Scripting News: Sunday, July 28, 2024

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Before Twitter broke the API, it was a quick way for me to channel items from my blog to almost all the people who follow me on the social web. Now it isn't even one of the services I use that I can post to with my writing tool (those are Bluesky, Mastodon, WordPress). None of them are anything like the aggregator of people that Twitter was, and I can't even reach it from my writing tool. I really want to solve this problem, but I absolutely can't do this on my own. No time, patience, and it's not my job to do all that coding. As observed the other day, my time should be spent on writing tools for the web and directly related products. This is the kind of project that should be handled as an open source thing. #

When technology moves backwards#

I don't when technology moves backwards.#
I'm always trying to push it the other way.#
It's like being a ball player wanting to win a game.#
Or a musician wanting to record a hit.#
A VC wanting a 10x return.#
A diplomat achieving growth and peace.#

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