Trail bridge at Bastrop State Park. Trees are slowly coming back after the 2011 fire. | Continue reading
I’ve been inspired by what feels like a renewed push for massive solar infrastructure, so recently bought a small solar panel from Jackery. Excellent for road trips and camping. I have a couple batteries and use the panel with the small Explorer 100 Plus. (This is going to sound … | Continue reading
Excellent article in The Washington Post about an Infinium plant in Corpus Christi producing diesel fuel from water and (mostly) renewable energy. Pairs really well with the Terraform founder interview on Stratechery I blogged about earlier this month. | Continue reading
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Went to see the first chapter of Horizon tonight and love what they’re doing with it. So much time to let characters and plot lines develop. 🍿 | Continue reading
I’m not one to impulsively cancel subscriptions when I disagree with the leadership or when there’s a misstep, but I’m really starting to question sticking with The New York Times. It’s not a partisan thing. Their coverage feels weak in all the moments when we need it to be excep … | Continue reading
Camping in Texas in the summer is not fun, but I keep thinking I’ll figure out how to solve it with technology, each time getting a little closer. It won’t be below 80° until 2am tonight. | Continue reading
Just posted a new Core Intuition. Daniel and I talk about the latest news with Apple and the EU’s DMA, then I complain a little about Micro.blog not getting approved yet for using the Threads API. Planning to resubmit the app with a new screencast after the weekend. | Continue reading
I watched all of Joe Biden’s campaign speech from today. Wish he was half as good last night as he was today. He’s got a cough, but he looked so much better. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know. I know how to tell … | Continue reading
Dave Winer blogs about a new experiment to make a collection of blogrolls by following a site’s blogroll looking for other blogrolls. This is important because blogrolls can effectively be a social graph, a way to discover and follow other bloggers. | Continue reading
I updated the Micro.blog blogroll plug-in today, adding more control over whether to show the blog’s domain name (now defaulting to not show it) and optional “about” text when setting up a recommendation. The help page has been updated with examples. | Continue reading
Jason Snell makes the case for hand controllers and other changes to the Vision Pro: I’ve got a Vision Pro and a Meta Quest 3. And yet the Quest 3, which costs about one-seventh of the price of the Vision Pro, is a vastly superior platform when it comes to playing certain kinds o … | Continue reading
The current Supreme Court is broken. If Joe Biden wants to change the narrative, announce that he’s working with Congress to expand the court with an additional four justices. A couple to be nominated now, a couple for later presidents. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
It’s a new day. Pick yourself back up. There’s a lot to do. What’s next? 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
My favorite moment and the most clear line from Biden against Trump: “Something snapped in you when you lost the last time.” We got bogged down in policy tonight, which is pointless because Trump doesn’t know anything or believe in anyone except himself. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
You know who had a great debate against Trump? Hillary Clinton. I’m not saying she should jump in and rescue the Democrats — although I’d be good with it! — but to say that an election is more complicated than one thing. Biden could’ve been better. He had a few good moments. It’s … | Continue reading
There’s a really substantive conversation on MSNBC right now about the president’s job as a communicator vs. a decision-maker, and all the things Biden has accomplished, the historical context with FDR and others, etc. I’m still conflicted about what this debate actually means. & … | Continue reading
Debate halftime! Biden is just warming up, everyone. Trump is, of course, constantly lying. It’s ridiculouss that we even have to be here as a country, and I feel sad that Biden has to shoulder everything himself. He’s not perfect but he’s good and who we have to hold up sanity. … | Continue reading
Happy for LeBron that Bronny is going to the Lakers. Such a unique chance to play together that’s unlikely to happen in the league again. 🏀 | Continue reading
Just another night in America, where the President of the United States has to debate a convicted felon. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Jeremy Keith on how human-curated bookmarks could help adapt to a web filled with AI content: It used to be that when you found a source you trusted, you bookmarked it. Browsers still have bookmarking functionality but most people rely on search. Maybe it’s time for a bookmarking … | Continue reading
Threads API access was rejected for Micro.blog. 🙄 Going to redo the submission and record new demo screencasts for app reviewers. I’ve got dozens of real users using this, quite frustrating to jump through hoops for something so basic. | Continue reading
I like the idea of a smaller e-ink reader, whether it’s running Android or not, so I’m almost tempted by this weird device that John Moltz reviewed at Six Colors. Still happy with the Kindle Paperwhite, but if it was just a little narrower I’d take it with me even more often. | Continue reading
Anyone who enjoys writing or photography or sharing anything online should have their own microblog at their own domain. Haven’t we learned by now that posting exclusively on other people’s platforms is a dead end? Might as well write on scraps of paper outside and let the wind t … | Continue reading
