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Unsung heroes of the web — librarians.
\nThe early web was just this incredible new tool that no one knew yet how it would be used and what it would be used for.
\nThe first Yahoo was a card catalog.
\nNetscape had a What’s New page with links to interesting stuff.
\napple.com was a Unix box under a librarian’s desk. They started adding stuff that was useful to users and developers. No business model, just the librarian approach to information. Circulate it.
\nI think if a new web is to be born, it’s because it’s again a possibility with the advent of AI.
\nListen to librarians, they probably have some good ideas of where to start.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-23T19:30:29.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/librarians/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/librarians/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/librarians/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nUnsung heroes of the web — librarians.\n\nThe early web was just this incredible new tool that no one knew yet how it would be used and what it would be used for.\n\nThe first Yahoo was a card catalog.\n\nNetscape had a [What’s New](http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-new.html) page with links to interesting stuff.\n\napple.com was a Unix box under a librarian’s desk. They started adding stuff that was useful to users and developers. No business model, just the librarian approach to information. Circulate it.\n\nI think if a new web is to be born, it’s because it’s again a possibility with the advent of AI.\n\nListen to librarians, they probably have some good ideas of where to start.", "wpPostId": 12601 }, { "description": "\nJust created a new test account at mastodon.social for bullmancuso using Frontier. Claude wrote the glue scripts table. Loaded it at system.verbs.apps.mastodon. I also asked Claude to write a script that builds an RSS feed for davew, my Mastodon account. And it worked. That’s a much better feed than what Masto itself produces. It won’t be updated at that location so there’s no point in subscribing. But wow, this is coming together. If Frontier had been around for all these years you can be sure it would do Mastodon integration pretty well.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-23T17:09:31.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12599/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12599/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12599/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nJust created a new [test account](https://mastodon.social/@bullmancuso/117321239457087749) at mastodon.social for [bullmancuso](https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22bull%20mancuso%22) using Frontier. Claude wrote the glue scripts table. Loaded it at system.verbs.apps.mastodon. I also asked Claude to write a script that builds an RSS feed for davew, my Mastodon account. And it [worked](http://scripting.com/publicfolder/misc/daveMastoRss.xml). That’s a much better feed than what Masto itself produces. It won’t be updated at that location so there’s no point in subscribing. But wow, this is coming together. If Frontier had been around for all these years you can be sure it would do Mastodon integration pretty well.", "wpPostId": 12599 }, { "description": "\nOn Monday I offered free advice for Toni Schneider, the new CEO at Bluesky. I’m sure everyone is telling him what to do, and as a blogger it’s my responsibility to relay my own two cents. I want us all to come together no matter what protocol you’re using. We’ve been waiting for a web to form in the social space. We could do it now, but Bluesky has to consolidate. Note that I said we, not they.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-23T15:23:54.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12590/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12590/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12590/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nOn Monday I offered [free advice](https://demo.rss.chat/?id=507) for Toni Schneider, the new CEO at Bluesky. I’m sure everyone is telling him what to do, and as a blogger it’s my responsibility to relay my own two cents. I want us all to come together no matter what protocol you’re using. We’ve been waiting for a web to form in the social space. We could do it now, but Bluesky has to consolidate. Note that I said we, not they.", "wpPostId": 12590 }, { "description": "\nIt’s been 2.5 months since RSS.chat was introduced. I’ve been so immersed in Frontier that, as I look back, all this feels fresh to me. I want all text boxes to be equal and to be chained together in as many ways as we can think of, users and developers. Relational writing. It doesn’t need to be hierarchic, yet all the existing comment systems are. Let’s add a little richness to the RSS format, via my source namespace, and see where we can take it. We’ve implemented the writing side, something we undertsand very well by now, a blog with replies. But how do we get these to work across sites. I wrote a design for that, and the other big piece which is stuff FeedLand does. I hope to be able to swing over to that, and this time use Frontier instead of writing it to help accelerate development. Ultimately I think of it as a web designed for librarians. That would be something I’d like to use (and write). And our new AI tools are the greatest librarian tools ever.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-23T15:19:12.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12588/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12588/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/23/12588/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nIt’s been 2.5 months since [RSS.chat](https://demo.rss.chat/) was [introduced](http://scripting.com/2026/07/10/161133.html?title=introducingRssChat). I’ve been so immersed in Frontier that, as I look back, all this feels fresh to me. I want all text boxes to be equal and to be chained together in as many ways as we can think of, users and developers. Relational writing. It doesn’t need to be hierarchic, yet all the existing comment systems are. Let’s add a little richness to the RSS format, via my source namespace, and see where we can take it. We’ve implemented the writing side, something we undertsand very well by now, a blog with replies. But how do we get these to work across sites. I wrote a design for that, and the other big piece which is stuff FeedLand does. I hope to be able to swing over to that, and this time use Frontier instead of writing it to help accelerate development. Ultimately I think of it as a web designed for librarians. That would be something I’d like to use (and write). And our new AI tools are the greatest librarian tools ever.", "wpPostId": 12588 }, { "description": "\nThe number one waste of time and burnt braincells is they changed the Dock images for all their apps. That’s the kind of thing you shouldn’t change, like the color and shape of a Stop sign. Or QWERTY on a typewriter. I guess to regular Mac people I’m like Rip Van Winkle.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-22T18:52:58.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12576/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12576/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12576/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nThe number one waste of time and burnt braincells is they changed the Dock images for all their apps. That’s the kind of thing you shouldn’t change, like the color and shape of a Stop sign. Or QWERTY on a typewriter. I guess to regular Mac people I’m like Rip Van Winkle.", "wpPostId": 12576 }, { "description": "\nLove that Olbermann is back.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-22T18:27:23.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12556/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12556/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12556/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nLove that [Olbermann](https://feedland.com/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.omnycontent.com%2Fd%2Fplaylist%2Fe73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1%2F4cab918b-b4e7-4a21-8300-aec3011bf3f1%2Fe7682aaf-443f-41d8-945f-aec3011c5127%2Fpodcast.rss) is back.", "wpPostId": 12556 }, { "title": "A functional Frontier", "description": "\nI’m using Frontier on a Mac running MacOS v26.6.2, which is the current version of the OS.
