tinyFeedReader: a minimal feed reader in a Node package.

https://github.com/scripting/tinyFeedReader

Again, German news media best American news media in covering American fascism. The Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Trump lives out his sadism."
Genau. Exactly.
Trump lebt seinen Sadismus aus
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/usa-alligatgor-alcatraz-trump-kommentar-li.3278219

The Abominable Sadism of “Alligator Auschwitz.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sadism-alligator-auschwitz/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLQ-IdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE2VFRwN1I2bnRzQ2NGN3RKAR7FG2UKtgjjbQj-wgDv8FtpietYqHshuNcgEeby_kbXUH5xgU5hN_mtv19SHg_aem_u6dT1jUETWVctSTmZksaXg

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sadism-alligator-auschwitz/

Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought. https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-01-big-beautiful-bill-trump-murkowski/

Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold.’

https://www.theverge.com/news/695124/tumblr-wordpress-automattic-fediverse-integration-on-hold-decoder

I've been using APIs for a long time, good and bad, and Bluesky's API works, it has flaws, things that deserve calling out. They don't respect prior art, their APIs are overly complex, and they push work on devs that they should do themselves.

https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/322

This is what the #BrokenTimes chose to pick out from the same Mamdani interview. "At the same time, Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, asserted that he is not a communist." Well, good, alert HUAC.
We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires, Mamdani Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-nyc-affordability-billionaires.html

Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/noaa-cuts-hurricane-forecasting-climate
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414853

The sign is lying, just focus on how cute (and hungry) I am! :ablobcatblink:

Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/27/newsom-sues-fox-news-defamation-case-00429168

@blausand @josemurilo

Sorry I don’t understand the concern. I don’t develop in Rust, I use JavaScript.

Canadian man dies at Miami ICE facility, cause unknown. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309501470.html

Listen to @davew:

"I want to go much further. I think #WordPress has all that's needed to be the OS of the #opensocialweb. We needed it and it's always been there, and I saw something that I want to show everyone else, that the web can grow from here, we should build on everything that the WordPress community has created. It's a lot stronger foundation that the other candidates for the basic needs of the open social web, imho."

https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/06/23/wordpressAndMe.html

ICE Has No Right to Anonymity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opinion/trump-ice-arrests-los-angeles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R08.JL5Y.t6czzQYX_BhK&smid=url-share

@LinHead Yes, I can understand some of that.

One should be able to build an editor like WordLand with WordPress core alone, without any plugins. You’d leverage the core REST API instead of the WordPress.com REST API. You’d have to build an authentication layer (probably using Application Passwords, and then either build your own library to leverage the core endpoints or use the node-wpapi library. That library isn’t maintained though ; it hasn’t been updated in the last 4 years, so you may run into issues.

WordPress.com has an edge there with and authentication layer. I can’t speak to @davew’s past and future plans with WordLand, but I do know that the wpcom.js JavaScript library was a big help in getting WordLand to work. Check his podcast yesterday to learn more.

I should say, however, that I would not qualify WordPress.com as a walled garden, just like I wouldn’t qualify GoDaddy as a walled garden. Hosting providers are very different from Facebook or Twitter for example ; they host your content, but you retain control over it. You can export it, you can move to a different hosting provider at any time, you control your content’s visibility too.
Similarly, I wouldn’t say services that leverage a cloud infrastructure, like Jetpack, stand against the idea of an open social web. They offer additional functionality (here authentication and content management endpoints) that wouldn’t otherwise be readily available, but your content remains yours, and your site remains as open as it would be without the service.

@LinHead @jeremy

re your philosophy-- if wordland also supported outbound RSS would you consider it to be part of the open web?

@jeremy @manualdousuario @pfefferle

they may have "turned their back" in a way, but they also left the door open. ;-)

@manualdousuario @pfefferle @jeremy

no gutenberg presence in wordland.

and with the guidance from @pfefferle and @jeremy the documents you write with wordland work great with a back-end that's based on gutenberg.

again wordpress is an operating system, like windows or macintosh, ms-dos -- lots of ways to write, and we get interop on a writing level using the apis, which of course can be cloned.

@pfefferle @manualdousuario @jeremy

exactly. think of wordpress as an operating system.

lots of editors. happy writers. ;-)

@wpcommaven @jeremy

this is a great thread.

this is where we're going to build, for writers. it's such a huge place.