Excited for game 3 of the WNBA finals tonight. Honestly I think it’s going to be a sweep, but if it extends a couple more games that would be great too. NBA preseason just a couple weeks away. | Continue reading
I’m confused by this GOP strategy to bus or fly people to the northeast: …roughly 150 migrants in all — were their most conspicuous attempts yet to provoke outrage over record arrivals at the border Who exactly is outraged? It seems transparently gimmicky and solves nothing. | Continue reading
Reminder that if you want to know the day to day (often boring!) updates to Micro.blog, the changes category on news.micro.blog is a good way to keep up with it. I’ve been posting more there so I don’t clutter my own blog. The big stuff gets bumped to @news. | Continue reading
If you’re noticing timeline delays, I broke something with a fix earlier… Should be getting back to normal now. Apologies! | Continue reading
Figma acquired by Adobe for . Figma is such a compelling product. Also a better name than Adobe XD. Feels like they should merge the Figma and XD teams and have one thing… Similar to how maintaining both FreeHand and Illustrator didn’t make a lot of sense long-term. | Continue reading
I’ve noticed this trend Jason Fried blogs about too, and I’m tired of it… We don’t need to be asked to rate every little thing! It generates a lot of needless busy work for everyone. They ask me to rate my “experience”. Thing is, I didn’t have an experience. The delivery person j … | Continue reading
After working at a coffee shop downtown, took a break to read by the trail. Finished reading: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Loved everything about this book. | Continue reading
Audible: “Next credit arrives on Sep 13, 2022”. Checking today’s date. Reload reload reload. | Continue reading
Today we’re excited to announce an early preview of Micro.blog 3.0 for iOS. We are rebuilding the app to move closer to feature parity across iOS and Android. We’re updating the user interface based on years of feedback, adding a tab bar and cleaning up some screens in the app. … | Continue reading
We are putting the final touches on the first beta of Micro.blog 3.0 for iOS. Really happy with the way this came together. Thanks @vincent! It has been approved by Apple, so we’re mostly good to go. Does it have everything? Nope. But it’s a new, strong foundation. | Continue reading
Updating to iOS 16 on my phone. I’ve had the beta on my iPad all summer, but wasn’t really using any of the new iOS features there. Usually forgot I was running iOS 16. | Continue reading
I will never get used to the idea that Apple has to approve beta releases of our apps. | Continue reading
We posted our Apple event reactions on @coreint over the weekend. Check out episode 528 for thoughts on the iPhone 14, Apple Watch, the production value of Apple’s marketing videos, and whether Apple’s dramatized customer disasters have crossed a line. | Continue reading
Reshuffled my Libby holds queue with new books. Also, wasn’t sure I was going to stick with Kindle Unlimited after the free trial because of the limited selection, but I’ve found it’s mostly been worth it as long as a few books I’m interested in are in there. | Continue reading
We’ve updated Epilogue for Android, catching up with the features released for iOS. The old version for Android was admittedly a little broken… Should be working well now, including the new reading goals interface. | Continue reading
Game 3 of Vegas/Seattle WNBA semifinals was so good today. Wish I had been watching more of these teams earlier in the season. | Continue reading
Attempting to make my iPhone less frustratingly secure, I’ve tweaked some of the passcode settings. Don’t require attention. Added another Face ID. Let everything happen when locked that’s an option. Seems better. | Continue reading
Watching the locations/venues session video from IndieWebCamp Berlin. I wasn’t able to participate in this one, even remotely, but glad to see IndieWeb folks were able to get together. | Continue reading
Went to see Bullet Train for Alamo’s $3 cinema day. Really good. | Continue reading
Artemis launch scrubbed again. Disappointing, but we’ve waited decades to get back to the moon, so we can wait a little longer. Let’s get this right, NASA. | Continue reading
I had my doubts as Rings of Power started, but they won me over by the end of the first 2 episodes. It’s not how I would’ve made it — I’d love to see a new hand-drawn or stop-motion Lord of the Rings — but for what it is it’s excellent. Some beautiful scenes… Spared no expense. | Continue reading
