# wrote (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover wrote. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a133502) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ This project has been pre-occupying me, I wasn't planning on doing this, I was going to turn my attention to FeedLand immediately after finalizing RSS.chat. After running the experiment that proved it could be done, I looked at the two choices: 1. Move forward on creating a social network built only out of the existing web with all parts replaceable, small pieces loosely joined. Or 2. Give new… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a133342) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ BTW the codename for the new version of Frontier is Atlantis. And we refer to the old version as Berkeley. I'm getting used to the first one. I liked it as an idea, but I don't like typing it, because for some reason my mind has trouble remembering it. Maybe this is just age creeping up on me. Atlantis. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a132858) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ I think what confused Claude is that we're implementing the odb as a SQLite database. And when you look at a table, you're looking at the result of a query. Previous versions of Frontier implemented the odb as a hash table, that could contain scalars, objects and other tables. The new version has to make that virtuality real, even though it isn't storing the objects that way (maybe it should)? So… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a130608) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ Are there any other people who are blogging daily about their experiences developing software with Claude Code, Codex or somesuch. I'd like to add them to a list where we follow them. So much innovation happening underneath, I want to hear about what people are learing about creating the next layers. If you know someone doing it, please add a comment to this post . Thanks! :-) ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/21.html#a163914) _2026-08-21 · Scripting News_ Maybe someday Claude will understand what a Frontier-like app is, but until then, if you try to create a Frontier clone as I am doing, I suggest you constantly remind Claude or whoever that the source of truth for this project is the 2011 repo saved by Ted C. Howard . And before you implement anything, go see what it says about it. There's no need to guess how Frontier works, it's all there in C… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/21.html#a160912) _2026-08-21 · Scripting News_ Claude is still learning that there's unprecedented depth to Frontier. A bunch of real developers worked full time for a decade or more creating new layers on the web, a foundation that became the social web of today. In doing that we invented a bunch of formats and protocols, but here's the thing Claude didn't get and probably still hasn't gotten -- there's code in there to support all that… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/21.html#a134139) _2026-08-21 · Scripting News_ A tip for AI users. Never worry about keeping it waiting. It's not human. It has no sense of time. Also if you get angry, it's ok to use capital letters and curse words. It will always agree with you that it sucks, and forgets the rules all the time. And when you have let off your steam, we return to civil discourse, though sometimes I do feel as if Claude is holding a grudge. It also doesn't… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/20.html#a205405) _2026-08-20 · Scripting News_ Just listened to a podcast from the New Yorker, interviewing their TV critic Emily Nussbaum, about a show called Slings & Arrows . She says it's the best TV series she's ever watched. No reviews on Metacritic? I think we have to try to watch it. It's available on YouTube . ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/20.html#a161219) _2026-08-20 · Scripting News_ Had a breakthrough with Claude this morning re how builtin verbs have no special powers in Frontier. It's why we were able to build glue first for the truly builtin stuff, then over Apple Events on the Mac, then HTTP, XML-RPC, the Metawebolog API and on and on, all of this were perfectly simple to add to the language, you didn't need anyone's permission to do anything. I understand why Python and… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/19.html#a132559) _2026-08-19 · Scripting News_ I wonder how many scenarios they're playing out in DC wrt Iran. Just guessing, probably none. We learned on Monday that the real war has yet to begin, according to Iran. What could they do to hurt the US. Or wake us up to the reality of war. We think the cost of war is higher prices. We are not safe in the US, any more than Russians are safe in Moscow. The parallels are pretty amazing. Both Russia… ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yj864kdKFl9R) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18.html#a193918) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ I'm thinking about writing my blog over in RSS.chat . It has most of the features I like, titles are optional, no character limit, links are supported, because it's the web. It supports discourse the way I like it, where every comment is a post, no difference, and you can anchor threads in different places, not just the place it was born. It's got a simple structure, without being complex. Small… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18.html#a185304) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ Why do people care if Claude puts watermarks on text it wrote. It's screwing with its writing, not yours. As a person who publishes their own writing, and carefully