🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026
Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles.
Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute.
🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals — Colossal
Just a little more than two years after launching the initiative, Art UK has added more than 6,600 new works to its database, bringing the total number of public artworks to well over 21,000.
Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful.
🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs
Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.
“I dunno” - wrote Alan
With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about
🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com
I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.
Never heard of it until now.
Subscribed.
Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was intrigued by the surf thing - all seems a little too confusing if you don’t want to start again - and just use your existing account. Let’s see how it all shakes out.
📺 Hijack ★★
Originally Published: August 7th, 2024
Updated: April 3rd, 2026
In 2024 I originally wrote:
What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.
Well - at least until the final episode.
Just finished the second series - and the fact it took us so many months to work through it speaks volumes. And when I say work … I mean work.
Series 1 ★★★ – that is old star rating - but still holds …
Do you remember the old (60 years old!) movie with Spencer Tracy - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? I liked the movie - but the images that find their way to the top of my memory is generally large groups of cast members randomly gathered together on a golf green, in a cab, looking in a hole … I mean for that movie - which was a great ensemble cast - total sense, not too mention that I bet that each star was guaranteed a certain amount of screen time … and this is one way to get round that.
Anyway, back to the plot. Watch the final episode of Hijack and tell me those scenes don’t come to your mind.
And yes - all the usual happy ever after, plane saved with seconds to spare, it was all about the money - etc etc
Series 2 ★★
And that rating is getting applied to the whole show. VERY disappointing - they took that final episode from Series 1 - and doubled down on it!
I was tempted to 1 star it - but that wouldn’t be fair to series 1.
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Spending more time looking at Feedland as I seek to work towards a better way of managing my canonical OPML for all feeds …
I know that I am definitely not the only reader of people like Gruber and Ben … but according to Feedland .. nobody else is subscribed to them.I wonder what gives❓
Still the ‘🍎 at 50’ articles subsume my feeds .. not even Artemis can compete.
I notice that it’s the women who he’s firing first.
in netnewswire - @brentsimmons allows us to add different feeds to one or more folders - and when you export and import - those folders travel in the import.
in feedland - @dave does essentially the same thing using tags
not sure which way @manton has gone
BUT it does seem that neither method seems to recognise the other
i wonder if that will change?
for what it is worth reeder uses folders
strikes me that if it doesn’t change the single canonical URL for an OPML is still not going to work - even if we do get the readers to read an URL - rather than importing and exporting all the time.
And there we are … fixed. Turns out the real issue was the ‘content extraction fallback’. Who knew❓Not me - that’s for darn sure.
You know what I mean by ‘the camera in the hat’ thing❓Right❓
When I say ‘go pro’ - I am not talking about ‘the camera in the hat’ thing.
For 2 bucks a month how could I not ‘go pro’ on Chris Hannah’s Mini Roll … though I might be pushing things a little too far as I explore getting
- MiniRoll
- Feedland
- NetNewsWire
- Reeder
- Inkwell and Micro.Blog
all to work together with a single canonical OPML file.
Hang on to your hats.
When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
Hold My Beer
💬 Rammstein
🔗 Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike - The Atlantic
How did Trump get Hormuz so wrong? The answer reveals one of Trump’s most characteristic and most fateful mistakes: his steadfast refusal to acknowledge that Americans live in a world economy.
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Sam Altman just went on record saying intelligence will soon be sold on a meter, “like electricity or water."
If you don’t understand what he just said, let me tell you.
He is not building a chat interface. He is building the grid for human cognition. And he intends to charge you for your own relevance.
They stole all this data from us, the people. Our life’s work, our creativity, our art. They devoured the open internet and blew through every copyright law on Earth.
And now they want to “sell it back to us” in the form of a utility?!
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything
His answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”
Opinion of Jensen drops off the bottom of my chart.
🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App
Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version:
Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers.
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Loads JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub Pages site (
lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app’s WebView. […]
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Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you’d expect from an official government app? Probably not either.