Difference between Broadcast Texting and P2P Texting

My target audience for this post is a rather small group of people, but of course anyone is welcome to read it.

For a long time I misunderstood how P2P texting worked.

Broadcast texting is easy to understand: an organizer drafts a message, associates it with a contact list, and hits "send," and the message goes out to the contact list.

With P2P texting, an organizer drafts a message, associates it with a contact list, and creates a form for volunteers to use. The volunteer gets the link, sees the form which has the message and one contact from the contact list. The volunteer hits "send," the message goes to that one contact, and the form refreshes with the next contact.

A brief conversation with Claude about Baba O'Riley

I asked Claude to proofread an article I wrote about texting. In that article, I used an exmple, "Hi Sally, I'm Roger, a volunteer with Baba O'Riley's campaign...".

The conversation I had with Claude about my use of Baba O'Riley was so much like a conversation with a real person, that I told Claude so, and Claude replied, seemingly thoughtfully. I figured I'd repost that conversation for anyone who cares.

To be clear, I don't think Claude is thinking. I think it's doing what it said it's doing, and I don't believe there's anyone in there.

My repost starts after Claude corrected some grammar and made some other suggestions. It continued:

Signal Tips

These are security tips and general usage tips. These will be updated as I become more familiar with Signal

Notes on Antonis Christofides's Book, Deploying Django on a Single Debian or Ubuntu Server

This post is about steps I took to deploy a Django project to a VPS running Debian 12. I used Putty on a Windows 11 laptop to connect to the VPS. My Django project is on the laptop for development.

This post is mostly my notes on Deploying Django on a single Debian or Ubuntu Server by Antonis Christofides. That book has been a guide to me and I keep refering to it. But here I've added notes about steps that you may do differently, in some cases must do differently because the book is a few years old.