Just realized, the reason librarians must love the web, and linking, is that you can provide a complete bit of complex information without being overwhelming. It's the same reason I like coding in an outliner. There's no cost for being verbose, just tuck the verbosity under a headline and leave it collapsed. Until the day […]
I wish one of these great candidates poised to inherit the "place of record" banner from twitter would embrace the feediverse.It's the easiest technology ever: Emit RSS 2.0 feeds fro your users' accounts. Mastodon and Bluesky already do it. It was not a major undertaking. This is called "outbound RSS." A tiny bit more work, […]
I was let down by the new projects feature yesterday. I started a project for a Node app that stores data in a MySQL database. The first thing I did was paste into the project the commands used to create the tables in the database. The theory being that now it will be able to […]
Learning Unix was when I learned that computer networks could be simple yet infinitely powerful. Before that for me it was just an inkling, a hunch. Reading the source code I wanted to make software that works like that. I hope I have, to some extent.
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 and in work. They see AI technology […]
I like the way the Little Feed Reader account on Bluesky works. Wasn't sure it would be fun or useful when launched. The rule is no more than one post per five minutes, and sometimes, in the middle of the night in the US, it can go an hour or more between posts. The feeds it […]
I am going to click the paper airplane icon twice to see if I get two posts instead of one. With the fix I just put in we should get just one.
The idea is to turn Bluesky into a river of news feed reader. The user subscribes to feeds, producing an OPML subscription list, which is then fed into a Node app that bridges the feed system software I have running on one of my servers and hooks it up to Bluesky via an app I […]
Krugman writes about how social media is poisoning children's minds. I like that Krugman has resumed his blogging after writing for the NYT. 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 […]
i started a project for node.js, and use it when i'm asking questions specific to node.js i'm asking a question that i ask once every five months or so, it's got a complicated answer and i need a checklist for how to do it. it's frustrating that i couldn't search my own use of chatgpt, […]
I come from the underground newspaper world in nyc in the early 70s, then comp sci, then silicon valley, then bbses, then the web. The sad thing is that corporate media was what people wanted. I thought the people wanted to make media. I don't know what made me think that. It wasn't exactly wrong, […]
After his death at 100 on Sunday, the news has been full of talk about Jimmy Carter. It's not polite to say it's exhausting and boring, and seems pointless. Then I happened to hear Jimmy Carter himself, on the latest episode of the Fresh Air podcast, and that was fantastic and totally worthwhile. It had been […]
1. When you publish a post for the first time, you're prompted to choose a website. While it's saving, which can take a while, the prompt in the lower left incorrectly says "Choose site." It should reflect the site you chose.
Idea. Pipe new posts from feeds in my blogroll list to Bluesky. Might be interesting.
When I was a kid I had so many material desires, so many things that cost money that would’ve given me pleasure. Mostly stereo and sports equipment. I didn’t have any money. Now I could buy anything that I want. But there’s nothing money can buy that I want.
The Dems and the elites they speak for are just as bad as Trump at dividing us. Like the Repubs, they draw the lines on age, race and gender, just different ages, races and genders are presumed responsible for all our ills. Being in two of the three blamed groups for my whole life, and […]
Next up — I'm working on Bingeworthy 3. It's basically fully ported away from Twitter identity, and also the database got rewritten because I know a lot more about SQL than when I wrote it five years ago. But the user interface code is exactly as it was. Some features are missing, because they only […]
In theory this is how WordLand implements its RSS feeds. I'm going to publish this post to the daveverse site on wordpress.com. With any luck it should show up in the shadow feed we're maintaining for that site. Back in a second with the result. https://wordland.social/scripting/237777565/rss.xml That's the feed for this blog.
