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Creating database in Atlantis?
We’re starting to focus on scriptable apps, esp web services like GitHub, Mastodon, Slack.
We also have SQLite baked in, and I was wondering while watching the news is we could have a verb that creates a new database, one one that sends a query one of those databases.
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I'm deep in Frontier territory. No podcasts, can't publish them right now. At this moment I can't even update my blog! ;-)
I built a lot in Frontier over the years, and moving that whole body of code and writing to a new app I wrote with Claude in a few months is a pretty ambitious thing to do.
But it is working to some extent. I am typing this from the new system.
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test
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Spend long enough time blogging and the phrase "chronologically ascending" is refreshing.
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GTM Onsight
Pantheon onboarding in person
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I'll follow your linkblog Mastodon account from my linkblog Mastodon account if you agree to follow mine from yours.
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Day one at Pantheon: good docs, good company
Today is my first day as a Technical Writer at Pantheon.
On August 17, I published a list of the roles I wanted next. Technical writing and documentation were right there. I wanted work that helps people understand software, solve problems, and get back to building.
Four weeks later, here we are. Apparently, sometimes the next chapter comes with a README.
Good docs, good company
Pantheon helps teams build and run WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites. I’m joining its developer relations team, where documentation and developer advocacy work together.
That last sentence is doing a lot of happy work for me.
Chris Reynolds shared a lovely story on DevRelShow episode 31. Before joining Pantheon, he discovered developer relations as a job through the team’s work.
I love that. Good developer relations can help someone figure out their next step with a tool—or, apparently, their career. Now I get to join that team too. A pleasing plot twist, with excellent documentation potential.
Pantheon values documentation, developer education, and relationships with the people using its platform. That’s a big part of why this role appeals to me. Here, I get to give that work my attention alongside people who care about it, too.
My new colleagues bring different expertise, notice different things, and help improve the work. For example, an advocate might hear a question at an event. A teammate can reproduce the problem. Together, we can turn that experience into a clearer path for the next developer.
One question is particularly close to my heart: “What happens if someone follows these instructions exactly?” Finding the answer is a fine team activity. Occasionally, it needs snacks.
The work I love
My path here runs through classrooms, curriculum, WordPress, open source, and developer relations. Across all those roles, I’ve helped people turn an idea into something they can do. That “Oh! I did it!” moment never gets old.
Sometimes that takes a workshop. Other times, a better example or a screenshot makes the difference. Even one sentence, placed where someone gets stuck, can give that person their afternoon back. That’s a pretty good use of words.
In 2021, I joined GoDaddy Pro as a Web Designer and Developer Advocate. I’m grateful for the colleagues and community members who helped me grow along the way. Those years sharpened my interest in how education, product feedback, and developer relationships support each other.
At Pantheon, I’m looking forward to putting that experience to work with the team. By sharing what we’re hearing and testing ideas together, we can improve things for developers. Shared curiosity, thoughtful feedback, and time to do useful work well: sign me up.
The documentation lives at docs.pantheon.io, with its source on GitHub. My approach starts with trying the thing and checking the result. From there, I write down what helps the next person. Then comes listening when they tell us what we missed.
A fresh notebook and plenty to learn
Ryan Miller and Courtney Robertson attended Evolve Digital’s meetup
WordPress, PHP, and React are familiar territory. Next.js offers plenty to learn. So does Pantheon’s platform, from its development workflows to Terminus, its command-line tool.
Being new gives me a useful window into what a new user notices. While those unfamiliar bits are still fresh, I’ll ask questions, try things, and take notes. After all, “Wait, how did you know to do that?” is research. I intend to get some mileage out of it.
This week, I’m headed to Chicago for in-person onboarding and time with my new teammates. I met one of my coworkers just 2 weeks ago at the EvolveDigital meetup. My notebook is ready. Its future organizational system remains an ambitious proposal.
And my WordPress people?
You may be wondering what this means for WordPress contributions and in-person events. Will there be more of either?
The honest answer is that I don’t know yet. As I settle in, I’m looking forward to exploring what’s possible with the team. Contribution time and event travel are still taking shape. Once there are concrete plans, I’ll be happy to share them.
WordPress is still my community, and you are still my people. I’d love more opportunities to build useful things together and catch up in person. For now, thank you for caring enough to ask—and for cheering me into this next chapter.
If you use Pantheon, tell me about a doc that helped something click. Questions you’d like the docs to answer are welcome, too. My new notebook is full of curiosity, and now I have a team to share it with.
