It's even worse than it appears..
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Podcast: Holding your nose, the aftermath. #
A preview of how a WordLand linkblog works, which is of course a WordPress site, viewed in my blogroll. When I clicked on the link, I was surprised that it goes to Poynter, and not to the linkblog. But then I remembered that's the point of a linkblog. And it flows through to the feed, and the blogroll software understands. So now I have an end-to-end linkblog. #
Another reason to love WordPress. Every freaking WordPress site had great RSS support. They did more to keep feeds alive than anyone else. Google tried to kill RSS in a particularly humiliating way. WordPress kept it going. #
Finding Frontier#
  • I tried an experiment, go back as far as I can in archive.org on scripting.com and see where it gets me. #
  • There are lots of paths to try out.#
  • The one I went for is the December 3, 1996 scripting.com home page. #
  • This was where my blog home page was then. #
  • Then to DaveNet, and in the left margin Nerd's guide to this website. #
  • I love the screen shots that show what a good match the Frontier object database was to the way a website is organized. #
  • user.websites.davenet#

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You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)