Jeremy Keith built a static archive of his site The Session: I wanted to reduce the dependencies on each page to as close to zero as I could. All the CSS is embedded in the the page. Likewise with most of the JavaScript (you’ll still need an internet connection to get audio playb … | Continue reading
Om Malik: Pure blogging is “blogging” because you have something to say. To me, that is a pure blogger. Any other explanation of blogging “is just the traditional idea of media,” meant for an audience and for reach. | Continue reading
Jamie Zawinski on the 30-year anniversary of the Netscape 0.9 release: According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was download … | Continue reading
Tuned in to the SpaceX livestream in time to see the Starship splashdown. Watched the recap of catching the booster too. Incredible. Looks like something that might be an AI-generated video, but it’s real. 🚀 | Continue reading
Bennu Coffee might be too serious about their wi-fi passwords. ☕️ | Continue reading
It’s time for another update in my Honda Element blog post series. After my last road trip, I decided to scrap the rooftop box. Even though the extra storage was great, I was suspicious it was dragging too much on the highway and killing my gas milage. In its place I’ve mounted a … | Continue reading
The Internet Archive is still down after an attack. A backup of the web is too important to only have one copy of. This is why we do so much archiving inside Micro.blog (for Premium). Everything you link to in a blog post is archived, with images and CSS. Helps distribute the wor … | Continue reading
Considering a radical redesign of the Micro.blog home page. The current design by @vincent has served us well for nearly two years now. Maybe time to shake things up. | Continue reading
Now that we’ve got Threads cross-posting for everyone, it was time to clean up a few related things. Today I added some better styling for showing categories and cross-post services. Plus, you can finally edit the cross-posting for a draft! | Continue reading
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has written a long essay about powerful AI. I haven’t even finished reading it and it has already blown my mind a few times over: To summarize the above, my basic prediction is that AI-enabled biology and medicine will allow us to compress the progress … | Continue reading
When we recorded the latest Core Int, I hadn’t yet watched Money Electric on HBO. Just watched it tonight and it was excellent. I still have mixed feelings about digging up Satoshi’s identity, but it was very convincing. | Continue reading
We were late with the last episode of Core Int, so it’s basically two episodes this week. On the new show today, we talk about Daniel’s latest updates to Black Ink, version numbers, doing things the right way, tracking down Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto, and AI energy use. | Continue reading
I’ve decided to give Arc for Mac a real shot, going all-in as my default browser. I usually use Safari and have no complaints with it. Nice to see Arc trying some new things, though. Also liked Chris Messina’s post about where Arc 2.0 might be going. | Continue reading
As soon as Threads released their early documentation for the Threads API months ago, we dropped everything we were doing and prototyped it in Micro.blog. We had a slow road to getting approved by Meta, but I’m happy to announce that automatic cross-posting from your blog to Thre … | Continue reading
NPR has reviewed internal documents from TikTok: For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns. W … | Continue reading
Trying a new coffee place. Cafe at the Loren with a nice view across Riverside. Where I’m sitting used to be a Taco Cabana. ☕️ | Continue reading
Don’t sleep on the “Custom home page” plug-in for Micro.blog if you need something simple for an extra site. I use it for standalone, single-page websites with a little HTML and CSS (or even JS). | Continue reading
Slack can sometimes be overwhelming. I make it work by limiting myself to about 3 channels in the Mac and iOS apps. Others can be viewed on the web as needed. Also, I mute almost everything, even channels I care about. The only flaw is that @here bypasses mutes, which I don’t thi … | Continue reading
Threads cross-posting is finally rolling out more broadly for Micro.blog folks. Sorry if I didn’t get to your request for the beta earlier. I’m catching up and replying to everyone who asked about it in email. | Continue reading
I’m not interested in a Tesla, or any new car, but I watched the robotaxi event because it felt like it was going to be a spectacle. I do think self-driving will be safer than human drivers. I’m not on board with humanoid robots, though. AI should be confined to software and smal … | Continue reading
Get your 🎃 and 👻 emoji ready. I’m brewing up something fun for Halloween. | Continue reading
Thinking more about this blog post from Nick Radcliffe about effectively rebranding Micro.blog. I want to turn Micro.blog into a sort of bundle (think Apple One) because it does several things. But I don’t know if I can give up the “micro” name as much as redefine it. Small name. … | Continue reading
It’s less than a month until election day. I believe Kamala Harris is going to win. Knock on wood, many things are breaking her way in the final weeks of the campaign, in a way that they did not for Hillary Clinton when she was also on her way to winning the presidency. However, … | Continue reading
Making progress on enabling Threads cross-posting for everyone in Micro.blog. Meta approved the app this week, now waiting for them to approve the business account. It has been slow going because after each rejection I have to work on something else to clear my head. | Continue reading
