Dave Winer
@davewiner
OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com It’s even worse than it appears. 😀
If you have to choose between Google's web browser or one from your favorite AI company, which would you go with?
For a long time I didn't use WordPress -- but once I saw that it has a really good API (that I didn't know about), I wanted to develop software for users of the platform, because I could see how powerful it was, and how powerful the community is, as a result. What I appreciate…
5/ Early blogs, pioneered by Dave Winer (@davewiner) followed the Web ethos, with the aim of democratizing publishing by taking out the challenges associate with personal web server management for web-scale use and administration, exemplified by his Radio UserLand…
If we aren't going to make the leading-edge stuff in the US, we should at least be able to use it. How else are we going to stay remotely in the game? Someone should ask the Silicon Valley VCs this question. electrek.co/2025/07/21/110…
I am a ChatGPT Plus user and don't have agent mode. My understanding was that it had been rolled out to all Plus users on the 17th, two days ago. Are other people experiencing this?
The nice thing about a blogroll is that it can become a feed reader, in a very small space. canada.wordcamp.org/2025/my-blogro…
Here's the podcast about this question, and quite a bit more. It's sort of my "hello world" podcast to the WordPress world. ;-) shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025…
We should all wear masks like the ICE cops wear. They deserve recognition for blazing new fashion trails.
Thanks to WordCamp Canada for finding this Joel Spolsky piece about comments and blogging. I have a lot to say about this, and will probably do a podcast about this piece.
I was reading @spolsky on learning from @davewiner — joelonsoftware.com/2007/07/20/lea… — it's a short blog post against unmoderated comments appended to blog posts. Can comments be done well? Should they be saved or disabled by default? Share your *comments* below.
I was reading @spolsky on learning from @davewiner — joelonsoftware.com/2007/07/20/lea… — it's a short blog post against unmoderated comments appended to blog posts. Can comments be done well? Should they be saved or disabled by default? Share your *comments* below.
A typical American family enjoying a small-town picnic on a beautiful summer day.
@jack — let’s build a social network around RSS. That way all developers can be part of it, based on tech everyone already understands. Lots of interop. Let’s all work together on this.
We should all wear masks like the ICE cops wear. They deserve recognition for blazing new fashion trails.
This is what I want to do next to solidify the position of Mastodon as a blogging platform. I want a REST version of what the MetaWeblog API has been doing since 2002, to hook into the ActivityPub interface supported by Mastodon. Then we'll put together a simple demo app, a…