The blogging tools for Bluesky should be able to publish on Bluesky. #
Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. Assume they consent. In the same way, the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can prove he’s actually alive. The Democrats always put up with Republican tricks like this one. I’m sure McConnell would appreciate the utility of his death, and the Republican lack of shame. Anything for a buck. #
Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI’s who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory. #
OPML archive for August 2026. #
I begin the month of September for some reason, not feeling like working. And rather than succumb to the work ethos, I’m allowing myself to goof off with the same determination that I worked my ass of for so many years. I think the last time I felt like this was when I was a grad student in Madison. I had just fallen in love with a sweet, funny, cute and gorgeous undergrad. She was 19 and I was 22. We spent the last weeks of the fall semester goofing off, and as a result I had to stay in Madison over the holidays, to finish the work of the Compiler Design course, which was the gate for grad students, the hardest course. If you got through it with a decent grade, you got the degree. It was fun too — except I missed my sweetheart. This time I don’t know what the root is, but it’s a good feeling. If I want to goof off, I can, no one will judge me, probably very few people even notice. I still expect to finish Frontier, and swing back around to FeedLand and RSS.chat, they have some important work to do, together. Maybe the reason is the thing I liked about making software is the actual making of it, which I delegate more and more to Claude Code. How would a great painter feel if they invented a computer that could write their “code” much more quickly, would Picasso have stopped painting just because Claude Code could do Picasso paintings faster? Today, Claude still will, if given a chance, throw out all of my orders and develop code in a non-Dave fashion. And it still acts as if between the two of us it’s the only programmer, surprised when I want to actually write something myself. Maybe that’s just my imagination? Or maybe that’s the next project for me. A project where I write the code, and Claude helps out when I can’t find a bug, or where I need to know something about a feature in a platform I’ve not worked on. #
