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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

TypePad will be no more…what you can do to save your site

The writing is what’s important. Everything else is just candy sprinkles. 

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Browsers Burningbird Technology Web

Rebooting Weblogging?

screen shot of wayback machine snapshot of my earliest weblog, yasd.com
yasd.com, my very first weblog domain

I haven’t been out to scripting.com for a long time, and was surprised to find Dave is not using https. Of course, the page I tried to access (on rebooting weblogging) triggered a warning in my browser. It triggers a warning in any browser, but some are more severe than others. There were issues with […]

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Government Programming Languages

Rocket go up. Rocket come down.

Screenshot of SpaceX rocket going boom.
But it's coming down...

Musk, DOGE, and the phantom promise of AI

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Government Programming Languages

Social Security: Why look for facts when you can speculate

COBOL programming guide snippet covering date fields
1875?

No, the Social Security ‘system’ did not default to a date of May 01, 1875 when a date is missing.

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Social Media Technology

Testing WordPress/Mastodon ActivityPub integration

I just installed the ActivityPub plug-in for WordPress. With it, you can follow posts here at Burningbird by following bosslady@burningbird.net. Supposedly, then, this post would show up on Mastodon as a new post. There’s also a plugin that would allow my WordPress weblog to subscribe to one or more folks on Mastodon, and publish their […]