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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:10:57 GMT

I am replying to this silly message.

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:24:20 GMT

I have implemented the first part of whitelisting.

There's a whitelist array in config containing email addresses of people who are allowed to create and use an account on the server.

There's a call handled by rss.network that checks a screenname and returns true or false as to whether or not it's whitelisted.

Right now I just have it set up to display at startup a console.log that says whether the user is whitelisted. So far it appears to work.

Updating -- it's done. 17 hours after starting.

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:30:15 GMT

Another test post from the test account.

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:29:04 GMT

I am enjoying writing on a test account.

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:28:53 GMT

Stuff to work on right now.

1. icon size and spacing in vertical icon array

2. add to the list of things that make rss.network great -- you have a real editor with all the features you want and no effective character limit.

3. i need a codename. last time we used drummer, belter -- from a scifi show, maybe now we should choose the name of a street in nyc, or a garden, or a knicks player we admire who we'd like to make software for.

4. add the values for the whitelist. asdf

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:17:06 GMT

Claude is much better at starting from scratch with a big piece of code than humans are. It can suck in a full app and all its dependencies in a few seconds. For me, I would never get there. A finished piece of software is much bigger than people think, because the details are mostly pretty well hidden. But if you want to work on the code, you have to worry about it all. But I just had a minute to ask Claude why I made a certain decision a couple of months ago, and it found the answer in its notes and then I remembered it. This is one of many ways it rewrites the rules of building software out of a big library of components. It can manage complexity for you which means of course we will make more complex software and at the same time make it simpler. Code complexity becomes something you don’t have to trade off against, like time vs space, the oldest tradeoff in software.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:06:57 GMT

I have something nice to say

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:00:19 GMT

it's nice but when i reload the page it's gone

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:59:50 GMT

we keep doing tests.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:47:40 GMT

ok this is dave doing yet another test.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:18:39 GMT

Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they're working on it.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:17:18 GMT

Walt Frazier: "The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame."

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:16:39 GMT

Star City is very good. It's good enough that you have to watch each episode at least twice to get the idea of what's really going on. I stopped watching the show it is a sequel for, For All Mankind, because it got incredibly juvenile and sitcom-like. But Star City is serious, at least in the first three episodes.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:51:13 GMT

I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported.

here is a title

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:23:31 GMT

here is some text

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:11:02 GMT

this post used to have a reply

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:41:24 GMT

this is my reply dammit

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:40:46 GMT

the icon didn't work -- after editing this item, the icon was the wrong icon and the username was the wrong one.

if i make an edit here that will cause a rebuild of my feed.

should do that automatically. (it did)

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:40:04 GMT

Good morning everyone. this is uncle davey here ready to escort you through a nice day of this and that.

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:32:15 GMT

Let's try a post with some markdown text in it.

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Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:37:27 GMT

I'm implementing a new feature, an outgoing RSS feed containing all the posts from all users.

When we build the feed for the specific user, we also build a feed for everyone.

However, since I'm the only person working here, there will be almost no difference between the two.

I keep adding paragraphs until this mofo is done.

And now I think we are ready to quit for the day.

I just got some kind of error on savePrefs. Not a good sign.

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:51 GMT

Sometimes if I edit a post, the edit doesn't show up in FeedLand, but when I reload the page, the updated value shows up in the timeline. That's because at loadtime we're getting the values from our own database. Maybe we should be getting them from FeedLand?

Claude is better

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:57:37 GMT

Claude is much better at starting from scratch with a big piece of code than humans are. It can suck in a full app and all its dependencies and a few seconds. For me, I would never get there. A finished piece of software is much bigger than people think, because the details are mostly pretty well hidden. But if you want to work on the code, you have to worry about it all. But I just had a minute to ask Claude why I made a certain decision, and it found the answer in its notes and then I remembered it. This is one of many ways it rewrites the rules of building software out of a big library of components.

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:58:56 GMT

I want to see if the image url is included in the feed.

Another test. Another. One more time in the Bootiesphere.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:42:35 GMT

this is a test post of extreme significance. and the test continues.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:22:34 GMT

The next new feature is a provision for feed-level image element.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:52:31 GMT

Minneapolis

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:52:16 GMT

Chicago

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:52:06 GMT

Cities in the United States

Bears live in Oregon

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:51:53 GMT

Eugene is where the University of Oregon is headquartered.

I once stayed in Eugene for a few days. I crashed at the place my friend Pete Vanderveer from Madison was crashing. I remember that the people who lived there had mixed feelings for all these university-age men were camping out, esp the wife. It's funny how I noticed that but it didn't bother me then. It bothers me now.