\nFrontier running on a new Mac. And that’s my computer.
\nIt’s like the moment I realized, in 2010, that I had succeeded in relocating to NYC. It had been a life ambition to live in Manhattan since I was a kid growing up there. There were a lot of hoops. I got through them. I woke up when I was walking down Bleecker St going to pizza with a few of the students I had just spoken with in a classroom. It hit me. I’m doing it. This is how I imagined my life when I was 17.
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About box for Frontier v4.0b4, apparently 1995.
\nFor a very long time it seemed ever more certain that the hope of a usable Frontier on current systems was slipping away, but now it’s here. Improbable, even impossible things do happen. Something to ponder when you think things can’t change. The opposite is true, you don’t have to create the change, when it’s time it happens.
\nThat’s something to think about. All the buried software that was good, that had ideas worth learning from, being prior art and solved problems for future generations of developers. And also as part of the vocabulary of the Claudes of the world.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-22T18:27:23.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/a-functional-frontier/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/a-functional-frontier/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/a-functional-frontier/#comments", "markdowntext": "\n\nI’m using Frontier on a Mac running MacOS v26.6.2, which is the current version of the OS.\n\nFrontier running on a new Mac. And that’s *my* computer.\n\nIt’s like the moment I realized, in 2010, that I had succeeded in relocating to NYC. It had been a life ambition to live in Manhattan since I was a kid growing up there. There were a lot of hoops. I got through them. I woke up when I was walking down Bleecker St going to pizza with a few of the students I had just spoken with in a classroom. It hit me. I’m doing it. This is how I imagined my life when I was 17.\n\n\n\nAbout box for Frontier v4.0b4, apparently 1995.\n\nFor a very long time it seemed ever more certain that the hope of a usable Frontier on current systems was slipping away, but now it’s here. Improbable, even impossible things do happen. Something to ponder when you think things can’t change. The opposite is true, you don’t have to create the change, when it’s time it happens.\n\nThat’s something to think about. All the buried software that was good, that had ideas worth learning from, being prior art and solved problems for future generations of developers. And also as part of the vocabulary of the Claudes of the world.", "wpPostId": 12554 }, { "description": "\nYesterday I posted a list of builtin verbs in Frontier, as implemented in our current Atlantis app. Today I asked Claude to update the list, I wanted to see which verbs were implemented and not implemented.
", "pubDate": "2026-09-22T18:27:23.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12553/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12553/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/22/12553/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nYesterday I posted a list of [builtin verbs](https://github.com/scripting/helloFrontier/blob/master/docs/verbs.md) in Frontier, as implemented in our current Atlantis app. Today I asked Claude to update the list, I wanted to see which verbs were [implemented](https://github.com/scripting/helloFrontier/blob/master/docs/verbs.md#implemented) and [not implemented](https://github.com/scripting/helloFrontier/blob/master/docs/verbs.md#notImplemented).", "wpPostId": 12553 }, { "description": "\n![](\"https://i0.wp.com/imgs.scripting.com/2026/05/19/reallySimpleNet.png?ssl=1\")
Well I got a lot done today. We had a bit of a meltdown due to a Atlantis bug, where it couldn’t handle some text that I threw at it that was a huge file of includes used in everything I do, and I was feeling pretty cheeky, and it blew up. For about an hour you couldn’t read my lovely words. But by remembering “slow down to hurry up” Claude figured out what went wrong as I asked 20 questions to narrow it down. And to celebrate, I decided to do something easy — created a podcast. And it showed up in all the right places. Might be worth listening to as well. Now let’s see if this shows up on daveverse.org, that’s what I’m really testing. (It worked.)
New podcast. Knicks in Five! (It’s not about the Knicks.)
", "pubDate": "2026-09-19T17:40:34.000Z", "link": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/19/12541/", "guid": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/19/12541/", "author": "Dave Winer", "comments": "https://daveverse.org/2026/09/19/12541/#respond", "markdowntext": "\n\nNew podcast. [Knicks in Five](https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2026/09/19/knicksInFive.html)! (It’s not about the Knicks.)", "wpPostId": 12541 } ] }