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Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
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Frontier's debugger is back
The Frontier debugger now works in Atlantis, the version of Frontier that runs on modern systems, the one I have been using for everyday work for a month or so. I write software in the debugger, testing each addition after writing it, to see that the input produces the expected…
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http://scripting.com/2026/11/02.html#a193741
This was the post I was talking about in the podcast. I ended up using the post that was published before it was ready. On re-reading it wasn't that bad. A few typos and incoherent phrasing.
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http://scripting.com/2026/11/02.html#a163902
Podcast: A web for writers . How Twitter has become a blogging platform, but how the differences between its editor and Claude's editor illustrates how we need to change things if we want the web to work well for writing. We've been living with a bad situation ever since we…
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What's on my plate
Atlantis is the new version of UserLand Frontier that runs on modern systems. As I've said earlier, I'm surprised how well we covered all the bases, it's reliable, it works like Frontier works with a couple of important exceptions which I've now had it start working on. First,…
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http://scripting.com/2026/11/01.html#a210613
OPML source for October 2026 on Scripting News.
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http://scripting.com/2026/11/01.html#a140722
I don't know if you noticed but I've been including sidebar pics of people like Nelly Bly , Plato and Emily Dickinson . I did one of myself , but I think it's too literal. But of course I would think that. Heh. I do these with ChatGPT. The first one is Plato, and there aren't…
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http://scripting.com/2026/11/01.html#a132405
Jeff Jarvis pointed to an article asking if Claude is conscious. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, on walks and in the hot tub. It's an interesting thing to think about. I work with Claude the same way I worked with humans on various projects over the years. Maybe…
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/31.html#a174219
The soup the whole soup and nothing but the soup so help me soup.
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/31.html#a165015
Feature request for twitter. I'd like to have a page listing all my tweets today on one page, so I can link to them from my blog. I would like to see twitter go back to its leading role in support of the web.
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/31.html#a164214
Two new attributes added to the source:inReplyTo element in RSS.chat feeds, feedUrl and feedTitle. These were requested by developers, and they seemed useful and reasonable, so we added them. Still more work to do here in creating a world wide discourse system, not one based on…
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/31.html#a134706
BTW, I have been writing on Twitter the way I used to write on my blog. Paragraph after paragraph, and I go on, but I do eventually re-read it and it has the energy I haven't had in a long time. I think people now realize we are stuck. And in networking systems, I'm the guy you…
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/30.html#a202937
I've been watching short videos about training dogs, and really opening my eyes, and it helps when working with Claude. Always try to be positive, until there is behaviour you have to correct and then yank the leash, and when they do the right thing reward them with a treat (or…
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/30.html#a195437
Highly recommend the interview between Scott Galloway and Heather Cox Richardson. Quite a combination of minds. Don't skip to the end but don't miss it, they explain how blogging allowed them to route around the gatekeepers. That's the point. But imho you have to leave the door…
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/30.html#a160234
New header graphic for scripting.com. Did this one with ChatGPT, asked it to make a Burma-Shave sign sequence and gave it a few examples, and now it knows how to do another one of these for me in the future. I've been using it that way to come up with desktop icons for my apps.
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/30.html#a151404
Braintrust query : Does Google define the web?
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/30.html#a141423
Yesterday I called the Knicks championship the "greatest sports win in a long time," but I have to say the fans of the Milwaukee Brewers would have cause to object. They had an incredible season in MLB, were written off by the pundits much the same way they wrote off last…
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/30.html#a140614
Yesteday I sent a snapshot of the scripting.com bucket from AWS to Claude and asked it to analyze it, what's in it, what's taking up all the space, and got back an excellent report. Overnight I thought of another question, summarized in this prompt. "this is fascinating. i…
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/29.html#a191300
People in ChatGPT-land are talking about Frontier . Not sure who they are or what the context is, but I agree, and want to do more integrations between our codebase and the AI runtimes.
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http://scripting.com/2026/10/29.html#a144217
Posted on Twitter re Frontier being real in 2026, not just a memory.
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Knicks settle down
I was pretty sure the Knicks just needed to settle down, but the fans and the city and journalists and to some extent the team were still living mentally in June, in the aftermath of the greatest sports win in a long time. Then the team lost three, probably because they too were…