Looks like Mastodon will be getting expanded support for showing styles in posts. Micro.blog already sends bold, italics, and other basics to Mastodon, so this will be a nice improvement for folks reading in Mastodon. | Continue reading

In case anyone doesn’t notice the post on @news, there was an issue with loading photos from the CDN tonight after an HTTPS certificate expired. I’ve fixed it and also added the CDN to our monitoring so this won’t happen again. | Continue reading

I’m going to attend FediForum on March 30th (day 2) to show how Micro.blog and Mastodon work together. Should be interesting! Feels like 2023 is going to be different tech communities coming together in our shared post-Twitter world. | Continue reading

I’ve been trying the Bluesky beta (still private, but they have a waitlist). I’m open to supporting it because Micro.blog isn’t based on any single protocol. It’s a blogging platform and social network that connects with the web. ActivityPub, Micropub, WebSub, RSS, XML-RPC, whate … | Continue reading

Thanks @Aywren for the kind words about Micro.blog and how it connects to the fediverse and other services. Love this line: “Micro.blog has the ability to connect everything together in a crazy good way.” | Continue reading

We went seriously down the genealogy rabbit hole last night, with a couple “oh wow” moments of discovery. Need to do a little more research at the library (print books! microfilm!) and then will try to write it up in a blog post. | Continue reading

John Gruber writing about the App Store / Twitter apps refund problem: Consider the gut punch of losing your job — you stop earning income. It’s brutal. Now imagine that the way it worked when you get fired or laid off is that you’re also suddenly on the hook to pay back the last … | Continue reading

Love seeing the photos coming in for the March photo challenge. My favorite view is this grid view of thumbnails. Related, I think it’s time we enable the CDN for all blogs by default. I’ll make that change later today and of course you can opt out. | Continue reading

I’ve said before I never want to change Micro.blog’s $5 standard hosting price. The best way to increase revenue is to get more customers and make our $10 plan valuable. But if we ever change it, I promise not to blame it on macroeconomic headwinds. Customers want clear and hones … | Continue reading

Good write-up on Six Colors about the updates to Twitterrific and Tweetbot, which let you opt out of getting a refund. Strongly recommend if you had a subscription to download the update and opt out. Just takes a few seconds and will really help those developers. | Continue reading

It’s bad enough that Linode dropped their logo, but now prices are going up by 20%? I haven’t done the math but this is going to be a big hit to our Micro.blog hosting costs. Not happy. | Continue reading

Can’t believe it’s March already, at least for folks on the other side of the world. Reminder to Mastodon folks: you can follow and participate in the Micro.blog photo challenge by following @challenges@micro.blog. We’ll be sharing some more details as things get underway. | Continue reading

Last night, stayed up until 1am reading Assassin’s Quest. Felt like I was 17 years old instead of 47. 📚 | Continue reading

With the big character limit change behind us, I had a free morning to work on anything. This is my favorite thing about being small. Added a new CSV export for highlights based on recent feedback.Don’t sleep on our bookmarks and highlights feature. 🙂 It is going to grow … | Continue reading

I uploaded a very short 21-second demo video to YouTube, showing the Mac app’s updated character counter for posts with block quotes. Same behavior across all platforms as described in this announcement post. | Continue reading

In 2014, as I was starting work on Micro.blog, I blogged about the properties of a microblog post, including the character length: I picked 280 characters instead of App.net’s 256 characters because it’s slightly less nerdy, and feels right at exactly double Twitter’s 140. This s … | Continue reading

We’re doing another photo challenge in March! Post a photo each day to your blog, inspired by prompts that we’ll post to Micro.blog. | Continue reading

New episode of Core Int: I’m the King of the World. We talk about @danielpunkass trying to ship Black Ink for iOS. Then we react to the latest news of Twitter’s Titanic-like slow sinking. | Continue reading

Actually made a to-do list to coordinate shipping a new feature on all platforms at once: web, macOS, iOS, Android. Takes a lot of juggling even for minor code changes. | Continue reading

Spending a little time this morning improving performance to combat “hackers” making a bunch of requests to our servers, as they attempt to exploit holes that don’t exist. A large percentage of our total hosted blog traffic is just 404s. Waste of internet bandwidth. 🙁 | Continue reading

I’ve documented how Micro.blog works with the Micropub API’s syndicate-to parameter now that there’s more control over cross-posting. Always feels good to revisit an IndieWeb API. | Continue reading

From Platformer, this rings true especially for the Twitter API free vs. paid changes that never materialized: Musk seems to announce a new thing coming “next week” all the time, and often those deadlines pass and whatever feature was allegedly coming is never heard of again. | Continue reading

It’s really cool what @lex has been doing with his Daily Lex podcast. I hoped we’d see this kind of thing when we built podcast hosting in Micro.blog. Recording even a short show nearly every day is hard… I’ve tried and want to get back into it. | Continue reading

Finished reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. So much fun. Still going to skip the movie, doesn’t seem possible to adapt without losing too much. 📚 | Continue reading

Working on a couple new features. Some things we try to roll out across all platforms at once. Some it’s better to release for the web first, then follow up with native app implementations. Not an exact science, just depends on what feels foundational or optional. | Continue reading

Not a lot of words, big change: Enabled spell checking as you type in new posts for desktop web browsers. For mobile, the best editing experience will still be our native iOS and Android apps. Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2023/02/21/enabled-spell-checking.html | Continue reading

Still kind of jarring to see the Akamai logo when I’m using the Linode manager. | Continue reading

Reading about Biden’s trip to Ukraine. Flight to Poland and then 10-hour train to Kyiv. Hoping we see some photos of the train… Fascinating everything that went into the trip. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading

Micro Camp 2023 will be in May. Online-only this year. Email @jean if you’ve got an idea for a short talk you’d like to share with the Micro.blog community. | Continue reading

Rolling out some plumbing for future work. Some features are best deployed in phases… Database changes first, then other services bits, then finally clients. Nice to be able to see how things are running before launching for real. | Continue reading

I try not to complain about pricing because I know how annoying it can be when someone says $5 for Micro.blog is too much, but $12 for Meta Verified is way out of whack. Seems to be a new trend to charge for non-features. | Continue reading

This new Micro.blog plug-in from @sod is so clever. Post previews using your blog template! | Continue reading

Finished reading the last few chapters of Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb on the flight back to Austin. Can’t wait for the next one. 📚 | Continue reading

Realized yesterday that a better per-post cross-posting setting is probably the most common Micro.bog feature request over the years. I think it’s time. Expect it soon-ish. | Continue reading

Hung out with a bunch of people yesterday who I mostly hadn’t met in person before, so now I’m replaying every conversation in my head to remember what idiotic things I probably said. | Continue reading

Of course the HTTPS cert for one of our CDNs would expire while I’m on an airplane. Thanks as always to @vincent for recovering things quickly. | Continue reading

At the beginning of each week, I make a short list of important tasks to work on. Always nice when it’s midweek and a bunch of things are done, sometimes everything. I’ve found this approach works well for me… Each week is a reset with achievable goals. | Continue reading