Managed to mess up links on my blog while changing something else. Some RSS and ActivityPub posts might be wrong while I sort it out. | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu. A mix of historical fiction and fantasy. Took me a while to get into it, but enjoyed it more as it progressed. 📚 | Continue reading
From @cdevroe: I believe the dopamine hit from posting to Twitter’s large audience is addictive and very difficult to put down. […] Fortunately, I do not care about my audience size. My best posts are written for myself first. Gotta be okay with sometimes posting into a void. | Continue reading
As I posted this morning to the news blog, I’m going to upgrade one of our servers in about an hour. We have redundancy for most things to avoid downtime, but this is a tricky one. Won’t affect hosted blogs. Hopefully will be quick. 🤞 | Continue reading
I was re-reading Craig Hockenberry’s post on the third-party Twitter apps shutdown. It’s a great post, channeling the frustration of so many developers and users. And I love that it’s on his blog, not as a tweet or toot. Ideas and writing sometimes need space to breath on the web … | Continue reading
Wish I could permanently hide the 👎 button on YouTube. I’m always worried I’m going to accidentally click it. I never, ever want to downvote something. If I don’t like a video, I’ll watch something else. | Continue reading
Need a break from the news. Nice to see The New York Times now allows quick online cancels, no longer need to chat or call anyone. Progress. | Continue reading
In the latest Gluon beta you can customize your profile photo with a color or emoji. Essentially layers another API on top of the official Micro.blog API. Reminds me a little of how Tweet Marker supplement the Twitter API. (RIP, Twitter API.) | Continue reading
Not feeling well this weekend, so I’m less chatty about the confirmed Twitter third-party app shutdown than I’d usually be. Just listening to audiobooks and keeping up with the news and blog posts. | Continue reading
New Core Intuition! We talk about marketing and upcoming app plans. I also fixed a feed issue in Micro.blog with it, so posts will start flowing into @coreint@micro.blog again for fediverse folks who want to follow along. | Continue reading
Sad that this post from the Iconfactory is needed, but the art is great. | Continue reading
From @news: Updates to and from Mastodon are quite delayed this morning. We are monitoring it, and expect everything to sort out eventually. May be random or a spike in Mastodon activity as Twitter continues to implode. Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2023/01/13/updates-t … | Continue reading
While we wait to see if the Twitter API problems are the end of third-party clients or just a glitch, this chapter from my book provides some of the history of how we got here and personally why I stopped using Twitter years ago. The writing has been on the wall for a decade. | Continue reading
Listening to Dithering this morning, which was a longer discussion following up on John Gruber’s post about the self-driving accident in San Francisco last week, I remembered a near-accident I was in a few weeks ago.It was the usual morning traffic on the highway when cars stoppe … | Continue reading
In a few years there may be a handful of very large, Medium-level Mastodon instances capable of scaling to millions of users each, and some thousands of smaller, volunteer-run instances that come and go. Centralization brings convenience. Too early to know how it plays out. | Continue reading
I’ll be watching as Medium runs their own Mastodon instance. I like my approach better: integrating ActivityPub directly into the blog platform, not alongside it as a separate platform. But there’s no single right way to do this. | Continue reading
Productive morning fixing bugs, reviewing logs, answering email. Sometimes lots of small things feel like more forward momentum than the big stuff. ☕️ | Continue reading
Can’t shake a comment that someone liked Micro.blog but it didn’t have many features. Blogs, themes, plug-ins, social network, podcast hosting, read-later bookmarks, cross-posts, archiving, highlights, email newsletters, bookshelves, IndieWeb, fediverse… Missing: marketing. | Continue reading
Nice summary by Colin Devroe on the return to blogging:People that hadn't written on their blog in a long time are blogging again. Websites that hadn't been updated in many years, some over a decade, are being spruced up and published to again. Colin Devroe https://cdevroe.com/20 … | Continue reading
Finished reading: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb. That was excellent. 📚 | Continue reading
After several months, decided to cancel Kindle Unlimited. I didn’t think about how it could become an incentive for authors to go Amazon-only, which isn’t good for the larger e-book ecosystem. Still mostly using Libby, purchased books, and Audible. 📚 | Continue reading
New fiber going up in the neighborhood? Not sure who’s installing this but can’t hurt. | Continue reading
This is a clever bookmarklet from @darby3 that improves Micro.blog’s post scheduling by filling in the date. Maybe Micro.blog should do this by default? Eventually need to have a real date-picker on the web, like we do in the Mac app. | Continue reading
