Before declaring democracy over, as our major news orgs and tech companies seem to have, remember there are still states, most of whom still seem to accept that votes must be counted, and the winner is who gets the most, not the one who sends in a mob to trash the state Capitol.

   Now that I have a search engine for my blog, I can reliably look for all instances of Wordle Kitty which was a character I was playing around with last year with ChatGPT. It even comes out in reverse chronologic order, and it’s better than Google which ignores a lot of my blog these days. My own...

   When I buy a domain speculatively, I usually put up some kind of placeholder page with a title, picture and tagline. Like feediverse.org. I pushed a link to it yesterday, and got back this possibly snarky response, but still thought provoking. Why isn’t there a feed for the feediverse.org page....

   My advice for today. Tell someone they’re right. With gusto Like this. You’re not just right, you’re fucking right

   The feediverse is not a joke. It’s deployed, scaled, widely supported, far beyond AT Proto or ActivityPub. It’s the HTML of the open social web. And where the others are complicated, feeds are really simple.

   Matt Mullenweg said something provocative on Twitter two days ago that I’m just tuning into now. The lawsuits will go years and could potentially bankrupt me or force the closure of WordPress.org. I commented on it as a developer who views WordPress as a platform.

   Sad to say I’m going to have to mention Trump from time to time. When I hear a reporter wondering what to make of his thing about all those friendly countries he wants to go to war with, here’s what it means. He’s trolling you. Haven’t you figured that out by now. Just by mentioning the weird thing...

   Daytona is the search engine for Scripting News. I’ve wanted to do a rewrite for quite some time, there were a lot of decisions I wanted to redo, and I’ve learned a lot about databases in the three years since the first release. You can try it out. There are docs, and a place for questions and...

   Why are all the people who hate AI so pissy about it.

   In the future I will be able to type a post into my blog and people who are following me will see it in their timeline.

   Peeve: TV shows or movies that show text messages that are impossible to read even if you stop the video and zoom in.

   I used to use Twitter for middle of the night ideas. These days I use one of Twitter’s successors. Here’s one. We should be able to tweet from within any application that has the ability to create and edit text, and not just in tiny little text boxes. And another. The limits imposed by...

   I posted this to both Bluesky and Mastodon just now. I see people betting on the idea of federation in Bluesky. At the same time, we should bet on simplifying Mastodon at scale. Approach the problem from both directions. We may need and not have federation in Bluesky at some point. It couldn’t hurt...

   There’s a funny contradiction in the AI world. News orgs, published authors, great artists, universities, want to retain ownership of their intellectual property and don’t trust the utility of AI chatbots. They think the only application of AI technology is to steal from them, to cheat at school...

   This is one of the dialogs you encounter when getting started with Bluesky. It’s easy to see how new users might be led believe that Bluesky is federated, as Mastodon is. I’m a developer and I was confused by what it was saying. Is Bluesky is federated

   Notes on Little Feed Reader, running on Bluesky since Jan .

   YouTube channels have feeds. Here’s the feed for my YouTube channel. And a canonical JSONification of the feed this is how FeedLand gets the data from any type of feed, RSS, Atom or RDF, the YouTube feed is Atom . I did not know they had feeds, in fact I thought I heard they specifically did not...

   This is what my YouTube channel looks like in my blogroll.

   The personal profile pages for Bingeworthy are working again. Here’s my profile page. This is how you share recommendations. More info here.

   Good questions from Phil Jones re Wednesday’s podcast. I’m glad to get to answer these questions. There’s more to wpIdentity than is obvious at first glance, for example it has a relatively complete storage system built in for developers to use. I used one of its features yesterday in the...

   BTW, I’m going through all the episodes of Deadwood, and find it’s influencing how I write. A good bingewatch is like that. You become one of the characters, or in a way, all of them. Sometimes I’m Swearingen and other times I’m Wu. Etc.

   We need an AI chatbot that can work with GitHub repos. That is, in my prompt I say, the following questions are about this GitHub repo. At that point it is ready to answer any question about the project. This an incredibly important intersection of capabilities. As far as I can tell, GitHub doesn’t...

   If you read this blog, I hope you’ll take the time to listen to yesterday’s podcast. It’s all about WordPress, a product that you won’t read much about on this blog, going back through the archive. I wasn’t paying attention until when I began to see what an amazing product it is, not just for...

   I started a thread for questions and comments re the podcast.

