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I wanted to change the URL for the source namespace in the RSS 2.0 feed for my blog, from http to https. I thought this might be a nice warmup project. Started ...

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I talked with a friend who makes a feed reader app, suggesting how to hook up to a linkblogging tool. Thought I would share the instructions to everyone. I'...

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I have a hard and fast rule about phone calls that solicit private information. I hang up. The worst are insurance companies and medicine. They expect you to en...

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Today's song: You Never Can Tell.

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Small update to the source namespace. source:localTime is a channel-level element. It was incorrectly stated that it is item-level.

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Podcast: A one-line comment on Brent Simmons' blog got me started on a 10-minute ramble about suspension of disbelief, in software. Also a story about meeti...

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Getting what you want from life

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I asked Claude: "What is OpenClaw useful for? Do you think I could use it in my programming work, based on what you know about what I do?" Basically it&...

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60 Minutes should do a segment on what you have to go through to get a birth certificate in any random state. It's a lot of work, I've had to do it twic...

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They've been having intelligent and clear-thinking guests on CNN and MSNOW on the coverage of the Iran War, unusually good discourse. But the best coverage ...

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I added Paul Graham to my blogroll at scripting.com. Another massive oversight.

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An example. This isn't all the data that WordPress keeps for each post, it's just the stuff that WordLand uses. We add some of our own metadata, that&#3...

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The thing that we all missed is that WordPress is the best candidate for a standard for what an individual social network message is.

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If I knew how AI would work with software, I would've done things differently to prepare for this. I find myself wanting to ask questions about my code that...

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24 years ago I had life-saving heart surgery. This treatment that was not available to my grandmother who had the genes from which I inherited the condition. Sh...

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"Coder" is derogatory term btw, as if our work was like a telegram coder, but it's understandable I guess because all the lay people see is us typin...

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I gotta say some days I start with a lot on my mind and am driven to write. This is one of those days. Maybe I'm inspired by the torrent of posts by my blog...

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Happy Friday The 13th! 😉

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We're still fixing problems created by the switch to https on the web. Reported a problem yesterday, was surprised to find an inconsistency in the way WordP...

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As you know Jake Savin is getting Frontier to run on current Linux and Mac OS systems. Today he posted a wonderful screen shot. It's how Frontier's buil...

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