In a blog post about Journal, John Gruber makes a detour to highlight the lack of full import and export in Apple Notes: I worry that import and export aren’t priorities for Apple. Apple Notes can import RTF and plain text files, but its only option for exporting is, bizarrely, P … | Continue reading
From The Information: In mid-2023, some employees of Apple’s system intelligence and machine learning team, which implements features like computer vision, text analysis and natural language in Apple’s software products, met with Altman and other members of OpenAI. While it’s not … | Continue reading
Listening to Trump’s rambling speech today, at first I was laughing at the blatant lies and ridiculous statements… But then it became sobering, he’s so dangerous. If he’s reelected, we’ll have essentially lost 12+ years to this chaos because he will not shut up even when he’s los … | Continue reading
Just posted a new Core Intuition, episode 601. We talk about the audio narration feature in Micro.blog, the MarsEdit 5.2 release, and then some thoughts on whether WWDC should have a live component again. | Continue reading
A day after the guilty verdict, seeing people worry about polls and whether this will change anything. It will, even if just a little. Who wins the election is a separate question. But doing the right thing always matters. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Had some fun with the audio narration for this post. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
“While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial — and ultimately today at this verdict — in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors: by following the facts, and the law, and doing so without fear or fa … | Continue reading
No one is above the law. Trump guilty on all charges. A monumental moment for the country. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
No matter what happens, can we give Eric Trump some credit for actually being there for his dad? Eric gets made fun of so often, but there he is. | Continue reading
Working on the Threads API and remembering what a pain it is to deal with Meta’s developer dashboard and approvals… Sigh. | Continue reading
Had an idea to expand my about page, which before was just a few snippets of text and links, to make it more of a story of how I’ve gotten to where I am today for people who don’t know me. It’s not complete, but it hits the big milestones. | Continue reading
As part of the podcast pricing decrease, everyone also now gets this little segment control for filtering and searching uploads on the web: | Continue reading
Six years ago, we launched our $10/month plan with podcast hosting. Since then we’ve added several big features to the plan, which is now called Micro.blog Premium: Create up to 5 blogs, each with its own domain or subdomain Email newsletters, to send automatically whenever you b … | Continue reading
When my car repairs cost thousands of dollars, I really stick it to them by making sure to get free coffee at their cafe. 🤪 | Continue reading
Really good Stratechery article today about how AI fits in the various big tech company stacks. On Microsoft: Then, one month later, OpenAI nearly imploded and Microsoft had to face the reality that it is exceptionally risky to pin your strategy on integrating with a partner you … | Continue reading
Now we wait for the jury. Thinking about how I will react to the verdict… Clearly there is evidence to convict Trump. But the jury could second-guess their judgement because he’s a former president. The trial was fair and thorough. Whatever those dozen New Yorkers decide, we have … | Continue reading
On this day 16 years ago, Daniel and I released the first episode of Core Intuition. So many things have changed since then. Listening to episode 1 is like going back in a time machine, to weeks before WWDC, on the verge of the App Store launching, a snapshot of the Mac developer … | Continue reading
MarsEdit 5.2 is out with a whole bunch of improvements, including a couple for Micro.blog. Congrats @danielpunkass! The duplicate post feature reminds me of classic Mac “stationary” documents… which I just noticed is still in the Finder. | Continue reading
My cross-posting to Threads has been sporadic. Decided last week to pause it until the API is ready, and might not even continue after that. I post multiple times a day to my blog. | Continue reading
Helpful post from The Fediverse Report about Farcaster and they’re wild $1 billion valuable. They’re as valuable as Instagram when bought by Facebook, really? Some neat ideas buried in there, like the frame mini apps, but I’m having trouble seeing where this goes. | Continue reading
After reading that the Gaza pier was damaged by weather, I read a bit more to try to understand how much aid was getting in before the war and recently. 50 trucks or 1000 tons is so opaque to non-experts like most of us. The pier was still a good idea and can work when repaired. … | Continue reading
Today I learned from slash pages by Robb Knight that there’s a /chipotle to note your favorite Chipotle order. Love it. 🌯 | Continue reading
