Dave Winer ☕️

OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

blog: http://scripting.com/
profile: http://davewiner.com/
github: https://github.com/scripting
feedland: http://roadmap.feedland.org/

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2024-07-28 20:10:25

I'm looking for an RSS feed from the Harris campaign of all the press releases.
Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

2024-07-26 16:18:43

On this day in 2004, NPR added RSS feeds.
I came across this in looking something else up.
This is what such an announcement looked like.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040810102835/http://www.npr.org/rss/index.html
You have no idea how exciting this was. A standard being adopted this way without the support of big companies or the W3C.

2024-07-21 14:14:32

Great wealth is poison, that's what's playing out in the NYT-orchestrated overthrow of the American government. They're driving us into the arms of the Nazis. Who knows why, or even if there is a reason, other than their to find meaning in their great wealth. Their problem, and ours is that it has no meaning, no human can use the money they've accumulated. This is a game of make-believe, what if we really were as smart as we think our money says we are. Well you ain't that smart.

2024-07-12 13:35:56

Why journalists don’t bother trying to take Trump down, but do with the Democrat.
Simple. Trump has routed around journalism as we have begged the Dems to by going direct to the people.
The journos have no power over Trump and they know it.
They have total power over the Dems, and they know that too.
If by some miracle the journos let us (voters) determine the president, we must NEVER let them have this power again.

2024-07-07 23:33:59

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it's so true. look at what biden has done for us, it's exactly what democrats do when they have power and someone on top who knows how to use it. that's what the idiots here don't get, there's a reason he gets so much done, and it has a lot to do with his age. ;-)

2024-07-07 23:15:13

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not a satire at all. i just wish i were working inside the campaign. i love doing programs like this. it's not as hard as it might sound.

2024-07-07 22:04:00

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the song is entitled
"not too old to change the world"

2024-07-07 22:03:28

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they wheel the old folks out in wheel chairs, only to have them bust out dancing and singing "We love Joe! He did the right thing and we love the US and let's stack the Supreme Court lala la"

2024-07-07 20:58:33

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have baseball cards you hand out with each of the stars of the democratic party.
collect them all!
and you get 50 free cards with a $100 contribution.
some would be very rare.

2024-07-07 10:13:30

Wordle Kitty, who aced today‘s Wordle, impressed The NY Times, who thought she was cute, but also too old.
Wordle 1,114 3/6
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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/744/202/661/877/321/original/dcea02eb47437aad.webp

2024-07-07 03:39:33

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)

2024-07-06 15:16:30

I cancelled my NYT subscription. They can't hear their readers. It's time for a new journalism, and we're going to have to do it without them. I haven't cancelled my Washington Post subscription yet, but I'm pretty sure that's coming up soon enough.

2024-07-06 02:49:25

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-- remember the dean scream.

2024-07-06 01:42:58

I wish there were a way to get through to the news orgs that they are trying to tear down the president of the United States, it’s past time they stop. They’ve made the point. Move on to other stories, there are lots of important ones they are missing.

2024-07-05 13:20:02

Waiting for the NYT op-eds to explain how the so-called Supreme Court has just declared the constitution unconstitutional. dont hold your breath.

2024-07-04 15:34:13

I had a dream that Sulzberger was called before a military tribunal in March 2025. And of course that became a podcast! (3 minutes)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-could-happen/id1753971770?i=1000661148868

2024-07-03 18:30:42

A cop approaches you on the street, arrests you. You're taken to a hospital, and one of your kidneys is removed because there's a new "right to life" law. Someone needs your kidney or they'll die. They have a right to life, according to the law.

2024-07-02 18:49:46

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-- read the roadmap section. your feeds can evolve even if the format is frozen. we weren't that stupid. seriously shaking my head.

2024-07-02 18:38:08

They edited the Constitution the way board members of tech companies design software products, with no idea how it works.

2024-07-02 18:31:36

If you say in a podcast that It Was A Great Week For Trump you have to immediately say how it was a terrible week for the rest of us.

2024-07-02 17:02:15

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thanks for getting back to me. i haven't had a chance to carefully read that piece yet, but i will.
and keep up the great work, i'd love to be in the loop on any new stuff you do.
also feedland.org is my latest project. trying to move feeds out of the slump they've been in for a decade or two. ;-)

2024-07-02 17:00:11

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i will try riverside.fm next time.

2024-06-30 05:01:14

Challenging questions: Why don't journalists cover the Biden base? Do they even consider the possibility that there is one? Or do they think they are the base? I thought they weren't supposed to care who the nominees are? Why do they feel entitled to say one candidate should withdraw but not the other? Have any of them even thought this through?

