Andy Sylvester's Web

I have been retired now for several months, and thought it was a good time to reflect on how things have changed for me.

This week, it was announced that Margaret Hamilton had died.

I am 2/3 of the way listening to this podcast, and it is giving me some insight into the (visual) design of software.

I have resumed using my linkblog.

Recently, I mentioned that I worked with Claude Code to add scripts and changes to the drummerCms Github repo to be able to build a local copy of an oldSchool blog from a Drummer OPML file.

I just started seeing comments this past week on my WordPress blog that appear to be created by AI – is anyone else seeing this?

Today I gave the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress another try, and was successful!

Test post for ActivityPub plugin version 9.3.1

After reading Will Bunch cringing about Trump’s address to the UN last week and China summit, and yet another Natalie Harp expose on the Daily Beast, my thought is “how can we get out of this mess?”.

As part of migrating my main website and other sites to a new hosting service, I have also been working to create backups of sites hosted elsewhere.

I decided I wanted to experiment with my linkblog again, which uses the Hugo SSG tool.

Recently, I wanted to get information on the voting record of my representative in the Oregon House of Representatives.

I saw this post (via Dave Winer) about issues with the ability of feed readers to read feeds from websites hosted by or using Cloudflare.

I recently got a pizza steel and tried it out last night following this recipe, the result was pretty good!

I did not think THIS would ever happen – the Commodore 64 computer is now available again (it was the first computer I ever owned!)!

I pushed out some updates to my OPML viewer app to add a toggle for expand/collapse for the outline – check out this demo, and download from Github to try it out!

Today, Dave Winer talks about “working together”, and how he wants to work with other people.

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.

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.

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For a long time, I resisted subscribing to news services.