Letitia James, after New York’s $350 million fine on Trump: The scale and the scope of Donald Trump’s fraud is staggering. And so too is his ego, and his believe that the rules do not apply to him. Today we are holding Donald Trump accountable. We are holding him accountable for … | Continue reading
Fani Willis testifying in Fulton County, Georgia yesterday: You’re confused. You think I’m on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. Before this, I was receptive to the idea that maybe she should step aside to avoid this trial going off the rail … | Continue reading
We’re two weeks in to the Vision Pro launch! On today’s Core Intuition, I start by asking Daniel if he’s returning it. We talk about whether Apple should be worried about the rollout, Mark Zuckerberg’s comparison to the Quest 3, and more thoughts on how (and whether) the Vision P … | Continue reading
To balance my criticism of Apple today, it appears Apple is letting Epic Games have a dev account in Europe, and presumably a marketplace later. From Tim Sweeney on Twitter X: I’ll be the first to acknowledge a good faith move by Apple amidst our cataclysmic antitrust battle, in … | Continue reading
I get frustrated when a company is actively making the web worse instead of better. Spare me the justifications. If I demonstrated any hostility toward my platform’s users, developers, or the open web more broadly, I hope people would call me on it too. | Continue reading
I don’t want my whole life to be writing blog posts and podcasting about Apple’s changes for the EU’s Digital Markets Act, but this latest developer update from Apple feels like an insult to developers, playing us for fools. Let’s start with how Apple keeps mentioning all the new … | Continue reading
Some of my best blog posts are buried behind really boring, unhelpful post titles. If a post resonates with folks and is shared, it can only be because someone actually read it. The opposite of clickbait. | Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about Mastodon and the fallout from Bridgy’s plan to connect ActivityPub servers to Bluesky. For a snapshot of how this blew up, see this GitHub issue discussion, now thankfully closed after it devolved into personal attacks. It often feels that (some) Mastodon … | Continue reading
Great post from @writingslowly on how categories and filters work in Micro.blog. | Continue reading
If you’ve been following the Bridgy and Mastodon drama, consider that many Mastodon users don’t want a bridge that allows Bluesky to federate with Mastodon, but they do want Bluesky to support ActivityPub so Bluesky can… also federate with Mastodon. | Continue reading
Jason Snell writing at Macworld: What I’m saying is that if Apple would take the chance on four or five wild ideas, it might learn enough to create one or two hits. Given the sluggish growth in its Wearables, Home, and Accessories product category lately, it feels like it might b … | Continue reading
Excellent interview with Jay Graber on Techmeme Ride Home, on YouTube here. Clear framing of Bluesky’s goals and how the platform fits into the web. Sometimes I still can’t believe we’re all working toward a more open, social web again. | Continue reading
I made a short video showing some of the new notes feature in Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Having one of those moments while fixing a bug where I can’t believe this worked at all, for anyone except me. | Continue reading
I added a help page with an overview of how encryption works for notes in Micro.blog, and some basics about the API that Micro.blog and our new app Strata use. | Continue reading
Thanks to @vincent for all his work on our new mobile app Strata. It’s no small thing to get a new app off the ground, especially one that has to integrate with a larger platform API, sign-in, and encryption right out of the gate for 1.0. | Continue reading
Today we’re launching a major new feature for Micro.blog Premium subscribers. Micro.blog notes are a new way to save content in Micro.blog when you don’t want to use a blog post or draft. Notes are private by default, end-to-end encrypted across all platforms, with a special comp … | Continue reading
I’m expecting a little bit of pushback when launching something totally new, because it’s true that existing features are not without flaws. But I’ve dedicated a lot of time over the last month to fixing bugs. Hopefully even if it’s not always noticeable, it does make a differenc … | Continue reading
I have a really hard time coming up with dark mode colors. Nothing looks right. | Continue reading
Good interview at Platformer with Eugen Rochko. Some of his thoughts on AT Protocol: My hope still is that — fingers crossed — when Meta starts federating with Mastodon that the critical mass will be large enough that Bluesky developers will just say, okay, fine. Maybe that W3C a … | Continue reading
In software, sometimes to get attention it helps to release a 2.0. People tune out and don’t know that 1.1 and 1.2 were great. That’s sort of how I feel about Jon Stewart returning to The Daily Show. (Wha…?!) I never got into watching his TV+ show, or even recent Trevor Noah. Ton … | Continue reading
Increasingly feel that I’m paying an Objective-C tax in Xcode. Typing and debugging is so much slower than it was a few years ago, even as the rest of the app has improved nicely. | Continue reading
Started a little slow but that turned into a great game. Can’t believe I doubted Patrick Mahomes at any point in the game. Fun to see the cuts to Taylor Swift and her excitement too. | Continue reading
Congrats to @brentsimmons and the NetNewsWire contributors on the 21-year anniversary of the app! This sounds impossible and yet I did first mention NetNewsWire in a blog post back in 2003. Still as relevant for today’s web as ever. | Continue reading
