daveverse

Unsung heroes of the web — librarians.

Just created a new test account at mastodon.social for bullmancuso using Frontier.

On Monday I offered free advice for Toni Schneider, the new CEO at Bluesky.

It’s been 2.5 months since RSS.chat was introduced.

The number one waste of time and burnt braincells is they changed the Dock images for all their apps.

Yesterday I posted a list of builtin verbs in Frontier, as implemented in our current Atlantis app.

I’m using Frontier on a Mac running MacOS v26.6.2, which is the current version of the OS.

Love that Olbermann is back.

Well I got a lot done today.

New podcast.

I wish there were a way to set the dock icons on a Mac.

I’m now trying to come up with projects I can try that change things in visible ways so I can see which parts don’t work.

When Claude has a clear task to do, it does it well, and exhaustively in a way no human could manage.

I am working on the new system now.

I want to develop a scripting interface for Mastodon from Frontier.

Bluesky: “Meanwhile there are serious security issues that are covered up by this hype.

A new snarky slogan: Knicks in 5.

Data centers are like gas stations, but because the pumps work at the speed of light, you can put them anywhere on earth.

I’m doing a difficult corner-turn today.

Milestone in Atlantis development, the new version of Frontier that runs on modern OSes.

BTW, this blog is one of those periods where there are a few mind bombs every freaking day.

WordPress has a product that could be shaped into a Substack competitor.

The flaw in how journalism covers US politics.

Claude Code, even though it had blocks preventing it from doing this, overwrote files on an S3 bucket that took one of my major apps off the air.

Google replaced the library card catalog.

FeedLand and WordPress have a new hookup.

BTW, the rootupdates process is working now, you can follow changes via an RSS 2.0 feed, of course.

Screen shot of my current system.verbs.apps table.

Just got to the place where I’m thinking of what apps I want to be scriptable with Frontier.

Until we start working together and for each other it’s going to keep getting worse.

In many ways JavaScript is a better language than UserTalk.

The next milestone will be installing Atlantis on my new macbook, and hooking a monitor up to it, a really nice one, and move my work to that desk. then Berkeley, the name of the system I’ve been using for eight years, will be here as a backup and source…

My longtime friend Jeff Jarvis says the press is covering the wrong story re AI.

It is probably the closest to First Contact with an intelligent alien life form that our species will ever have.

On a good day working with Claude is like working with my old UW-Madison programmer friend Gary Sevitsky from the 70s.

I’ve been writing about Atlantis on various social media sites in the last few days.

Claude has started asking me how Claude is doing.

With Claude Code you don’t have to write system scripts to get data about your data.

It’s like we’re living in a science fiction movie.

Lots of stuff going on around WordPress for the last couple of years, and every bit of is a distraction from what I want to do to help the web get back on its feet.

The world may be falling apart, and the Mets suck even though they have the most expensive roster in MLB, and my house needs work and I can’t find a contractor I like, but I’m in a great mood.

Scripting News on 9/11/2001.

I almost fell for a phishing hack.

2017: The thing people don’t realize about storm surge, and they don’t really explain it on TV, is this.

WordPress emerged from the ashes of UserLand, something I am recently reacquainted with, working the last couple of months with Claude on a reboot of Frontier, this time written in JavaScript, running in Electron.

Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share.

The last two episodes of season three of Silo on AppleTV prove that there is value in a three season, boring escapade of confusing, unlikable uninteresting characters, living their whole lives in a silo, fearing the outdoors — if you have a clever way of…

Fair to say I was gobsmacked by the news late yesterday that Automattic’s board had put their CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on paid leave.

Surprising news.

I have completely lost interest in new phones.