Folks, I have kept my Twitter account for many reasons, not the least of which so I can keep up on the latest from Elon Musk, who has truly become an American nightmare. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, received a public school education, and they never taught us about the possibility of […]
I always felt that when I clicked on an icon it should make a click sound, but this may be one of those times when intuition was not correct. I just put the feature in, and it's fairly distracting for icon-clicks which happen instantaneously, like + icon, which opens a dialog pretty quickly. I didn't […]
There's a new prompt in the lower left corner of the window, it says Choose site. When you click it, the standard choose-site dialog appears. When you publish the post by clicking on the paper airplane icon, it will go to that site, without prompting. It's a way to take care of choosing a site […]
It was suggested that WordLand should have a special case for pasting a URL in place of a bit of text in a post. In this specific circumstance, it would be nice if it would "do what I mean" and create an HTML link instead of replacing the word with the URL. I looked into […]
I worked out a new dialog for choosing a website to save your new draft to.
The other day I asked which Dems kick ass, the #1 response was AOC. When I heard her speech at this year’s DNC I said I hope I get to vote for her someday for something. Since I live in ny state that could be for Senator or governor or vice president or president hopefully […]
I wanted Matt to start a Mastodon instance for WordPress users, then one day I realized he had done just that, and the software I had been working on could post to it. The funny thing is that thanks to open formats and protocols, neither of us realized we were doing this, just one day […]
I am going to refresh my recollection of how the Upload image command works. Various problems have been reported. Below is a picture of Bob Hope. I posted this to my WordPress site, and it looks exactly as I expected it would. The image is 125 pixels wide on my screen, when editing it in […]
Just fixed a problem reported by papascott. When you create a new draft, initially it says 1 word, which is incorrect, there are 0 words. The problem is we were stripping markup from the text we analyze after determining if it's length is 0. There is some markup in a newly created post, it's initially […]
Going to do some more work on WordLand now that Bingeworthy is back up and running, at least I can use it. It'll require a bit more work for other people to be able to use it. I want to find some WordPress pros to help test this mofo. If you know any, have them […]
Do you think Trump will declare martial law on his inauguration on January 20 or shortly thereafter? The news people seem to not be considering this possibility. It seems that behind the scenes, planning their own futures, they must be looking at it.
One thing that Twitter still has that none of the others have is no practical character limit, which comes in handy when I have a longish post and I’m on a phone or tablet. On my desktop I have excellent writing tools. Bluesky still has a ridiculous char limit. I see these platforms as utilities, […]
A tariff makes a product more expensive to make, not necessarily more expensive to buy. A manufacturer who was already making a large per-unit profit might choose to accept less instead of losing market share. Only if a vendor feels safe in their share of market will they automatically raise prices for their customers. Sometimes […]
I have been using this site to test WordLand but have occasionally written blog posts here. At some point it will become something "real" and I'll hook it up to my textcasting server, and have the posts cross-post to other systems. That won't be a feature of WordLand, it'll be something you could use from […]
Flushing, New York, is renowned for its diverse and vibrant culinary scene, particularly its authentic Asian cuisine. Here are five notable restaurants in the area: Asian Jewels Seafood Restaurant: A spacious venue celebrated for its traditional dim sum offerings, including har gow and shumai, making it a popular choice for group dining. Alley...
I hear that images now should be reflected in the ActivityPub version of this post. If it's working you will see a nice picture of a SuperGirl comic book from the past.
Yacht Rock is a soft rock genre that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, characterized by smooth melodies, polished production, and themes of love, leisure, and escapism. It often features lush instrumentation, including electric pianos, soft guitar riffs, and harmonized vocals. Artists like Toto, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, and...
This is the next test of images. Now we're going to revert back to the normal way of representing images in HTML, using the element. For example, see below.
A whole new post that contains an image. Some text after the image.
i'm looking for a bug in the markdown processing code. if i don't see it here i'll know it's related to my new image processing code. that's all i have to say right now. have a nice day. that's coool.
Now I’m interested to see how WordPress represents image blocks in Gutenberg. I’ve heard it’s done with comments in HTML. If so this might work. That’s an image above me. What happens when I publish it.
I imagined the kind of text editor I’d want in Twitter, Masto, Bluesky, Threads, etc — rather than the tiny little text boxes they provide. What features would I want, and how would it work. That’s what WordLand is. If you look at the textcasting doc, that’s the basic feature set. But as you can see, […]
Early this year set out to create the editor I want to use to write all my social web posts. It’s a lot nicer than the ridiculous editors in twitter, bluesky, threads, etc. the people who make those products obviously aren’t writers, if they were they’d create editors that make sense.
