Good post from @mathowie@xoxo.zone about his ideal blogging platform. The part about integrating with other systems is essentially how Micro.blog works, but our text editor is where Micro.blog falls short for some people. Working on that. | Continue reading
Got a lot of good feedback yesterday about what should be prioritized for Micro.blog for macOS. I can’t get to everything, but this next release is shaping up to be very nice. One thing: much better keyboard navigation. I’ve been reserving command-R for years now and finally get … | Continue reading
Working on an update to Micro.blog for macOS. Anyone have any Mac-specific gripes that need attention? | Continue reading
After five years with the Touch Bar, kind of strange to get used to a real function key row again. A good strange, of course. | Continue reading
Coming back from lunch, saw a totally orange Cybertruck and in a weird way it actually looked better than the default color. If you’re going to be different, might as well lean into it. | Continue reading
David Pierce at The Verge writing about Google Podcasts going away and Google’s pattern of abandoning their own apps: It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the wo … | Continue reading
If I’ve learned nothing else managing servers, it’s that you don’t deploy changes in the evening, no matter how tempting it is to get something live right away, no matter how minor or well-tested a change it is. Morning is best. All day to test more, to get feedback, and to notic … | Continue reading
Wicked is an all-time favorite. Haven’t seen it in years and forgot a few details that you miss on the soundtrack. Amazing. | Continue reading
Some folks on Micro.blog who also actively use Bluesky have noticed something new we’ve been rolling out over the last couple of days: Micro.blog will now look for replies on Bluesky to your blog posts, bringing them into the Micro.blog timeline. This transforms Micro.blog into a … | Continue reading
The last few Spurs games have been so good. First time they’ve won three in a row all season. Figuring out how to finish games, and Wemby looking great. Last night with an OT win despite NY’s Brunson putting up 61 points. 🏀 | Continue reading
Core Int 593: California’s Pretty Nice. WWDC 2024 dates are announced, thinking about our trip plans, and whether this is the peak of Apple’s growth and success. | Continue reading
OpenAI’s unreleased voice engine is too good: …uses text input and a single 15-second audio sample to generate natural-sounding speech that closely resembles the original speaker. I’m generally optimistic about AI’s potential in tools to help humans, but we are clearly going to n … | Continue reading
Primary database server hitting 75% disk space usage, time to revisit the long-term plan for scaling that part of the platform. Would prefer to shard some of the data and I had built the tables to allow that. | Continue reading
ShareOpenly is a cool new post sharing option from Ben Werdmuller that works with Mastodon, Micro.blog, Bluesky, Threads, and other services. Good to have platform-agnostic sharing. | Continue reading
April is just around the corner and we’re doing another Micro.blog photo challenge! There will be daily prompts to help inspire posting a photo each day, and a collection so you can see everything together. Check out the details here. | Continue reading
Hot take on so-called white-collar crime, like the Sam Bankman-Fried sentence: 25 years is too long. I also thought Elizabeth Holmes was unfairly sentenced. Everyone wants a villain but real life isn’t that simple. | Continue reading
Colin Devroe has a new interview with me about all things Micro.blog. Interesting to compare what has changed and stayed the same since the last time I talked to Colin a few years ago. | Continue reading
Drove by this old gas station on Lamar a few weeks ago. Closed, junk everywhere, fence around the lot, clearly not long for this world. It had such a cool run-down look I wanted to snap a photo, but I was in my car and couldn’t. Drove by today and it has already been demolished. | Continue reading
Taking a little time this morning to improve the plumbing for Bluesky. Getting closer to a system that can seamlessly mix posts and replies from multiple networks. I think this will be a unique strength of Micro.blog compared to other platforms. | Continue reading
Finally catching up on the Decoder podcast interview with Jay Graber. Really inspired to get back to some Bluesky-related features. Feels like we’re only halfway there. | Continue reading
Backed How Comics Were Made. Only a couple days left on Kickstarter. I have a lot of books about art, comics, and animation especially, but I need more. | Continue reading
Great article from Ben Thompson today on the Apple antitrust case: …the Epic case may have shown that Apple’s policies around the App Store were (mostly) legal, but that didn’t mean they were right; now the DOJ, looking for another point of vulnerability, is trying to make the ca … | Continue reading
John Voorhees has a good section in his article about the Apple antitrust lawsuit about relevant market. I wish the case was more focused on the App Store, because from a dev perspective the market is really people who buys phones and apps. Apple dominates that. | Continue reading
