{ "title": "daveverse", "description": "Dave's WordPress home in the Fediverse :-)", "pubDate": "2026-08-12T14:31:40.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/", "language": "en-US", "cloud": { "domain": "rpc.rsscloud.io", "port": "5337", "path": "/pleaseNotify", "registerprocedure": "", "protocol": "http-post", "type": "rsscloud" }, "image": { "url": "https://i0.wp.com/daveverse.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/cropped-brilliantTree.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1", "title": "daveverse" }, "wpSiteId": 237777565, "reader": { "app": "reallysimple v0.5.4 (linux)", "ctSecsToRead": 0.03 }, "items": [ { "description": "

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I just went through hell trying to respond to an email that came to me through the gateway between WordPress and Mastodon. I clicked the link, it took me to a WordPress dialog, very confusing, but there was a link to the message, so I clicked it, took me to a Mastodon post, where there was a bit of (valid) snark, from a longtime friend. So I clicked Reply, and then the dialog from hell. I understand why it is this way. They did the best they could for a protocol that was designed that wasn’t appropriate for a distributed system like Twitter which was what Masto was/is. At some point you have to be dispassionate about this. We wanted a self-driving car, but it can’t drive itself. The spec isn’t the important thing. You do that after you have the software running and usable.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-12T14:05:13.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/12/11856/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/12/11856/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/12/11856/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nI just went through hell trying to respond to an email that came to me through the gateway between WordPress and Mastodon. I clicked the link, it took me to a WordPress dialog, very confusing, but there was a link to the message, so I clicked it, took me to a Mastodon post, where there was a bit of (valid) snark, from a longtime friend. So I clicked Reply, and then the [dialog from hell](https://imgs.scripting.com/2026/08/12/mastodialog.png). I understand why it is this way. They did the best they could for a protocol that was designed that wasn’t appropriate for a distributed system like Twitter which was what Masto was/is. At some point you have to be dispassionate about this. We wanted a self-driving car, but it can’t drive itself. The spec isn’t the important thing. You do that after you have the software running and usable.", "wpPostId": 11856 }, { "description": "

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If you run a tech company I hope you didn’t lay off most of your programmers last year when that was the hype. Don’t wait too long before you fire your human developers. I’m now doing my second big project with Claude Code, not an experiment, and we’re going through the same mess we went through last time. I know what I want, I can show it what I want, give it docs for what I want, and it keeps leading me into different corners that have nothing to do with it. When it clicks, it can go faster than a thousand programmers and it’s a miracle, and when we can harness it to the job we want to do it’s incredibly economical. $100 for $1 million of work. That’s why you see me full of gusto for that mode. What I haven’t written about how when you slow to nothing, back and forth, and you get no closer. I hate this kind of work, esp the role I have to play in it.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-12T13:18:26.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/12/11837/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/12/11837/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/12/11837/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\n![](https://i0.wp.com/imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/10/andNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent.png?ssl=1)If you run a tech company I hope you didn’t lay off most of your programmers last year when that was the hype. Don’t wait too long before you fire your human developers. I’m now doing my second big project with Claude Code, *not* an experiment, and we’re going through the same mess we went through last time. I know what I want, I can show it what I want, give it docs for what I want, and it keeps leading me into different corners that have nothing to do with it. When it clicks, it can go faster than a thousand programmers and it’s a miracle, and when we can harness it to the job we want to do it’s incredibly economical. $100 for $1 million of work. That’s why you see me full of gusto for that mode. What I haven’t written about how when you slow to nothing, back and forth, and you get no closer. I hate this kind of work, esp the role I have to play in it.", "wpPostId": 11837 }, { "description": "

