Misplaced my AirPods Pro, possibly in New Orleans. I’ve been using wired EarPods for a few days and… they’re fine! EarPods have always felt better in my ears, and they work 100% of the time when plugged it instead of 97% for Bluetooth. | Continue reading
Was listening to Laura Coates on CNN during lunch (yes, I watch the news too much) when the fanatical Trump supporter lit himself on fire outside the courthouse. Disturbing and sad. Reminder to everyone that we sometimes need to lower the temperature and be mindful of getting swe … | Continue reading
TikTok Notes is an odd name for a product that is mostly about photos. I hope it doesn’t lead to a redefinition of the word “notes” in social media, like what happened to a lesser extent with “stories”. Wonder if Substack Notes (a mostly text-based network) isn’t thrilled either. | Continue reading
Listened to the first half of The Tortured Poets Department last night before going to bed. When I woke up, there’s basically a whole extra album out! Makes me happy imagining how much fun it must be for Taylor Swift and her fans to have these surprises. Masterclass in creativity … | Continue reading
Thanks @vladcampos for having me as a guest on his show this week! Here’s a link to the video on YouTube. We talked about blogging, where Micro.blog came from, my book, and much more about the social web. | Continue reading
Tonight’s plan: Now: Work on Micro.blog while CNN is on in the background, explosions in Iran. 10:30pm: Watch Jimmy Kimmel and/or Stephen Colbert. 11pm: Listen to Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Later: Sleep, hope tomorrow is a good day. | Continue reading
Announcing Micro Camp 2024! Coming up next month. From Jean’s post: Save the date! The 4th annual Micro Camp will be May 17. It will be a bit more micro this year, but we’re still doing it. 😇 Christina Warren / @film_girl@mastodon.social will join @manton and me for a cha … | Continue reading
Learning about the jury process for Trump’s trial, seems like even with the slow start they’ve got things well in hand. We can wait a few more days. There are limits in the system, so the defense can’t veto thousands of potential jurors until they find the rare Trump fan in NYC. … | Continue reading
Rabbit founder Jesse Lyu, posting on Twitter X: in about 7 days, r1 reviews will be out. we are ready to face any criticism and we will fix any issues that we need to fix. Meanwhile almost nothing from Humane’s founders after the negative reviews. I’d be blogging. Tell us how you … | Continue reading
I asked Meta.ai to imagine Austin in the 1920s, in watercolor. It has a lot of mistakes that a human artist would never make, but I wish Austin still looked like this. Bring back the trolleys! | Continue reading
Meta’s ramping up their AI efforts. Playing around with www.meta.ai, it falls over with describing photos, which is my new go-to test, but I love the short animated drawings it can do. ChatGPT is still the gold standard. | Continue reading
Continuing to work through some lingering Micro.blog issues with the Ruby 3 upgrade. As I spot errors, I’m fixing them. Don’t hesitate to report issues via email or @help. | Continue reading
I’m obviously not a constitutional lawyer, but seems like the right move to dismiss the impeachment charges. Republicans just wanted to turn the Senate trial into part of the political campaign — where TV networks would amplify their message — while they refused to move on actual … | Continue reading
I read some good blog posts this week about AI, from a range of perspectives. Micro.blog won’t be for everyone, but I do want it to appeal to folks who can’t wait for the AI-powered future and to folks who don’t think the benefits outweigh the potential harm. (And the majority wh … | Continue reading
I sort of can’t get over how the data servers for TikTok’s Project Texas aren’t actually in Texas. I know it wasn’t intended to be a public name, but still… what else are they lying about? 🤪 More at The Verge. | Continue reading
AltStore PAL launches in the EU. Riley Testut blogs about the release, including what types of apps are the best fit for AltStore: All apps are welcome, but I believe AltStore makes the most sense for smaller, indie apps that otherwise couldn’t exist due to App Store rules. There … | Continue reading
On reviews of the AI Pin, the bigger problem is clickbait titles. Reviews on The Verge, MKBHD, The New York Times, and elsewhere seemed quite fair if you read or watched through the whole thing. Don’t think this would be a controversy if the titles hadn’t been so provocative. | Continue reading
Finally updated from Ruby 2 to Ruby 3 today. It went mostly smoothly, but there were a couple bugs that slipped through my testing. Lots of little changes and removed deprecated methods. | Continue reading
There is a lot happening around generative AI. With the continued improvements from OpenAI, expected AI features from Apple coming up at WWDC, and new devices like the Rabbit R1, we’re all going to be swimming in AI this year. Some people feel (understandably!) like they’re drown … | Continue reading