I dunno folks, I’m starting to think Trump isn’t on our side: …while president, he told the leaders of NATO countries that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not paid the money they owed to the military alliance. Everything Hilla … | Continue reading
Haven’t posted a new home screen in a while. Our new app in the dock, almost ready. Otherwise my go-to apps remain about the same. | Continue reading
Still love developing Mac apps. It’s such a nice feeling to know I can continue to work on little improvements and bug fixes right up until the moment of release, because I don’t use the App Store. | Continue reading
Meandered from browsing old political posts on my blog, to wishing I could link to all posts that contain a certain keyword, to updating my search plug-in to handle this. I know not everyone is a developer, but maybe an under-appreciated feature in Micro.blog is the plug-in syste … | Continue reading
Finally got the hang of CloudKit JS. It’s not as flexible as I’d like, or as seamless as iCloud is in native apps. Sometimes feels that half the problem with web apps is just being signed out constantly. | Continue reading
Enjoyed this review of the Vision Pro from Joe Cieplinski. I’m not convinced about using it for real work, hours every day, but I do agree with how mature and polished visionOS is for a 1.0: This is the best 1.0 Apple has ever shipped. It’s probably the best 1.0 anyone has ever s … | Continue reading
New Core Int! A full hour show with our thoughts after using the Apple Vision Pro. | Continue reading
Spent time profiling server code today. I don’t do that often enough. It’s sometimes surprising what is dragging things down and can be optimized. | Continue reading
Didn’t realize until reading this blog post from the Fediverse Report that much of the new migration to Bluesky is from Japan. Seems significant as Twitter X was always popular in Japan. | Continue reading
Poked through the special counsel report on Biden’s documents. It’s upsetting that personal opinions that have little to do with the investigation were carelessly strewn through the report. Biden is qualified and capable to do the job. I’ve said before, I like him more now than I … | Continue reading
Last week Casey Neistat posted a fun video about the Vision Pro. I love those fun videos he makes. But his latest video is really what it’s about: Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream. It’s up there with Make It Count from 2012. “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale: The great list of all the blog platforms. I’m not just linking to this because Micro.blog is on it… It is a good, simple list of platforms that are actually nice for blogging, with prices for comparison. | Continue reading
When you pay for something, whether $5 or $3500, it’s natural to justify the purchase. You really want it to be worth it. This is mostly how I see the “the killer app is a huge Mac screen” justification for the Vision Pro. This device does have value, but maybe more for escaping … | Continue reading
Tested the Vision Pro for the first time today, in the Apple Store. The passthrough quality and immersive video are pretty unbelievable. Apple must’ve done something right because afterwards I was questioning my whole life (or at least my tech opinions). Still no plans to buy one … | Continue reading
I’ve always liked how Bluesky uses a domain name for your handle. Starting today, Micro.blog has built-in support for verifying these! If you’ve signed into Bluesky with Micro.blog, it will automatically return your AT Protocol “DID” from the .well-known URL for your blog. No DNS … | Continue reading
Bluesky has added another million users this week, bringing the total to over 4 million. By comparison, the ActivityPub-based fediverse has about 10 million users according to FediDB. The situation will change when Threads is added, but if Bluesky keeps growing it’s worth asking … | Continue reading
To underscore the feeling over the last couple weeks that there has been a rise in COVID cases again, today the doctor’s office called to reschedule because almost everyone in their office has it. | Continue reading
My first thought on hearing about the Epic and Disney partnership is that this is how Fortnite eventually gets back into the App Store. Apple is going to need games and content for the Vision Pro. | Continue reading
A created another short video for Micro.blog, this time going through some of the bookmark-related features in Micro.blog Premium. Bookmarking a web page, highlights, and AI summaries. | Continue reading
Scrolling through news.micro.blog, there have been 42 blog posts so far this year. Each one is announcing a new feature or set of bug fixes. Many features are sort of hidden below the surface, so if you’re using Micro.blog and ever think “huh, nothing has changed recently”… check … | Continue reading
Adam Newbold blogged last month about resisting the urge to respond to some posts online: The urge to engage can be overwhelming. It’s normal to want to respond—to correct a mistruth, to set the record straight, to defend a point, or to just add words of strength and courage in t … | Continue reading
Apple has approved our new app and I’m sort of almost shocked, but happy. You never know! It’s a big relief to know that we can continue to plan for a new thing. Plenty of other things to work on before it’s enabled in the App Store, though. | Continue reading
Working on a new (small) web site and using @Mtt’s Tiny theme. The new microhooks are so useful, it’s making me think more about how we can integrate this convention into more themes and even the Micro.blog editing interface. | Continue reading
Wordle 962 4/6. Sharing this one because it’s a sort of perfect pattern that doesn’t happen often. Still playing nearly every day. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | Continue reading