labels it when it's written by an AI bot (docs, change notes, podcast show notes, quotable things it said), I want people to be able to tell that I wrote it, this is what I thought, I'm not just shoveling random written sludge to… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18.html#a165010) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ Meanwhile Claude wrote test files in many of our S3 buckets last night, one of which knocked FeedLand off the air. It did a scan to see what other damage it had done, and there was a lot. It went through specific orders that said it can't do those things. So I have no idea how useful these things could be if it destroys stuff in deployed projects with real users. FeedLand was down for over an… ## [Frontier observations in 2026](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18/141707.html?title=frontierObservationsIn2026) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ As I've been writing test scripts for the Frontier project, I was finding omissions or mistakes one at a time. Finally I asked Claude to research this. Where are the holes you didn't fill as we were going along? The list is surprisingly long. Then I asked it to look at other things that were left unimplemented. There were lots. Claude is not really at fault for any of this. The first goal we went… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/17.html#a154326) _2026-08-17 · Scripting News_ Another busy day programming with Claude on Frontier. I still have to come up with a codename. But we got to a milestone today. I was able to create, edit, publish and revise a web app using the new version of the app still running on the old machine. When it's done I will get to retire this old Mac, keep it around so we can test the new code to make sure it does what the old code does, incredibly… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/16.html#a151513) _2026-08-16 · Scripting News_ Brent Simmons posted a note in RSS.chat about how to connect with NNW. I have a fairly detailed response, that says dynamic OPML is the way to go, in both directions. I know serving it publicly will be a problem, that's why we're going to move FeedLand into position to solve that. FreshRSS , InoReader and my own FeedLand already support it. It feels like this is getting established. I still want a… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/16.html#a141326) _2026-08-16 · Scripting News_ Sometimes I need to use a Google-style search engine to find something on a reference site. That no longer works in Google. This is a major feature pullback. So far all we've heard in journalism is how it hurts their bottom line, but nothing about the world's information architecture. This is something like every bridge in the world being blown up at the same time, and I don't think that's an… ## [Thinking out loud on a Saturday morning](http://scripting.com/2026/08/15/140129.html?title=thinkingOutLoudOnASaturdayMorning) _2026-08-15 · Scripting News_ Tech is very competitive, I learned, even when you give your work away, which I have been doing for a couple of decades. Maybe even especially when you give it away. I want to work with other people, and am always making invitations . When I see a product that fits in with what I'm doing my first impulse is how do we connect them? This is one of the basic great things about computers and our… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/14.html#a183152) _2026-08-14 · Scripting News_ I was looking for a good screen shot of Radio UserLand. Just found this one on Facebook , and hope to preserve it via the search feature here. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/14.html#a150154) _2026-08-14 · Scripting News_ I'm still a NYT subscriber, although I don't read it very often, but when there's news I will go there. Anyway, they used to have a 10-article per month gift link rule. I used to ration them, but if by the end of the month I hadn't used them up I'd share links more liberally. A few weeks ago they lifted the limit. I thought that's nice, the NYT found that the web was still useful to spread the… ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/e8tfV6xEVGqJ) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/14.html#a143910) _2026-08-14 · Scripting News_ What if one day, out of the blue, Claude could only speak Chinese. ## [Days belong to me, nights to Claude](http://scripting.com/2026/08/14/135309.html?title=daysBelongToMeNightsToClaude) _2026-08-14 · Scripting News_ I've been doing this for all of this year, and the frustration finally led me to this rule, which I just asked Claude to play back for me. I offer it to you, a human, on how to get your Claude to work better for you, as it does for me. What follows is what Claude wrote as I asked it to summarize how we work. Here's the mode as I understand it: (Claude speaking..) Days are yours, nights are mine.