I seem to have uploading of images working. And even better I can paste them into my blog posts here. I am a happy camper. Only took three days. Hopefully I never have to do this again.
Carville is right, the Dems stink from the blame-men-for-everything politics. That’s going to take a long time to clean up. To borrow a term they applied to all men, it’s toxic, and it certainly cost us this election. We left men with a choice, swallow hard and vote Democratic because we listen to trump and […]
Prediction: owning a twitterlike system will be like owning a big sports franchise or congressperson, or if you got in early, a president. A more functional trophy than a super yacht for the up and coming billionaire.
The other day I asked a famous blogger who uses RSS if he would be willing to share his list of feeds, so others could subscribe to them. He declined, for good reason, there was private stuff in the list he couldn’t share. I certainly understand that. Then I realized, as often is the case, […]
Historians will write that the repubs overplayed their hand and woke up enough voters in time for a landslide victory for a new coalition, which includes the old pre-MAGA Repubs, which gives the new administration the power to get the Supreme Court back on track to protect the freedom of all Americans, including women. We […]
Programming language design should follow the half of Postel’s Principle that says be “conservative in what you send.” There should be one way to do anything, not many. That way I can include your code in mine and vice versa. I can understand what you’re doing. Tools can be developed that make it even easier […]
Textcasting is getting some love from Hackers News. No comments, but lots of pagereads. Was expecting them to excoriate me. May still happen.
I did the first demo of my new editor to a couple of developers I’m working with on our ActivityPub project, something I’m ever-more-excited about. Happy to say the demo was a success. They appeared to love the product, and for the right reasons. It makes WordPress into a fantastic writer’s platform. This is what […]
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
I think I have finally found the balance between the calendar view in Drummer blogs, a fully editable Bookmarks list like I use in Drummer. We automatically insert every new post into the Bookmarks menu using a very simple calendar structure. We just group them by months, so any new post would be put into […]
I didn’t imagine that Bezos cared what subscribers to the Washington Post thought about his decision to cancel their endorsement of VP Harris in the election one week from today. But 200K people unsubscribed, and I guess that message got through to him, so he wrote an op-ed that ran in the Post yesterday, explaining […]
Loved the Knicks last night. But.. the crowd erupted in cheers at an odd moment, Mike Breen the announcer guessed it was some result in the World Series game being played in Los Angeles. I switched to fox, and sure enough a freaking jankee had hit a home run going into the lead. I had […]
Watching the Harris speech with the hecklers, it seems they could shut off the audience mikes until the speech calls for cheers from the people, then they would drown out the hecklers. Highly directional mikes, and train Harris 5o be able to speak as if it was quiet.
The Washington Post announcing it wouldn’t endorse a candidate for president is the first glimpse we’ve had of how news publishing in the US has been tainted by fear of fascism. The editorial people broke the wall, deciding to give the readers the first glimpse we’ve gotten into the inner conflicts of one two most […]
This is a test. For the next sixty seconds. This station will conduct a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had this been an actual emergency you would have been instructed to tune to a local station for news and other info.
What a sad situation. What started with the open web in the 90s is now owned by user-hating billionaires, who, looking for new worlds to conquer have adopted a fascist buffoon as their frontman. It was never supposed to be owned by anyone.
I’ve seen writing [on Threads] that should be permanent. Because it’s written and only published [on Threads], it’ll have scrolled by in a few minutes. I want a medium that flows back and forth between of-the-moment and an ongoing story, written over a period of months, but readable in sequence in a few minutes.
