2024-12-16

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 […]