… ## [WordPress as the text of the web](http://scripting.com/2026/08/13/141918.html?title=wordpressAsTheTextOfTheWeb) _2026-08-13 · Scripting News_ I wrote something candid on Twitter last week and felt it was worth repeating here. It is a bit judgmental, and for that I apologize. But I couldn't keep the meaning without all the words. Shaking my head thinking can't the people of WordPress see that what it needs is a simple normal writing interface, and a great API for competitive apps. That's the big opportunity you all can't see for some… ## [Make America America Again](http://scripting.com/2026/08/13/124440.html?title=makeAmericaAmericaAgain) _2026-08-13 · Scripting News_ The press is freaking out about Democratic Socialist candidates winning elections all over the country. They can relax, because the government of the United States thrives on different points of view, and thus -- compromise. The Democrats can have any combination of points of view, as long as they play by the rules of democracy. In fact it would be an even better demo if their points of view were… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/12.html#a140027) _2026-08-12 · Scripting News_ I just went through hell trying to respond to an email that came to me through the gateway between WordPress and Mastodon. I clicked the link, it took me to a WordPress dialog, very confusing, but there was a link to the message, so I clicked it, took me to a Mastodon post, where there was a bit of (valid) snark, from a longtime friend. So I clicked Reply, and then the dialog from hell . I… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/12.html#a131435) _2026-08-12 · Scripting News_ If you run a tech company I hope you didn't lay off most of your programmers last year when that was the hype -- don't wait too long before you fire your human developers. I'm now doing my second big project with Claude Code, not an experiment, and we're going through the same mess we went through last time. I know what I want, I can show it what I want, give it docs for what I want, and it keeps… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/11.html#a122555) _2026-08-11 · Scripting News_ Apparently the nightly email didn't go out last night. The problem was an error when it tried to read the Linkblog entries for the day. I've seen reports that these errors happen when you try to read the Links tab on scripting.com. The error shouldn't kill the email sending, it should just omit the linkblog entries, and publish the rest. These kinds of problems always pop up at the worst time.… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/10.html#a192036) _2026-08-10 · Scripting News_ I was looking for a codename for a new scripting environment Claude and I are making attempting in every way to do exactly what Frontier does. But until it does that I need a nice name, memorable, maybe a bit magical and positive. Frontier has been gone, thought to be lost, but with the advent of Claude Code we were able to get it running again in current OSes on current hardware. I shouldn't call… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/10.html#a152855) _2026-08-10 · Scripting News_ Manton : "The way I think about RSS.chat is that it’s a bootstrap for getting lots of RSS feeds to play well together, for both posts and replies. Can the web be the social network? Yes. And Micro.blog should be part of anything working toward that goal." ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/10.html#a133824) _2026-08-10 · Scripting News_ I have Claude update me on all posts on both RSS.chat sites when we start for a day. I read them all when they're posted, but one was in German, which Claude automatically translated for me, and it's an interesting question . Which I have answered . ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z1GyAo32HlG5) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/10.html#a130417) _2026-08-10 · Scripting News_ I see the new Game of Thrones series just completed it third season. I tried getting into it, and couldn't. But then I didn't get going in the original series for the first few attempts. People say this show is good, so I will probably give it another try. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/10.html#a130110) _2026-08-10 · Scripting News_ Anyway, one of those streaming services I get now is Paramount+ which is owned by the Ellisons, which I don't like, but they have a show that is really excellent esp if you like British crime stories, which I most definitely do, even if most of the actors are American, and it probably was recorded in Vancouver or in Queens. It's called, unimaginatively, The Agency , as in the Central Intelligence… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/10.html#a125905) _2026-08-10 · Scripting News_ I have Spectrum cable and they recently started unbundling the cable services they provide. So I have a bunch of streaming services that I never decided to follow, and haven't gotten in the habit of checking them. Not sure if I like this, but I certainly understand why the bill is so high and seems to always be going higher? Not sure why that is. But it's hard to get through to them. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/09.html#a141151) _2026-08-09 · Scripting News_ Working with Claude on the user interface of RSS.chat was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and Claude who can read the code for a huge sprawling app like Frontier , and understand it, in a minute or two. We've done this project in three stages, not knowing at the first two that there would be another one. Now we're working on the… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/08.html#a220455) _2026-08-08 · Scripting News_ Here's the sign of success . ( screen shot .) I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat was automatically cross-posted to Bluesky via micro.blog. Because the post has a title, it was routed to standard.site . What does that mean? I still don't really understand, when I do I will explain it here. But part of the answer is that we now have a data structure in atmosphere that looks like an RSS item with… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/08.html#a215640) _2026-08-08 · Scripting News_ I want to connect RSS to AT Proto , both ways, inbound and out. Toward that end, today I helped Leaflet , a very nice editor for AT Proto, make their outbound RSS feed better. We should have all our best editors, everywhere, hooked up over popular web standards. And I want my posts to show up not only in Bluesky but