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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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Test pour chatouk
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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
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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
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Started a new repo today.
https://github.com/scripting/helloFrontier
We have to make a fair number of decisions about all aspects of the product, esp the surprisingly huge verb set.
For the tough decisions I'll document the issue, and seek feedback from friendly people with real Frontier expertise.
Right now it's just an intro page and nothing more. Eventually, hopefully, fingers crossed, something wonderful will show up here.
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Imagine if you had to disclose whom and what terms you mute.
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The reason I'm not so into AI agents is that there's enough mop-up duty with "if this then that"-style automation. It can't be any better when automation is being done by a lava lamp. Plus the amount of setup is tiring (if not exhausting, since I like that kind of thing).
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Is feedland down? I'm just getting a blank page, on firefox and edge, and a firefox private window
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A rebuttal to Doc Searls' piece about watermarks
In response to his post about the squeak of sphincters.
1. I was getting an exam at a urologist's office where one of the nurses actually used the word sphincter, and I, fully conscious, said something funny that got them all laughing, basically that you never hear the word sphincter used as a real thing. Thought i should mention that.
2. Why do you care about what words the AI bot chooses? I actually like it. This is what I don't like -- people getting a long bit of writing from the bot, and then pasting it into a comment thread in a GitHub repo I run (a recent trend). Geez I don't even read the long bullshit posts my AI bot thinks I need to read, how humiliating to be asked to care what THEIR bot said. When a person puts their name on something, I assume it's them writing it.
Doc, if you "wrote" something and I discovered it was written by a bot, I would be disgusted and think less of you, a lot less. I want the watermarking if only to prove that my writing, which I hope doesn't get a false positive, are my actual words.
I'm sure plenty of teachers think the watermarking is a great idea.
And sphincters everywhere just want a little respect, and a little love wouldn't hurt either? As an adult do you know where your sphincter is? Or even what it's for?? And btw, did you know they don't actually squeak since they're made of meat, and meat don't squeak. ;-)
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Mark Cuban on podcasting (2005)
“Podcasting is hot. Podcasting is cheap and easy. Podcasting can be fun. Creating your own podcast and trying to make a business out of it is a mistake. Unless you are repurposing content from another medium, it will be rare to find anyone making money from originating podcasts.”
— Mark Cuban
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@dave BTW it took me a while to get the websocket client I have been using (Mint.WebSocket, Elixir) connected to the firehose. Couldn’t find the source code, but your server only accepts a “Connection: Upgrade” header and replies with a 400 error when Mint sends “Connection: upgrade” (lowercase). I filed an issue in the Mint repository about it.
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Teamwork
"Teamwork is what you call it when you trick other people into ignoring their priorities in favor of yours." -- Scott Adams (advice to graduates in 2006)
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Almost daily my favorite programmers are admitting that AI is making them more productive:
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Yet Another Reverse Chronological Threaded News App (YARCTN)… hmm… the acronym needs work.
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Everyman journalism (Dave Winer, 2006)
“Journalism is the new practice for Everyman, it’s what we all will be doing all the time in this new century. As the professional media pulls back, the citizens, you and me, need to fill in and replace every pro with 100 of us, to cover every school board meeting, every planning commission, defense contractor, civic organization. It’s like the Second Amendment for information and ideas. We need a well-informed electorate to make the tough decisions n our future.”
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Who you are (2006)
“Job titles, boxes in org charts, are so last-millennium. They are relics of an Industrial Age that was born of the doomed notion that people are best understood as cogs in corporate machines. … What matters most in the long run is who you are. Not who you work for.”
— Doc Searls on Robert Scoble’s value to Microsoft
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Something new.
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Communications
Testing my firehose reader (update). Testing. Turns out it wasn't the socket client that was the problem, but the fact that often the updates don't have titles and I was expecting them to. D'oh.
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"Advertising will go poof" (Dave Winer, 2006)
“When they finish the process of better and better targeted advertising, that’s when the whole idea of advertising will go poof, will disappear. If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information. Information is welcome, advertising is offensive. Who wants to pay to create information that’s discarded? Who wants to pay to be a nuisance? Wouldn’t it be better to pay to get the information to the people who want it? Are you afraid no one wants your information? Then maybe you’d better do some research and make a product that people actually want to know about.”
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I’m currently planning the next NetNewsWire milestone (7.2), figuring out what features to add and wondering how it could start to support rss.chat. Would a good first step be adding support for OPML subscription lists?
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“No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.” –Arthur C. Clarke
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"The whole world is watching" (Dave Winer, 2008)
“Being an American in 2008 is a lot like working at Microsoft in 1994 or so. Netscape is coming soon and after that Google, and while we’ll still be here, the cursor will be somewhere else, and our stock options will be worthless and we’ll be fighting with each other while the rest of the world builds around us.” — Dave Winer
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I occasionally post sets of links I've collected to my blog. I've been using my instance of rss.chat to collect links.
I've figured out a simple bash script:
That pulls in the markdowntext of the last 10 links so I can edit a little then post to my blog. I run the script from TextMate, add a new tab, paste and edit.
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“I am tormented, or tantalized, by the sense that I am almost in view of something that is at the limit of my comprehension.” — Neal Stephenson’s Anathem (pg 543)
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I'm experimenting today with WordLand running with SQLite instead of MySQL. Nothing to show yet, but it works for me locally with a small patch to the wordland repo.
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Is anyone else going to WordCamp this week?
I’ll be flying in Monday morning. Highs of 113°F in Phoenix! Uff da! I'll have "I ♥ RSS" stickers to hand out. -
“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”
— The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)
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"The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don’t ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior."
-- Henry Miller (Sexus)
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I used to use Bluesky to write my early morning posts when I'm using an iPad or a computer that can't access my editor for my main blog.
Before that I used Twitter.
But I should be using RSS.chat.
Esp when I hit the character limit on Bluesky, which happens every time. It's not very likely I'll write something that can be expressed fully in 300 chars.
This morning I reminded myself that my new casual writing platform is right here.
This, btw, is 459 chars.
