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 […]