Happy NBA schedule release day! It drops this afternoon and I’m excited enough that I will probably watch it live on ESPN2. @cheesemaker and I are still trying to visit all the arenas in the country and it’s taking forever, need to hit a couple more this season. | Continue reading
Wow, this post diving into Micro.blog bookmarks and highlights is amazing. Thanks Loura! I’ve bookmarked it in Micro.blog (of course) so I can sift through it later to see what we can improve in Micro.blog’s API. | Continue reading
Must-read blog post by Cory Doctorow, connecting enshittification to Apple and the legal agreements that give corporations power: Apple doesn’t oppose regulation; Apple loves regulation, so long as they’re the ones doing the regulating. They want to be able to shape and define th … | Continue reading
Sounds like we may be in for a substantial remedy in Epic vs. Google, potentially going even further than the EU’s DMA. From The Verge: Judge Donato made it clear he plans to ban any nondiscriminatory behavior when it comes to how Google treats rival app stores, up to and includi … | Continue reading
Ben Thompson’s daily update reviews the App Store vs. Patreon mess: In short, Apple is taking a percentage of individual creator subscriptions, but it is treating every individual creator as if they are a subsidiary of Patreon. It’s as if Apple can’t even conceive of the possibil … | Continue reading
“I’m learning, and I’m worried for the opponents in a couple of years.” — Victor Wembanyama, after winning silver at the Olympics 🏀 | Continue reading
My son is tinkering with Raspberry Pi and Arduino and it’s incredible what is possible now. So many little widgets you can buy and program. Servers that fit in the palm of your hand. | Continue reading
Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon: If Apple isn’t stopped, there will come a point where Apple slaps a 30% tax on all VISA transactions made on iOS (unless you use Apple Pay, of course!) It could happen. Related, I’d love the option to use Apple Pay in iOS apps instead of in-app … | Continue reading
About 25 years after first learning JavaScript, I think I’m almost starting to get the hang of it. 🤪 | Continue reading
According to Mark Gurman, the iPhone 16 Pro will have a new button for the camera. This is very interesting: Speaking of buttons, there will be a new camera control on the right side of the phone (at least on the new Pros). It will operate like a button on a DSLR camera, allowing … | Continue reading
The back and forth ranking changes for Jordan Chiles and Ana Barbosu is a mess. If there’s no fair solution, give them both the bronze medal. Just a couple days ago we watched the pole vaulters share the gold. The floor exercise wasn’t a tie but it might as well have been. | Continue reading
Continuing to make progress with the new editor. Fixed several things, added support for @-mentions, better styling. There are still a couple quirks with the insertion cursor. If I can work through those, will ship this as soon as I can. | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale wraps up his first 50 interviews with bloggers, with a nice summary here. I was happy to participate and still read it every week (in my RSS reader of course). | Continue reading
Shoutout to @vincent who has finished a major rewrite of the navigation in our main mobile app. It’s probably not the most fun thing to work on (hey it looks exactly the same!) but sets us up nicely for the future. | Continue reading
Incredible gold medal game, USA vs. France women. So close to going to OT. 🏀 | Continue reading
This post from John Gruber really hits the key problem with macOS becoming more locked down and even (sometimes) dumbed down, and the balance between the Mac and iPad in Apple’s product line: But at a certain point, a hammer needs to hammer whatever it strikes, and sometimes, ala … | Continue reading
Buescher State Park at lunchtime. Had a picnic, then started listening to USA vs. France on the drive back before we watched the second half back at home. | Continue reading
Enjoying USA vs. France. Love watching Wemby play and cannot wait for the Spurs season to start. Gotta root for USA, though, a truly great team. 🏀 | Continue reading
Really wish React Native didn’t use Ruby and CocoaPods. It’s past time for a cleaner build toolchain with fewer dependencies. | Continue reading
More movies lately, getting the most from the Alamo Drafthouse season pass… Borderlands is exactly what it looks like from the trailer. Also saw Twisters again and it holds up on repeat viewings. The Instigators on TV+ was a lot of fun too. 🍿 | Continue reading
Now that we’ve got breakdancing, I think the Olympics officially has enough events. I don’t want to say “no” to anyone’s sport, but at some point it feels like there are so many events it will become overwhelming to coordinate for future cities, and viewers. Good thing TV now has … | Continue reading
One of these years I’d like to make it out to D23. Seems like a fun weekend. There is so much to work on right now, really feeling the need to get away for a couple days and reset. | Continue reading
New episode of Core Int out today. We talk about the antitrust verdict against Google search, the potential impact on Apple and Mozilla, whether Apple Intelligence will ever be something third-party developers can build on, and the general disappointment of Apple platforms becomi … | Continue reading