We are so spoiled with movies now, gotta be careful not to become too cynical or “everything sucks” if it’s not a perfect, totally new idea. I thought Avatar 2 was incredible. Visually stunning, engaging. Not just in a few big scenes, but all the time. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. First book of the new year! Different than Brandon’s other novels but wonderful in its own way. 📚 | Continue reading
Great post from @jeannie about the problem with the favorite button. “It removes genuine interaction and replaces it with a convenient click.” And I’ll add: algorithms love clicks because they can measure and sort it. Humans need more than that. | Continue reading
Just published our first Core Intuition episode of the year. We talk about goals and themes for the year, Micro.blog and Epilogue, and whether MarsEdit is the “one thing” @danielpunkass should be focused on. | Continue reading
Realized this week that the “versions” feature in Micro.blog isn’t well-understood, so I wrote up a quick overview of the different backup features in Micro.blog. Always good to occasionally grab a blog backup, or at the very least make sure the Wayback Machine has a copy. | Continue reading
It was fun to meet people in person at yesterday’s Micro Meetup! @jean has a photo here. | Continue reading
Hi Austin! 👋 We’re having a Micro Meetup today with @jean in town. We’ll be at Lazarus Brewing on 6th between 4pm - 6pm. Anyone’s welcome to stop by! ☕️🍺 | Continue reading
New version of Micro.blog for macOS released! This adds a new modern-style macOS app icon, bug fixes, and a change to the context menu in timeline posts. We now show inline Reply and Bookmark buttons. Faster to show conversations and more consistent with future mobile apps. | Continue reading
Happy New Year! We shipped an update to Epilogue today that makes blogging about last year’s finished books more discoverable. If Micro.blog found any blog posts to include in your reading goal for 2022, it will show this at the top of the Goals tab:Unfortunately I discovered aft … | Continue reading
Starting 2023 right with a rare 2/6 in Wordle: 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | Continue reading
Did not finish: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. Decided to start 2023 by giving up on this. I want to get back to it one day because I think I’ll like it after I get through the first couple books, but might need to start the series over. 📚 | Continue reading
Happy New Year! Excited for everything planned this year. 🎉 | Continue reading
Excited for Brandon Sanderson’s secret book release tomorrow. It has been a long time since I’ve started a book with thousands of other people on the same day. Probably not since Harry Potter. 📚 | Continue reading
I’ve watched this YouTube video of Dani Daortiz a few times over the last week and it continues to amaze me. Incredible card magic. Rewind, watch again, think about it, rewatch. What he’s doing seems impossible. | Continue reading
Tried off and on to record a screencast demo of something in Micro.blog this afternoon, but the dog kept barking or I made mistakes that would be confusing… Eventually I decided the video wasn’t even that helpful and scrapped it. Should’ve just written a blog post. | Continue reading
It’s been a while since we’ve had an in-person Micro Meetup! Join me and @jean for a coffee or beer or tacos at Lazarus Brewing on East 6th in Austin. Wednesday, January 4th. We’ll be there 4pm - 6pm. ☕️🍺 | Continue reading
We’ve been doing so many little book-related features, it can be hard to keep track. I created a help page today that just lists them. Quietly building out a little corner of Micro.blog into an open, blog-based Goodreads alternative. | Continue reading
Read this post about Barnes & Noble after seeing a couple links to it. No idea if the turnaround is real, but we went to a store a couple days after Christmas and it was packed with people. They had a sale for half-off hardcovers. Don’t think we saved money but we left happy. | Continue reading
Working a little on the next Micro.blog for Mac update. Probably will ship early January. Includes a new icon in the modern macOS style! (Thanks Brad Ellis!) | Continue reading
I don’t agree with everything in this post by M.G. Siegler (found via @rcrackley) but I do love the “Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight” line. Of course, the protocol is plumbing. Like the IndieWeb specs, the protocol is implementing a philosophy, and that matters. | Continue reading
I’m often humming or whistling a song that is stuck in my head, and this morning for some reason it’s one from Bungie’s Myth. I think? Got lost just now down the rabbit hole of soundtracks on YouTube trying to figure out which theme and game it really was. | Continue reading
We released a new version of Epilogue for both iOS and Android. I’m finally getting these platforms in sync. I think our bet on React Native is paying off.This version adds a new post screen to your reading goals. As you blog about books you finished reading, Epilogue keeps track … | Continue reading
Got a new game: The Great American Mail Race. Similar to Ticket to Ride so I knew we’d love it. The ink stamp to track your score is perfect. | Continue reading
Happy holidays! Hope everyone is as healthy as possible and enjoying the weekend. It has been a long year… Looking forward to some rest and thinking about 2023. 🎄 | Continue reading