It’s odd how many developers in the fediverse don’t know how Bluesky works. I’ve made it my business to understand a little bit about all platforms, going back 30 years of building for the web. Product design is then finding the right way to put the pieces together. | Continue reading
OpenAI’s Orion model may be released before the end of the year, according to The Verge: Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models, GPT-4o and o1, Orion won’t initially be released widely through ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI is planning to grant access first to companies it work … | Continue reading
Added a help page to describe how configuring Bluesky handles in Micro.blog works. Super easy, almost nothing to do. | Continue reading
It’s probably not well known that when you enable Bluesky in Micro.blog, it also enables your blog domain name to be used as your Bluesky handle. In fact it’s so hidden a feature that I forgot if I had ever implemented this and had to double-check today. | Continue reading
Interesting contrast today in how two newspapers have covered the same story. I cancelled my NYT subscription this year, but I happen to see the news item pop up in my timeline. The New York Times: Biden Administration Outlines Government ‘Guardrails’ for A.I. Tools A national se … | Continue reading
We rolled out a new zoom for photos on the web. Thanks @vincent for working on this! It turned out really well. Here’s a quick demo video. | Continue reading
As AI gets better at helping with coding, I think it’s going to feel similar to the productivity boost going from assembly language to Pascal or C. Or maybe from C to Ruby. Development becomes more about orchestrating lots of modules that AI handles the busywork implementation fo … | Continue reading
I don’t really understand what consistency models are, but nice to see OpenAI sticking to their bizarre lowercase letter naming. 4o, o1, and now sCM. | Continue reading
Back in 1994, I would never have guessed that the computing future 30 years later would still have so many modal dialog boxes. | Continue reading
Jason Fried says version 1 is for you: v1 is for us. No one else. Others will use it, many will resonate with it, but ultimately, v1 is ours. It’s sacred ground. There’s an eternity to change, tweak, modify, grow, expand, and adjust for everyone else, but there’s only a fixed amo … | Continue reading
Glass houses, throwing stones, etc. I gripe about ActivityPub’s chattiness but just fixed a bug that caused way too many activities to be sent out for some posts in external feeds, as if they had been edited. Need better tools to peer into the system to see what it’s actually doi … | Continue reading
Whenever I search for recipes and get back so much search-optimized filler text and ads, explaining the background of every ingredient instead of just showing me the recipe, I want to start my own recipe blog. Today I actually registered a domain for this. Have a recipe to share? … | Continue reading
The weakest link in Micro.blog’s server infrastructure remains our two Redis servers, which often get up to the breaking point of memory usage. That blew up today and I just finished restoring it. 48 GB memory is not enough, but I’m hesitant to do another upgrade… Need to trim th … | Continue reading
The background queue for ActivityPub-related tasks in Micro.blog seems to have accumulated 5 million jobs overnight. Some replies to the fediverse will be delayed until I sort out what happened or it eventually catches up. | Continue reading
Good interview from Joanna Stern with Craig Federighi. I’ve got nitpicks with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1, but listening to Craig it’s pretty easy to nod along with Apple’s strategy. | Continue reading
I would pay for a third-party API that works like Apple’s private cloud compute. For the foreseeable future, AI is just going to be better in the cloud. Would be great to take advantage of that with fewer privacy trade-offs. | Continue reading
I may have to visit this massive solar farm next time I’m in the area, about an hour outside Austin. 1.3 million solar panels. Made in America so there’s a tax credit too under the Inflation Reduction Act. (Thanks Biden!) | Continue reading
Really good point from Tim Walz in this clip today: Donald Trump has already promised that he’d put Elon in charge of government regulations that oversee the businesses that Elon runs. […] Donald Trump, in front of the eyes of the American public, is promising corruption. | Continue reading
Because Strata notes are end-to-end encrypted, I’ve gotta rethink how I might build features that are usually server-based. Even simple things like search have to be on the client. If we ship any features that temporarily store data in plaintext, going to make this opt-in and as … | Continue reading
Everyone is confused by OpenAI’s product names — GPT 4o and o1 — but I’m also amused that Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet is still called 3.5, not 3.6. Why even have version numbers? 🤪 Also very interesting Rabbit-esque “computer use” feature. | Continue reading
Thanks Aaron Ross Powell for the blog post about Micro.blog! On cross-posting: But the magic, and the reason Micro.blog and services like it are the way the social web ought to work, comes in what it calls “Sources.” These are other platforms, including many social media platform … | Continue reading