The best part of playing Wordle is when you enter the first word waiting to see which letters turn up green. The biggest disappointment is when there are no green letters. A close second is when there’s one, and it’s just a vowel. Then you enter a second word revealing no more green letters. At […]
I am enjoying a nice editing session here. Hope you like it too. I have to do one of these test messages every time I make a major change. Just to see if it still works for the basic stuff. I’m also going to prepare a tester’s guide. Do this do that, look at this, […]
Okay this is a post that has never been published (of course when you see it, it will have been published). I want to see how categories work in this weird edge case. Okay we learned something. WordPress does not include uncategorized among the categories. So we don’t need to include it in the list […]
how to save the categories in the draft structure when i publish this post it should have a few categories on it. let’s see…
New feature. When you click on the airplane on an unpublished draft, the sitename part of the status line must change from Draft to the name of the site the post was published to. Next feature. When editing the title, the airplane icon should be enabled when you make a change. Also the draft should […]
This is an example post. I want to see how it is represented in the RSS feed.
Do you know where Milk Duds got their name? They were chocolate candies that came out bad in the manufacturing process. They were duds. But they still tasted good. So why not sell them! And now you know the rest of the story.
First, I’m a lifelong Mets fan going back to 1962 when I was seven years old. Second, in the 1973 World Series, which the Mets were in, against the Oakland A’s, starting pitcher Tug McGraw coined a slogan — Ya Gotta Believe! Since then a lot of Mets fans say it when the Mets are […]
I like this notepad. I just open it on my iPad while I’m watching baseball. Now if I get an idea I have a place to type it in. Anyway if you want to get an idea about how hellbent chatgpt is on getting you an answer, try entering the text of a riddle. It […]
Some ideas for the Harris campaign: Do Kickstarters for specific ads. Do 5-minute ads that consist mostly of unedited Trump speeches. Make sure everyone hears what he says. Do a Kickstarter for this. If this can come together quickly it’ll have the effect of making him more self-conscious at his rallies. At both the beginning […]
Today’s job, add a file list below the edit box. Each item in the list represents one of your drafts.
One of the bad things about the current social network configuration is that when you see something you want to refer to later, you either like it or RT it. But now, an hour later, I can’t remember which of the networks I saw it on. It’s good that Twitter’s monopoly has been broken, but […]
Haitian divorce lyrics Babs and Clean Willie were in love, they said So in love, the preacher’s face turned red Soon everybody knew the thing was dead He shouts, she bites, they wrangle through the night, yeah She go crazy, got to make a getaway Papa say, “Oh, no hesitation No tears and no hearts […]
Bang! Bang! Bang! I love it when it works so well. I want, when you click on something to edit it, that you immediately see the effect of editing, but no pixels move. perfect choreography. maybe there should be a new motto: “I sweat the pixels.” or more in tune with the times: “I sweat the […]
Time for another test post. Yesterday I rewrote the code for setting the title of a post. Previously when you clicked on the space for a title, a dialog would appear asking you to enter the title. When you clicked OK the title would change in the display and be saved to your draft. I […]
Wouldn’t it be something if the NYT one day hopefully in the next week or so discovered that if Harris loses the election the US will quickly become a fascist state, requiring all Jews, Muslims, African-Americans, and naturalized citizens, including “anchor babies,” to register, and wear an identifying armband where ever they go. As a […]
I think ultimately Mastodon is going to have to operate a simplified server that federates the same way Threads does. It stays simple for 99% of the users, and the ones who can handle the extra layer of complexity that comes from all servers being equal at all times, can opt in by going to […]
I have to keep doing test posts be one two three i’ve got a feeling a feeling deep inside oh yeah okay now we should be okay with the length of the feed we generated, changed the type of the filecontents field from text to longtext. this is code a + b && c
BTW, the reason there’s such a confluence of power between WordPress and Mastodon is this. WordPress has a complete, debugged, deployed, scaled and frozen API. It’s been around since 2016 or so. In contrast Mastodon, while they’re doing excellent work, is trying to wrangle an already large community into a set of consistent interfaces. It’s […]
This is a link. When you read it in WordPress or Mastodon, it should look like a hypertext link, not the Markdown code for a hypertext link. I would say the bug is now fixed. We may proceed. However, there were other bugs! And still one that I haven’t yet figured out. Here’s some italic […]
BTW the thing I hate the most about tech is that you always have to start over. Even if you did something brilliant a few years ago, everyone who’s heard of you (memories are ridiculously short) assume you were either lucky last time, or you forgot everything you learned. And as soon as you achieve […]