As today’s January 6th hearing went on I became more and more glued to it. Can only imagine what Shaye Moss and others receiving threats and harassment have had to go through. Hope there are enough good people to step up to the job running elections this fall and in 2024. … | Continue reading
Of course I have today’s hearing on in the background while I work. Rusty Bowers is a really strong witness. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Congrats @ccgus on 20 years of Flying Meat. I like the idea of marking anniversaries by when the domain name was registered! Acorn is on sale for just $20. | Continue reading
Micro Monday is back! Today’s podcast episode features @sod. | Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about why Apple’s decision to restrict Stage Manager on iPad to M1-based devices has caused so much controversy. At first, I was slightly annoyed that my brand new iPad Mini did not support Stage Manager. It is the latest, fastest iPad Mini you can buy, release … | Continue reading
Got a hardcover of The Lies of Locke Lamora, which I had only read in e-book before. Want to re-read it after I get through some more of my current reading list. | Continue reading
We rewatched Jurassic Park 1, 2, and World over the last few days, then went to see Jurassic World Dominion last night. Fun movie. I like the way they brought the old and new casts together. | Continue reading
The story of Juneteenth is fascinating. I’ll admit that growing up in Texas, I didn’t know about it. I’m a novice, but to me it feels rich and deep, at once acknowledging the bad and the good, our history’s shame and redemption. More states and companies should recognize it. … | Continue reading
I take a lot of photos at coffee shops. For some reason this morning I thought it would be fun to create a page on my blog that just shows coffee photos. I already use Micro.blog filters so that whenever I include the ☕️ emoji in a microblog post, it assigns the Coffee category: … | Continue reading
We posted episode 518 of Core Intuition. Hints about MarsEdit 5, more new WebKit, old frameworks, find bar, and how companion apps make our own apps better. | Continue reading
Me: “Yes, do that little thing.” Traci: “Do you realize how much you quote Meet Me in St. Louis?" Me: “Well… It’s right in our hometown. Right here where we live.” | Continue reading
Got an email from Medium: “Your audience is growing. You have 1 new follower.” I’m torn between thinking that this email isn’t worth the bytes it was printed on, and just happy that they put “follower” singular and not “follower(s)”. | Continue reading
Watched the 4-part CNN series on Watergate this week. I always think I know about Watergate, but every time I read or watch something I learn new bits of how everything fits together. Also makes All The President’s Men rewatches better. Happy 50th, Watergate. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Made some tweaks to my check-ins site manton.coffee this week. Also imported my 2020 check-ins. Foursquare is down this morning, a reminder that I need to move away from their service. | Continue reading
Great update to Mimi Uploader from @samgrover: Recent Uploads used to show only the uploads you make from Mimi Uploader. With the new update it will also show uploads made to your Micro.blog account from anywhere else. | Continue reading
Watched the 4-part CNN series on Watergate this week. I always think I know about Watergate, but every time I read or watch something I learn new bits of how everything fits together. Also makes All The President’s Men rewatches better. Happy 50th, Watergate. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Finished reading: Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas by Stephen Harrigan. Excellent. Took me a while to finish it, but so glad I did. It’s got all the facts but it’s not a textbook-like history… You can tell it’s personal for the author. Well researched, well crafted. | Continue reading
Watching the hearings. We disagree on a lot, but it’s reassuring when members of the GOP do the right thing despite enormous pressure. Pence and his staff come out of this looking pretty good. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
We’re discussing tweaks to Micro.blog Teams to make it more useful. Nice to review our plans and features every once in a while, but I like consistency and non-gimmicky pricing so much that I don’t expect the basic $5/month plan to ever change. Doing our part to fight inflation. | Continue reading
Updated my profile photo for the first time in forever. The old shot was from a cruise we took about 10 years ago. | Continue reading
West Oak Coffee Bar from over the weekend in Denton. ☕️ | Continue reading
