Scripting News podcast

My fifth podcast release today, the others were all on the Podcast0 feed, which I explain is the flow of two feeds, Morning Coffee Notes and Trade Secrets. Also the idea of subscription lists you subscribe to, the next level of power in feeds, which should be imho supported broadly by all apps that implement OPML subscription lists, which is a pretty strong standard in the world of

I want to talk about interop among the products that do more or less what Twitter does, including Twitter.I think we're doing a replay of the way hypertext developed in the 80s, and then took off when TBL produced a much simpler product with one-way links instead of two. It made developing a website a matter of writing a text file and uploading it to a server. Almost no configurati

Harris must become president of Twitter before becoming president of the United States.After the debate, Harris should be interviewed anywhere they'll have her. Go ahead and be overexposed. Answer every question with one of your major positioning statements. Call in to radio talk shows, podcasts, whatever you can think of. Biden hardly ever promoted himself. Not being heard all the

Full audio for Kamala Harris's acceptance speech at the DNC. Thanks to Ian Landsman for converting the video to MP3. My blog post about the speech. Podcast: 37 minutes.

Podcast: 17 minutes.Note: You can skip the first five minutes, it's a long preamble on a different subject. I left it in because it's interesting imho. It's possible that what happened to Joe Biden in the debate is like something that happened to me almost ten years ago when I was turning 60. I tell the story in this podcast. It's still possible he was the best choice to go against

Podcast: 27 minutes.Sorry about the recording quality, I was in a large space with bad acoustics. I'll try to remember not to do that in the future. I've noticed I spend less time programming, I go more slowly and carefully because now I can know a lot more about each problem I'm solving, and use the packages I build on, jQuery, MySQL, Node, the browser, Bootstrap, Font-awesome, Fr

Podcast: 11 minutes.I see happy talk all over the place that Twitter is done, Musk is killing it, blah blah blah. It's bullshit. In the next few months Twitter is going to morph into the political system that Barack Obama could have and should have built.It turns out creating a president of the United States is worth a lot of money. Trump is inept at squeezing the money out of it,

Lakoff talks about the Nurturing Mother and the Strict Father as models for Democrats and Republicans respectively, and how the Dems never got this, and never campaigned accordingly. Now they're doing it. Owning the nuturing mother mode, but also the Protective Father, tough and angry when necessary, but a fun dad, a sweetheart. Biden was that, but we caught him too late in life fo

4-minute podcast about my first venture into ChatGPT via its API. There's an accompanying GitHub repo, with an example app in JavaScript that runs in the browser.Includes instructions for setting up and funding a developer account, which was the biggest hurdle. Functionality: It tells you who Bull Mancuso is. Much excitement as I think about integrations I can now do. Don't know wh

We're depending on big companies that are nuzzling up with Trump, at best hedging their bets, to let us use their networks to organize ourselves politically. That's never worked for us, in fact it's worked against us. Trump's election in 2016, for example, could he have done it without Twitter letting him go direct to organize? The Harris organization is doing great, they have to t