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@johnjohnston

I asked him for it, it’s part of my blogroll.

So if you want to comment on something that came from my linkblog feed, I will see it.

two-way rss.
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News must be better defended, decentralized, unownable, all parts replaceable. The current situation was preventable. Same problem the social web has.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/14/jeff-bezos-washington-post-news-not-safe

@jez

There are ways to deal with that.

if i ran firefox, this is what i would say wrt AI in firefox in 2026.

1. ai is exciting!

2. it's also in its infancy.

3. we don't know yet how or if it connects to the web.

4. the web is 100% our #1 priority.

5. so we're going to wait.

6. for now firefox is a no-ai browser.

7. we won't include ai until we know why.

8. and then it will be opt-in.

9. and we will continue to make firefox the best web browser.

sincerely,

the developers of firefox

@mjg @filippo

Drummer, shipped in 2021 or so, is an outliner that has built in scripting.

https://docserver.scripting.com/drummer/scripting.opml

Going back to the late 70s that was what got me interested in outliners, that they were such a natural way to write software.

I write all my apps in Drummer, btw. Look through my repos on GitHub, there's usually a source.opml file in each folder that contains the code I edit.

https://github.com/scripting?tab=repositories

My favorite recent snarky slogan.

Why is it still snowing?

Maybe it’s time for the news industry reform around the EZ-Pass for News?

scripting.com/2020/06/23/115824.html?title=anEzpassForNews

@zleap

This isn’t about responsive design.

@zleap

I don’t know what a media query is.

for developers who don't use ai -- here's the kind of question i ask chatgpt. "i have a div that contains icons that are either svg's or font-awesome i's. if it were text, i'd use font-size to control the size of the icons, which won't work here. what's the right way to do it?"

@kevinrenskers

apple is a company, very good at selling itself as a lifestyle. but there's only one person, who's been gone for 15 years, who could keep that reality distortion field inflated.

we didn't see it directly in the US but imagine the compromises they had to make to be so in bed with the chinese government? the US isn't that far gone yet but we're getting there.

the story is very old, the diff is that people just don't like to see it on their tv. ;-)

@autobrain

Thanks.

#wordpress news for dev, designers, business folks.

https://wp.feedland.org/

Click on the orange XML icon in the upper right corner for the list of feeds. Always want to add more sites to the list.

@jonkl @scripting

also as a software developer, i would never make a product deliberately more complicated than it needed to be to be a barrier for less patient users. that's like the hippocratic oath applied to software "first do no harm."

@jonkl @scripting

the premise of the conference is that they *do* want more people using mastodon.

>The FediForum home page says "the Open Social Web still has only a tiny fraction of the users of the closed social media platforms, and growing that number significantly has turned out harder than expected." This is the premise of their next conference, on March 2, a little over a month from now.

@scripting

one thing I'd like to see from mastodon, is that stories like this should be formatted more attractively.

this is how the same post is viewed on wordpress. much nicer imho.

https://daveverse.org/2026/01/30/notes-for-fediforum-meetup/

this should be an easy thing to dress up, this functionality has been working for about a half a year. it's just CSS. ;-)

@gfriend @tedchoward

i am totally looking forward to it too.

jake is doing amazing work, and i'm going to be sure to clear a lot of my time when he's ready for me to start building stuff with Frontier on Linux.

@mayo @cagrimmett @tg @brentsimmons

could you post a screen shot of what you're looking at? i have a feeling you're describing a different product. ;-)

@markhurst @dangoodin

since you like frontier, try

http://drummer.land/

it's my latest outliner, and it even has a scripting language patterned after frontier. ;-)

also jake savin is working on a headless frontier for linux and latest mac os,. i can't wait to have it running on my servers.

and then https://feed.land/ -- it's a lot more than a feed reader.

dan there's so much out there, and techrunch is all that's left and they basically cover venture capital.