Micro.blog for Android has been updated to version 1.1! Dark mode and other improvements. 🤖 | Continue reading
I checked out Irie Bean Coffee for the first time and… people smoking cigarettes on the patio? Ashtrays? Like I had stepped back in time to 1990s Austin. They don’t care about your hipster third-wave coffee shop ambience and I kind of respect that. ☕️ | Continue reading
Feeling nostalgic driving through south Austin today. 30+ years ago, walking along Riverside to Austin Books to pick up comics. Putting quarters into Donkey Kong in the lobby of an old hotel. So many memories of a lifetime ago. | Continue reading
Scheduled my updated variant booster for next week. Now extra paranoid that I’ll get COVID before then. | Continue reading
We’ve been playing Root more. It took about 4 play-throughs and watching multiple how-to videos to finally get the rules right. Great game. | Continue reading
Feel like our companion app Epilogue has matured quite a bit. Started as a fun experiment, now one of my favorite little apps. I added its own page in the Help Center today so we can better keep track of version history. | Continue reading
When I was first working on the Micro.blog prototype, I was so worried that someone would launch a similar service before me or soon after. 5 years later, turns out no… There are a lot of interesting platforms but really nothing close to the breadth of what we’re trying to do. | Continue reading
September already? For today’s episode of Core Intuition, we talk about next week’s Apple event and other random topics like 5G. | Continue reading
Dusting off Android Studio. Upgraded a few things. The quality of the Android build tools is like Project Builder circa 2002. Really poor experience that Apple would never settle for, and Google shouldn’t either. | Continue reading
Epilogue 1.4 for iOS is now available on the App Store. Check out the blog post on the Epilogue microblog for screenshots of the new Goals tab. | Continue reading
Sounds like the Omicron variant booster could be available as soon as next week. I’m planning to get it. It’s a little awkward that they haven’t finished human trials, but I guess I trust it. It’s like a bug fix update to an app you already love. | Continue reading
Sneak peek screenshot from @vincent of the next major update to Micro.blog for iOS. We’ll be starting a very early beta soon. A lot is changing for iOS, so it’ll take some time to get right. | Continue reading
The beta of Epilogue 1.4 with the new reading goals feature is out for iOS. Will probably ship it to everyone later this week. | Continue reading
I’ve been working upstairs lately for a change of pace. Listening to the rain today. | Continue reading
As posted to news.micro.blog, I updated our API to keep track of reading goals. This was the last feature I was still using from Goodreads. When you blog about a book you’re reading, Micro.blog can automatically update your goal progress for the year. All blogs, all the time! | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss | Continue reading
Rolled out a change in Micro.blog on the web to manage your own posts with a more compact view. Details and screenshot over on the news blog. | Continue reading
Annoyed that Tumblr appears to have changed their posts export format, breaking compatibility with Micro.blog’s import. Now I need to rewrite it. Formats should be stable, and all blog systems should support my Blog archive format. | Continue reading
Adding the Artemis launch window to my calendar. August 29th. We just finished watching all 3 seasons of For All Mankind back to back. Past time to return to the moon! | Continue reading
Seems like I’ve been in and out for 2 weeks, both vacation and unexpected travel. Even though I can always check in with work from anywhere, it’s not the same as having an uninterrupted day. Back at my desk this morning, iced coffee in hand, ready to catch up. ☕️ | Continue reading
Changed my profile photo to a shot from Disneyland last week. Cropped funny but I like it anyway. Will show up a little delayed in various Micro.blog clients… Need to improve that. | Continue reading
UK approves Moderna variant booster. Hope we get this in the US in the fall. Many people will have gone a year since their last shot, so seems like good timing. Hardly anyone wears masks anymore. | Continue reading
Forgot to link last week to @coreint because I was traveling. On episode 525, @danielpunkass and I talked more about Blinksale, Stripe, and subscription services. (We’re taking this week off from the podcast.) | Continue reading