Braintrust query : I've been encouraged to switch to the mysql2 package for Node, saying that it would improve performance and compatibility. I'm interested in knowing if people had problems, an...
The first time ChatGPT argued with me . It said I was wrong, but in fact, it was wrong. Doubly foreboding.
Working on a big software project is like hiking the Appalachian Trail. You keep a diary so people who come through there next year and the year after will know what you tried and why it didn't w...
An algorithm for content moderation for reducing the human contact trolls have. If you notice an account that gets blocked by a lot of people who don't follow them after they reply to one of thei...
I think micro.blog is going to get very interesting once the APIs for all these random social networks fill out.
Journalists who say AI is just hype are wrong.
I'm looking for evidence of useful federation with an open mind ready to become a believer.
I tried the new Starbuck's chicken sandwich . It was the worst thing I've ever had. Avoid.
My gods the Knicks are masters of the universe this year.
I wish I could send ChatGPT a pointer to a page I'm working on and ask it questions about my CSS. Or imagine ChatGPT running in Node, supervising my server app, looking for problems, odd usage pa...
I saw these Sony buds advertised and I had to try them. They're now my favorite way to listen to music and podcasts. Most ear buds in my experience don't do very well with bass, and I love music...
Issues with feedland.com earlier in the day appear to be resolved. :-)
YouTube TV lets you watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and BBC on one screen.
I dream of a day when I can subscribe to a podcast on my desktop and have my mobile podcast app know about it automatically. (To be clear, using open formats and protocols, so that this convenien...
Experiments. I pasted the URL of a Mastodon post into a Threads post . I was kind of expecting it would use the power of federation to just get the post and put it in Threads. I asked a similar q...
On Threads : My goal for the next few years is to get the feed world and the social web world to merge, and I'm pretty sure the style of reading of the social web will prevail because it is the r...
I don't usually watch Maddow on Monday nights. I lost my faith in her when she went after Facebook a few years ago, not that Facebook didn't deserve her attention, but her arguments while condemn...
http://scripting.com/2024/03/26/123110.html?title=maddowDidntGoFarEnough
This is a screen shot of my blogroll. I can have posts from Mastodon or Bluesky here. But not Threads. It's really easy. Just support outbound RSS and we can add you to the club.
I was glad to have 3 Body Problem to binge over the weekend. Created by the showrunners for Game of Thrones based on a much-loved series of science fiction novels , which btw I have not read. Th...
I still love reading my own stuff in the blogroll. Learning how to make stuff look good in a tiny little format like that. I don't mind having a small space to deploy in, but I like to have lots...
Never thought I'd be so glad to see the xml-rpc site back up and running. I found out about it being off by someone sending an email asking if they could buy the domain from me. Otherwise I'm no...
So I went ahead and moved xmlrpc.com to a HTTPS server. The other day I forgot to mention that style sheets might not be readable when you move from HTTP to HTTPS, leading to this striking brea...
Braintrust query : I have not been able to reliably get to a bunch of my sites that use HTTP this morning. For example, feeder.scripting.com , a site that I use to test feeds. Also xmlrpc.com . I...
I saw someone get upset that ChatGPT can beat humans at debate, but we humans, esp here in the US for the last few decades, haven't been taking good care of ourselves intellectually. It would be ...
I've had my blogroll for a couple of weeks now, and I've got it on-screen a lot, as I'm developing another user interface that has the blogroll in it. This blogroll is much like the one I had in...
What if climate change comes to where you live in the form of tornadoes that last 30 days.
If only Brendan Eich had incorporated UCSD Pascal units into JavaScript. It was easy to make modular reusable bits of code.
Something the HTTPS evangelists must not understand: there's substantial breakage when you convert an HTTP site to HTTPS. Every image in every page breaks. Broken images make a statement , they'r...
http://scripting.com/2024/03/22/031933.html?title=brokenImagesSuckGoogle
To ski, because it's snowing bigtime. For the total eclipse of the sun.
http://scripting.com/2024/03/22/025201.html?title=everyonesDrivingToVermont
Back in the 80s before many of you were born, you could buy a word processing program, which was basically a text editor, and you could use it to write and then when it came time to send that wr...
I spent some time this week reviewing the UI of Radio UserLand, released in 2002. It was both a feed reader and a writing tool. One would have thought, btw, that from that start that all subseq...
http://scripting.com/2024/03/21/125505.html?title=whyWereLuckyWordpressIsHereAndOtherTopics
Manton Reece gives Facebook the benefit of the doubt. I have at times been that optimistic. And there are good well-intentioned people at every bigco. The problem is, when you get to the top, th...
Paul Kedrosky is paying for feeds coming out of Twitter and subscribing to them in Feedly along with his other feeds. This is smart and futuristic. No reason to have two or more social webs, let...
And nbariver.com and mlbriver.com .
Did the same for bloggers.scripting.com . I found what may be a bug in PagePark believe it or not. An ancient workhorse of Dave-Net.
I got politics.newsriver.org working again. Things got pretty shaky in news product land. I'm trying to figure out a general formula for getting things working again. And as I update them, I'm s...
I was looking around the old social web circa 2003 and found the blogroll on my Radio UserLand blog home page . Screen shot to the right. It shows that the art was very much still being practiced...
When they report on Trump’s financial situation they don’t take into account that the property, golf courses, buildings, etc are all mortgaged beyond the max, that’s what the NY trial was a...
Developing great products is something like the NBA which they always say is a business, esp when a player you love is traded. Happened recently with a point guard, Immanuel Quickley, traded from...
Linkblogs work differently in blogrolls. When I click a link it takes me to the site the blog linked to, not to the blog. So.. When you click the link in the screen shot below it takes you to a...
http://scripting.com/2024/03/18/001042.html?title=linkblogsWorkDifferently
This is amazing . Some of my friends at Automattic quickly put together a toolkit for WordPress that allows it to host my blogroll. There are still some missing pieces and some CSS glitches. But ...
Read this on Threads . The thing that's great about this moment is that people are just beginning to get the possibility of not being locked into silos. They don't know how to parse my posts and ...
Blogroll fix. The blogroll was grabbing the up and down-arrow and Return for keyboard navigation, one of my favorite blogroll features. Put the cursor where you want, and arrow through the list. ...
I'm working with developers again, thank goodness. I once thought I could make server products or toolkits for people I called "poets" -- motivated writers. I have given up on that, at least for ...
Now that I have ChatGPT around, my Lorem Ipsum text for testing can be slightly more interesting.
We have a 140-char limit , but offer an effortless way to see more.
It's so funny, the editor of Wordle on a podcast on Friday, 1000th puzzle day, said there are some puzzles that you might not solve in six moves not because of skill rather because of luck. I wa...
Through it all, news.scripting.com remains my most popular site.
On Mastodon : I've done this before, starting 25 years ago. Find some new connection I can make because someone was wise enough to add an RSS interface. I get to have an aha! moment and a good la...
Note to self , make a Chrome extension for my blogroll.