Manu Moreale writes about the ratio between consuming content and creating it: I believe people should consume less content and produce more. Finding an output for creativity is important. But it’s unreasonable to expect people to stop consuming content and replace that consumpti … | Continue reading
“The name of the game was concealment, and all roads lead to the man who benefited the most, Donald Trump.” — prosecutor Joshua Steinglass 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Missed last night’s Celtics game, so a belated congrats to them. They’re a great team. Mavs/Timberwolves tonight! No team has come back down 0-3 but eventually it’ll probably happen, even if usually there’s a good reason you lost the first few games. 🏀 | Continue reading
Last week I blogged about adding audio narration to blog posts. For years we’ve also had full podcast hosting, which overlaps with this narration feature but is focused on podcast episodes and feeds. In this post I’ll show how to add narration to an existing blog post, hopefully … | Continue reading
Molly White, previewing an upcoming blog post: i firmly believe that if you’re going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there. | Continue reading
Has social media now devolved back to the same tone as Twitter X? Outrage, memes, extremism. Thinking more about this post from Paul Robert Lloyd last week and whether Micro.blog needs a setting if someone wants to keep blogging but get a temporary break from the social web. It’s … | Continue reading
Expectations for WWDC haven’t changed much, except this odd rumor from Mark Gurman: One standout feature will bring generative AI to emojis. The company is developing software that can create custom emojis on the fly, based on what users are texting. That means you’ll suddenly ha … | Continue reading
New feature idea for the social web: before strangers can reply to your posts, they have to read your resume. 🤪 | Continue reading
Finished reading: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. If this was only a standalone novel, I’d have some complaints, but I know people love the series. Seems like a good setup, and I’d like to see where it goes. 📚 | Continue reading
After we recorded episode 600 of @coreint, I thought I had blown it, maybe had a bit too much coffee and didn’t slow down to properly capture what is going on with OpenAI. So I listened to the episode again, and I think it holds up really well. We might’ve covered it more fully t … | Continue reading
We’ve somehow reached the 600th episode of Core Intuition. On this episode, we talk about the Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI fallout, and the reaction on my blog and the social web. | Continue reading
Went to Barton Springs today to swim but there was a ridiculous number of people waiting in line, must’ve been over 200 people, stretching well past the Zilker train depot, so we went kayaking instead. Austin may be too crowded. | Continue reading
Wow. Mavs steal another one. Luka with a clutch shot, and Naz Reid who was 7-9 from 3 misses the game-winner. Good game. 🏀 | Continue reading
This feature went from idea to implementation quickly because it turns out we already have full podcast hosting in Micro.blog! How convenient. I’m going to use this post to break it all down. AI is everywhere, including some places it probably shouldn’t be. If you’ve been followi … | Continue reading
This blog post is a test for something new I’m working on. I think a lot of people feel overwhelmed that AI is everywhere right now. Personal blogs should lean in to the human voice. There’s a new play button on the permalink for this post on the web which will use a recording th … | Continue reading
Google’s AI overviews are pretty hilariously not ready. Maybe they never will be. Generative AI is a powerful, transformative technology, but that doesn’t mean it should be used everywhere! Sometimes dumb code is better. | Continue reading
Tried the new Cajun place that opened a couple weeks ago, Lil’ Easy. | Continue reading
Just finished listening to this interview on Stratechery with Satya Nadella and (separately) Kevin Scott. Some really thoughtful points about how Microsoft sees things around AI. I liked this segment from Kevin especially, after talking about how humans can no longer beat compute … | Continue reading
Micro.blog for iOS was updated today with some improvements and fixes. Here’s a quick demo video of the new uploads search for Micro.blog Premium subscribers: | Continue reading
Feeling deflated this morning after the AI drama of the last couple days. I got so much flack over it. Now that the Washington Post is out with their story? Crickets. 🦗 | Continue reading
Tonight the Washington Post has what looks like an exclusive story on OpenAI’s Sky voice. I didn’t want to keep writing about this, but here we are. Some quotes from the article: …while many hear an eerie resemblance between “Sky” and Johansson’s “Her” character, an actress was h … | Continue reading
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” — from this scene in The Dark Knight | Continue reading
Sort of paradoxically, the more I consider how AI will change the web, the more clear it becomes how to build features that keep the humanity in what we create. Take almost anything that AI is good at, but not as good as a human, and then make it much easier to do that thing the … | Continue reading