I work at Pantheon. Opinions on this site are mine.
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Birthday Lunch
Ate
fish & chips
Birthday lunch
Birthday lunch
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American Obituary
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My Brilliant Career
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For Courtney
courtney thanks for the challenging question on twitter.
i've thought about it some -- and i think you should try out feedland.
you can create a free account on feedland.com (run by Automattic) or feedland.org (run by me).
it's the other half of rss.chat. where this app is generating exactly the kind of feeds for the web i imagine, feedland is ready to work with those feeds. it's just we need to work on a new simpler UI to fit in here.
but it's easy to use compared to wordpress. and it does a lot of things no feed reader does. its design is patterned after social media app UIs. as is the editor in rss.chat (and wordland.social).
i know that this is a lot to aborb, but in your position at this time, imho you're doing the right thing, looking around to see what's out there. the wordpress world doesn't do much of that in my experience.
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Enola Holmes 3
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Wild turkeys strutting through the neighborhood
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🪐 Ground Control to Major Myles: Please stop knocking the planets out of orbit. 🌏
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Chloe goes for a ride
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X on Chromebook?
I have a new Chromebook, I keep it on the kitchen table so I can get online quickly from downstairs. I've been able to log on to every service I need except X. It insists that to log in I have to use their app, but if they have a Chromebook app, the Google store doesn't know about it. Why they can't just let me enter the email address and password? They could send a code to my phone. What else. I think this has something to do with having encrypted direct messages.
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Labour Day Weekend is when web-based software is at its buggiest. Ask me how I know.
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Anzuelo
Beautiful watercolor illustration to this comic novel.
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Risking embarrassment
When the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
When the risk to feel embarrassed becomes more painful than the risk it takes to try. Well, I know which risk I’d rather take. I need to take. It’s the same one I want for y’all…
Ted Lasso
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These are the big features that remain to be done in Atlantis, the new version of Frontier in development with myself and Claude. The one that's bold is what we're working on now. I want to get it into shipping shape. And a couple of the things on the list came from Claude and I don't know what they mean.
- The debugger
- Writing text, the wp-text window
- Serving websites, tcp stream verbs and the kernelized webserver
- Guest database verbs
- The rendering half of the website framework
- Undo
- The download, what a user gets, plus signing and notarization
- The kernel's value types
- The no-cards decision
- Regex
I got rid of all the claude verbiage. everyone knows what the menu editor is, and all the rest of it.
the menu editor is working now.
we're moving toward getting a shipping disk put together, ready to be installed on a user's machine. that's my next step, installing the virgin frontier.root and then bringing in nodeEditor.root as a guest database, and shake that out.
my aim is to have the desktop app running everywhere Electron runs, i want to get this thing going, tired of being the only user.
it is starting to feel reliable, but not all the way there yet, the outliner is the core, and it's very much debugged, having been part of my JS outliners since 2013.
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Storms splitting around us
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Blogging from RSS.chat?
Thinking out loud about blogging from this space.
It's pretty close to being able to do what I do in Electric Drummer in an outline, just need a few more options, they would fit in the context menu on each post as you edit. Lots of room there.
The blog rendering would run off the RSS feed. I probably would write something new and very simple, almost like an RSS feed browser.
The reason I would start with a pilot project here is because there are other people here, already. And if I said something provocative that you knew other people would see, would you be drawn to that? I trust the people I've invited here not to be spammers.
We might be ready for that. We put a lot of effort into the comment system here. We plan to use the new features to create a very new kind of web.
No one tries out new ideas in the blogging world. That could change.
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Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. assume they consent.
And the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can prove he’s actually alive.
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Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory.
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It would be wonderful is some future AI came up with a cure for cancer. Less so if the AI decides who gets the cure.
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Low haE
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Claude Code is like Victor Wembanyama, assuming you follow the NBA and are interested in first hand experience with CC as a programming partner for the last 8 months or so.
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Myles wants to go too
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Are we closer to “Users writing code” using the microphone? I’d settle for my phone(s) not getting me killed while driving and I need something only found on the internet. I say phones because I’m tracking Android with a Pixel Pro and Apple with an iPhone. So, far it “ain’t soup yet”.
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Instant Updates - FeedLand Rivers for WordPress
The latest release of FeedLand Rivers for WordPress implements Instant Updates. Similar to FeedLand itself, the rendered river uses websockets to listen for new and updated items and will update the river. It still uses no styles or scripts not bundled with the plugin itself.
