We’ve got two great presentations for our March 5 meeting — Laura Savino’s talk on learning out loud these days and Jake Savin on using Claude to rebuild UserLand Frontier as a modern app.

It’s a huge job and Jake’s made a ton of progress — and he’s learned a lot about how to use Claude to make these kinds of projects work. As we learn to use LLMs to do more and more ambitious things, we’ll be walking in Jake’s footsteps. Jake will provide a map of this new territory.

(Why UserLand Frontier? Why rebuild it? UserLand Frontier is Dave Winer’s app from the ’90s, and it was with that app that Dave invented and/or fleshed-out and popularized much of the open web that we take for granted today: blogs, RSS, podcasts, and web services, for starters. This is a historically important piece of software, and Jake is bringing it to the modern age. Back in the day, Jake worked at UserLand Software along with another Xcoder, Brent Simmons.)

You know how your favorite bands and comics will do small shows first before doing their arena tour? That’s what’s happening here. 💥

Details:

Where
North Seattle College
9600 College Way N

Room LB 1106 in the library

When
Thursday, March 5, 2026
6:30 pm — gather and mingle
7:00 pm — watch Jake’s and Laura’s talks

Afterwards we go to the nearby Watershed Pub and Kitchen (all ages friendly).