NBA draft tonight! Spurs have the 4th and 8th picks. Last season’s record was bad, but the team started winning games late in the season. Back in the playoffs soon. 🏀 | Continue reading
Some progress with the Threads API, the issue with the Meta dev dashboard not updating to show API calls has been fixed. However, there’s still no way to submit the app for review. Expecting an “App review” option in the sidebar, but it’s not there. | Continue reading
Nick Heer on the latest DMA news and UTM rejection: Perhaps there are legitimate security concerns in the UTM emulator. The burden of proof for that claim rests on Apple, however, and its ability to be a reliable narrator is sometimes questionable. Consider the possible conflicts … | Continue reading
Can’t believe I didn’t know about this Snow White Cafe, in operation since 1946… until now: Its interior, which was decorated with murals of characters from Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has been gutted. There is plenty of lore surrounding the … | Continue reading
For folks beta testing automatic cross-posting from Micro.blog to Threads, if you like to tinker, we are now including the Threads post ID and permalink in each blog post metadata. See this help page for how to access it from custom themes. | Continue reading
When a company withholds a feature from the EU because of the DMA — Apple for AI, Meta today for the fediverse — they should document which sections of the DMA would potentially be violated. Let users fact-check whether there’s a real problem. | Continue reading
Threads has rolled out seeing replies from other platforms, filling one of the biggest holes in their fediverse support. Nice to see the progress. There is still quite a bit to do (replies to those replies, moving accounts) but it feels much closer to complete. | Continue reading
Molly White makes a point that I’ve also been trying to articulate about AI crawling, but I think her post is better than my first attempts. Some level of open access is an important part of what makes the web special: …“only allow humans to access” is just not an achievable goal … | Continue reading
If you’re keeping score, Hillary has now written three books since losing the 2016 election. An inspiration in getting back up after a failure that would destroy most of us. What’s next? | Continue reading
Excellent post by Jason Snell on the upcoming era of orchestrated apps, where much of what we do with our iPhone might be using AI as a bridge between multiple apps and their local data: When everything is orchestrated properly, all the capabilities of all your apps are put into … | Continue reading
As usual, Hillary Clinton is right. From an op-ed today on what to watch for in the debate: Mr. Biden is one of the most empathetic leaders we’ve ever had. Listen to how sincerely he talks about women’s rights, the struggles of working families, opportunities for people of color … | Continue reading
Had a dream last night that for the upcoming presidential debate, Biden’s team decided to use all of his time on stage to act out Biden’s answers in the style of a broadway musical. What the…? Trump tried to follow along but he didn’t prepare for the debate and was lost. No idea … | Continue reading
One good thing about Akamai acquiring Linode: they appear to have a better plan for reaching 100% renewable energy in data centers. According to this, most of my servers are in the 75% renewable range. Better than Texas as a whole, although we do see spikes that high, when it’s w … | Continue reading
Riley Testut posts about no longer trusting Apple with app notarization: When we first met with the EC a few months ago, we were asked repeatedly if we trusted Apple to be in charge of Notarization. We emphatically said yes. However, it’s clear to us now that Apple is indeed usin … | Continue reading
In John Gruber’s article about Apple Intelligence, he writes about the server impact: As things stand, with only devices using M-series chips or the A17 or later eligible, Apple is going to be on the hook for an enormous amount of server-side computation with Private Cloud Comput … | Continue reading
Still no way for me to submit my app to Meta to approve the Threads API. 🙁 I can add more beta users, but it’s difficult to track via replies, so I know I missed a couple people. If you don’t have access, email help@micro.blog with your Micro.blog username and Threads use … | Continue reading
Finally got my R1. The hype has worn off, so not sure it has a place in my life for regular use. Nice little device, though, and very orange. | Continue reading
It’s bizarre to see developers effectively siding with Apple over the DMA. The EU is trying to make things better for developers. We can nitpick whether the DMA is well-written, too broad, etc. But there are specific sections that address real problems with the App Store that App … | Continue reading
European Commission preliminary findings that the App Store is in breach of the DMA. Even if there’s some compromise, this should lead to improved rules for developers. Still unresolved is whether the CTF is valid, and how much Apple is going to fight to keep it. | Continue reading
I was wondering when someone would bring up that the Internet Archive ignores robots.txt, and today’s Stratechery is the first I’ve seen to raise that point. I view most debates through the lens of what is good for the open web. There’s now so much of an anti-AI undercurrent, we … | Continue reading
Decided to promote the “Edit Sources & Cross-posting” screen to its own link in the sidebar. It’s called simply “Sources”. This is a powerful part of Micro.blog and needs more visibility. (Using a feed icon, even if one day we might have other feed reader-related sidebar things.) | Continue reading