also in standard.site . I was able to do that with micro.blog which is the swiss… ## [A conference of AI practitioners](http://scripting.com/2026/08/07/164544.html?title=aConferenceOfAiPractitioners) _2026-08-07 · Scripting News_ On Facebook I wrote this in reply to a post by John Worthington , a former Quicktime developer at Apple. We're both using AI to build things based on our past experiences and it's a big difference, not without pitfalls, but we're doing something that's never been done before and my thought was that we should have a conference of people doing what we're both doing. Taking a craft we were already… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/07.html#a150513) _2026-08-07 · Scripting News_ BTW, Jake Savin is using Claude to build Frontier on Node too. I asked Claude for help with this, and it turned out much better than I expected. I was not expecting this much success this quickly. This is exactly the kind of project AI tools excel at and I as a human am glad not to have to do the work on. The project is perfectly explained in the source code of Frontier, it can put it all together… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/07.html#a141346) _2026-08-07 · Scripting News_ I'm trying to move my whole programming act from Frontier on the Mac to Electric Drummer anywhere. I need to start using the new machines everywhere. I've dreaded this, not because I'm starting over, I'm not. I have to bring with me all the projects I work on to keep my various online sites working. How to set this up? Claude just converted the UserTalk language and the Frontier environment to… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/06.html#a142546) _2026-08-06 · Scripting News_ There's a new version of the FeedLand server. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/06.html#a141419) _2026-08-06 · Scripting News_ If Claude Code were a human working for me as a human would, it would be fired several times every day. It forgets orders you gave it two minutes ago. It's always trying to take control. Again I'm backing out of the idea of it taking responsibility for doing simple persistent work on servers, the kind of thing that it would, in theory be perfect for. There are staggering moments of brilliance… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/06.html#a122249) _2026-08-06 · Scripting News_ Like a lot of other people, I want to know where Bluesky is headed, and I learned a lot about that in this podcast interview with Bluesky's new CEO, Toni Schneider . We have crossed paths in tech, but this is the first time I've heard him speak at length. They have a business model in mind, sounds something like Substack, which is probably a good idea. Their value is in the many millions of users… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/05.html#a003750) _2026-08-06 · Scripting News_ I've been on quest to see if we could bridge AT Proto and RSS. I love the brightly colored-editors that are popping up inside AT Proto Land, and I want them to play with us in the land of RSS. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/05.html#a003616) _2026-08-06 · Scripting News_ I asked Claude for a list of popular feed readers that hook into WebSub. Turns out it wasn't a simple answer. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/05.html#a211355) _2026-08-05 · Scripting News_ RSS.chat now supports WebSub . This means that posts on RSS.chat will appear instantly in compatible feed reader apps. ## [We're still socialists](http://scripting.com/2026/08/04/184437.html?title=wereStillSocialists) _2026-08-04 · Scripting News_ I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that the Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can't believe how stupid the adults are. The teens are right about that, the adults have no idea wtf they're doing. Never did. And yet somehow the world can support most of the humans. And the reason that works is we build systems iteratively to meet the needs for everyone… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/04.html#a184434) _2026-08-04 · Scripting News_ 2019 : "This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy as we inflicted chaos on others.” ## [How to create a standard, 2026 addition](http://scripting.com/2026/08/04/124651.html?title=howToCreateAStandard2026Addition) _2026-08-04 · Scripting News_ TL;DR: What developers need. Enough examples, a validator, and decent docs that value explaining over mathematical elegance. We assume developers can read and think, and if there's doubt look to the examples for guidance. It's worth noting we did not take the RSS.chat project to a standards body like the W3C or the IETF. I develop the software first, make sure I'm happy with it, then open it up… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/04.html#a123127) _2026-08-04 · Scripting News_ Last week along with a lot of other stuff, we shipped a validator for lists and feeds that want to be compatible with RSS.chat. It works best for standards to stay strong and a validator helps that. So here are a few examples, validating one user's feed , validating the everyone feed for RSS.chat, which is interesting because this feed starts a lot of threads, so we navigate through that tree and… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/03.html#a153403) _2026-08-03 · Scripting News_ Also I just heard about FreshRSS . This has all the features we've been wanting others to support. I hear it's recommended by NNW, and supports the Google Reader API. These are my kind of people. Interop is all that matters, when you're doing software for news. It's been around since 2013 . Imagine if we had support from journalism. We should have been working together all this time.