About page for Scripting

What is this?
  This is Scripting News.
  It's Dave Winer's blog.
  I am Dave Winer.
  Hello. 😀
Where to find stuff
  The home page has four tabs, my blog posts, my linkblog, news posts from feeds I subscribe to in FeedLand, and this page of information about the site.
  There's an RSS feed for the blog. It's also available in JSON.
  The linkblog also has an RSS feed.
  You can subscribe to a nightly email version of the blog plus linkblog.
  The nightly email also has an RSS feed, it has all the posts but does not have the linkblog entries.
  news.scripting.com is a tabbed view into the news I read on FeedLand.
  I also keep a list of bloggers I follow which you can read here, or you can import the OPML for the list into your favorite feed reader.
  I have a separate feed for podcasts. The Apple page for the podcast. The FAQ for the feed. I've also started a podcast feed that echoes the podcasts I did in the summer of 2004. The Apple page for that podcast.
  There's other personal info at davewiner.com.
My projects
  These days my two main efforts are FeedLand and Drummer.
  Interop with other products is super important to me.
  Look in my GitHub directory for a list of open source I projects I develop.
  I had a lot of other projects running in the background sort of, but they all relied on Twitter for identity and thus were knocked off the air when Twitter lost its mind in late 2022.
  My life got simpler then, but I miss some of them, esp Bingeworthy. I was planning to do one for podcasts. Still hope to get back to that.
  Anyway below is a list I compiled a few years ago. Maybe it'll help people find stuff.
  Apps
    Mac desktop
      Electric Pork
      Electric River
      Instant Dave
      Public Folder
    Browser-based
      1999.io
      Happy Friends
      Little Card Editor
      Little Outliner
      MyWord Editor
      pngWriter
      Radio3
      Thesaurus Land
    Node-based
      NodeRunner
      PagePark
      River5
    Archives
      Fargo
      Frontier
      Little Pork Chop
  Code
    Concord
    MyWord Editor
    nodeStorage
    outlineBrowser
    publicFolder
    riverBrowser
  Rivers
    Bloggers
    Guardian
    MLB
    Movies
    NBA
    NY Times
    Podcasts
    Politics
    Tech
  NPM packages
    daveutils
    daves3
    daverss
    davefilesystem
    davehttp
    davereader
    daveopml
  Formats/Protocols
    RSS 2.0
    RSS in JSON
    XML-RPC
    OPML
  Demo code
    betterWebSocketsDemo
    checkFeedsInOpml
    feedParserDemo
    githubpub
    MacWrite
    myRoute53
    podcastDownloader
    riverToTweets
    rssToSlack
    tweetsToRss
    xmlViewer
  Docs/Community
    1999-project
    Scripting-News
Why is this site "not secure"
  This blog began in 1994, long before there was HTTPS.
  I don't have the time to jump through hoops that Google and the EFF want to force me to jump through.
  Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules.
  More here.
My name is Dave Winer
  Here's a site that tells you a little about me.
  John Naughton wrote a wonderful column about my blogging.
  CBC did a podcast about the origin of podcasting. Here's my writeup.
  I am an active JavaScript developer. Here are some of my projects.
How to contact me
  dave.winer@gmail.com
  Mastodon
  Facebook
  Twitter
  If you have questions about one of my products, look in the Docs menu of the app for links to the support pages. I do not do one-one tech support.
  If you have questions about this site, please post an issue on the Scripting News repo.
Disclaimers
  I am not a lawyer.
  Murphy-willing.
  It's even worse than it appears.
  Etc.
Bootstrapping the blog revolutions
  We're in the business of bootstrapping new forms of social behavior.
  This blog was started in October 1994.
  It's the longest continuously running blog on the Internet.
Natural-born blogger
  Some people were born to play country music. I was born to blog.
  At the beginning of blogging I thought everyone would be a blogger. I was wrong. Most people don't have the impulse to say what they think.
  So when you meet one, you'll know it -- if they write letters to the editor, or if they voluteered to go to the blackboard when they were students. In my day, we were the kinds of people who started underground newspapers, or who volunteered for the student radio station at college.
About about pages
  I've had an About page for many years. Here's the one before this.
  I always like to say what my mottos are on this page. So you know when I use them in a post it's not something casual. I'll try to list them all eventually. I know -- good luck with that! :-)
My favorite mottos, slogans and ideas
  We make shitty software, with bugs!
  People return to places that send them away.
  It's even worse than it appears.
  Still diggin.
  So it has come to this.
  Let's have fun!
  Only steal from the best.
  Narrate your work.
  Sources go direct.
Other people's mottos
  Ted Turner: Great wealth isn't nearly as good as average sex
Thanks to
  Tim Berners-Lee for HTML and HTTP.
  Chuck Shotton for teaching me how to write an HTTP server.
  Adam Curry for giving me the basic idea of podcasting.
  Jean-Louis Gassee for all his wisdom and slogans.
  Marc Canter for being the Father of Multimedia.
  John Palfrey for giving RSS 2.0 a good home at Berkman Center.
  Martin Nisenholtz for letting me have the NY Times feeds.
  Jay Rosen for teaching us about the Voice from Nowhere. (And authority.)
  Doc Searls for being an outliner extraordinaire.
  John Doerr and Gordon Eubanks for buying my first company and freeing me up to make software. (I was never meant to be a company exec.)
  Guy Kawasaki for seeing Bullet Charts in my humble outliner.
  Steve Jobs for "insanely great" shit like the Apple II, AppleTalk, Mac, iEverything.
  Woz for the Apple II programming model, his humor, and love of freedom. It's important for techies to get that we make tools for free expression.
  John Lennon for imagining peace and love and Paul McCartney for great music. This duality keeps showing up in the creative world. A person with something to prove and a partner who writes great songs.
  NakedJen for being a paradox and bundle of joy in a small package with a huge spirit.
  Brent Simmons, Jake Savin, Andre Radke for being the core dev team at UserLand. Special thanks to Jake for keeing userland.com running all these years.
  Kyle Shank for getting me going in JavaScript and creating an almost perfect ThinkTank clone running in the browser. It's made everything I'm doing now possible.
  NakedJen for being the first faerie off the ferry and an inspiration and the founder of NakedJen Nation and the NakedJen Film Festival.
  Doug Engelbart for envisioning almost everything I've spent my life creating.
  Ted Nelson for writing the anthem for my generation of developers.
  Coach Walsh for applying the scientific method to football.
  Richard Stallman for telling it like it is.
  My father for loving outlines. "Every day is father's day," he would say.
  My mother for being a natural-born blogger.
  The second OPML Editor community, and all previous instances of Frontier and ThinkTank communities (so many of them). This project has been going for a very long time.
  Still diggin!