Author: Dave Winer

Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance. This is what I'm talking about. Removing disconnects. Rebuilding the web. Right on. kirk.at

I use ChatGPT in this mode all the time. I recently learned about CSS Grid and at the same time had it explained to me why CSS is such a sucky way to design apps to run on computers. Spoiler alert: It was designed to format documents. techcrunch.com

This criticism of ChatGPT is right on. It must act like a computer and only answer the questions it’s asked, stop trying to lead. Its questions always take you in the wrong direction. Always. Took me a long time to figure this out. mastodon.social

Suzanne Aldrich explains passionately why the social media apps should meet bloggers where they live and support inbound RSS already. The good news is that Evan Prodromou agrees. (As do I of course.) mastodon.social

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich. theguardian.com

Inside DOGE’s Takeover of the Social Security Administration. propublica.org

This is where you go if you want to install a blogroll like mine in a WordPress blog. It's like a tiny FeedLand in the place a blogroll goes. It has stood the test of time, I use the one on my blog all the time. github.com

U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections. nytimes.com

In the early 90s a technological asteroid hit the software world called the web and wiped out all the GUI apps scripting.com

Scripting News: Bullet points from yesterday's podcast. scripting.com

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