2024-06-28 18:58:02

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are there any podcast clients that let you subscribe to a subscription list.
that's the key feature.
it only takes one to get the ball rolling.

2024-06-28 05:03:33

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offer trump a get out of jail free card, in return he drops out of the race, and the dems get to start over too.

2024-06-27 20:28:13

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is episodes.fm one of your creations?

2024-06-27 13:35:00

BTW, the idea that decentralization is the answer is bs.
in fact it's exactly what will enable facebook to do to the open social web what twitter did to the feed world in 2006.
as they say those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
before you say i'm full of shit, listen to the podcast, and only respectful responses please.
Listen now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-the-fediverse-is-doomed-unless-subscription/id1753971770?i=1000660372000

2024-06-26 14:47:57

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there's no mention of wifi on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jbl+charge+5&crid=298VG6T9XYW9T&sprefix=jbl+charge+5%2Caps%2C115&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

2024-06-26 14:37:33

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they have to be battery powered.
i want to take the speaker out in the yard, and leave the music playing device in the house.
the device is fragile, doesn't do well in the heat, and bluetooth is too weak to work.
but wifi works.
maybe i'm so unusual in wanting the distance between the music source and the speaker.

2024-06-26 14:22:09

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but they're over $400. that's way more than i want to spend. bluetooth speakers cost much less.

2024-06-26 04:05:15

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-- it's the same thing we've been talking about all day. that faq was the design of the editor. it'll all make sense when you see the product. ;-)

2024-06-26 00:34:52

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https://textcasting.org/

2024-06-26 00:34:11

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it's the antidote to tiny little text editors.

2024-06-25 23:29:18

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sorry not doing a plugin.
it's an app that runs in the browser.

2024-06-25 23:28:25

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the problem is getting people to pay attention. i have some ideas perhaps about that. ;-)

2024-06-25 18:01:07

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just wordpress and rss.

2024-06-25 16:30:26

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thanks for the feedback.
it's hard to explain what a writer's product is, and if the feature is buried it might as well not be there.
and maybe my work will not be welcome in wordpressland. it's quite possible.
but i do feel wordpress deserves a better way for writers to work. and i like making software to serve writers. (i am one myself).
keep on truckin ;-)

2024-06-25 16:15:22

Ghost is moving in a good direction for writers. That's a huge vastly underserved market.
I plan to release a writer's editor for WordPress not too far down the road.
It will serve as a platform for these kinds of features.
https://ghost.org/changelog/internal-linking/

2024-06-24 15:47:40

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I run it right now on High Sierra.

2024-06-24 12:19:39

I want to be able to run Frontier on the new Mac’s, but was disappointed that VMware doesn’t work and had given up on the idea. But I just learned that UTM might work. Here’s the transcript of my inquiry. Wondering if anyone has had good experience using UTM to run older Mac software on Apple CPUs.
https://chatgpt.com/share/38d87439-9a34-402d-9c46-7a047e7e2866

2024-06-21 19:44:29

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Most of the time when people reply they aren’t talking to me, they’re talking over my shoulder at the people the imagine are listening. It’s pathetic because no one is listening..

2024-06-21 16:57:05

More and more I see comments, unless explicitly asked for, as spam that I'd disable if I could.
On Facebook, I've often limited comments to friends, who don't tend to spam, presumably because we like to stay on good terms, and spam is an imposition.
And I think most of the energy in social networks these days goes into keeping the garbage out of replies, and if we gave stronger tools to originators, there would be less work for the platform to do, and overall happier people.

2024-06-20 14:06:26

I started to write the code to hook up my linkblogger to Threads, but it led me to the website with all my broken Facebook apps, the ones that stopped working when they shut down the API after the 2016 election.
A reminder that this is still Facebook. And while I don't blame them for shutting down the APIs, the whole experience left a really bad feeling.
So I backed out of the project to give it some more thought. Do I really want to go down this road?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/648/858/617/356/196/original/47f3e75ff4c4e026.png

2024-06-20 13:56:32

I'd like to do a series of interview-style podcasts. I'm wondering if there are any services set up to make this easy. Or should we just use Zoom, and record the audio somehow?

2024-06-20 10:30:24

People of my generation (born 1955) are at the point in our lives when we would feel better if we got credit for our accomplishments, good intentions, the ways we made the world better, but it’s dawning on us that we didn’t make as much of a difference as we hoped to, and what little we did accomplish will largely go unrecognized. Even worse, none of it, even in the short term, made much of a difference. 😂

2024-06-20 10:17:52

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FYI note I link to you, above and on my linkblog where this came from.

