\n![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/narrative.png\")
Then I asked for ChatGPT for an image of ChatGPT talking head.
\n![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/chatgptAsVisualizedByChatgpt.png\")
Final image, Claude head speaking for Claude AI as an image.
\n![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/claudeAsVisualizedByChatGPT.png\")
![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/02/dontBooVote.png\")
I saw a bit of a commencement speech by Eric Schmidt, 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 says, \"Don't boo, vote.\" 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-02T12:42:03.000Z",
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"text": "I saw a bit of a commencement speech by Eric Schmidt, 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 says, \"Don't boo, vote.\" 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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"markdowntext": "I saw a bit of a [commencement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNH43a1EI7s) speech by [Eric Schmidt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt), 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 [says](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QKX9mcQeVCc), \"Don't boo, vote.\" 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."
},
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"description": "![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/03/30/bankDick.png\")
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 NBA Champions. It wasn't exactly 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-01T20:31:34.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a203134",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a203134",
"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 NBA Champions. It wasn't exactly 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",
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},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a203134",
"markdowntext": "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 [NBA Champions](http://scripting.com/2026/06/14.html). It wasn't _exactly_ 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."
},
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"description": "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 Bell Labs put together the first Unix 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, Mac OS 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.)",
"pubDate": "2026-07-01T13:44:29.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a134429",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a134429",
"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 Bell Labs put together the first Unix 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, Mac OS 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",
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"markdowntext": "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 [Bell Labs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix) put together the first [Unix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix) 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, [Mac OS](https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html) 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.)"
},
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"description": "I showed the post 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 story I wrote in 1988, a summary of what I did leading to the start of UserLand. 38 years later Claude said: \"LBBS message scanner running on RSS.\"",
"pubDate": "2026-07-01T14:06:05.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a140605",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a140605",
"outline": {
"text": "I showed the post 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 story I wrote in 1988, a summary of what I did leading to the start of UserLand. 38 years later Claude said: \"LBBS message scanner running on RSS.\"",
"created": "Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:06:05 GMT",
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"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a140605",
"markdowntext": "I showed the [post](http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a134429) 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 [story](http://scripting.com/outlinersProgramming.html) I wrote in 1988, a summary of what I did leading to the start of [UserLand](http://userland.com/). 38 years later Claude said: \"LBBS message scanner running on RSS.\""
},
{
"description": "BTW thinking of LBBS as an early version of Twitter is a contortion, but considering how history played out, accurate.",
"pubDate": "2026-07-01T14:12:08.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a141208",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a141208",
"outline": {
"text": "BTW thinking of LBBS 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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a141208"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/07/01.html#a141208",
"markdowntext": "BTW thinking of [LBBS](http://scripting.com/outlinersProgramming.html) as an early version of Twitter is a contortion, but considering how history played out, accurate."
},
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"description": "![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/01/16/rodneyDangerfield.png\")
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 Subaru Forester, 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 robot vacuum cleaner 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. ;-)",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T17:07:48.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a170748",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a170748",
"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 Subaru Forester, 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 robot vacuum cleaner 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",
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"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a170748",
"markdowntext": "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 [Subaru Forester](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Subaru%20Forester%22), 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 [robot vacuum cleaner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_vacuum_cleaner) 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. ;-)"
},
{
"description": "BTW, I sometimes ask Claude \"what do you think\" and it often has an opinion.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T22:20:07.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a222007",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a222007",
"outline": {
"text": "BTW, I sometimes ask Claude \"what do you think\" and it often has an opinion.",
"created": "Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:20:07 GMT",
"type": "outline",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a222007"
},
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"markdowntext": "BTW, I sometimes ask Claude \"what do you think\" and it often has an opinion."
},
{
"description": "Earlier today I suggested doing an AI/UI overhaul for WordPress, and today I see the announcement of that from (apparently) an independent developer. Breath-taking.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T16:29:39.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a162939",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a162939",
"outline": {
"text": "Earlier today I suggested doing an AI/UI overhaul for WordPress, and today I see the announcement of that from (apparently) an independent developer. Breath-taking.",
"created": "Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:29:39 GMT",
"type": "outline",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a162939"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a162939",
"markdowntext": "Earlier today I [suggested](http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122345) doing an AI/UI overhaul for WordPress, and today I see the [announcement](https://x.com/johnturner/status/2071966750011179370) of [that](https://wpvibe.ai/start/) from (apparently) an independent developer. Breath-taking."
