https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com You probably know me for starting RSS 2.0 and podcasting. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:10:04 GMT Sun, 11 Oct 2026 03:00:07 GMT UserLand Frontier v11.0 https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:oety7qbfx7x6exn2ytrwikmr/bafkreickrhetxqfgxkzny5dfb56e7xakblojozrmgjxs4tqypx2nksk3x4 https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com scripting.com https://bluesky.feediverse.org/scripting.com/rss.xml <p>The tech industry kicked the web out of the web.</p><p><a href="https://scripting.com">scripting.com</a> is your canary in a coal mine.</p><p>If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser.</p><p>If it can&#8217;t it&#8217;s phoney baloney.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbzepppqs25 https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbzepppqs25 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:10:04 GMT The tech industry kicked the web out of the web. [scripting.com](https://scripting.com) is your canary in a coal mine. If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser. If it can’t it’s phoney baloney. <p>Did you see the commercials trump is running. </p><p>Right out in the open. He&#8217;s saying the coup has already happened.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxiea55pfs2u https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxiea55pfs2u Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:40:19 GMT Did you see the commercials trump is running. Right out in the open. He’s saying the coup has already happened. <p>Claude Docs opened yesterday. </p><p><a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview">code.claude.com/docs/en/over...</a></p><p>AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do.</p><p>Things are moving really quickly now.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxic77iwpk2i https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxic77iwpk2i Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:04:01 GMT Claude Docs opened yesterday. [code.claude.com/docs/en/over...](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview) AI spilling out onto the web, doing the job that web CMSes now do. Things are moving really quickly now. <p>We don&#8217;t have drone warfare in the US yet probably because our enemies don&#8217;t want to wake us up before our country is too poor to put a stop to it.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxgnpfjtdc2j https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxgnpfjtdc2j Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:24:36 GMT We don’t have drone warfare in the US yet probably because our enemies don’t want to wake us up before our country is too poor to put a stop to it. <p>In other words the web needs a restart. This time without all the VC tricks that lock you in.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxgnladbxk2j https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxgnladbxk2j Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:22:16 GMT In other words the web needs a restart. This time without all the VC tricks that lock you in. <p>The news is having guests on talking about lies and whether they will make the polls change.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxf52awdac2x https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxf52awdac2x Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:53:47 GMT The news is having guests on talking about lies and whether they will make the polls change. <p>Before long we&#8217;ll have Ukraine style drones raining down on American cities. Meanwhile we have built a military designed to fight WWII. We&#8217;d better hope Ukraine wins their war with Russia, and they&#8217;re still our friend.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxdc27wick2x https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxdc27wick2x Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:17:55 GMT Before long we’ll have Ukraine style drones raining down on American cities. Meanwhile we have built a military designed to fight WWII. We’d better hope Ukraine wins their war with Russia, and they’re still our friend. <p>Yesterday I wrote a piece about a Markdown-only browser, that worked nicely with HTTP.</p><p>I got interested in what it would take to do this, and asked ChatGPT for a plan. </p><p><a href="https://gist.github.com/scripting/c81461104f079b7a017802286853c4f1">gist.github.com/scripting/c8...</a></p><p>If you want to implement it, please do.</p><p>Let me know if you have something to try.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxckruuqfc2q https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxckruuqfc2q Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:21:39 GMT Yesterday I wrote a piece about a Markdown-only browser, that worked nicely with HTTP. I got interested in what it would take to do this, and asked ChatGPT for a plan. [gist.github.com/scripting/c8...](https://gist.github.com/scripting/c81461104f079b7a017802286853c4f1) If you want to implement it, please do. Let me know if you have something to try. <p>Works like a champ on the Brave browser. Well done Dave.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxc22z6lnc2o https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxc22z6lnc2o Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:22:32 GMT Works like a champ on the Brave browser. Well done Dave. <p>The tech industry kicked the web out of the web.</p><p><a href="http://scripting.com">scripting.com</a> is your canary in a coal mine.</p><p>If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser.</p><p>If it can&#8217;t it&#8217;s phoney baloney.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbzffd5q225 https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbzffd5q225 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:10:26 GMT The tech industry kicked the web out of the web. [scripting.com](http://scripting.com) is your canary in a coal mine. If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser. If it can’t it’s phoney baloney. <p>The tech industry kicked the web out of the web.</p><p><a href="https://scripting.com">scripting.com</a> is your canary in a coal mine.</p><p>If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser.</p><p>If it can&#8217;t it&#8217;s phoney baloney.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbzepppqs25 https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbzepppqs25 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:10:04 GMT The tech industry kicked the web out of the web. [scripting.com](https://scripting.com) is your canary in a coal mine. If you can read it then your browser is a real web browser. If it can’t it’s phoney baloney. <p>Amen. And food. I grew up in a quiet little village in queens. Lots of cheesy diners, McDonald&#8217;s, delis. Then a miracle happened. Chinese immigrants in a huge wave, and then Koreans. And omg the food. Took my mom out to dinner, waiter asked if we were tourists. No we&#8217;re natives.