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I read Bill Gates' memo, and there's one thing almost no one has mentioned about AI systems, is how dependent we're getting on them. What if one day they stop working. What's the backup plan?
When we started up with PCs and then the web, it took a long time for us to build mission-critical systems around them. But this is happening very quickly.
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FeedLand Rivers for WordPress
I've released a WordPress plugin that shows a FeedLand river on a page or post: feedland-rivers.
Drop the shortcode `[feedland-rivers]' onto a page, point it at your FeedLand username in the settings, and it fetches the river JSON server-side and renders it in an isolated iframe. No FeedLand front-end scripts, no third-party fonts or stylesheets beyond an optional favicon lookup. Here is an example.
You can also show more than one river on a site by overriding the username, category or server per shortcode instance, e.g. '[feedland-rivers username="alice" category="tech"]'.
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BTW we all know there isn't an RSS 2.0 feed, it isn't a podcast, but rather than getting all preachy, which no one likes, mention a "podcast feed" as a real thing that's expected. Always add "feed" when you say podcast.
The feed gives you and podcast producers the thing that makes podcasting so different -- freedom. For listeners it means if you don't like something the software does, you can switch without losing anything. And for producers there's no one who can stop you from speaking. There is always a way around a blockage. But only if there's an RSS feed.
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Not posted here for a while, been a bit busy on my own side project and now at risk of redundancy so need to figure if I can make money from side projects to supplement or replace income. Naturally the side projects all come with RSS feeds.
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Evolve Digital networking
Manhattan
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Frontier update
Frontier work going much better today we’ve got all the built in verbs in the product reviewed tested and I’m not finding any problems as I create software for deploying this stuff.
The first thing we had to get working was being able to move objects from the 2011 frontier to the 2026 frontier and we got there today. The next thing that’s coming is being able to do updates for users with new parts and changes to existing ODB elements.
So once that’s working, we can start fixing bugs and looking for problems and things didn’t get ported correctly. We have a new gate. Every change must be vetted by reviewing the 2011 code, and doing exactly what we did then.
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John Kerry asked who wants to be the last casualty in Vietnam, a lost cause like the war we are bogged down in Iran for no good reason, like Vietnam.
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Demo.RSS.Chat
Mood
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Testing out connecting my site to Demo.RSS.Chat. Dave has a lot of ideas for RSS that I can’t wait to see happen.
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What happens when all humans want from AI has been done?
What happens when humans run out of things they want to do with AIs. When everything has been done and it takes ten tokens to do what used to cost ten million. What will we do with all the data centers? Will they be empty shells like the old shopping malls that were so popular before the web and Covid?
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Xa estou “federada”! ActivityPub e rss.chat
Estes días estiven axustando o plugin ActivityPub para federar este blog, de maneira que o publique aquí se poida seguir desde calquera outra instancia do fediverso -por exemplo, desde mastodon.gal, mastodon.green, amarinha.gal, front-end.social…- na conta @blog.
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Como ademais ando investigando a fondo sobre os feeds RSS –vou falar do tema na próxima WordCamp Galicia :)-, instalei o plugin wordpress-rss-chat para probar tamén a integración con rss.chat, unha nova ferramenta, aínda experimental, para crear miniredes sociais nas que cada entrada / resposta / comentario é un fío RSS.
Vou usar esta entrada para testear se todo está conectado como debera: ese post debería velo calquera que siga @blog no fediverso (nestes momentos, só eumesma), e tamén debería saír no fío de demo.rss.chat. E as respostas que se fagan por aló deberían verse como comentarios aquí… e viceversa.
Hei editar este post a posteriori para aprender tamén como funciona todo este lío cando se actualizan entradas xa publicadas, e para intentar explicalo todo un pouco mellor.
Así que que ninguén se estrañe se aquí empezan a lerse comentarios doutra Pi noutro universo, feeds repetidos, reposts, webmentios, etc.
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A great way to learn about what software is being developed for RSS is to follow AboutRSS on GitHub: https://github.com/AboutRSS Once you do that, subscribe to your own private Atom feed of the repositories you follow. It's a bit tricky to find yours, but if you visit https://github.com/ while logged in, view the HTML source, and search for 'priavte.atom'. You'll see activity for everybody you follow, including what they star (that's how I know what AboutRSS is interested in).
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This is a good reminder to subscribe to your own RSS feeds. That way, you'll be among the first to know that something is wrong with them. https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/df\_posts\_drop\_in\_a\_forest
