Since Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth was announced a few days ago I’ve been trying to figure out how I feel about it. Blocking misbehaving bots is good, but creating fake pages and hidden links reminds me of other hacks to trick crawlers that I think could be detrimental to the web. J … | Continue reading
Heading home. Texas / Louisiana border visitors center. 🤠 | Continue reading
At a memorial service my mind drifted to what makes us human. I believe in AI as a tool to help us, to learn, to create. But AI cannot feel. Focus on that. The sound of our voice, imperfect. The stories, from life we have experienced. The art, with meaning because it comes from a … | Continue reading
While out walking today, listened to this great interview on Stratechery with Sam Altman, going over early time at OpenAI and where things might be headed. I know Sam can be a divisive figure, but if you’re fascinated with AI there’s a lot of interesting background here. | Continue reading
This shakeup of Siri leadership is surprisingly close to WWDC. Makes me think we won’t see major changes this year, just a refinement of last year’s strategy with Siri and AI. | Continue reading
Had a good run for a few months on uptime until today. I’ve upgraded one of our servers to prevent this particular meltdown from happening again. | Continue reading
Bad timing, had a major server failure this morning. Micro.blog is back online and I’m restoring a few things now. 😔 | Continue reading
Really positive reaction to my post about adding European web servers for Micro.blog. Thanks everyone! This is the first step, excited to explore more. | Continue reading
Starting today there is a new option for customers who want more flexibility for where their blog is hosted. When Micro.blog publishes your blog, it runs your blog posts through Hugo, creating static HTML files that are hosted outside of the main Micro.blog platform. Those files … | Continue reading
I avoid deploying new code to servers in the evening. It’s better to make changes when I’m awake for hours and can monitor for problems. But it’s kind of a bummer for Europe and the rest of the world because new features always go live while they’re asleep. Might break that rule … | Continue reading
Dave Rupert on ads, enshittification, and taste: I can feel it in my bones when an app or website has prioritized revenue over user experience. A person without taste or high emotional intelligence broke the unspoken contract we had built on mutual respect. | Continue reading
Simon Willison attempts to clarify vibe coding: I’m seeing people apply the term “vibe coding” to all forms of code written with the assistance of AI. I think that both dilutes the term and gives a false impression of what’s possible with responsible AI-assisted programming. | Continue reading
If you ran into a problem sharing photos from Google Photos to Micro.blog on iOS, check out the latest TestFlight beta. Still have another fix to editing to finish, then will release to everyone. | Continue reading
Wow, the Swarm app has been completely redesigned. I don’t think it changed a single pixel in the last 5 years. Looks pretty good, now combining some of the explore functionality previously in Foursquare. | Continue reading
Mac apps and web apps: Make code change. Release to customers. iOS apps: Make code change. Wait for Apple to approve TestFlight beta. Wait even longer if the build is stuck “processing” for unknown reasons. Wait for Apple to approve final version. Release to customers. Just a sta … | Continue reading
Welcome back to earth, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. 🚀 | Continue reading
Bluesky’s a world without caesars shirt is back in stock. Ordered. I don’t impulse buy clothing very often but this one captures the moment. | Continue reading
My workflow: Program a new feature. Draft a blog post announcing the feature. Realize while writing the post that it would sound better if it also did this other cool thing, add that to the announcement post. Go back and add that thing in code. Ship it! | Continue reading
Today we try for the third time to get an appointment for AT&T Fiber installation to work. It’ll help that they know have my correct phone number. 🤞 | Continue reading
Politics is bleeding into everything. Tech headlines, podcasts that aren’t usually political. For 2025, I like to box my politics into narrow parts of the day, not everywhere all the time. Soon we’ll need mute filters in all apps, from RSS readers to Overcast. | Continue reading
Nice new logo, board members, and others news for the founding of A New Social. | Continue reading
This video of LiDAR vs. Tesla self-driving is great. Ever since seeing all the sensors on a Waymo, I was convinced that the Tesla approach wasn’t going to cut it. Also love the Space Mountain and Haunted Mansion scans! | Continue reading
