Software development, music, and the World Wide Web
Today, Dave Winer talks about working together , and how he wants to work with other people. The bug in this statement is that Dave Winer deletes things from sites he provides for others to try out his tools, talks about spam posts (which is his word for someone trying to make use of his flow [ ]
Saw this at Walmart today loved it!
Hillel Wayne explains why formal methods like TLA+ matter, how they help build reliable software, and whether AI will finally bring formal verification into the mainstream. I enjoyed listening to this, I am planning to watch the video since Hillel Wayne shows some tool demos. I have not used formal methods in my career, but [ ]
Recently, I was doing some work to make sure that the OPML files I created using Drummer and available via Drummer were available from my site instead of drummer.scripting.com. My initial effort was using code from the outlineBrowser2 and opmlPackage repos from Dave Winer. After reviewing the code, I felt that I could focus more on using the [ ]
LinkedIn: Wisk CEO Sebastian Vigneron announces deal Archer Aviation: Press release LinkedIn: Thomas Wagenberg comments, noting this was a no-cash deal LinkedIn: Ken Morris sees this consolidation as strengthening the urban air mobility sector CNBC: Boeing sells eVTOL subsidiaries, takes stake in Archer CNBC: Archer Aviation shares jump 10% on news of Boeing deal The [ ]
For a long time, I resisted subscribing to news services. After all, pretty much all the news was available somewhere for free For years, my go-to news hub was CNN. I still check it more often than any other news site. In the past year or two, though, CNN has gone from unlimited access to [ ]
I have been working on a tool to access the sitemap of a news website to try to create feeds when the site does not provide feeds. The tool starts by reading the robots.txt file, which usually has a list of things that are disallowed . On one of the sites, it specifically included Claude Code [ ]
I migrated all of my websites from Bluehost to Opalstack this summer. I am on the Single Stack plan, which provides shared hosting with 1 GB of RAM. When I was on Bluehost, I never worried about how much memory was being used when a site was accessed. Since moving to Opalstack, I noticed that [ ]
I am continuing work on my Feed News Archive project, adding feeds from US newspaper websites. There is a combination of sites that do not offer feeds, sites with difficult ways to access feeds, some WordPress VIP sites that block access to their feeds (?!) and one (Seattle Times) that seems to only allow access [ ]
Dave Winer talks about how to create a standard in 2026, but offers RSS.chat as the standard being described. I don t buy it. Is this project leading to developing a standard for chat networks? I don t think so .can anyone help me out here?