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Apparently the nightly email didn’t go out last night. The problem was an error when it tried to read the Linkblog entries for the day. I’ve seen reports that these errors happen when you try to read the Links tab on scripting.com. The error shouldn’t kill the email sending, it should just omit the linkblog entries, and publish the rest. These kinds of problems always pop up at the worst time. Luckily yesterday wasn’t a big news day, and you can read about it on the blog.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-11T12:28:18.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/11/11824/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/11/11824/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/11/11824/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\n![](https://i0.wp.com/imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/19/reallySimpleNet.png?ssl=1)Apparently the nightly email didn’t go out last night. The problem was an error when it tried to read the Linkblog entries for the day. I’ve seen reports that these errors happen when you try to read the [Links tab](http://scripting.com/?tab=links) on scripting.com. The error shouldn’t kill the email sending, it should just omit the linkblog entries, and publish the rest. These kinds of problems always pop up at the worst time. Luckily yesterday wasn’t a big news day, and you can read about it [on the blog](http://scripting.com/2026/08/10.html).", "wpPostId": 11824 }, { "description": "

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I was looking for a codename for a new scripting environment Claude and I are making attempting in every way to do exactly what Frontier does. But until it does that I need a nice name, memorable, maybe a bit magical and positive. Frontier has been gone, thought to be lost, but with the advent of Claude Code we were able to get it running again in current OSes on current hardware. I shouldn’t call it Frontier because who knows if the end result will be compatible enough to claim that. But I want a codename that reflects hidden, forgotten and overlooked wealth. Like a civilzation that rose from the ashes,” or as it turns out, the bottom of the ocean.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-11T12:28:18.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/11/11823/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/11/11823/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/11/11823/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nI was looking for a codename for a new scripting environment Claude and I are making attempting in every way to do exactly what Frontier does. But until it does that I need a nice name, memorable, maybe a bit magical and positive. Frontier has been gone, thought to be lost, but with the advent of Claude Code we were able to get it running again in current OSes on current hardware. I shouldn’t call it Frontier because who knows if the end result will be compatible enough to claim that. But I want a codename that reflects hidden, forgotten and overlooked wealth. Like a civilzation that rose from the ashes,” or as it turns out, the bottom of the ocean.", "wpPostId": 11823 }, { "description": "

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Manton: “The way I think about RSS.chat is that it’s a bootstrap for getting lots of RSS feeds to play well together, for both posts and replies. Can the web be the social network? Yes. And Micro.blog should be part of anything working toward that goal.”

", "pubDate": "2026-08-10T15:29:11.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11814/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11814/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11814/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\n[Manton](https://www.manton.org/2026/08/10/thanks-dave-for-the-kind.html): “The way I think about RSS.chat is that it’s a bootstrap for getting lots of RSS feeds to play well together, for both posts and replies. Can the web be the social network? Yes. And Micro.blog should be part of anything working toward that goal.”", "wpPostId": 11814 }, { "description": "

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I have Claude update me on all posts on both RSS.chat sites when we start for a day. I read them all when they’re posted, but one was in German, which Claude automatically translated for me, and it’s an interesting question. Which I have answered.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-10T13:50:10.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11809/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11809/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11809/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nI have Claude update me on all posts on both RSS.chat sites when we start for a day. I read them all when they’re posted, but one was in German, which Claude automatically translated for me, and it’s an interesting [question](https://demo.rss.chat/?id=403). Which I have [answered](https://demo.rss.chat/?id=405).", "wpPostId": 11809 }, { "description": "

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Anyway, one of those streaming services I get now is Paramount+ which is owned by the Ellisons, which I don’t like, but they have a show that is really excellent esp if you like British crime stories, which I most definitely do, even if most of the actors are American, and it probably was recorded in Vancouver or in Queens. It’s called, unimaginatively, The Agency, as in the Central Intelligence Agency. The story is fine, but what really sets it apart is the quality of the acting and production. Beautifully filmed, better to watch it on a nice big screen set with good audio. Two seasons only, but if you want to know the kind of TV I like, this is it.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-10T13:05:30.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11803/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11803/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11803/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nAnyway, one of those streaming services I get now is Paramount+ which is owned by the Ellisons, which I don’t like, but they have a show that is really excellent esp if you like British crime stories, which I most definitely do, even if most of the actors are American, and it probably was recorded in Vancouver or in Queens. It’s called, unimaginatively, [The Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Agency_(2024_TV_series)), as in the Central Intelligence Agency. The story is fine, but what really sets it apart is the quality of the acting and production. Beautifully filmed, better to watch it on a nice big screen set with good audio. Two seasons only, but if you want to know the kind of TV I like, this is it.", "wpPostId": 11803 }, { "description": "