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbg4nxssc2x https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxbg4nxssc2x Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:25:32 GMT Amen. And food. I grew up in a quiet little village in queens. Lots of cheesy diners, McDonald’s, delis. Then a miracle happened. Chinese immigrants in a huge wave, and then Koreans. And omg the food. Took my mom out to dinner, waiter asked if we were tourists. No we’re natives. <p>Buttigieg for president. Talarico for VP.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxarvfcai22p https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mxarvfcai22p Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:23:33 GMT Buttigieg for president. Talarico for VP. <p>James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC:</p><p>&#8220;Texans aren&#8217;t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. </p><p>We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst.&quot;</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx62oyydtx2m https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx62oyydtx2m Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:23:03 GMT James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst." <p>It was at a time when my little company was being attacked by much larger companies for being bullies with RSS and trying to paint a picture of us as being too big to be trusted. The press was helping them and could find little bits of quotes that it made us easy to believe the bigco&#8217;s.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx5pyzt6fs2n https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx5pyzt6fs2n Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:11:49 GMT It was at a time when my little company was being attacked by much larger companies for being bullies with RSS and trying to paint a picture of us as being too big to be trusted. The press was helping them and could find little bits of quotes that it made us easy to believe the bigco’s. <p>ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation&#8217;s interior and deeming them &#8220;unaccompanied.&#8221;</p><p>www.mo<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ice-orr-office-refugee-resettlement-donald-trump-stephen-miller-family-separations-foster-care-deportations/">therjones.com/politics/202...</a></p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx5le7g4e22y https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx5le7g4e22y Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:48:35 GMT ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.mo[therjones.com/politics/202...](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ice-orr-office-refugee-resettlement-donald-trump-stephen-miller-family-separations-foster-care-deportations/) <p>I started blogging on October 7, 1994. Thirty-two years on Wednesday. The longest running blog, and it's still even worse than it appears.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx5abcs6pk25 https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx5abcs6pk25 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:30:07 GMT I started blogging on October 7, 1994. Thirty-two years on Wednesday. The longest running blog, and it's still even worse than it appears. <p>Sports, esp basketball, are about the team, not looking great on paper. #knicksIn5</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx4yccwqes2g https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx4yccwqes2g Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:07:31 GMT Sports, esp basketball, are about the team, not looking great on paper. #knicksIn5 <p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I&#8217;ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I&#8217;m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don&#8217;t need video. &#65532;</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx37ob7pgc2r https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx37ob7pgc2r Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:14:08 GMT I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.  <p>Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/04/trump-communism-republicans?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;CMP=bsky_gu&amp;utm_medium=&amp;utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1791140253">www.theguardian.com</a></p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx3a7wi7sq2b https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx3a7wi7sq2b Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:24:01 GMT Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump? [www.theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/04/trump-communism-republicans?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1791140253) <p>I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lgibxvpz3k2x https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lgibxvpz3k2x Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:25:26 GMT I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget. <p>Btw twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx2x6befpt2k https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx2x6befpt2k Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:42:01 GMT Btw twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform. <p>This is a test post.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx2jipx44c2z https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx2jipx44c2z Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:37:20 GMT This is a test post. <p>We&#8217;re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything. si<a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/">monwillison.net</a></p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx2hcgc5wo2h https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx2hcgc5wo2h Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:58:01 GMT We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything. si[monwillison.net](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/) <p>Elon Musk and DOGE brought catastrophe to the U.S. government. Michael Lewis&#8217; Blockers details just how much.</p> https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx24zghymo2s https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3mx24zghymo2s Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:54:02 GMT Elon Musk and DOGE brought catastrophe to the U.S. government. Michael Lewis’ Blockers details just how much.