Dave Winer ☕️

@davew
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OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
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Dave Winer ☕️1d ago
At some point we'll realize if we want something new we have to work with each other. Otherwise you get Elon II, III etc.
Dave Winer ☕️2d ago
Dave Winer2d ago
As I get deeper into the Claude-O-Verse, I get that it doesn’t remember anything about the code. The code actually serves as its memory of the project. There are comments in the code of course, put there by Claude. Managing my own memory when I’ve got so many different bits of software is the bain of my existence, esp as I get older and older. But I’ll turn it all over to Claude as fast as I can, to relieve me of the responsibility to remember all that stuff. Its brain works much better at this kind of stuff. I can conceive of things worth doing. And I know how to build the features, but I don’t have the skill of immediately understanding some code by reading it not top down but all the lines at the same freaking time. If this isn’t us learning how to work with an aliens species, it’s a pretty good imitation.
Dave Winer ☕️3d ago
There’s going to be a lot of new web software products in the coming months. The competition changes from managing complexity, to who sees the best way to remix the web. There are a lot ways to do it. 😀
Dave Winer ☕️5d ago

It's really easy to get me to follow you.

Post a thoughtful comment on something I wrote.

It's also really easy to get blocked.

Post something idiotic or insulting, or just personal, without a second thought poof you're gone.

Dave Winer ☕️5d ago
Dave Winer6d ago
I’ve been teaching Claude why we favor Markdown. “We add support for Markdown editing wherever we can, because people like Markdown and they should. It makes things simple and guarantees a certain level of flexibility for their writing far beyond the standards of twitter-like systems with tiny little text boxes. If you don’t really support Markdown people figure it out right away. But the character limits and stuff like that seem more technical to users. Markdown support says clearly — you’re really on the web.”
Textcasting

Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.

Dave Winer ☕️5d ago

My father was a professor at Pace Univ in NYC.

When he retired, he used my blogging software to create a book for his students at:

https://mbatoolbox.org/

Over the years the site moved a few times, and the http protocol was hacked by Google.

I used Claude yesterday to get it working again.

MBA Toolbox : Home page

Dave Winer ☕️5d ago

One of the great contributions of AI is that you can quickly research prior art for any design decision you need to make. You don’t have to relearn every lesson that people who came before you learned.

Study history or repeat mistakes.

Dave Winer ☕️5d ago

I want a better flow of WordPress news.

https://wp.feedland.org/

The OPML subscription list is available by clicking on the XML icon in the upper right corner, and you can import that into any feed reader.

https://feedland.social/opml?screenname=davewiner&catname=wordpress

If you help build the list of sources, that list will go to anyone following that OPML file.

WordPress News

Dave Winer ☕️5d ago

Who wins the peering wars? Mastodon by a mile.

That piece flowed through a lot of servers to get here, and it was preserved at each step.

It's not an unlimited deal, there are still character limits, and rendering glitches, but it is remarkable.

Credit goes to the folks at Automattic for working so diligently to make the pipes work.

Dave Winer ☕️5d ago
Dave Winer5d ago
I was just marveling with Claude about how well all the pieces are fitting together: two databases, connected by an RSS 2.0 feed and a websocket pipe all had to agree how to communicate the same object. Worked the first time. Small pieces loosely joined.
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