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I have Spectrum cable and they recently started unbundling the cable services they provide. So I have a bunch of streaming services that I never decided to follow, and haven’t gotten in the habit of checking them. Not sure if I like this, but I certainly understand why the bill is so high and seems to always be going higher? Not sure why that is. But it’s hard to get through to them.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-10T13:05:30.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11802/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11802/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11802/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nI have Spectrum cable and they recently started unbundling the cable services they provide. So I have a bunch of streaming services that I never decided to follow, and haven’t gotten in the habit of checking them. Not sure if I like this, but I certainly understand why the bill is so high and seems to always be going higher? Not sure why that is. But it’s hard to get through to them.", "wpPostId": 11802 }, { "description": "

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I see the new Game of Thrones series just completed it third season. I tried getting into it, and couldn’t. But then I didn’t get going in the original series for the first few attempts. People say this show is good, so I will probably give it another try.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-10T13:05:30.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11801/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11801/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/10/11801/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nI see the new Game of Thrones series just completed it third season. I tried getting into it, and couldn’t. But then I didn’t get going in the original series for the first few attempts. People say this show is good, so I will probably give it another try.", "wpPostId": 11801 }, { "description": "

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Working with Claude on the user interface of RSS.chat was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and Claude who can read the code for a huge sprawling app like Frontier, and understand it, in a minute or two. We’ve done this project in three stages, not knowing at the first two that there would be another one. Now we’re working on the editors. An odb table editor, outliner, menubar editor, script editor. All built on the same codebase. It’s in an Electron app that works with lots of independent windows, which while it has its pros and cons, is the way Frontier did it for almost 40 years. I find all this very unsettling, but I realize that once we get back to adjusting the UI, I already know how to work with Claude on tuning things up so they feel just right. I’m a market of one, the only one who has to be happy here is me. This may be the hardest programming project I’ve ever had, for one simple reason, I’m not doing any programming. That and I’m having very strong deja vu on everything I do and think about. Also there will be a fourth stage and maybe more. It’ll be about the affordances, the things that seem little, but make the product usable. The biggest is the debugger. It’s patterned after the one in THINK C, which I found transformative so I stole from the best, as they say.

", "pubDate": "2026-08-09T14:22:04.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/09/11798/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/09/11798/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/08/09/11798/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nWorking with Claude on the user interface of [RSS.chat](https://this.how/rsschat/) was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and Claude who can read the code for a huge sprawling app like [Frontier](http://scripting.com/2021/01/04/140651.html?title=whatFrontierIsAbout), and understand it, in a minute or two. We’ve done this project in three stages, not knowing at the first two that there would be another one. Now we’re working on the editors. An odb table editor, outliner, menubar editor, script editor. All built on the same codebase. It’s in an Electron app that works with lots of independent windows, which while it has its pros and cons, is the way Frontier did it for almost 40 years. I find all this very unsettling, but I realize that once we get back to adjusting the UI, I already know how to work with Claude on tuning things up so they feel just right. I’m a market of one, the only one who has to be happy here is me. This may be the hardest programming project I’ve ever had, for one simple reason, I’m not doing any programming. That and I’m having very strong deja vu on everything I do and think about. Also there will be a fourth stage and maybe more. It’ll be about the affordances, the things that seem little, but make the product usable. The biggest is the debugger. It’s patterned after the one in [THINK C](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22THINK%20C%22), which I found transformative so I [stole from the best](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22steal%20from%20the%20best%22), as they say.", "wpPostId": 11798 } ] }