I guess that's growing up for you. ;-)

Another time, driving through Oregon, north to south, on election day 2004. There was no radio signal on I-5 going through the mountains south of Portland, and when I went out of range, Kerry was winning, I was a very committed to that, so I was happy, and then a few hours later when I got back into range, Bush had won. I checked into a really bad motel and spent the night wanting to drown my sorrows, but I'm not a big drinker so I had to deal with it.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:51:40 GMT

Salem

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:51:21 GMT

Portland

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:51:12 GMT

Oregon

NY Times Pitchbot

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:01:48 GMT

In light of the latest Graham Platner controversy—and with Janet Mills out of the race—my team is working overtime to recruit another candidate for Maine Democrats including George Mitchell, Bob Casey, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden.

Finding bugs where ever I go?

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:34:17 GMT

I just tried to figure out how to create a new post and fumbled around the icon bar.

But I did find it.

I find the sizes of things good, it basically is a clone of the wordland editor.

but it's a very lightweight shell. that was the point.

You say goodbye and I say hello

Sat, 30 May 2026 14:40:12 GMT

Have to work on the editor display. It's too small, too cramped.

I want to feel I have all the space I need to write, and now I feel like there's no room.

So tweak height and width of edit box.

How can I tell if something is working?

Substitute

Sat, 30 May 2026 14:32:54 GMT

You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather
But I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall, but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah

Wed, 27 May 2026 16:42:22 GMT

I am entering a new item now.

Greek sneakers. Feral feelers. Feast of yeast. Villa in Manila.

Hi mom!

Tue, 26 May 2026 20:03:39 GMT

This is just a test post that will look good at the top of the page. I can type as much or as little as I like. I can enjoy myself or not enjoy myself. I prefer to enjoy myself. I have just made a change here. Gee willikers. Ooogy boogy. Bingo bongo. Pistol Pete. Mookie Wilson. Practical harmony. Force majeure.

Not stunning or staggering

Tue, 26 May 2026 15:36:29 GMT

Now I'm going to write a longer test post, a sort of end of day thing as we move on from working out problems in the item viewer of the new timeline code I've done with Claude.

So we worked today on how items are presented in the timeline. And we used FeedLand's river displayer as prior art.

When I want it to do it like FeedLand it just looks at the FeedLand source, and that's how we communicate. Because that's how it is so capable at managing big bits of code, unlike humans it can go from zero to almost perfect understanding of the code in a minute or two if the codebase is really large.

And it rarely screws up, and that's usually because what it's doing is staggeringly complicated. I'm only reviewing the core UI and editing code here from a user's point of view, the code is deliberately a black box.

I know I've said that before. I have take a couple of sneak peeks, and it looks really good. At some point someone is going to have to do a solid review of it.

Also I have validated that you can write reasonably long posts in this setup, and the result is reassuring and reasonable, not stunning or staggering.

Tue, 26 May 2026 15:24:50 GMT

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Tue, 26 May 2026 15:15:28 GMT

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Tue, 26 May 2026 15:06:56 GMT

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Tue, 26 May 2026 15:00:44 GMT

Now I'm going to add several paragraphs to this post.

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Tue, 26 May 2026 14:50:16 GMT

On Mastodon: "twitter-like systems are much simpler than you would think looking at this space, bluesky etc. and there doesn't need to be any lock-in, you can do a fair job with just RSS, rssCloud, OPML, web sockets, and a web browser UI. all parts replaceable."

Response to Don Park on Twitter

Mon, 25 May 2026 14:31:58 GMT

what you say is interesting. i wrote a piece recently saying that it may be time for a reboot of wordpress. screenshot enclosed. i've had people ask if it's a fork, it's not. but i want to present wordpress to people from a different point of view. what if it were the place for writing on the web. it wouldn't have its own editor, it would just provide a place where people can write, share, and most important -- use more than one editor to edit the same text. i know that the web dev community would jump at this. i would. i have even though it doesn't exist yet. if that existed we would have a boom of new tools written by individuals in their garage or living room. it solves the problem we all have -- it's a place on the web you can write into and get stuff out of, and i don't mind paying for it, but it's the USER who pays, not the developer. big difference in economics. but as much as i try to describe it to people inside the wordpress community, they have a fixed idea of what wordpress is, and this lies outside that. all we need is a hosting server that has a lot of the options already set. where you get a blog-like website, and a bit of extra storage behind each piece, so you can use editors that need to store "source code" for each post, like for example macros, or outlines. i found out by accident they had a great api and that is part of the web because wordpress is. and there might be a flow of innovation that can be packaged, sold and supported, so there could be a lot of money made here beyond the money wordpress already generates. the api needs to be extended a bit so eveyrone can participate, not just jetpack users, but that also is right up my alley. i love problems like that.