   We demand that the Department of Justice to release all the special counsel reports behind the indictments of former president Trump. Now, before the next government gets to do what Barr did to the Mueller Report, or worse We have a right to see what led to the indictments. Now is the time to...

   Podcast: How I view WordPress.

   Started a new support repo for Bingeworthy.

   Just found an exponential memory leak at the database level in Bingeworthy. I have never seen one of these in all my years of programming. A data structure that saves a copy of itself in itself. So every time it saved it became exponentially bigger. Until it made the SQL server crash because the...

   As part of the conversion of BingeWorthy, I started the database from scratch, but before I did that, I exported all the data and put it in a GitHub repo. This included a JSON file of ratings for each user. For example, this is my file. Remember we used Twitter identity then, davewiner is my...

   I wrote this post in as Threads was coming online. Now that Zuckerberg has thrown us under the bus, again, it’s worth remembering their rollout strategy was to get us to overlook their past betrayals of users. They said We ï Fediverse. That did it. It was at a moment of fear of Twitter,...

   : If they really want to prove their love for the open web, if they aren’t just trying to lull us to sleep while they steal yet another market from the open web, they should do something that helps the web more than it helps them.

   Liberals should support truly open technology that doesn’t have a Zuckerberg who can sell us all out. Get involved.

   Has anyone come up with a variant of JSON that allows comments I’ve started using names like comment etc to shoehorn comments in. A complete hack, impossible to maintain over time. The idea of not being able to put notes in your config.json files is absolutely ridiculous.

   I wish the Ecmascript committee had put more effort into real soul saving enhancements like comments in JSON instead of coming up with contorted ways to do the same old contortions we got used to dealing with ten years ago. And they could have removed features from the language instead of piling on...

   Last night while watching a basketball game, checking my iPad, and all of a sudden new items started appearing in the RSS feed for the new Bingeworthy. I thought oh geez there’s some kind of bug, last thing I need now, but quickly realized someone was using it and it was working. There were some...

   The great thing about using a system like MySQL or any SQL for that matter is that it’s been around for so long that if you can think of something that would be nice to have, you can be sure it’s there somewhere. They’ve had enough time not only to hit all the walls, but to try out different...

   How I’d write books with WordLand. Just thinking out loud here. Working with a group of people. It’s possible it’s just the author and editor, or it could be a larger documentation job, or a report covering a lot of ground. In we’d use AI to find the threads in our writing, to maintain a book...

   I want to make a social network for writers.

   Update: Bluesky images work again and thus the Great Art on Bluesky channel is back. If you’re on Bluesky please subscribe.

   The crazy thing about Bluesky’s API is they took already standardized things like links and enclosures, and after years came up with new definitions. Makes our apps more expensive to maintain, and we waste time and human wear and tear on stupid bullshit make work. Developers are people, and our...

   BTW, in defense of Matt Mullenweg and the culture of the developer community he built over the last years, for better or worse, they don’t do what Bluesky did. They look for prior art and implement it and they don’t deprecate. They’re still running the APIs we invented for blogging before...

   Just taking it easy. Thinking about stuff. Will resume blogging soon.

   BTW, as promised, last night’s Knicks game was great. Up until the end, when the other guys took over and sadly the Knicks lost. We need a stronger bench. The starting five are great but they’re not totally super human.

   Knicks on Friday night: A big offline day here in the mountains, the show will resume tomorrow bright and early, Murphy willing. Enjoy tonight’s Knicks game in OKC. Should be a great game.

   Krugman writes about social media is poisoning children’s minds. I like that Krugman has resumed his blogging. This means that sometimes I agree or disagree, or have mixed opinions, but I always learn something. That’s what makes a blogger good imho. I don’t know if I agree that children’s minds...

   My little feed reader on Bluesky is ready for you to follow. Technically, this is how the pieces fit together. I’m using the OPML file for my blogroll category on feedland.social to determine what’s posted on Bluesky. When I add or remove feeds from the category, the OPML adjusts dynamically. I’m...

   I wrote a few blog posts in WordLand this morning because it was convenient. It’s good the same way I like to use a twitter like app to write first drafts, when all I have to type into is my iPad. I’ve also started using it on my desktop for short things, but I just wrote and edited a complete blog...

   Welcome to a brand new year. The best one ever.

   I’ve archived December in the GitHub repo, in OPML, as usual.

   I’ve got so much new stuff stacked up, on its way out. Hold onto your hats.