},
{
"description": "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.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T12:23:03.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122303",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122303",
"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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122303"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122303",
"markdowntext": "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."
},
{
"description": "![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/01/21/lemonade.png\")
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 Nixon could open 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.)",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T12:23:45.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122345",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122345",
"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 Nixon could open 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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122345"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122345",
"markdowntext": "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 [Nixon could open](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_goes_to_China) 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.)"
},
{
"description": "I organize my work in OPML and have even taught Claude how to work with me in outlines.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T12:22:13.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122213",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122213",
"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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122213"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122213",
"markdowntext": "I organize my work in OPML and have even taught Claude how to work with me in outlines."
},
{
"description": "I prefer to do my middle of the night iPad writing sprees 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T12:21:35.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122135",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a122135",
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"text": "I prefer to do my middle of the night iPad writing sprees 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.",
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"markdowntext": "I prefer to do my middle of the night iPad [writing sprees](https://x.com/davewiner/status/2071843278798852607) 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."
},
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"description": "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.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-30T21:54:52.000Z",
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"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",
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"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a215452"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/30.html#a215452",
"markdowntext": "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."
},
{
"description": "Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-29T12:45:19.000Z",
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"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a124519",
"outline": {
"text": "Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier.",
"created": "Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:45:19 GMT",
"type": "outline",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a124519"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a124519",
"markdowntext": "Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier."
},
{
"description": "![](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/02/23/reallySimpleRavioli.png\")
BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned yesterday. And I should mention that Manton Reece, developer of micro.blog 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 in 2017. 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 want 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 Two-Way Web, specifically Two-Way RSS. And of course textcasting. Don't forget that. It's a rule, textcasting everywhere conceivable.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-29T15:27:57.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a152757",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a152757",
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"text": "BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned yesterday. And I should mention that Manton Reece, developer of micro.blog 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 in 2017. 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 want 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 Two-Way Web, specifically Two-Way RSS. And of course textcasting. Don't forget that. It's a rule, textcasting everywhere conceivable.",
"created": "Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:27:57 GMT",
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"image": "https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/02/23/reallySimpleRavioli.png",
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"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a152757",
"markdowntext": "BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned [yesterday](http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a131214). And I should mention that [Manton Reece](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/28/dave-winer-puts-out-a.html), developer of [micro.blog](https://micro.blog/) 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 [in 2017](http://scripting.com/2017/05/05/iWantMyOldBlogBack.html). 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 _want_ 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 [Two-Way Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20070107081239/http://davenet.scripting.com/2000/03/02/theTwowayweb), specifically Two-Way RSS. And of course [textcasting](https://textcasting.org/). Don't forget that. It's a rule, textcasting everywhere conceivable."
},
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"description": "I've never given a commencement speech, but if I did, I'd run through my mottos and explain what they mean and who I stole 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 -- \"People don't listen to friends, they listen to competitors.\" 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. ;-)",
"pubDate": "2026-06-29T15:20:27.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a152027",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a152027",
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"text": "I've never given a commencement speech, but if I did, I'd run through my mottos and explain what they mean and who I stole 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 -- \"People don't listen to friends, they listen to competitors.\" 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",
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"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a152027"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a152027",
"markdowntext": "I've never given a commencement speech, but if I did, I'd run through my [mottos](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+mottos) and explain what they mean and who I [stole](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22only%20steal%20from%20the%20best%22) 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 -- \"People don't listen to friends, they listen to competitors.\" 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. ;-)"
},
{
"description": "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, Obama 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-29T12:50:56.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125056",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125056",
"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, Obama 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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125056"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125056",
"markdowntext": "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, [Obama](http://scripting.com/2026/06/21.html#a181749) 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."
},
{
"description": "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 bomb crater in its place.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-29T16:07:56.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a160756",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a160756",
"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 bomb crater in its place.",
"created": "Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:07:56 GMT",
"type": "outline",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a160756"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a160756",
"markdowntext": "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 [bomb](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9mylnkp2go) crater in its place."
},
{
"description": "Of course I read Josh Marshall's piece 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.",
"pubDate": "2026-06-29T12:56:41.000Z",
"link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125641",
"guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125641",
"outline": {
"text": "Of course I read Josh Marshall's piece 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",
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125641"
},
"permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29.html#a125641",
"markdowntext": "Of course I read [Josh Marshall's piece](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/google-ai-oligarchy-and-the-end-of-the-open-web) 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."
