Dave Winer

@scripting

OG blogger, podcaster, outliners, CMSes, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

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Dave Winer@scripting· 21d

Always explaining vision of RSS.chat. A post I just wrote. If we had continued developing around RSS after 2002, this is where we would have gone. Feeds as the basis for social interaction on the web. It's still way better than trying to replace the web.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jul 6

bluesky ain't the web folks. if it were, there wouldn't be a character limit, because the web doesn't have a stinkin character limit.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 26

bluesky doesn't like the url because it's http not https and it mangles it, i guess on purpose. i've pasted a screen shot of the url, and also a screen shot of the post itself. this is how the web works in 2026 (kind of proves the point that it's time to start fresh).

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 15

Request for #Claude, please add a close box to this message.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 13

New virtual swag to go with the moment. ;-)

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 12

I wrote this on Twitter, and don't feel like breaking it up into 300 char chunks. It's about how we get open development working for the web and keep the BigCo's from interfering.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 11

Tickets for game in San Antonio, Saturday night.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 10

Will we be able to clear the books with Melo and Linsanity? scripting.com/2026/06/10.h...

Jeremy Lin and Carmelo Anthony got together yesterday and had a private conversation. A lot of people, including myself, were drawn back into the NBA because of Jeremy Lin. I was living in the city at the time, you could feel it everywhere, esp downtown Manhattan and Flushing. It was wonderful in so many ways. A hero could emerge from anywhere, he might not look like an NBA player, but there he is doing stuff he shouldn't be able to do. Undrafted, went to Harvard. When he's in motion he's a thing of beauty. It worked because Melo was out with an injury, as soon as he came back the , the ball was always in Melo's hands. So Melo dribbles and shoots, that was the extent of their offense, and there was no room for Linsanity and that was the end of that. It's what made us laugh when Melo said later his goal was a championship. If that's what he wanted, Lin was a gift from heaven. Lin was pushed out, and had a non-spectacular career from that point. There was magic there. It wasn't just Lin, it was the world -- we were ready for a Cinderella story in any context -- but in our culture they're always manufactured, this one was real. This crushed the hearts of Knicks fans, and people who believe in heroes popping up from nowhere. We don't talk about it. But we were cheated there, too. We had a right to see where that would go. And narcissists don't win NBA titles, that's what we learned. It's good that someone thought to get these guys together. Maybe Melo has grown, and sees that he didn't play for the team there, or fate. We all deserved to find out what was next.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 8

Will the Secret Service be wearing masks at the Knicks game? Just asking, cause Knicks fans know about that.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 6

Never seen anything like this.

Dave Winer@scripting· Jun 3

this is what journalists do.

Dave Winer@scripting· May 24

This is surprising. It's an Electron app. I assume we just have to change versions of Electron?

Dave Winer@scripting· May 18

Read the alt text on the image below for background. Even my comment didn't fit in the 300 char space Bluesky allows.

I posted this on Twitter on this day in 2014. To give you an idea of how timid tech is, an industry self-proclaimed at being great innovators, this is how we do it on Bluesky except the limit isn't 140 or 280, it's 300. And you still can't use simple styles, links or give a post a title. And this is while they claim to be on the web. Hell no, they're not.

Dave Winer@scripting· May 7

At some point we'll realize if we want something new we have to work with each other. Otherwise you get Elon II, III etc.

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 30

This is what the web is saying to me in 2026. Can you hear it too?

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 30

(continuation below)

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 28

Posted without comment.

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 24

These two make a great spicy salad dressing.

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 24

This guy on CNN is always seen wearing a big hat. Why?

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 21

New ChatGPT image maker. “A turkey in plastic with supermarket label with text and fine print. The branding is Really Simple brand Turkey.the motto, ‘turkey for simple people.‘“

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 20

I asked ChatGPT if the term "glass palace" had been used to talk about pre-PC computer data centers. Short answer -- yes, see the screen shot for the rest.

i asked chatgpt if the term "glass palace" had been used to talk about pre-PC computer data centers. this is a screen shot of the response.

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 18

The best period of the NBA, a game on any time you want to watch.

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 6

Long long time gone.

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 1

yeah yeah.

Dave Winer@scripting· Apr 1

Everyone is lying, often true, but esp true on April 1.

Dave Winer@scripting· Mar 27

An idea of what you can do with RSS 2.0 that you (probably) didn't imagine. rss.network

A conversation with two nerds about what's possible in 2028 with RSS 2.0 as the backbone for network communications.

Dave Winer@scripting· Mar 24

300 char limit sucks.

Dave Winer@scripting· Mar 23

yet it's amazing to be alive now, this is far more than the moon landing. it's like we all blasted off into space. ps: i hate the f-king 300 char limit.

Dave Winer@scripting· Mar 20

If I were Bluesky's new CEO, I would announce that in addition to supporting AT Proto, they will also hook up Bluesky to the web. The web is already decentralized. Lots of developers know how to build web stuff. We can all breathe the same air.