NBA pre-season starts today! Glad to see NBA League Pass cut their yearly price in half, but still thinking about whether I really need it… We subscribe to way too many streaming services. | Continue reading
I often curl a URL and then pipe it to open in BBEdit. Great for looking at RSS feeds. I’ve been meaning to set up an alias or script to make this easier… Realized today that the bbedit command line can accept a URL! 🤯 | Continue reading
MarsEdit updated today with a preference for showing the title field, plus other fixes. | Continue reading
Time for our next photo challenge! Coming up next month: A Day in the Life of Micro.blog 2022. Check out Jean’s blog post for the full story and a form to sign up. It’ll run 24 hours starting October 13. | Continue reading
We posted this week’s Core Intuition, mostly about Meridian! @danielpunkass also gives me feedback about Micro.blog bookshelves and whether they should be more generalized. | Continue reading
Today we’re rolling out better support for attaching multiple photos to a post in Micro.blog on the web. The native apps have been able upload to multiple photos with a post for years, so it’s a little embarrassing that it has taken so long to get the web version updated too. If … | Continue reading
My most productive work time may be between summer and the winter slowdown for the holidays. Getting all sorts of stuff done lately. Here’s a sneak peek video of something shipping tomorrow for folks who post to Micro.blog mostly from the web. | Continue reading
NSDrinking is tonight on Zoom, 8pm central time. Looking forward to it because it has been a while since I could join. Anyone’s welcome to chat with us about Mac, iOS, development, and whatnot. | Continue reading
Whenever I glance at our server logs, I’m annoyed that so many requests are trying to exploit WordPress security bugs. Lots of obscure .php paths. Of course, these are all 404 on Micro.blog and just a waste of web traffic, like spam. | Continue reading
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?” Reading All the Light We Cannot See. No spoilers, I’m about halfway through. | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss. Not what I expected, but a short read and nice complement to his other books. Smiled when I noticed the rhymes, almost could’ve been poetry. | Continue reading
New feature! When adding feeds, you can now set posts to import to a blog instead of just showing up in the Micro.blog timeline. Great for keeping everything in one place or syncing between multiple blogs. Deserves a longer write-up, but for now here’s a screenshot. | Continue reading
Gregg Popovich: “Nobody here should go to Vegas with the thought of betting on us to win the championship.” Good thing I don’t bet on sports, because now I’m thinking the Spurs just making the playoffs would be a great gamble. Pop jokes, but not sure he really wants to tank. | Continue reading
We’ve merged all the 3.0 beta changes into Micro.blog for Android too and shipped it as version 1.2, available now on Google Play. Embracing React Native is really working well for us, I think. | Continue reading
Almost shockingly cool this morning in Austin. 60°! Took the dog for a short walk. Settling in to work now… Feel good about getting stuff done today. | Continue reading
Over the summer, Jon Hays and I started working on a new project to build a places database that can power location check-in apps. It’s based on OpenStreetMap, but focused just on places. We call it Meridian, and it has the amazing domain name latl.ong. For years I’ve been using … | Continue reading
If you use Obsidian, check out what @otaviocc has been doing with Micro.publish, a plug-in to publish notes to Micro.blog. It’s in review to be added to the community plug-ins list too. | Continue reading
Over the weekend we made a bunch of little refinements to Micro.blog on the web. Here’s a screenshot of the Bookshelves page which now has recent book covers. | Continue reading
About to queue up the latest House of the Dragon. I’m skeptical that they are taking the star of the show and switching to a different actress as the character ages, mid-season. | Continue reading
Andor episode 3 was great. Worth the kind of slow build up to get there. Also really enjoying Rings of Power… What a time for TV. | Continue reading
Love the small empire of social web-y tools @neatnik is building over on omg.lol. Keeping an eye on things we might be able to integrate with in the future, if it makes sense. | Continue reading
Rolled out a couple improvements to the Posts page in Micro.blog on the web for phones, as well as fixes to a few other pages. I find myself using the web version more as we work on 3.0 for iOS, finding little things I hadn’t noticed before that needed fixing. | Continue reading
Shipped a couple updates to Epilogue for iOS in the last week. I’m using this app every day now and like the way it’s shaping up. | Continue reading
New Core Intuition! We talk about @danielpunkass getting detoured into working on FastScripts, and the benefit of “quick wins”: smaller features that can be implemented quickly and rolled out to customers in days, to balance longer-term releases. | Continue reading
Great new Micro.blog plug-in from @sod: Search Space! In beta, but I installed it already on my blog to try out and it works really well. Nice upgrade from my old search page plug-in. | Continue reading
If you’re on the Micro.blog for Android beta, check out version 1.2 which adds improvements that we had been working on for the iOS version. We plan to continue shipping new features on Android as the iOS beta progresses. 🤖 | Continue reading
Finished reading: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. Wonderful characters. Starts kind of all over the place (by design) and really comes together nicely. | Continue reading
My book reading has been a little random lately, bouncing between a few novels based on mood and what is due in Libby soon. On track to read more books in a year than I ever have before. | Continue reading
Congrats to @RogueAmoeba on 20 years. Love the old screenshot. Aqua! Drawers! | Continue reading
Spotify continues their push into audio with audiobooks… I don’t love Spotify trying to dominate all audio, especially podcasts, but on the other hand the audiobook industry probably needs a little competition. | Continue reading
Today we rolled out a new subscription option: Micro.blog Family, designed for up to 5 people with all the features of Micro.blog Premium. It’s $15/month and you can upgrade on the “Plans” page in Micro.blog. Over 2 years ago we added a Teams plan with unlimited users, but it was … | Continue reading
Apple has got to dial down the paste warning alert in iOS 16. It’s pretty disruptive when doing any back and forth copy/pasting between apps. | Continue reading
If you’re on the Micro.blog 3.0 beta for iOS, we’ve pushed out another update with several improvements. | Continue reading
Congrats to the Vegas Aces. Great WNBA playoffs this year. So happy for Becky Hammon too. We miss her on the Spurs but great move to head coach. | Continue reading
Possible solutions to realizing my passport has expired… Set a reminder every 10 years? Travel internationally much more often? | Continue reading
Dave Winer marks the 20th anniversary of finalizing RSS 2.0: It was low-key, I was fully expecting the roof would cave in and rioters would break down my door. I announced here on Scripting News that the final RSS 2.0 spec was out. But! – no one had a problem with it. | Continue reading
After a day, really liking the iPhone 14 Pro. Enjoying the slightly larger screen, too, and I even read some with the Kindle app last night. (I usually read on the iPad Mini.) The purple is very subtle, looks silver or gray half the time. | Continue reading
Mueller Lake Park. I like the reflection of the clouds in the water. | Continue reading
The feeds page in Micro.blog has been bugging me for a while, so finally did a minor redesign to make it more clear how the cross-posting button effects the various services. Micro.blog + feeds is one of the most misunderstood parts of Micro.blog, but also one of the most unique. | Continue reading
We’ve updated our community guidelines to include a more formal policy around cleaning up spammy accounts and what kind of posts aren’t appropriate on Micro.blog. Jean has the details on her blog about why and how we’re trying to be proactive about this. | Continue reading
I like these slides from a talk by @ton about enabling more IndieWeb features in WordPress… Includes Micro.blog screenshot too! | Continue reading