Great video comparison of the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1. Obviously as the founder of Rabbit, Jesse is biased, but I think his video is fair. I’d love to know technically why the Pin is slower. Which LLMs are being used in these devices? Too slow and it loses a little of the mag … | Continue reading
Jason Snell writes about how the smartphone duopoly makes it hard to create truly new products if they need tight integration with existing platforms: This is not a lament for Humane or its business model. It’s a lament for all of us. So many innovative products will never get fu … | Continue reading
Lakers vs. Pelicans. Last game of the regular season. 🏀 | Continue reading
Pretty devastating but not surprising review of Humane’s AI Pin by David Pierce at The Verge. It wraps up with some hope that this can be the first step: I hope Humane keeps going. I hope it builds in this basic functionality and figures out how to do more of it locally on the de … | Continue reading
Looking forward to what people come up with for today’s Micro.blog photo challenge word “train”… Love train-related photos. 🚂 | Continue reading
I tried www.lyrak.com because I try all social apps, but it forced me to follow 5 people (couldn’t view their posts first) to finish sign-up. Don’t have much confidence that whoever okayed that UI will build something I’d want to use. Complaints are cheap, though. Will keep an ey … | Continue reading
Matt Mullenweg on the Beeper acquisition, adding to their previous acquisition of Texts: Today the announcement went out that we’re combining the best technology from Beeper and Texts to create a great private, secure, and open source messaging client for people to have control o … | Continue reading
For day 8 of the Micro.blog photo challenge: prevention. | Continue reading
Book to read while we wait for the eclipse, with a sort of appropriate title, Sunbringer. 🌑 | Continue reading
Happy eclipse day! It’s going to be a little cloudy here but still looking forward to the experience. 🌑 | Continue reading
The finale for Curb Your Enthusiasm was just right. Gonna miss that show but it was a good time to wrap it up. Last few seasons have been some of the best. 📺 | Continue reading
Watching this video on Twitter X of Elon Musk talking about multiplanetary human life… Makes me sad all over again that he ever bought Twitter. Not just for all the tech and social reasons, but also because of the distraction away from the mission of SpaceX, and related brand ero … | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Hadn’t read this in about twenty years and I wondered if it would be as good as I remembered. It was. 📚 | Continue reading
Interesting article in The New York Times about training AI. The “cut corners” in the title is too loaded, and some of it seems a bit overblown: Their situation is urgent. Tech companies could run through the high-quality data on the internet as soon as 2026, according to Epoch, … | Continue reading
Slow afternoon. Time for some database server housekeeping. | Continue reading
I’m the guest on episode 7 of the Decentered podcast! This was a really fun discussion. We talk about the early days of Micro.blog, of course the fediverse, Mastodon, Bluesky, ActivityPub, the IndieWeb, how Micro.blog encourages blogging, and where things are going. | Continue reading
Nice new blogroll from Molly White. I love this part of the web… Sharing links to interesting blogs, discovering new writers, seeing how people shape their space on the web. That’s what it’s about. | Continue reading
I’m doing another editing pass of Indie Microblogging. Changing the page size and running a test printing soon to see how it feels in hardcover instead of paperback. I know it’s ridiculous that it has taken so long. New goal is to have it shipped by not-yet-announced Micro Camp 2 … | Continue reading
“Most important things in life are a hassle. If life’s hassles disappeared, you’d want them back.” — Hayao Miyazaki | Continue reading
I’m a day late for the Micro.blog photo challenge word “foliage”, but this was a nice view this morning. 🌳 | Continue reading
Lots of improvements in this release. Full release notes: Added new logs window to show current blog publishing status and other errors. Added keyboard navigation for the timeline. Up and down arrows to select posts, return key to view conversation, and command-R to reply. Added … | Continue reading
No invite to WWDC for me this year. Still hoping to get out to San Jose for a couple days. We talk more about WWDC (and my new MacBook Pro) on Core Intuition 594, just posted. | Continue reading
Disney Imagineering is at the top of their game right now. Watching this YouTube video of new animatronics for the redesigned Splash Mountain → Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. | Continue reading