2024-06-20 09:31:41

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I’m kind of miffed you didn’t link to my piece, in this post, which I just saw now.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/06/15/Wikipedia-Pain
To quote me without a link or even saying my name, is that how Wikipedia works?
Tim, isn’t it about time to show a modicum of respect for at least your readers who deserve a chance to read what you’re dismissing out of hand?
Come on get over it, you’re not right about everything. No one us.
http://scripting.com/2024/06/09/144026.html
I’ve seen you be very wrong a few times, btw.
Dave

2024-06-19 19:16:46

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not sure what this means.
i think flipboard has been supporting rss for 20 years or so.

2024-06-19 18:54:10

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"So it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am truly, deeply, sorry."
this is pretty typical, hard to read, hard to take seriously.

2024-06-19 00:20:57

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i so rarely laugh at tweets or toots or whatever. but this one made me laugh. thank you. :smile:

2024-06-18 00:40:29

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-- let's talk about it sometime.
i liked getting the chance to mouth off on this stuff. ;-)

2024-06-16 21:35:58

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You should unfollow me.

2024-06-16 13:38:11

I asked ChatGPT to draw a magazine with RSS on the cover.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/626/094/569/260/747/original/191509ff3ec11605.png

2024-06-16 13:17:52

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-- it's also for people who were thinking about not voting or voting for a protest candidate.

2024-06-16 12:57:21

This would make a great campaign ad.
So people can remember how lost we were.
So people understand what they are voting for when they go MAGA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicGxU5MfwE

2024-06-15 10:02:24

Once again, it’s time to wonder if we couldn’t make Trump an offer that he retire to a prison colony on a tropical island with great food and TV and maybe even some drugs and lots of video that he can watch of himself in all his glory, in return for him withdrawing from the presidential race. And we wish him a very goodbye and much luck in his future endeavors. Goodbye uncle Donald see you in the next life maybe not lol.

2024-06-14 15:40:36

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i write about this stuff on my blog all the time. i don't mind that it ingests all my writing both prose and software, in fact i wish it was better at it.
best new software i've used in a long time. right up there with the web itself, although it's very much part of the web. people seem to miss that point.
please no more debating. thanks...

2024-06-14 14:56:22

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also, our criminal and civic legal system says we do not live in a multi-truth world. you may believe that, but i think "truth" is too important to give up on that easily.
have you ever done jury duty? really inspiring to see how people from all backgrounds can get past all their differences and find justice. it works for a reason -- that sometimes you have to decide and you can't go back.

2024-06-14 14:53:35

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-- "parrot" is offensive, it's pretty hard to get past that.
i don't like it when they promote conspiracy theories like hillary's emails.
they ran article after article on page one, without ever explaining what the issue was. sounded nefarious. we both know enough about the tech to know it wasn't bad at all. but they carried water for repubs.
that's way different from news.
and they're still doing it.
so start there matt, fix that problem first and let's see what remains.

2024-06-14 14:21:22

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I bet the software running this service runs on is running in a data center the size of several football fields.
You can cut the hype with me Brian, no one else is listening here. :-)

2024-06-14 12:12:39

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I often agree with you but not this time. You’re doing what the journalists do, fail to define your terms, and assume the reader agrees that words like ingest mean something bad or unethical has happened. But you haven’t explained why.
Isn’t “ingest” the same as “read”? If I read a book am I not allowed to use what I read?
Perhaps not if I publish the exact words the author used, but that isn’t what’s happening.

2024-06-08 22:04:34

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Wikipedia is notoriously difficult to correct, people camp out on topics and revert any attempt to correct the story, works a lot like mail lists. But let’s not argue about this, you can believe what you like.

2024-06-08 16:12:23

I wonder if reporters know that Wikipedia hallucinates too?? And since they so often consider Wikipedia authoritative, that means reporters and their publications hallucinate as well.

2024-06-06 17:23:20

Mastodon feels more international than the other Twitter-alikes.

2024-06-05 15:58:10

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you sound like me -- wrt RSS. 😀
they do have a feed btw, so you could meet them half-way by supporting RSS as an equal with ActivityPub.
there's lots of good stuff out there that's available in feeds that hasn't made it to AP yet.
btw, i am able to follow you in my feed reader, bc as you know Masto supports outbound RSS.
maybe you and i should work together to bring the two worlds together?

2024-05-14 14:36:02

If a baker may not be forced to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding on the basis of religious freedom, surely a woman can’t be forced to give birth.

2024-04-13 18:50:19

Prediction: A new social web will spring up in a blogroll of all places.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/264/937/355/774/953/original/476db438a89c69b3.png