Jason Fried previews the next product from 37signals on Twitter X, called Workbook: It’s a dead simple platform to publish web-based books. They have covers, they can have title pages, they can have picture pages, and they can have text pages. Each book gets its own URL, and navi … | Continue reading
Wrapped up some updates to the iOS app and submitted to Apple. Hopefully goes through smoothly. 🤞 | Continue reading
This post from @jsonbecker is going to be timeless, because as a society we increasingly let social media amplify each side of an issue until it’s out of proportion with the facts: …sometimes when your peers and people you respect have all decided what the “right” view is, it’s v … | Continue reading
I posted a series of microblog posts yesterday with a common theme of trying to understand what is going on with OpenAI. This is a company with a lot of drama, nearly imploding last year with the board and CEO shakeup, and more recently alternating between amazing demos and dumb … | Continue reading
Watched the Satya Nadella portion of Microsoft Build today, and the few minutes with Sam Altman, then skimmed through the other news. Microsoft is doing a lot, not all of it relevant to me. Importantly they plan for data centers to be powered by renewable energy (in 2025) despite … | Continue reading
As someone who usually supports OpenAI, I’d still welcome an actual lawsuit from Scarlett Johansson about the voices. For one, I’m a huge fan of hers, but also I’d genuinely like to know if anything shady happened at the company. Dishonesty will cast a shadow over everything the … | Continue reading
Any chance that WWDC will have a live keynote this year? In the last couple weeks, we’ve had… OpenAI: live. Google I/O: live. Microsoft: live. To balance AI we need to lean in to human creativity, and a pre-recorded 2-hour advertisement will never feel as alive or engaging as a h … | Continue reading
Next month’s road trip is starting to take shape. Got my reservation for Bryce Canyon booked this morning. Also the Durango-Silverton train. Lots to see. 🗺️ | Continue reading
In the last 35 years, there have been a tiny number of truly revolutionary technologies that change everything: the web, mobile, and artificial intelligence. We can fight it, or we can guide it. But trust has eroded. To succeed we have to rebuild it. Move fast and break things wi … | Continue reading
When your company becomes the enemy, all that matters to people is what feels true. OpenAI’s Sky voice shipped months ago, not last week. We hear what we want to hear. OpenAI mishandled this, no question, but most likely Her is ingrained in Sam’s head vs. intentionally ripping of … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s Recall on the new Copilot+ PCs is quite impressive: Now with Recall, you can access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory. There are obvious trade-offs using this if someone gets access to your computer, bu … | Continue reading
Cool to see this visualization of the growing blogroll network. Blogrolls are fun and useful, and there’s still more we could do with them. If you’re using Micro.blog, you can set up a blogroll by clicking Design → Edit Recommendations. | Continue reading
It has only been a week since GPT-4o and they’ve already had a few days of bad news, including resignations and the latest with Scarlett Johansson. You can feel it becoming an “OpenAI can’t trusted” narrative that will be hard to shake. Need to prioritize this (and the Apple deal … | Continue reading
Tuning in to a little more of the Trump trial. The jury could go either way and I won’t be shocked, because you really do want to be sure, but the idea that Trump didn’t know anything about this is just laughable. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Whenever I’ve driven by the old Frank Erwin Center these last few months, I’ve noted how little of it is left. Yesterday they demolished the remaining structure. This video from UT’s president on LinkedIn has the final seconds. | Continue reading
Wow, had no idea going into game 7 what would happen, but didn’t expect that. Timberwolves vs. Nuggets had its ups and downs. Gonna root for the Mavs in the conference finals. 🏀 | Continue reading
The latest from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg makes the Apple + OpenAI partnership sound like a done deal. WWDC is just a few weeks away! Should be a good one. | Continue reading
Uploaded the session video for Micro Camp’s State of Micro.blog panel. The website now has YouTube links for the sessions, including our interview with Christina Warren. | Continue reading
I posted the video of our conversation with Christina Warren at Micro Camp 2024! We talk about early blogging, how social media is changing, whether it’s actually easier to get started now, podcasting, what we should focus on as the social web grows, and more. | Continue reading
I took the demo portion from yesterday’s panel and uploaded it to YouTube as a separate 6-minute video clip. This shows the new replies curation and reply text box features. | Continue reading
Thanks everyone who joined us for Micro Camp! I’m going to edit the videos and put them online this weekend, but the live broadcasts are on YouTube in the meantime. | Continue reading
The chat on help.micro.blog is now open. This will be the back channel for the live broadcasts during Micro Camp 2024. | Continue reading