100° here all week. Nice article at CNN about wind and solar in Texas powering almost 40% of daily energy needs. Renewables don’t have the glamor or craziness of the oil boom in Texas a century ago. They’re just out there quietly doing their job. ☀️ | Continue reading
I thought the Warriors/Celtics series would go to 7 games and I still think that. Gonna be tough, though… Curry won’t miss everything from 3 again. | Continue reading
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.” — Jo Walton | Continue reading
d20 Tavern in Denton. Such a great idea. Tons of games and 20 beers on tap, so you can roll a d20 to randomly select a beer. We played the NYC Ticket to Ride. (My daughter also wrote an article about the place for the Denton Record-Chronicle!) | Continue reading
When I added compatibility with Mastodon in Micro.blog, I required custom domain names because I think that’s the best way to control your identity. Lately thinking about relaxing that, because it does limit what we can do if you don’t have your own domain name. | Continue reading
So excited about this that I’m even linking to Twitter. Scott Lynch working on Gentlemen Bastards novellas: Collectively, these three novellas form a bridge narrative, inessential but enriching, taking Locke and Jean from immediately after REPUBLIC to immediately before THORN. | Continue reading
We’ve come up with a new way to document changes to Micro.blog. In the past, we usually only note big changes on @news or on my own blog, so everything is scattered and small changes are rarely even mentioned. To fix this, there’s now a special category on news.micro.blog that wi … | Continue reading
This article in the New York Times about the Great Salt Lake was really eye-opening. I noticed the lake level difference between visiting in 2013 and 2022, but didn’t know it was this serious. | Continue reading
Upgraded one of the Micro.blog servers today. Shouldn’t be super noticeable, just a little bit of extra performance. | Continue reading
The live The Talk Show from this year’s WWDC is up. Sorry to miss this in person, but the 4K video looks really nice. Good complement to the Apple videos to round out the WWDC week. | Continue reading
Watched the first of the January 6th hearings. It is still stunning that this day actually happened, and that even now so many people are being misled and lied to. Unacceptable that Fox News didn’t show the hearing. | Continue reading
I still play Wordle every day. Posting this one because guess 4 is interesting to me… Correct letters, wrong order. Wordle 355 5/6 ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 … | Continue reading
There’s a new episode of Core Int out with our first thoughts on WWDC 2022. What is the future of the in-person part of the conference, Apple’s new APIs and services, Charts, Passkeys, SwiftUI, AppKit, and more. | Continue reading
Micro.blog will now keep track of previous versions of a blog post when it’s saved. It will keep these extra copies for 60 days. It’s designed as a simple, short-term backup in case something is edited or deleted that needs to be restored. Here’s a screenshot of the new link: | Continue reading
Finished reading: Enchanters' End Game by David Eddings | Continue reading
Watched a few WWDC sessions this morning. Good stuff, but nothing I can really use right now. Think I’ll hold off installing macOS Ventura for a while. | Continue reading
Installed the iPadOS 16 beta only to discover that Stage Manager doesn’t work with the latest iPad Mini. Kind of bummed by this, though admittedly the screen is small. | Continue reading
I don’t buy that many print books anymore. Decided to splurge on this copy of Mistborn. This quick video is my first time looking at it… Really nice paper and ink. | Continue reading
Didn’t see a whole lot at WWDC that will directly impact Micro.blog, but want to test out Stage Manager for iPad. Also will keep an eye on Passkeys. | Continue reading
I’ve added a special Micro.blog pin if you mention “WWDC” in a microblog post today. Screenshot of a few of my pins… You can view these under the Account screen. | Continue reading
This is a cool Shortcut from @ezellwrites for taking text from a book and sharing it as a quote to your microblog. It pulls in your Micro.blog bookshelves for a book you’re reading. | Continue reading
WWDC day! Unrelated but kind of related, I downgraded Apple One family plan to just iCloud+. Going all-in on Spotify because that’s what the kids use anyway. | Continue reading
According to our status page, we had 100% uptime in May for blogs hosted on Micro.blog. This is the direct result of better monitoring and @vincent helping out from a completely different time zone. | Continue reading
Updated Micro.blog for Mac to version 2.5.1 today with a few bug fixes. Micro.blog now does a better job of auto-saving drafts locally so you won’t lose in-progress posts, and prompting to save a post as a draft on Micro.blog too. | Continue reading