Vacation over, time to get back into the routine with work. Moved the Disneyland app off my home screen. | Continue reading
Gas is really expensive in California. But at least we got this cool total. 12345! | Continue reading
Great few days in San Diego, then drove up for a quick 24 hours at Disneyland. Dinner last night at Lamplight Lounge in California Adventure, watching World of Color. | Continue reading
Deployed a server tweak that may improve some of the flakiness today. Now back to vacation mode with a beer and my book, looking out at San Diego. | Continue reading
Moving an old WordPress site over to Micro.blog. It’s weird that in 2022 there’s no built-in photos export in WordPress, unless it’s buried somewhere I don’t know about? Micro.blog downloads any photos during import, so no big deal, but .bar support in WordPress would be nice. | Continue reading
San Diego model train museum. So many landscapes. Some really nice bridges and little details everywhere. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. There is a lot going on in this. So many different point of view characters. Going to start book 2. | Continue reading
Stopped in Corsicana for a coffee and world-famous fruitcake to go. I don’t even love fruitcake, but I’m fascinated with the Collin Street Bakery history. Next up need to watch the Fruitcake Fraud documentary. ☕️ | Continue reading
We released a new episode of @coreint today, with more discussion about Blinksale and subscription services. Then @danielpunkass gives an update on shipping MarsEdit 4.6. | Continue reading
We released a new beta of Epilogue for iOS. You can now tap and hold on a book cover in Discover to quickly add it to one of your bookshelves. | Continue reading
Today’s Micro Monday episode features @aa! Just finished listening to this in the car this morning. He talks with @jean about leather working, snail mail, blogging, and taking the time to craft something of quality. | Continue reading
We’ve continued to tweak the new profile popup so that it’s more usable. Faster, smaller, and off to the side a little now. Pretty happy with this version! Here’s a screenshot to capture the progress. | Continue reading
MarsEdit 4.6 was released today with some nice improvements for Micro.blog! Automatically hiding/showing the title field, and creating new blog categories directly from within MarsEdit when writing a post. | Continue reading
Wrapping up another quick trip to Denton. Breakfast earlier at Avoca Coffee. ☕️ | Continue reading
We published a new Core Intuition today talking about @danielpunkass’s plans for MarsEdit 5, upcoming improvements for Micro.blog in MarsEdit 4.x, macOS versions to support, SwiftUI, and the relevance of Tumblr vs. Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Caught up on support email. I had started to lag behind again. Still really happy with the way Help Scout works… It has been one of our better upgrades. | Continue reading
Good feedback on the web profile popup we rolled out yesterday. Thanks everyone! We fixed a couple issues today and will continue to tweak it. | Continue reading
New web feature that @vincent has been working on, via the news blog: Hover the mouse over someone’s profile photo to get a quick look at their full name, bio, web site, and link to follow them. This is especially useful in Discover if you want to quickly follow someone new. | Continue reading
Rolled out some bug fixes to the Mac version of Micro.blog this week. “Check for Updates” to get the latest version. Improves dragging from Apple Photos and several other tweaks. | Continue reading
This week’s special guest on Micro Monday is @val! She talks with @jean about moving to Kyrgyzstan, posting a photo every day, and the community on Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Finally starting the Malazan series. I’m reading on Kindle Unlimited which includes the Audible narration as an option, so I can read or listen and it’s synced up. Wish every e-book purchase worked this way. | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow | Continue reading
If you missed it over the weekend, I created a new plug-in that changes your home page to just be full of photos and basic navigation. Great for photo blogs while still allowing text and full-length blog posts outside of the home page. Updated it today for smaller screens. | Continue reading
We have a bug fix update today for folks on Android! @vincent actually finished this version months ago but it had been hung up in Google app review for some reason. Finally got it approved. Fixed potential crashing bug when starting a new post. Fixed issues opening images in the … | Continue reading
Finished reading: My Neighbor Totoro: A Novel by Tsugiko Kubo. A short book, for kids or Miyazaki fans. Adds more details and scenes than the movie. Wonderful. | Continue reading
Just discovered The Wandering Inn, an epic 7-book (and counting) fantasy series that the author publishes on the web every week as new chapters are written. Essentially a massive blog, later collected as Kindle and Audible books. | Continue reading
Posted Core Intuition last night. We start with a discussion about the latest ownership change for FogBugz, then thinking more broadly about services that work but that don’t improve. | Continue reading
Hello, photo bloggers! I created a new plug-in that replaces your home page with a grid of photos and links for your other pages. No post text on the home page. Hope it’s a good start for people who want to go all-in on photos. Called simply “Home page photos”. | Continue reading
Working while the car gets an oil change and other service, outside at the dealer’s covered patio before it gets too hot. Only 80° now, the usual high of 100°+ later. Counting down the days until we get out of Texas for a little while later this summer. | Continue reading
We’re working on a new version of Epilogue with a Discover tab, to show a grid of book covers from books people are blogging about. If you’d like to follow along, there’s a public beta for iOS. | Continue reading
Casey Newton has a write-up about BeReal. I remain perplexed about this app. It’s fascinating, fun, but also gimmicky and buggy, and it’s not clear to me how they can ever recoup the millions in investment. | Continue reading
I stopped posting to Instagram over 5 years ago. “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.” | Continue reading
Om Malik: Instagram’s transformation into QVC is now complete and absolute. Instagram is dead — or at least the Instagram I knew and loved is dead. It is no longer part of my photographic journey. Instead he posts to his photo blog. | Continue reading
This week’s Micro Monday podcast features special guess @fabio: We chat quite a bit on the hurdles of building community in the era of pandemic, how social media does and does not support communities, and how Micro.blog fits in. | Continue reading
Out walking yesterday. Can’t remember if this was before, during, or after it was too hot. | Continue reading
I can’t believe in 2022 I’m installing make from source. What is happening. Must’ve gone wrong somewhere in my life. | Continue reading
I’ve been using MySQL for what must be 20+ years now. In that time, it doesn’t seem to have gotten any easier to install. Might be even more complicated now with package managers instead of everyone installing from source. | Continue reading
Finished reading: From the River to the Sea by John Sedgwick | Continue reading
Morning coffee. Updating a README. Catching up on email. Hope everyone out there in internet land is having a nice weekend. ☕️ | Continue reading
Running out of room on my laptop for big stickers, so I cut this Gowalla sticker to fit on the corner. | Continue reading
Daniel and I are back this week talking about Twitter, Elon Musk, how the deal is so disruptive, and the rocky history of leadership at Twitter. | Continue reading
Had fun brainstorming a new project with @cheesemaker this week. We have a domain name and other notes. Not ready to announce yet but it will be something that Micro.blog can build on. | Continue reading