I haven’t read every word of the GPT-4o safety card, but I’ve read a bunch of it and skimmed most of the rest. It’s fascinating. OpenAI has a fairly bad reputation around safety, but I wouldn’t be able to guess that just reading this report card, which seems thoughtful and compre … | Continue reading
Catching up on more track and field from today. Noah Lyles has COVID. Good column about it here: On a night that could have transformed Lyles into a legend, he instead became a throwback to a time we’ve quickly forgotten. Sort of amazing he could run at all. | Continue reading
Wow. I was losing my mind when USA came back and took the lead. Steph Curry doing his thing. Huge points late from Embiid, KD. Let’s go! 🏀 | Continue reading
Worried about USA vs. Serbia. There was a good run in the 3rd quarter but it’s now like it didn’t happen. Everything going in for Serbia, lucky bounces, second-chance points. 🏀 | Continue reading
I guess I was wrong about the topic of Trump’s press conference. There was no topic or focus, just a bunch of random gripes. I had it on in the background because apparently I hate happiness. He makes so many ludicrous statements, it’s almost funny but also tragic and a waste of … | Continue reading
I recorded a short video as a status update on the new web-based text editor for Micro.blog that I’ve been working on. Finally on a path that feels like it’s going to work and be a big improvement, while retaining the Markdown-centered approach that we’ve always used. | Continue reading
The Performa series at 512 Pixels continues, today arriving at the Quadra 605, which was my first color Mac. I loved that dumb underpowered computer, from playing Myst and programming, to the crashes when apps expected an FPU. | Continue reading
New rules and fees from Apple today for the EU. It’s getting ridiculous. This page has the fees and it might as well be a spreadsheet. Is waiving the CTF for iPad apps new? I don’t rememberer that. But paying Apple for external payments is still there, still a no-go for me. | Continue reading
Apparently Trump’s press conference is going to be about Walz’s military service. There’s a detailed story here for background. I’ve never served. I only have gratitude for those who have, whether it was months or years, regardless of politics. We aren’t perfect, but Trump is the … | Continue reading
Nice icon set on We Distribute with icons for many platforms and fediverse apps. | Continue reading
On the latest episode of Upgrade, Jason Snell and Myke Hurley covered an important part of the Apple Intelligence beta that I’d like to highlight. Leading up to WWDC, Daniel and I talked on Core Intuition about how great it was going to be to have a small on-device LLM available … | Continue reading
This week we posted a short survey for Micro.blog customers to provide feedback about the service. I was particularly interested in some of our extra features like bookmarks, bookshelves, and notes. These aren’t necessarily well-known and I’ve been thinking about how to better po … | Continue reading
Really strong intro for Tim Walz with the speeches in Pennsylvania today. I’m so impressed with how well Kamala Harris and her campaign have kicked things off. Clear message, but also they are having fun and it’s contagious. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Love a blog post that starts with a history lesson. Ben Thompson writes about antitrust and the case against Google search. If the cash to Apple goes away, I think Apple will be better off. Just focus on what’s right for users and let search competition happen naturally. But Mozi … | Continue reading
We put together a very short survey this week to get some feedback about parts of Micro.blog. If you use Micro.blog, would love your input. Thanks everyone who has already filled it out! | Continue reading
Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz. I’m a little surprised, Josh Shapiro seemed like a great choice. I noticed some social posts against Shapiro lately and think that negativity was overblown. But the choice was made, so here we go. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
I’ve enjoyed this season of House of the Dragon but the finale was mostly setup for next season. It all feels dragged out, and there is essentially only one character worth rooting for. Glad they are officially wrapping the show after season 4. | Continue reading
AI hallucinations just reinforce that humans should always be involved. Today, AI switched to Python syntax in the middle of JavaScript. Oops! A human would never make that mistake, right? Except that I have definitely typed the wrong language when my brain hadn’t completely swit … | Continue reading
I hit a brick wall with some tricky JavaScript and contenteditable HTML. Decided to start over and lean on ChatGPT more. My new workflow: describe the overall problem to AI to get started, test the results, tweak the JS manually to fix problems, then tell AI about my tweaks and c … | Continue reading
Did some boring but necessary sys admin work over the weekend. Plugging more holes so dumb problems don’t trip up the servers. | Continue reading
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Finished reading: The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams. Strong characters in this. The monsters creeped me out a little. There is a lot going on, maybe a little too much, but it wraps up well for the first book in a trilogy. 📚 | Continue reading
You can always count on Teslas to have fun vanity license plates. | Continue reading