Piero Bosio Social Web Site Personale

I found out recently that my blog is in of the startup set for NetNewsWire.

It's quite an honor to be included in that club.

Thanks Brent! ;-)

if bluesky wants to be of the web the character limit has to go.

the web doesn't have a character limit.

@susam

very cool that you included the OPML list at the end.

@netvector

give us the urls! ;-)

@Earl

Very well put.

@jbond -- it's impossible as long as each system has a different idea of what a post is.

@tuckerm

some did, some didn't.

my blog has both kinds -- some posts without some with.

http://scripting.com/

I love the piece Cory Doctorow wrote about RSS.

But I take exception to the idea that it's been dormant, or that Google made it work. The NYT did that. And there were lots of good if not great feed readers before Google.

https://scripting.com/2026/03/07/204625.html?title=rssHasNeverBeenDormant

And Google, by requiring titles, really mucked everything up. We're still paying the price, even though their product has been gone since 2013.

What are some good Mastodon accounts to follow for news?

@danb

dan, glad you saw that. i was surprised that it can generate a real app just by asking for it.

i also had it do an outliner.. 🙂

https://this.how/ai/outliner/outliner.html

did a few iterations on that, and maybe i'll do some more. it basically knows all about every freaking outliner ever made.

https://this.how/ai/outliner/priorArt.opml

and the outlines it makes interop with all my outline-ready software.

things have really changed here.

I asked claude.ai to write a spreadsheet. exactly like that. this is what it came back with.

https://this.how/ai/spreadsheet.html

The killer app of AI is customer service.

Another application for AI. Have an AI bot go to a conference for me and listen to everything. Only tell me about the things that I would be interested in.

@timbray -- another one, they claim to be billionaire-proof but don't offer anything to back that up. i don't think they are. they fully control their users. no different from any other silo. twitter had an api too.

@timbray

tim, i never was able to find the valuation confirmed. i think there was a techcrunch story.

for all we know elon musk owns it.

@timbray

i checked on it in january, and yes they did close that round. the investor is blockchain capital, i couldn't find any info on who the limited partners are.

http://scripting.com/2026/01/30.html#a153640

and i just asked chatgpt for a list of investors, and they say they have raised a bunch more since then.

https://chatgpt.com/share/699a097c-cf10-8012-bf42-af85fa85e1fe

@konrad

heh, i was sure you could ask. 🙂

i'm doing a slow corner turn on some complex software to have it work in a different environment from which it was envisioned running in.

there's going to be new code at the top level, a combination of forking and factoring.

and done SLOWLY, considering all the problems, and not wanting to introduce any more complexity than i have to, to make future corner-turns more likely to work and not require wholesale rewrite.

does the bot know about this?

I have not done any vibe coding and have a question for those who have.

Suppose you request a change, adding features, changing things around based on learning and testing, which is generally what happens after you've been working on something new.

Here's the question. What happens when you ask for a change that requires the codebase to be reorganized.

How did that go? Do the AIs know that's possible or do they just pile on special cases?

@johnjohnston

i was glad you saw the new feature, and it's one of those things i wish i had noticed was possible before.

and btw -- thanks to @manton -- a developer who listens to ideas from users.