Claude's biggest most amazing strength is its ability to inhale a lot of source code and understand what's going on, any language, any OS, anything, in an instant.#
BTW now that I have Frontier back and am using it for most of my work, I'm having a lot more fun writing my blog. Can you tell??#
CJ and Josh, on the street outside the White House.#
The president was hiding serious disease, and it’s about to come out. Back in those days such a revelation meant the president has no chance of being re-elected. #
Anyway, the kid has an idea and starts explaining, and as he does CJ laughs. The kid asks what’s so funny. #
They’re cornered, on a cliff, preparing to jump into a river far below. Redford says he can’t swim. Newman says it doesn’t matter, the fall is going to kill you.#
Twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform. I wrote the first draft of this post on my iPad, that's how useful it is.#
Imagine if a real blog platform created a super simple way to write posts, no need for Gutenberg, just Markdown and that would be optional. Default would be a normal wizzy text editor, bold, italic, using a standard user interface. #
Add web links and a reply structure, open source, nice API and developer program to shine the light on the cool editors independent devs were creating, and all of a sudden a bunch of new blog platforms emerge, and get this — they all work perfectly with each other because of the common foundation and API. The web of social media. It would be exciting and would pressure the other social media apps to peer with this truly open system.#
It would change the freaking world I tell you. And it would be so wonderful with AI. No need for the cheesy chat UI. A real revolution. Undo all the craptastic silos that strangled the web? #
It would be pretty damn easy imho, fwiw, ymmv, mmlm. #
PS: MMLM is an acronym for My Mother Loves Me. Anticipates flameage. Okay you don't like me, but my mother loves me. #
Last update: Sunday October 4, 2026; 12:08 PM EDT.
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