Something very significant is happening in Texas with reviewing death row inmate Robert Roberson’s trial. He was supposed to be executed last week. Abbot and Paxton are of course useless, but the legislature is trying to make it right. This article in the Texas Tribune is a good … | Continue reading
Early voting started today! We went to our location but the line was insanely long. Gonna try again tomorrow. Hopefully a good sign for turnout. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
I’m using iOS App Intents for the first time as a developer. My gut feeling when this was all introduced was that it was way too limited to create an extensible, universal Siri that works in lots of contexts. I still believe that. Some cool things are possible, though. | Continue reading
When I get a questionable notification summary in the iOS 18.1 beta, I run the original text through OpenAI to compare. It’s usually better. Certainly not a deal-breaker, but the thing about AI is it needs to actually be good or you lose the illusion. | Continue reading
WNBA finals, game 5, a minute and a half left, tied game… This is what it’s all about. 🏀 | Continue reading
Ben Werdmuller has several ideas for building on the fediverse, including add-on services, SDKs, rebuilding his platform Known, and a “fediverse VIP” for professionals. | Continue reading
Sunny day in Austin. Finally got the adapter for my new solar panel so I can actually test everything. Getting about 60 watts. Not a lot but plenty to keep my Jackery in the car topped off for charging gadgets. | Continue reading
Love this episode of The Vergecast about a YouTuber opening a coffee shop. I would also like to open a coffee shop / bookstore one day… I browse commercial real estate listing way too often. | Continue reading
Mimi Uploader is now free for the rest of the year. Great opportunity to do more photo-blogging on Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Updated my Texas state parks page, now up to 17 out of 88 parks. Need to get back on schedule to have any hope of finishing this challenge within a few years. | Continue reading
Eisenhower State Park near my campsite this morning. I had so much fun last night for the Honda Element meetup! Lots of cool cars, all different. | Continue reading
Posted a new Core Intuition. This week we talk about trademarks… with Micro.blog, not WordPress. When to call a lawyer and other decisions of running a small business. | Continue reading
Traveling today, but carved out a nice morning in Dallas to fix and deploy several bugs. Loving this weather too. | Continue reading
Great post from Cory Doctorow on using RSS: Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without … | Continue reading
I ported another Hugo theme over to Micro.blog. It’s called Soho, based on the Hyde theme. Just needed a little adapting for microblog posts. Available for previewing in the plug-in directory. | Continue reading
I’m less than a week into using Arc on the Mac, and already I’m so used to it that when I hop into Safari, everything is a little off. | Continue reading
The new color Kindle looks really nice. I don’t read comics on the Kindle or make highlights much, so the only advantage for color would be book covers… Almost worth it. I bet those look great. | Continue reading
I missed the beginning of the Texas debate but from what I saw in the second half, Colin Allred did really well. Ted Cruz is so obnoxious. Always a tough race here, though. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
I recorded a quick video demo of the new theme preview in Micro.blog. This is such an obvious feature but it was sort of tricky to do before because of how Micro.blog is architected with static-site generation. Working pretty well so far! | Continue reading
Good glass-half-full analysis from Jason Snell about the new iPad mini with A17 Pro: …this model feels more like a holding action that gets the iPad mini onto Apple Intelligence… while also using up some amount of chip excess. If I had to predict when we’ll see a next-next-genera … | Continue reading
Things have accelerated since my post about Automattic and WP Engine a couple weeks ago. I’m writing this follow-up post not to pick sides, but because it feels right to blog about something this significant happening in the website hosting world. Banning WP Engine from WordPress … | Continue reading
A few more notes about the new theme preview feature at the help site. | Continue reading
New iPad Mini with the A17 Pro and AI looks good. At first I was surprised by the $500 price, thought for sure the previous model was less expensive, but no. I’m still enjoying the iPhone Pro Max as a mini mini iPad, but I’m already used to the iPhone size, so it no longer feels … | Continue reading
New way to preview themes, from the news blog: Added new Preview button for themes in the plug-in directory. This will create a special preview version of your blog to try out the theme. Also improved the tab bar and navigation around plug-ins. Micro.blog News https://news.micro. … | Continue reading
Working with the Stripe API this morning, trying to make things a little better. It hurts to look at the dashboard and see all the failed payments. MRR is so much higher than actual revenue. 💔 | Continue reading