Leaflet is a nice editor designed to work with Bluesky. But they’ve been branching out. They now support email and RSS output. They’re going in the right direction, toward the internet with the email, and toward the web with the RSS support. As nice as Bluesky is, it’s a small part of the web, and it isn’t as open as it might appear to be, imho.

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.

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.”