Having a difficult time finishing books this year. Keep starting new ones but not ready to officially let the other ones go. So just going back and forth between multiple books. Need a couple short books to get out of this cycle. | Continue reading
Dune, part 2. Stunning. So much there that it was almost overwhelming… Loved it. | Continue reading
On the latest episode of @coreint, we talk about Apple’s now-cancelled car project, speculate on what Tim Cook meant by “break new ground” on generative AI, and reflect on Apple’s highly-curated public image. | Continue reading
Early voted today in the Texas primary. Sad to admit I don’t have high expectations for Democrats here this year. Almost impossible to focus on anything except Biden vs. Trump. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Great news for PWAs: Apple is not disabling them in the EU after all. It seemed like an unnecessary reaction to the DMA, so I’m very glad to see this. Wonder if there was pushback from web folks inside Apple too. | Continue reading
Victor Wembanyama doing things no one has ever done in the NBA before. Great highlights here: www.threads.net/@nba/post… | Continue reading
I can’t get over how nonsensical Trump sounds sometimes. From yesterday’s trip to the border: …millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages. We have languages coming into our country, we have nobody that even speaks those languages. Th … | Continue reading
Great post on WP Tavern by Ronny Shani about the state of WordPress’s Data Migration initiative. It also mentions Blog Archive format. I’d love to see WordPress just adopt .bar or something similar enough to be compatible with it. | Continue reading
Happy leap day! Seth Godin blogs about making the leap to blogging every day: It wasn’t an external leap. The first hundred blog posts were read by fewer than a dozen people. It was an internal one. The decision to be a blogger. And then redeciding, each day, not to stop. | Continue reading
The country has been very patient waiting on the Trump trials, and this latest delay with the Supreme Court makes it feel like we’ve been scammed. It has been three years! Guess there’s the NY case but it won’t carry the same weight. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Uploading a new beta of Micro.blog for iOS with some more fixes. This should be ready to ship later this week. We’ve also dusted off our app Sunlit, so there will be a new version of that soon too. | Continue reading
No, I don’t want to rate the app, or the Skype call, or the mechanic, or the quality of a support email, or a song, or my doctor’s appointment, or whether the web page answered my question… I don’t really want to rate anything ever again! If I actually have feedback, I know how t … | Continue reading
Still votes to count in the Michigan primary, but seems like the protest vote against Biden will settle out around 15%. Which sounds significant except that the protest vote against Trump is 30%. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
The Verge’s early look at Humane’s AI Pin sounds about right: It’s a darn cool gadget. It’s just buried under a layer of marketing so thick that it’s hard to appreciate what it actually could be if Humane wasn’t so self-serious. As I’ve said before, there’s a good idea here somew … | Continue reading
I never want to see layoffs, but it’s the right move for Apple to officially cancel the car project. It always seemed like a bad fit. I’d love to see a book or web site with all the designs and tech they came up with along the way, though! Must’ve been interesting. | Continue reading
Tracks across Navasota Street, before having lunch with an old friend at Cosmic. | Continue reading
I’ve seen a couple links to this post on 404 Media that Automattic may sell user data to AI companies. We’ll see how it shakes out, but just in case anyone is worried about Micro.blog: our terms of service make it clear that users own their data, not us. We put this in to avoid a … | Continue reading
When we simplified our pricing, some folks asked if it was such a good deal for customers that we would be losing money as a company. I calculated what the initial revenue hit would be before making the decision. We decided it was worth it to make Micro.blog Premium more appealin … | Continue reading
Netflix is turning off the existing paid subscriptions for people who signed up years ago using iOS in-app purchase. I’d love to know how much money this represents. On the sort of eve of the DMA, just highlights that there’s no chance Netflix ever adopts in-app purchase again. | Continue reading
February has been busy. Pausing to reflect on everything that has happened in one month: new notes feature, new app Strata, new extensions for Firefox and Chrome, new pricing structure with multiple blogs, app updates to Micro.blog for macOS and Epilogue for iOS, keyword muting. … | Continue reading
Congrats @cheesemaker on shipping a new iOS app Calamity! It pulls in potential disasters near you — earthquakes, wildfires, flooding, near-miss asteroids, and other bad news. | Continue reading
Just in time for an election year in the US, from @news today: Added muting words or phrases to the timeline! On the web, click Account → Edit Muted and Blocked Users. Note that after some changes, it may take a minute to update the timeline. Micro.blog News https://news.micro.bl … | Continue reading
Sometimes I get carried away using Redis. Made another change a couple days ago that shaved over 12 GB off our memory usage. Probably more we can do. | Continue reading