New Core Int just published. We talk about Meta’s Orion prototype, Daniel trying to remember his Apple Vision Pro password, and more about the future of computers that we put on our face. | Continue reading
Old steps to nowhere in east Austin. Someone’s house used to be here. | Continue reading
As usual I’m working on a few different things in parallel. Server bug fixes, mobile app updates, and something new… Sneak peek in this screenshot. Can’t share more for now, it’s too early! But I love the potential. | Continue reading
Upgraded to macOS Sequoia. iPhone Mirroring is fascinating. It’s better and more native-y for clicks and scrolling than using the iOS simulator. | Continue reading
Interesting heads-up from Gareth Edwards that .io might be going away: Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will … | Continue reading
There are stories about both Trump and Biden in this overview of Bob Woodward’s new book War, but the headline is definitely this Covid intro: As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to d … | Continue reading
This is an only slightly exaggerated story that I see play out again and again from customers: “Micro.blog looks like a good idea. I’m sick of social media and want to blog more.” Blog, blog, blog, microblog, microblog, reply, blog. “Not getting enough engagement. Let’s try Masto … | Continue reading
Happy to get Micro.blog for iOS version 3.3 released. Includes the under-the-hood navigation rewrite that @vincent worked on, new icons for iOS 18, and several other improvements. Much better in lots of small ways. | Continue reading
Odd dream last night. I wrote an April Fool’s press release for Micro.blog announcing full-length blog posts, note taking, audio transcripts, newsletters, reading goals, and bookmarks… Everyone was like “Ha, would be funny if Micro.blog did all of that” and I was like “No, it doe … | Continue reading
Dusted off my Rabbit R1 after listening to the latest interview with Jesse Lyu on Decoder. It needed a bunch of software updates. Even though I haven’t used it in a while, no regrets buying it… It’s a neat device and their vision for AI still has potential. | Continue reading
This ruling for Epic vs. Google goes way further than the concessions Apple has had to make for the EU. From The Verge: Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Goog … | Continue reading
Dave Winer celebrating 30 years of blogging today: Every time you post something you’re proud of on a social media site, how about taking a moment and posting it to your blog too. And while there, if appropriate, link to something from some part of your post, even though the soci … | Continue reading
One year since the Hamas attack on Israel. Hostages still not released. Peace still far off. Gaza still in ruin. At the height of the protests, I wrote this blog post. I stand by it, but of course I have new thoughts today. Not gonna blog, so the old post will have to serve as a … | Continue reading
Less than a month until election day. The deadline to register to vote in Texas is today. Similar for other states, so now is the time for folks who have been procrastinating. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
We saw Megalopolis yesterday and I’m still trying to make sense of it. Feels like there were some interesting ideas, and a couple beautiful scenes, but it didn’t come together as a coherent movie for me. Glad I saw it just because it’s different. 🍿 | Continue reading
Finished Rings of Power season 2. I enjoyed it as long as I don’t hold it to the high standard of how a perfect adaptation looks in my mind. Hobbits and dwarves were the strongest this season for me. Elves dialogue is always overly dramatic. Still all the money on screen, some st … | Continue reading
The controversy with WordPress continues. In fact, it’s escalating as WP Engine has filed a lawsuit against Automattic, and even some employees inside Automattic are frustrated with Matt Mullenweg’s leadership. Matt blogged about offering Automattic employees a chance to leave if … | Continue reading
Experimenting with OpenAI’s new canvas feature. Pretty incredible what it can do. There are a lot of nice UI touches too to help show progress, like how it highlights and rewrites text. | Continue reading
Multiple confirmations from folks that the black screen crashes (reboots?) are an 18.1 beta problem. Without evidence, my gut says this is Apple Intelligence hitting the 8 GB RAM ceiling for local models. It again makes me question Apple not moving more AI to the cloud. | Continue reading
John Gruber on the news that Starlink will offer free service to Hurricane Helene disaster areas: It’s hard to overstate how differently Elon Musk would be perceived if he weren’t a whackjob on political and cultural issues. If Elon had never bought Twitter, never tweeted even, h … | Continue reading
Overall the iPhone 16 Pro Max is amazing. A couple minor gripes: Camera button is a little hard to get used to because it’s not raised. Too easy to accidentally change the zoom. Apps will randomly crash to a black screen and spinner. I’ve never seen this on iOS before. Maybe 18.1 … | Continue reading
I don’t like captchas and will never force them on my customers. With AI, captchas will become increasingly useless anyway. See also, John Mulaney: “I’ve devised a question no robot could ever answer…Which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it?” | Continue reading
Here’s what the new prompt for email newsletter subscriptions looks like for your blog. The extra step lets us generate some random values hidden from real users, inspired by this post from Jeremy Keith, to make it a tiny bit harder for bots. Could do more later now that this is … | Continue reading
Think I figured out my high bounce and complaint rate for email sending. Spammers are trying to (probably accidentally) sign up to customer’s newsletters with fake email addresses. Working on making it harder for bots to navigate this. | Continue reading