By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: August 13, 2006
Sunday, 13 August 2006
- There’s Must Be a Lot of Wrong-Atude in Wikipedia ★
-
Keith Stattenfield, who was the lead engineer for Mac OS 9.0 and 9.1, tried three times to correct an egregious error in the Wikipedia entry for Mac OS 9, but his correction kept getting yanked.
I see now that the entry has been updated, but rather than just remove the falsehood completely, it’s been edited to say that it’s something that “some people have incorrectly claimed”, with a link to the false AppleInsider story that made the claim. If you know it’s incorrect, why mention it at all?
- Meet the Ape ★
-
Tim Bray:
I’ve just put up a prototype of something I call the Atom Protocol Exerciser. It might evolve to become a sanity-checking tool something along the lines of the Feed Validator. I don’t want to call it a “validator” because a feed can be said unambiguously to be valid, or not; but a publishing-system interface might be unusably buggy or slow or have moronic authentication policies; all the Exerciser (let’s just say “the Ape” for short) does is perform a bunch of operations that a typical APP client might, and report the results.