Scripting News: Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

In the future you will be able to chain social networks together. It's up to you to figure out what that means. Because each social network will specialize in certain things. How will that work? Left as an exercise for the reader. We'll build new kinds of brains built out of whatever you can dream up. #

Here's a place to comment on yesterday's podcast with Matthias. #

There are a lot of developers who think they understand WordPress but they don't. It has a REST api that you can build on. Everything WordPress does. It's the API the browser client is built on. I didn't know it was there until I added WordPress login to FeedLand a couple of years ago. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. What can I do with it? It snuck up on me that it's an API for the web, and it's also the easiest API for ActivityPub. The programming model for the fediverse might be a lot simpler than you think. This is as exciting as any web product I did before, because now, after being asleep for 19 years, the web can now wake up. It really feels that way. #

The web has been asleep for 19 years, which is almost as long as Rip Van Winkle was.#

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