I added a new feature to Micro.blog Premium today called domain name aliases. Often when people host their blog on Micro.blog, they later change their mind about the primary domain name for their blog. Now you can more easily redirect multiple domain names to the same blog so no … | Continue reading
Depressing anecdote from Gabe Kangas about going off into the weeds with Reddit’s algorithm: Now I understand how men online can get indoctrinated so easily. You can go from reading about turntable slip mats to hating women in less than an hour. Algorithmic timelines are designed … | Continue reading
Good update from Ben Thompson today linking the lack of Vision Pro content to the miss on AI: …Apple is finding itself paralyzed by its need for control. The company can’t just stick a camera at a game and stream the video without any production or play-by-play commentary: what i … | Continue reading
Hmm, my last post is poorly truncated on Bluesky because I hadn’t considered the title, link, and new summary taking up more than 300 characters. Going to keep my extra summary text shorter in the future. | Continue reading
This is an excellent post by Molly White about the potential conflict between making the world’s knowledge more accessible through AI and the risk of destroying the foundations for open content on the web: The true threat from AI models training on open access material is not tha … | Continue reading
Since writing more about delayed AI + Siri yesterday, I was thinking about this Bloomberg story of a meeting inside Apple admitting that the new Siri works at best 80% of the time, but they want to “get those percentages up”. After a year of development? They need to seriously re … | Continue reading
Bluesky has a proposal to declare user intention for things like archiving and AI training. Looks pretty good. Maybe we should mirror this in robots.txt? It stretches the original purpose of the file but it should be somewhere outside of a specific protocol. There was also CC-NT … | Continue reading
We are so used to being able to do almost anything in software. For example, today I was looking at how long it takes to load the list of your blog posts in Micro.blog. It’s a couple seconds, but I’d like it to be half a second. I know from many years of web experience that there … | Continue reading
Disappointed I missed the world without caesars shirt. Still catching up on SXSW happenings, including Jay Graber’s interview which I just queued up. | Continue reading
Had a couple funny interactions with ChatGPT this week, including when asking it for some help with a coding task. It suggested some code that was really problematic and could easily break in the future. I told it I was worried about that code, and it replied with “You’re right, … | Continue reading
I’ve been out of town for a few days and not coding much, but Vincent has been working on the mobile app. iOS folks, a new TestFlight beta is out with creating a new blog category and editing summaries, plus other fixes. A couple more tweaks and then will ship to everyone. | Continue reading
Overheard, single mom who took her 401k and put it into starting a new business. Not everyone should do this, but… I love it. YOLO. | Continue reading
Responding to John Gruber’s AI post yesterday, Om Malik blogs: Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which prevents it from doing something radical, Apple has its own golden handcuffs. It’s a company weighed down by its market capitalization and what stock market … | Continue reading
Chet Collins reviews my book Indie Microblogging. Most people who have checked it out have just skimmed through it a little, which is fine! Love to see a detailed look, though. I still plan to publish a final final draft with a few updates. | Continue reading
Ana Rodrigues blogs about how websites can be good as a playground and for others to learn from: But deep down, all I want for my personal website is to give back to the web. I want anyone, regardless of skill level, to inspect elements, understand the structure, and learn from r … | Continue reading
Great post from John Gruber about Apple Intelligence and the Siri delays: Leaders prove their mettle and create their legacies not by how they deal with successes but by how they deal with — how they acknowledge, understand, adapt, and solve — problems. The fiasco is that Apple p … | Continue reading
New feature for Micro.blog’s Bluesky cross-posting: preview cards. This is still off by default, but if you flip it on in Sources, Micro.blog will try to figure out the title, description, and og:image for the first link in your post and attach it. Screenshot: | Continue reading
Federico Viticci wonders if Apple should have their own API that could bridge to OpenAI and Anthropic, offering Apple’s own seal of approval on privacy and security. It would be a nice surprise if Apple did something like this. They could wrap together on-device models and privat … | Continue reading
MarsEdit 5.3.3 is out! This release adds support for Micro.blog blog post summaries with a new “excerpt” field in MarsEdit. | Continue reading