},
{
"title": "Only steal from the best",
"description": "As a writer I've stolen lots of ideas. All writers do it. How do you think we get our ideas.
\nWhich is why it's so weird that they object to having their ideas stolen en masse.
\nWe go through this regularly, basically you make a living doing something, and you aren't paid enough.
\nSo every subject in every context arrives at the same place. Why aren't they paying me. I must be paid.
\nIt is a permanent obsession with writers.
\nI try to be honest and admit that I steal from other writers, but I only steal from the best! :-)
", "pubDate": "2026-06-29T16:00:16.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html?title=onlyStealFromTheBest", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html", "outline": { "text": "Only steal from the best", "created": "Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:16 GMT", "type": "outline", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html", "subs": [ { "text": "As a writer I've stolen lots of ideas. All writers do it. How do you think we get our ideas.", "created": "Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:32 GMT", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html#a160032" }, { "text": "Which is why it's so weird that they object to having their ideas stolen en masse.", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html#aNaNNaNNaN" }, { "text": "We go through this regularly, basically you make a living doing something, and you aren't paid enough.", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html#aNaNNaNNaN" }, { "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html#a160121" }, { "text": "It is a permanent obsession with writers.", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html#aNaNNaNNaN" }, { "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html#a160252" } ] }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/29/160016.html", "markdowntext": "As a writer I've [stolen lots](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22only%20steal%20from%20the%20best%22) of ideas. All writers do it. How do you think we get our ideas.\n\nWhich is why it's so weird that they object to having their ideas stolen en masse.\n\nWe go through this regularly, basically you make a living doing something, and you aren't paid enough.\n\nSo every subject in every context arrives at the same place. Why aren't they paying me. I must be paid.\n\nIt is a permanent obsession with writers.\n\nI try to be honest and admit that I steal from other writers, but I only steal from the best! :-)" }, { "description": "To read scripting.com you need a browser that supports HTTP.", "pubDate": "2026-06-28T15:45:32.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154532", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154532", "outline": { "text": "To read scripting.com you need a browser that supports HTTP.", "created": "Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:45:32 GMT", "type": "outline", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154532" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154532", "markdowntext": "To read scripting.com you need a browser that [supports HTTP](https://this.how/googleAndHttp/)." }, { "description": "Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most features of the web, 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.", "pubDate": "2026-06-28T15:43:15.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154315", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154315", "outline": { "text": "Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most features of the web, 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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154315" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a154315", "markdowntext": "Why email newsletters made sense. Email has no character limits, can represent bold and italic, links, titles, enclosures, basically most [features of the web](https://textcasting.org/), 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." }, { "description": "If you're working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound RSS, 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 page on my blog.", "pubDate": "2026-06-28T13:12:14.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a131214", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a131214", "outline": { "text": "If you're working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound RSS, 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 page on my blog.", "created": "Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:12:14 GMT", "type": "outline", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a131214" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a131214", "markdowntext": "If you're working on a social web app that supports inbound and outbound [RSS](https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html), 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 [page](http://scripting.com/?tab=about) on my blog." }, { "description": "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.", "pubDate": "2026-06-28T13:08:31.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a130831", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a130831", "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a130831" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a130831", "markdowntext": "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." }, { "description": "I noted a few weeks ago that Markdown has a format for outlines.", "pubDate": "2026-06-28T23:10:43.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a231043", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a231043", "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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a231043" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/28.html#a231043", "markdowntext": "I noted a few weeks ago that Markdown has a format for outlines." }, { "description": "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 obfuscation tools can do.", "pubDate": "2026-06-27T17:26:59.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a172659", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a172659", "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 obfuscation tools can do.", "created": "Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:26:59 GMT", "type": "outline", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a172659" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a172659", "markdowntext": "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 [obfuscation tools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscation_\\(software\\)) can do." }, { "description": "In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study a piece I published in 1997, but was written in 1988 or so. Esp the part about LBBS. 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.", "pubDate": "2026-06-27T15:59:09.000Z", "link": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a155909", "guid": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a155909", "outline": { "text": "In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study a piece I published in 1997, but was written in 1988 or so. Esp the part about LBBS. 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", "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a155909" }, "permalink": "http://scripting.com/2026/06/27.html#a155909", "markdowntext": "In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study a [piece](http://scripting.com/outlinersProgramming.html) I published in 1997, but was written in 1988 or so. Esp the part about [LBBS](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=lbbs). 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." } ] }![got the text](\"https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/07/03/printedDescription.png\"){kind=link}