“I know what I have to do now. I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring.” — Cast Away We went to bed early last night, just as the county results for Georgia and North Carolina were starting to come in and you could see a … | Continue reading
Distracted myself today by fixing bugs and working on the Mac version of Strata. We’re going to slowly move more of the notes, bookmarks, and highlights functionality into Strata, to help keep Micro.blog streamlined. | Continue reading
There’s a nice new Micro.blog theme “mnml” by Jim Mitchell, available in the plug-in directory. Clean, minimal design. | Continue reading
Jenny Lawson: Thank you for shining in a world that sometimes appears dark. It may seem such a small ember, but it glows like a lighthouse in the world, reminding us that we are so very far from being alone. | Continue reading
Speaking of voting and podcasts, I love that Lex Friedman does a daily short podcast. Here’s today’s episode. This is exactly what we had in mind when we first added podcast hosting to Micro.blog. | Continue reading
🎶 Freedom, freedom, I can’t move Freedom, cut me loose Freedom, freedom, where are you? ‘Cause I need freedom, too I break chains all by myself Won’t let my freedom rot in hell Hey, I’ma keep running ‘Cause a winner don’t quit on themselves. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
We have a special Election Day episode of Core Intuition today: Every Four Years. | Continue reading
Thanks everyone who has supported Micro.blog, whether you tried it only briefly, or stuck with it for years, or came back again later to rediscover it. As the United States votes today, still no politics in Discover this week, except this one thing: go vote! 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Feeling a bit reflective on this election day morning. 8 years ago, I had already been working on Micro.blog, but the presidential election results pushed me to get my act together so I could hit the ground running at the beginning of the new year. January 2nd, launched the Kicks … | Continue reading
Happy Election Day, America! Went for a short walk to pick up a coffee. Beautiful cool fall day in Austin. | Continue reading
One more day until we learn what kind of country we live in. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
I still have mixed feelings about SwiftUI. Trying to give it another chance, because the first 90% is so tempting. But then the final customization of little things, just wish it was AppKit. | Continue reading
SNL’s opening skit tonight was a lot of fun. Let’s go Kamala Harris! Finish strong. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
No matter what happens Tuesday, what a huge failure that Trump made it back on the ballot after impeachments, criminal convictions, and not accepting the last election. Ridiculous. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Hi Austin! Reminder we’re resuming the IndieWeb Meetup. This coming Wednesday, Nov 6th, the day after the election, 7pm, Mozart’s Coffee. | Continue reading
Good guidelines from Bluesky about how they’re approaching misinformation in the final days of the presidential election. For Micro.blog, no politics will go into Discover until after the election, unless it’s non-partisan reminders to vote. | Continue reading
I was looking for old photos and diagrams of Robert Mueller airport and found this progression of satellite photos of Austin. Wild to watch time pass as the airport becomes the Mueller neighborhood. | Continue reading
Another photo from Oklahoma City a few days ago, the statues commemorating the land run of 1889. I learned a surprising amount of history from reading Boom Town. Still thinking about it. | Continue reading
Glad to see the return of the Day One podcast. I guess I had subscribed years ago and then they stopped doing the show, but today it popped back up in Overcast. On the new episode, Paul Mayne talks about how things have gone since the Automattic acquisition and what they might do … | Continue reading
I’ve driven around a lot of Texas this week. Democratic candidates have raised so much money this year, would it kill them to sprinkle a little advertising in rural America? It’s a small thing, but small things win or lose elections. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler. This was brilliant. I may need to read it again… Sometimes my mind would wonder, thinking about the future. 📚 | Continue reading
Rained off and on through the night at Abilene State Park. Went for a short hike in the morning. | Continue reading
Between Oklahoma City and Dallas there’s a surprisingly high number of Trump “2020” billboards. Expect these might stay up for another decade until they’ve faded away. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Oklahoma City loves this team. Thunder are really good right now. Still excited for the Spurs this season, just a little overmatched tonight. 🏀 | Continue reading
Spurs vs. Thunder. Wemby warming up from the 3-point line. 🏀 | Continue reading
Trees and remains of the wall of the federal building, at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial. | Continue reading
Micro.blog t-shirts! Jim Mitchell realized I was never going to get around to making t-shirts, so with my blessing he’s done it: the unofficial official Micro.blog t-shirt. Just ordered one for myself. There’s a phone case too. | Continue reading
Here’s a silly thing I created for Halloween, a new domain name: micro.boo! 👻 It just collects posts that mention Halloween or use emoji, from Micro.blog and other sources connected to Micro.blog. Sort of a random Halloween-themed timeline. 🎃 | Continue reading
The pandemic started to hit America in earnest just as we were wrapping up IndieWebCamp Austin 2020. If the event had been scheduled for even a couple weeks later, it would’ve been cancelled, as everything moved online to Zoom meetings. Years have passed since then. It now feels … | Continue reading
Finished reading: Boom Town by Sam Anderson. Could not ask for a more perfect book to finish before driving up to Oklahoma City. Great mix of basketball and the history of the city going back to the founding. 📚 | Continue reading
Turquoise Coffee Stop. Neat little coffee shop in the very small town of Chillicothe, with a sort of museum inside that reflects the memorabilia and politics of its owners. | Continue reading
My plan for not losing my mind as we head into election day: Travel this week. Watch basketball instead of the news. Call voters on election day. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
On the road this week. Stopped for a quick lunch and coffee at 8th Street Coffee House in Wichita Falls. | Continue reading
Bluesky comes up in the latest ActivityPub newsletter update from Ghost: Another cool thing that happened last week was that we enabled a bridge to BlueSky — an alternative decentralized social network which doesn’t use ActivityPub, but instead uses its own alternative protocol. … | Continue reading
On the latest episode of Core Int, we talk about updates we might see to MacBooks, the recent funding and growth of Bluesky, and what it means to be rich. | Continue reading
At first I wasn’t going to cancel my Washington Post subscription… but I did. There’s not really a better way to send a message to Jeff Bezos that this was a bad call so close to the election. It’s not like a small company where you can send an email and have your voice heard. &# … | Continue reading
I voted today. Triple-checked my ballot. Still nervous but feels good to have the end of the election in sight. This is one for the history books. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
From an article and discussion with the Humane founders, Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, from Om Malik’s new site Crazy Stupid Tech: “We had to stand up and accept the critique and feedback in front of our team, in front of the public, and just continue to push forward ever … | Continue reading
Got a really nice response to our quick one-day sale, 25% off for a year if you upgrade to Micro.blog Premium or Micro.blog Family. I’m going to keep the sale for another 24 hours for folks in other time zones who missed it. 🏷️ | Continue reading
Micro.blog will not endorse a candidate for president. But I will, because these are the kind of things I post on my blog. Kamala Harris, for the people. 🇺🇸 I don’t know what’s going on over at The Washington Post but the timing is terrible. We do not need any las … | Continue reading
Ben Thompson’s interview with Marc Benioff is kind of wild. I had mostly ignored Salesforce until now. Worth a listen. | Continue reading
Not sure what to think about this video from Josh Miller about Arc not going anywhere. I just started using it a couple weeks ago! Confused messaging because now the app feels obsoleted, which I don’t think is their intention. | Continue reading
Sale! Today only, upgrade to the Micro.blog Premium or Family plan and get 25% off for the next year. Create up to 5 blogs, video hosting, and more. 🏷️ | Continue reading