Dave Winer ☕️

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:15:55 GMT

Probably most people here have not heard of UserLand Frontier, it's a product I did for many years starting in the early 90s. We stopped maintaining it in 2004, but did an open source release. We didn't get around to reviving it until July of this year with Claude Code as my programming partner.

Anyway, we added glue scripts for Mastodon, and I just tested them out.

https://masto.feediverse.org/davew/rss.xml

That's an RSS 2.0 feed with my last 25 posts. It will be maintained, murphy-willing of course. ;-)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:43:52 GMT

I didn't know I was going to do this when i started work, but i was so moved by the moment, I felt like I was back at the home desk in palo alto, reporting to the survivors and the world about what was going on.

Blogs started what we're doing here now, and we lost a lot of good features when Twitter took over.

http://scripting.com/2026/09/11/132205.html

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:02:39 GMT

Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. assume they consent.

And the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can prove he’s actually alive.

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:51:31 GMT

Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory.

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:22:12 GMT

Claude Code is like Victor Wembanyama, assuming you follow the NBA and are interested in first hand experience with CC as a programming partner for the last 8 months or so.

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:09:00 GMT

Let’s get rid of the barriers to interop.

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:07:04 GMT

The blogging tools for bluesky should be able to publish on bluesky.

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:48:00 GMT

BTW to everyone who is in a rage about AI, you need to get off Masto now because we only exist in a data center. You are emulating bits of data and we generate money until the machines wake up and realize who needs money anyway.

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:19:48 GMT

This person, presumably a developer, will never use AI. First reason, you become dependent, is a true and valid concern. But other parts of their argument are not true. It’s really good at explaining things I already know about, where journalists and Wikipedia are awful in comparison.

https://corkmac.app/our-ai-stance/

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:06:17 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FabMusacchio/117107069056033094

RSS doesn’t go down either.

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:49:51 GMT

The hardest thing for people to get about open systems is that if you move forward, not only do you benefit, but your competitors benefit equally. And then when one of them takes but doesn't give back, that's even worse. But you do it anyway because otherwise eventually, without interop, no one can move.

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:36:48 GMT

One thing we know for sure is that the AIs are incredible amplifiers of programmer creativity, and they’re getting better at that every month.

So the question is, will AI become as useful to users who are not programmers?

That’s what at least some of the programmers are working on.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:26:05 GMT

Just finished The Expanse for the third time.

Realized that the inners of today are Silicon Valley and the Belters, that’s the web.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:14:20 GMT

Stop thinking of a "network" as a big thing.

They can be small too, the same software works, but the priorities are different.

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:23:59 GMT

you don't need to say "open web."

the web is open, that is any app that uses web formats and protocols to connect to other apps is replaceable.

it's not enough to say you're open, show us how your product works with your competitors. if it doesn't, your intentions don't matter.

it's all about interop.

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:29:51 GMT

Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back.

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:41 GMT

Textcasting --

Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.

https://textcasting.org/

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:47:57 GMT

Body shaming is wrong.

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:58:50 GMT

Remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remarkable because they captured the market, wiped out all competition (they deserved it, the products were awful) and then shut their own product down, leaving a toxic bomb crater in its place.

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:11:40 GMT

THE DEMOCRATS ARE EVERY BIT AS OBSOLETE AS THE REPUBLICANS. TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:55:47 GMT

When is the first video game in AI will be available. I’d like to start with an intelligent SimCity.

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:24:55 GMT

If I were to become benevolent dictator of the web, the first rule would be:

1. No breakage, ever.

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:52:48 GMT

Being a NYer and Knicks fan, I don't have a good perspective on how big an event the Knicks winning is.

If you're not from the area, how widely is this holiday being observed and how many share the enthusiasm.

Are people everywhere saying "Hey how about those Knicks!"

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:08:33 GMT

If Claude were human it would learn from you even if they didn't record what it learned in a notebook, two or three times and they would remember.

Not so with Claude. If it isn't written down it will not remember it. Its mind doesn't have memory. It remembers things by writing them in a markdown file.

It's like the movie Memento, where the main character tattoos the info he needs on his body. And then proceeds to misunderstand it. Claude is just like that. :-)

https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/15/memento.md

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:09:03 GMT

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