Good summary blog post on some of the IndieWeb-related improvements @paulrobertlloyd has made recently. The updated design of the IndieWeb wiki pages is a nice improvement. Paul and others will be gathering in Brighton for IndieWebCamp… I’ll try to join remotely too if the time z … | Continue reading
On a bit of a roll with iOS app updates this week. Some minor improvements to both Strata and Epilogue in the queue for Apple to review. Love how the new icons look in my iPhone dock. | Continue reading
Just posted the latest episode of Core Intuition. We talked a lot about the Micro.blog notes rollout, and the new iOS app Strata, plus the pricing of Black Ink’s subscription. | Continue reading
Posted a new beta of Epilogue on TestFlight. Having mixed feelings about the Open Library integration, so I’ve removed the tab that was in previous betas. Might bring it back later. | Continue reading
Bluesky has a couple new blog posts and info around the production deploy of federation. From their main blog post: The ability to host your own data, just as you might run your own website, provides the fundamental guarantee that social media will never again be controlled by on … | Continue reading
I didn’t think Apple needed to make a sports app, but now that they have, it’ll be my default. I agree with John Gruber’s post that being fast matters: …the truth is ad tech, combined with poor programming, has made most sports apps slow to load. Most apps, period, really. Just b … | Continue reading
Really happy with the feedback on our pricing change. I think it’s resonating well with folks because there’s essentially no downside! It’s either the same price, or cheaper, or you get more features. It’s also simpler for us because everyone gets it, no need to manage “legacy” s … | Continue reading
Tired of running out of disk space, finally decided to move Xcode and the DerivedData folder to a little external SSD. Might’ve bought myself another year with this older MacBook Pro. | Continue reading
Micro.blog has always had per-blog pricing. Hosting one blog was $5, two blogs was $10, three blogs was $15, and so on. On top of that, Micro.blog Premium added additional features either to a specific blog (like podcast hosting, video, and email newsletters) or across the platfo … | Continue reading
I wouldn’t mind an AI assistant that could call my doctor’s office, wait on hold forever, and make a 6-month follow-up appointment. Seems like we should be close to that. 🤖 | Continue reading
Had to take Groq.com out for a spin (not xAI’s Grok). Continue to be pretty happy with OpenAI, though, especially to outsource our AI features — transcribing podcasts and summarizing bookmarked web pages. It’s such a narrow use case that the costs are easily manageable. | Continue reading
Just another day digging through the Mastodon source code to understand what in the world it’s doing to verify remote accounts. Fixed a couple issues on my side. Can’t wait for the test suites that folks are working on. | Continue reading
Not sure when our luck with Apple is going to run out, but we’ve now had a few quick app approvals without any issues. So nice to just get little improvements out. Strata 1.0.2 is available now. | Continue reading
New sticker, Books Are Magic. Also started reading The Bone Season. | Continue reading
Posted another short video on YouTube about notes, this time with Micro.blog for macOS. The app has a slightly different UI and auto-saves notes, encrypted back to the server. | Continue reading
Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky… If you’re feeling overwhelmed by our post-Twitter social web, this post from Ben Werdmuller should hit home. My advice: don’t read everything. Post to your blog first, then dip into other apps whenever you have time. Never reload the never-ending algor … | Continue reading
Last night’s downtown revealed yet more holes in server redundancy that should’ve been solved earlier. Another thing to add to my week’s to-do list. | Continue reading
Interesting thread from Mastodon’s Renaud Chaput, noticed via The Fediverse Report, about how Mastodon is approaching quote posts: It is a complex task and we have been working on defining the feature and the protocol-level details for some time. We are moving forward, and there … | Continue reading
Eugen Rochko on recent Mastodon spam. I haven’t noticed any problems yet but I expect some spam DMs will hit Micro.blog from this as well: There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It’s more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting sm … | Continue reading
It’s easy to be blinded by past decisions. I took a fresh look at our pricing this weekend and ran some numbers. Going to try to simplify things even further. (No price increase. $5 is the ideal price for all things, from a latte to blog hosting.) | Continue reading
Fun 3-point contest tonight, especially the Steph vs. Sabrina addition. Hope they keep some version of that going in future years. Watching the dunks now but the scoring is usually so subjective it distracts from how amazing everything is. | Continue reading
I hadn’t read Tantek Çelik’s post on the ephemeral web yet when I blogged about Mastodon yesterday, otherwise I would’ve linked to it. Really good: All reply-contexts of and replies to such posts and conversations lost, like threads unraveled from an ancient tapestry, scattered t … | Continue reading
Quiet morning working on Mac software. Fixed a handful of bugs in Micro.blog and released a new version. Will continue to roll out server improvements for the new notes feature as I have them ready. | Continue reading