Trying out Adobe Podcast Studio. Some good ideas in this. We’re still using Logic to edit @coreint, but better tools (with a sprinkling of AI) should be able to do at least 90% of what we currently do manually. | Continue reading
Perhaps more than any other time in my life, this November the election is going to be decided by people with a basic grasp of facts vs. people who go by gut feeling or misinformation. Not sure there’s any other way to frame it that matters. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
I don’t care much for stats, but I wonder if Threads will support NodeInfo, so that total user counts will show up on fedidb.org. It is useful to know what types of servers are popular just for compatibility testing. | Continue reading
Realized after tinkering with a bunch of AI models that I’ve been overpaying for a couple things. Updated our OpenAI calls today, should reduce costs down to about 1/3 of what we were paying before. | Continue reading
The latest episode of Core Intuition is out. Longer than usual today, a full hour to discuss United States vs. Apple, and the rumors around Apple’s plan for AI. | Continue reading
I’m using the web interface for WhatsApp for the first time this week. It’s a great reminder of how nice it would be if iMessage had a web interface, on icloud.com along with mail and other apps. Could even start by requiring a registered iPhone so it doesn’t become an Android fr … | Continue reading
Just got completely derailed into huggingface.co, playing with AI models. I continue to be amazed by what is possible now. | Continue reading
One of the discussions at FediForum this week that was the most valuable for me was the session by Nic Clayton for FEP-9fd3. The goal is for servers to advertise what features of the Mastodon client API they can support, such as creating a poll or boosting a post. Clients could r … | Continue reading
Catching up on the drama with Redis changing its license. Not too worried about it. Older versions are fast and stable… when used correctly with enough memory, which is something we’ve run into. Don’t see anything here that would make me switch away. | Continue reading
Pretty fair write-up on Platformer about the Apple case, both the parts that are weak and the larger problem: …while Apple will surely protest this case with every fiber of its being, in the end the company has only itself to blame for the backlash it’s now experiencing around th … | Continue reading
Investigating new issues with Threads posts making it through to Micro.blog. Doesn’t seem to be consistently working. Will fix and post an update to @news after some more testing. | Continue reading
Threads is enabling more of their fediverse support today. To be clear, you can follow Threads accounts from Mastodon or Micro.blog, but you can’t follow those external platforms from within Threads. According to Meta’s blog post, getting outside content into Threads is an “in th … | Continue reading
I’m reading through the lawsuit document intro and skimming the rest. I only have strong opinions about the App Store and developer aspects of the case. Some of the arguments in the case about messaging apps and watches seem more flimsy to me, but perhaps good things will come fr … | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence. Still not completely sure what this was. Feels unique. Had my doubts midway but now I need to read the next one. 📚 | Continue reading
This new video for Humane’s pin is by far the most effective pitch they’ve made for their device. They hide the latency well by talking too. I’m sure they want it to be faster and whoever can crack AI performance is going to succeed. | Continue reading
Dave Winer responds to my post about Threads and account migration: Right now Facebook is hoovering up people who are looking for something new in the Twitter space. So it helps to encourage people to believe that there will be a way out if they want to try something else. But ev … | Continue reading
Following up on this post, personally I don’t like the trend of social networks having a generic “notifications” or “activity” tab where they throw everything, making me sift through the data. When I check Threads, I have to click a few times to get a clean list of mentions. | Continue reading
Jatan Mehta blogs about the noisiness of most social networks, and how Micro.blog takes a different approach: Micro.blog is the only Fediverse-compatible platform I know of which truly does away with likes, boosts, follower counts, and hashtags. I wish all social networks removed … | Continue reading
As Threads rolls out support for ActivityPub, Meta’s approach is to require each Threads user to manually enable fediverse integration. This was demoed yesterday at FediForum. It’s a perfectly reasonable way to start, and I think the UI that Threads has come up with looks good. T … | Continue reading
After waffling for a while, I’ve decided to write a new web text editor for Micro.blog. The new editor will be lightweight and work consistently across platforms, especially mobile. Here’s a video of my progress so far… Still a long way to go, it looks better than it is. Learning … | Continue reading