Out of the house this morning for errands, a break for a little while at Epoch Coffee on Anderson Lane. A Day in the Life in Austin, 8:15am. ☕️ | Continue reading
I believe Beto can win. Will he? No idea. As always it’s about turnout. For the first time, all of my kids are old enough to vote, and no matter what happens that makes me happy. | Continue reading
Posted a new Core Intuition with thoughts on finishing up my book and @danielpunkass’s new features in the upcoming MarsEdit release. | Continue reading
Our Nest thermostat thinks it’s sooo much smarter than me. Didn’t expect to lose control to the robots this soon. | Continue reading
Watched some of the final January 6th committee hearing at lunch and then got bogged down catching up on other news. We got a lot right in this country but there’s so much work still to do. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Some of the Micro.blog pins are special and only appear when they’ve been unlocked. Here’s what the new pin will look like if you participate in A Day in the Life 2022: | Continue reading
Final prep for the 24-hour photo challenge. Starts at noon central time today. Easy to participate… Just need to post one photo! We’ll have a special pin and Discover section. | Continue reading
SendGrid SMS verification codes make me laugh. Everyone uses 6 digits, but they use 7 for some reason. Actually a usability problem because your brain is so used to 6-digit codes. | Continue reading
Finished reading: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Incredible. | Continue reading
Nice update to Mimi Uploader for Micro.blog: You can now write alt text for any image in Recent Uploads. Tap on an image. Write the text. Hit Save. This is attached to the export snippet at the time of export. | Continue reading
Looking forward to tomorrow’s 24-hour photo challenge. As a community we last did this 2 years ago and I couldn’t remember what photo I had posted… Looked it up on my blog: we were traveling back from a couple days away, kayaks bundled up on the car. | Continue reading
U2 will probably always remain my favorite band… Old favorites stick with us forever. But until yesterday had no idea that Bono was touring for his new book and that the band might play in Vegas next year. Excited for both. | Continue reading
Continuing to fine-tune our Mastodon integration, but should be running more smoothly. My biggest fear with all the pieces — feeds, ActivityPub, Webmention, cross-posting from M.b to Mastodon to wherever! — is that I will create a posting infinite loop and destroy everything. | Continue reading
From this morning, coffee at Stinson’s. Looking at this photo, the text almost looks like a digital overlay. But no, the obnoxious TM is there in real life. ☕️ | Continue reading
Making some careless mistakes today. Wrapping up another bug fix and then going to step away from the Ruby code for a while, until I can better focus. | Continue reading
Love seeing a new post from Doug Bowman pop up in my feed reader after… 8 years! My feed reader has been quietly checking the RSS feed, waiting for this day. Polling tech is going to be with us for a while and that’s probably a good thing for compatibility. | Continue reading
Working through some bugs from the improved ActivityPub rollout yesterday… There are always edge cases I didn’t test enough. Lots of different systems trying to play nicely together. | Continue reading
Spurs hold practice in Uvalde: The Spurs then literally lifted the community, raising toddlers on their shoulders to bring them closer to the rim for a basket. | Continue reading
Today we published a new Extra Intuition, our special podcast for Core Intuition members. This one is about road trips to pizza places and the ocean. | Continue reading
Can’t believe it, but it has been nearly 4 years since we added ActivityPub support to Micro.blog. In that time, we’ve made some tweaks and bug fixes to it, but it has remained largely unchanged until today. If you were using a custom domain name for your blog, anyone on Mastodon … | Continue reading
Recorded a new episode of Timetable this morning to give an update on a few things. Not sure why it has been so hard for me to give time for this podcast… It is so easy to record and edit. 8 minutes! | Continue reading
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.” — Frank Herbert, Dune | Continue reading
Tonight’s House of the Dragon had some great scenes. Favorite shows on TV right now: Central Park, Andor, House of the Dragon, Rings of Power. Hate putting Rings of Power last but the whole humans part is overdone and not working… Wish it was all elves, dwarves, and hobbits. | Continue reading