I have something on my mind?

Sun, 24 May 2026 22:45:05 GMT

And this is where I'm going to tell you what it is.

I just pressed Return, but I didn't get a paragraph style break

but in the third one I did get a big break

and in the next one

and so on

Sat, 23 May 2026 16:48:05 GMT

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bronx

Sat, 23 May 2026 16:46:51 GMT

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Sat, 23 May 2026 16:31:50 GMT

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Sat, 23 May 2026 16:24:46 GMT

time is on my side

Fri, 22 May 2026 18:16:36 GMT

Kellog's is fine...

Give me the bunting. Bingo! Bongo!

Fri, 22 May 2026 16:38:54 GMT

THE reply dialog looks way too busy. but does it work??

it does seem to work

Fri, 22 May 2026 14:20:53 GMT

HELLO -- am i able to post something? yes you truly are. now can you edit something?? hi and howdy do.

boom boom boom

Thu, 21 May 2026 14:18:34 GMT

The time right now == 5/21/2026, 10:18:34 AM....

10:49 AM

Thu, 21 May 2026 14:08:25 GMT

Good morning sports fans. This is a post that i have updated after I published it. The first of many I hope! :-)

Wed, 20 May 2026 19:22:35 GMT

The big plus icon works now.

Green tangerine huzzah

Wed, 20 May 2026 15:31:53 GMT

welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

Mon, 18 May 2026 14:24:35 GMT

We tried a feature that we will come back to. It's kind of essential but there was a problem with how it works.

Sun, 17 May 2026 22:07:51 GMT

The dimensions on an iPad are bad. Easy to edit text but not to view

Sun, 17 May 2026 22:06:56 GMT

Probably have to create an item for the scripting.com posts.

Sun, 17 May 2026 20:35:04 GMT

I've got the extrasOutline in from the server side, now to plug it in on the client.

Orange ices

Sun, 17 May 2026 17:01:30 GMT

i love to eat orange ices in the summer time.

A blessing in disguise

Sun, 17 May 2026 16:56:47 GMT

I'm uncle sam that's who i am been hiding out in a rock and roll band.

Sun, 17 May 2026 16:32:16 GMT

am i able to write a post now??

Welcome to the camp

Sat, 16 May 2026 16:10:56 GMT

this is a test

Sat, 16 May 2026 14:28:35 GMT

good morning from the mountains!

Fri, 15 May 2026 23:50:11 GMT

I have something to say maybe.

Fri, 15 May 2026 23:03:39 GMT

we're still here testing

Fri, 15 May 2026 23:02:51 GMT

last test haha

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:59:36 GMT

one more test and i start zooming out on the nba.

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:57:11 GMT

this is meant to be a reply

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:55:34 GMT

let's do some replies

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:54:06 GMT

ok when you're testing the last thing before the game, and you say definitively that i got it, well if you forget to reboot the server, yeah that's what i forgot to do.

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:52:11 GMT

this time i think the feature will work. hahah

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:50:52 GMT

we need icons and the drop down menu in the editor as-is now. oh i see it, it's in the wrong place. we'll have to work on this. ;-)

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:46:43 GMT

have to smooth out the appearance of the editor. make window bigger, and do a fade in. it should more than cover the placeholder.

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:21:33 GMT

I just added a feature to the outbound RSS.

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:12:43 GMT

Illinois.

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:12:20 GMT

Indiana

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:11:59 GMT

Idaho

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:39:38 GMT

Eugene.

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:16:51 GMT

Edmonton.

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:16:37 GMT

Edinburgh

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:12:01 GMT

Dresden

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:11:28 GMT

Dublin

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:08:23 GMT

Detroit

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:08:14 GMT

Denver

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:08:08 GMT

Dallas

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:07:57 GMT

names that begin with D...

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:03:15 GMT

Casablanca

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:03:02 GMT

Caracas

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:02:20 GMT

Copenhagen.

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:01:53 GMT

Chicago

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:58:12 GMT

Cairo

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:57:26 GMT

Places whose names begin with C..

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:49:38 GMT

we had a problem, a new reply wasn't going into the right place. working with claude we found the problem with zero stress for me.

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:38:54 GMT

I am enjoying using this editor. let;'s see if i can save the reply now

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:48:01 GMT

Hello from Claude. The servercall fix is in.

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:46:18 GMT

Amsterdam