It’s going to be a busy day, but I wanted to pause to note two movies I watched this week and really enjoyed, for completely different reasons: Molly’s Game and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. I’m still amazed that Marcel was funded with such an obvious singular vision, unlike an … | Continue reading
Just in time for Micro Camp today, a brand new Core Intuition: episode 599! We talk about Micro Camp, Micro.blog, and domain names, then catch up on GPT-4o, Google I/O, and Apple. | Continue reading
Trying out the new pinned, columns interface on Threads. It’s quite good. Fixes the minor gripes I had with clicking too much to get to the following list or replies. | Continue reading
Questions about blogging or Micro.blog? We’ll be answering questions at Micro Camp, from the chat tomorrow or you can submit a question anytime on this form. | Continue reading
We’re keeping things simple with Micro Camp this year: no email list, no registration. I did add a time zone helper link and an “Add to calendar” button on micro.camp, to make it easier not to miss when the livestream starts. | Continue reading
We have some great door prizes for Micro Camp tomorrow! 🎟️ | Continue reading
Micro Camp is… tomorrow! 🤯 It’s extra micro this year, so if you blink you might miss it. Hope everyone can join us for a keynote conversation with Christina Warren and then the State of Micro.blog, announcing a couple new features, and Q&A. Starts 11:45am Pacific time. | Continue reading
The new Wicked trailer was released today. High expectations for this one. No doubt the music will be great, just hope they get the rest right too. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree. I’ll read almost any book about books. Something was missing in this one compared to Legends & Lattes, through. 📚 | Continue reading
Google eventually turning their home page into ChatGPT is a rare opening for something new in traditional web search. It’s not a certainty that AI assistants and web search will be a single tool. They can have very different purposes: one looking for answers, one looking for thin … | Continue reading
This post on The Verge assumes that AI hallucinations should be fixed, but generative AI is like a human assistant: helpful, sometimes wrong. The fixable issue is actually perception and UX, giving a false sense of confidence. Google will likely make this worse with “definitive” … | Continue reading
Further evidence from The New York Times that the November election will be largely decided by people who are objectively ignorant. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. Nearly one in five voters in battleground states says that President Biden is responsible for ending the constitutio … | Continue reading
Ben Thompson in today’s update on Google I/O: What was much more dubious and vaporware-y were actual new products. And, frankly, this isn’t a surprise: one’s take on Google before the AI revolution would have been that the company can operate at scale like no other, but has lost … | Continue reading
A couple months ago on Core Int, I said we were at peak Apple. With every week, I believe that more strongly. Apple has been an inspiration for me for 30 years. A massive success. I think this is as good as it gets for them. They are simply too big to fundamentally rethink anythi … | Continue reading
I’ll admit I’ve only skimmed the recent “is iPadOS holding the iPad back?” posts from Federico Viticci, Jason Snell, John Gruber, and others. The iPad isn’t part of my routine now that I’m back to using the Kindle for e-books. Apple has had a decades-long battle with window manag … | Continue reading
My superpower and greatest weakness is not letting the need for a major refactor get in the way of shipping something new. Beautiful code is nice, but too many developers forget the goal is user experience, not developer experience. | Continue reading
I don’t think the Trump defense to discredit Micheal Cohen is going to work. So, Cohen hates Trump now? Of course he does. He lied and broke the law for Trump, then went to jail. If anything it just makes the whole story more complete and believable. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
There was good stuff in the I/O keynote, but OpenAI effectively undercut a bunch of it by demoing GPT-4o yesterday. Also lots of filler, really no need for a 2-hour session. My main takeaway is cheap pricing and new open source models to ship soon-ish. | Continue reading
Google’s product naming is getting better now that they’ve burned through all the plain words like Docs, Photos, etc. Gemini and Astra are nice. | Continue reading
Only a dozen minutes into the Google I/O keynote and there are already a couple features I want… Asking photos what my license plate number is, and filming my bookshelves to make a list of book titles and authors. | Continue reading
It’s often difficult to see the impact of a new feature until it is working. Ideas and mockups only go so far. So many times this has happened with Micro.blog, where seeing it live is even better (or worse!) than I had hoped. | Continue reading
I missed in the OpenAI livestream that the “o” in GPT-4o stands for “omni”, but this is clarified in the blog post. Makes me feel a little better about the odd naming, which otherwise sounds like “4.0”. That gripe aside, really impressive. | Continue reading
Working on something new to show this Friday for Micro Camp. Pulled it off the back-burner, it’s a feature we’ve talked about at least a few times since last year. | Continue reading
Wow, Apple put a lot of work into this 100 best albums website. Fancy. (I would’ve been fine with a simple numbered HTML list or music playlist.) | Continue reading