Playing around with Calibre today for the first time. Mostly happy with using Ulysses and exporting to HTML and ePub, but each format requires tweaks afterwards. Makes it tedious to re-apply changes after editing. We’re always chasing the “write once, run anywhere” dream. | Continue reading
Polishing up some big changes for a somewhat neglected part of Micro.blog, shipping tomorrow. Feels good to take an existing feature and bring it a couple steps forward. | Continue reading
I’ll be the first to admit that my book would be better if a real journalist wrote it. I don’t think I will ever be totally happy with it. But I do want it to fairly capture various points in time and APIs. I’ve learned so much in the last 25 years… Putting it together is hard. | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington. Great start to this trilogy. Hit all the right notes for a fantasy series. | Continue reading
Thinking recently about how Twitter could never find the right leadership. Jack Dorsey regrets that it’s a company instead of an open technology. Elon Musk hopes that it’s something new, far removed from its roots. Prediction: Twitter will be a dumpster fire of staff downsizing a … | Continue reading
Love reading about folks on Micro.blog who are going to participate in NaNoWriNo next month. It’s a big time commitment but worth it. | Continue reading
We just posted a new Core Int. Daniel gives an update on MarsEdit 5 progress, we talk major vs. minor updates, marketing, and more. | Continue reading
For bloggers who don’t want to be easily found by Google, I updated the No robots plug-in today to also add a meta tag in addition to the robots.txt file. Should help tell Google really don’t index the blog. Just click Upgrade to get the latest version. | Continue reading
A bunch of people have signed up for next week’s Day in the Life photo challenge, but it would be great to see even more folks from the Micro.blog community participate. You just post one photo wherever you are on October 13th. We might do a book, so fill out this form too. | Continue reading
Straightforward advice from @benwerd: You should blog. Yes, you. It's really easy to get started. Use whatever platform you want. And you can subscribe to all your friends' updates too.Ben Werdmuller https://werd.io/2022/you-should-blog-yes-you-its-really | Continue reading
Not an earth-shattering new feature, but I’ve been plugging holes in our books API and book covers, so it’s less likely to have a blank cover in Epilogue’s Discover tab. I think the books stuff is really coming along. | Continue reading
Looks like the Elon Musk / Twitter deal is back on. After so much uncertainty, to be back at this spot, I think it will happen. Expecting things to change gradually over there, and users looking at Micro.blog and other platforms again. | Continue reading
Walked up to the coffee shop to work today. It’s bulky item pickup day in our neighborhood. Felt a little sad for this print discarded with old wood on the curb. | Continue reading
This talk by Molly White called Blockchain Solutionism is excellent, given at UT Austin last week. Covers the blockchain, Web3 is going just great, uses for crypto, and Web3 solutions in search of a problem. “There are never purely technological solutions to societal problems.” | Continue reading
Finished updating book.micro.blog with the latest draft improvements. I’m going to package this into an ePub this week for backers and pre-orders, even though it’s not final. Then onward to review the test printing and make final changes. | Continue reading
My book is about 70 short chapters, and to keep track of editing I made a spreadsheet long ago with notes and color-coding: red for chapters that needed a lot of work, orange for small tweaks, and green for ready to go. Going to do another editing pass and call it done. | Continue reading
Spurs first preseason game isn’t going great, but still hoping for a fun season. Either this team is going to surprise everyone or at least there will be some cheap games to go see in San Antonio. | Continue reading
Acrobat Pro subscriptions going from $25/month to $30/month. I hate to complain about subscriptions, but this might be a little too much for the only thing I use it for: File → Export for my book PDF. Adobe’s gotta cover their Figma acquisition cost somehow. | Continue reading
The secret to getting feature requests immediately implemented in Micro.blog is to send them to be 5 minutes after I sit down with my coffee. ☕️ | Continue reading
I was on the road, so missed the Beto/Abbott debate. Catching up with some of the video clips and news coverage. Really bizarre that there was no in-person audience. I know Dems especially in Texas don’t want to risk hoping, but… I think this election might be close. | Continue reading
Apple downgraded my iPhone trade-in from $300 back, to $75. Guess they noticed the tiny little scratch that I’ve been ignoring for years. Sigh. | Continue reading