I got the new print of my 30 Days book with updated layout. I could still tweak it but I’m calling it done. This will be the size and format of Indie Microblogging too. | Continue reading
Haven’t been paying close attention to Medium lately. Curious if we’ll see any changes from their new CEO. I’ve enabled cross-posting to send my blog posts over there for a while again. | Continue reading
Old ranch right next to a brand new office building. This guy’s probably wondering why his space is being encroached on. | Continue reading
Having that moment when seeing a doctor for non-COVID symptoms but the waiting room is so crowded with people coughing that seems possible to leave with a worse diagnosis than I entered with. | Continue reading
This week on Micro Monday… It’s me again! @jean and I review some of the recent features and plug-ins for Micro.blog that I’ve been working on. Location, themes, fonts, blog publishing, robots.txt, and a book update. | Continue reading
George R. R. Martin blogs about Winds of Winter: What I have noticed more and more of late, however, is my gardening is taking me further and further away from the television series. I liked the HBO version, but I’m also glad he’s not afraid to deviate from it in major ways. | Continue reading
Reading about how few guns Japan has and even fewer deaths. Obviously a different country and culture, but should be an inspiration for the United States to do much more than we’re doing. Our priorities have gotten so messed up. | Continue reading
A cute Little Free Library at the Blue Bell factory in Brenham from a couple weeks ago. | Continue reading
What would Panic do? On the latest episode of Core Intuition, @danielpunkass and I talk about the Playdate. | Continue reading
Experimenting with OpenStreetMap. Added a new place that was missing. Thinking about how we could use this for potential location check-in support. | Continue reading
I tweaked the margins and layout of my book 30 Days, submitting another print order. If it looks good when it arrives, next step is to get the final draft of Indie Microblogging ready for printing. | Continue reading
First time at Cosmic Coffee, in south Austin after selling a car at Carvana. Great outdoor space. ☕️ | Continue reading
This week’s Micro Monday features @cliffordbeshers! He talks with @jean about posting photos to Micro.blog and more. | Continue reading
I’ve used a few apps over the years for location check-ins. Gowalla, Foursquare, and Ohai, which was built on the App.net API. The Gowalla data was lost after they were acquired by Facebook. I’ve continued to use Foursquare and have imported many of those check-ins to my location … | Continue reading
Helping @cheesemaker test early game builds on Playdate. First crash. So fun to see games come to life on this little device. | Continue reading
Quiet morning at the start of the July 4th weekend. Took some of the downtime to wrap up an update to Micro.blog for macOS, with improved Day One export (thanks @otaviocc!) and a minor bug fix. | Continue reading
I wonder if the way Apple forces developers to agree to updated terms of service is actually legal. Agree to terms, ship app. Then later, we can’t even update our existing apps outside of the App Store (using Gatekeeper) until agreeing to the latest terms. Apps held hostage. | Continue reading
Did not finish: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. I’ve been reading some older fantasy books that I had missed. I’m 3/4 of the way through this and keep hoping it starts to work for me, but now giving up. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. It had been years since I read any books by Kay. I had almost forgotten how beautiful his writing is. | Continue reading
I extracted the design I use on manton.org into a new Micro.blog theme called Alpine. It’s like Marfa, but with a smaller header and settings for changing the color of the “Also on Micro.blog” button. | Continue reading
“I am very aware that the original concept must do something worthwhile creatively or all the hard work to follow will be wasted.” — Mary Blair | Continue reading
After I made the Font Awesome plug-in, I recorded a video about using it, including how Micro.blog themes work. There was a caching bug in the video, so wanted to re-record it after fixing it… But I don’t have time, so posting the video anyway! Enjoy, it’s on YouTube here. | Continue reading
Last week we re-watched all the Mission: Impossible movies. 4, 5, 6, then 1, 2, 3. I think 4 is my favorite, but I can’t tell if my opinion is being influenced because I’m a Brad Bird fan. Mission: Impossible 1 holds up. 2 is just a little over-the-top with the slow motion action … | Continue reading
Spurs trade Dejounte to the Hawks. Starting to wonder if they know what they’re doing. At some point we need a stable roster to root for. | Continue reading
Upgraded a server this morning, hoping to get to the bottom of some flakiness. The load balancer does a great job of smoothing these things over so they aren’t noticed, but would rather everything run smoothly without intervention. | Continue reading
This hearing with Cassidy Hutchinson is extraordinary. Someone very close to Mark Meadows and the former president who is telling us what happened behind the scenes. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
I made a Micro.blog plug-in that loads Font Awesome in your blog, so it’s easier to add icons to blog posts or to use them in theme templates. | Continue reading
There’s another new episode of Micro Monday, this week featuring @annahavron! She talks with @jean about analog office tools, writing, and Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Had some fun with Micro.blog themes and created a new one for those “link in bio”-style sites. It has a custom home page with links to other platforms, but because it’s Micro.blog it can still have a full blog underneath. It’s called Gateway. Demo here: links.manton.org | Continue reading
Brenham courthouse from yesterday’s short road trip. Built in 1939. Would be fun to visit all 254 county courthouses in Texas. | Continue reading
Interesting case about eminent domain for a high-speed train between Dallas and Houston. I don’t get why people fight these rail projects. The cows will be fine and the costs aren’t going to matter decades from now. | Continue reading
Published episode 519 of @coreint. We talk more about MarsEdit moving to the new web view, balancing native and web development, and a discussion in the WordPress community about open source obligations. | Continue reading
Crossing the Brazos River where San Felipe de Austin was located in the 1820s, part of Stephen F. Austin’s colony. | Continue reading
Micro.blog plug-ins can have a settings screen to change config parameters. I’ve added a new field type “color” that I’m hoping will be useful to customize the design of more themes. Modern web browsers provide a color picker for these. | Continue reading
A powerful statement from the dissent: The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them. The majority thereby substitutes a rule by judges for the rule of law. More good highlights … | Continue reading
Excited to demo a new multiple-post, batch find and replace feature in Micro.blog we added this week. I recorded a 3-minute video on YouTube that walks through how it works. | Continue reading
When I’m frustrated about something I can’t directly control, I’ve learned that the best thing to do is to refocus on creating something new. There is a lot to do. Put some music on. Listening to Running Up That Hill. | Continue reading
The January 6th hearings are pretty serious stuff, so I love today’s break to lighten the mood a little with hilarious conspiracy theories. I didn’t remember this one about Italian military satellites changing votes. Adam Kinzinger seemed about ready to laugh. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
A little surprised that it took them this long to build Twitter Notes. Not a good replacement for a real blog with your own URLs. We don’t need more content locked away in silos. | Continue reading
Great behind-the-scenes post about building the “Bubble Up” feature in Hey email. | Continue reading
You may have noticed that we added a new status bubble to Micro.blog on the web. Makes it easier to tell if Micro.blog is still working on publishing your blog post when it takes more than a few seconds. It also links to your log so you can jump to recent progress messages. | Continue reading
Whipped up a little plug-in to make it easier to disable search engine indexing via robots.txt. | Continue reading