WWDC is next week. On this week’s Core Intuition, we talk about what Apple is doing leading up to the event. I remain somewhat pessimistic about the Apple hype machine right now… Maybe I’ll snap out of it when Monday rolls around. | Continue reading
Lunch yesterday. I usually keep a mask in my pocket wherever I go, but forgot it for some reason and so dug in my backpack and found this old Mickey cloth mask from early in the pandemic. | Continue reading
For the last couple weekends we’ve been updating our bathrooms. New cabinets, sink, mirrors. Our house was filling up with old paint cans and cardboard, so loaded it up to take to the recycle center today. Could’ve flattened these a little better. | Continue reading
Looking forward to Celtics/Warriors game 1 tonight. Love that Derrick White is in the finals! Still wish he was with the Spurs. Thinking Warriors in 7 games, though. | Continue reading
Fixed a handful of bugs this morning, little things that no one notices and bigger things like push notifications and Webmentions broken for the last few days. Think I need to dedicate June to just working on stability. | Continue reading
We shipped version 2.5 of Micro.blog for macOS today. I had originally intended to just add a new Replies section of the app for this version, but it looked kind of lonely by itself, so I added Bookshelves too, with a multi-window interface for managing books you want to read or … | Continue reading
Catching up on more fallout from the duplicate posts bug last week. The good news is the bug is definitely fixed, but because of various layers of caching sometimes it takes a while for Micro.blog to clean things up. | Continue reading
On the latest Core Intuition, @danielpunkass and I remember that we’re actually programmers and talk about debugging AppKit, compare it to other frameworks, and then discuss the long-postponed effort to migrate away from legacy WebViews. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant. I loved this. | Continue reading
Planning to release the next version of Micro.blog for Mac in a couple days. It adds reply editing and a new multi-window interface for managing books you’re reading. If you’d like to give it a try, here’s a beta download link. | Continue reading
These few sentences from Nick Heer at Pixel Envy are probably the best and most concise wrap-up of the week. There’s a lot we could do to make things better, but nothing will be enough without addressing the root issue. Three full days of conversations about how many doors are on … | Continue reading
I was going to write a longer technical post, but instead here’s the bug summary from last week in a nutshell. I updated M.b so that editing a post’s date changes its URL (good!) but it was too aggressive about changing the URL unnecessarily (bad) which conflicted with what we ca … | Continue reading
Folks seeing duplicate posts in the timeline, usually after editing a post quickly: I finally got to the bottom of this. Working on a fix to roll out shortly. Removing should also be more reliable now. (The duplicates are only in the timeline… No need to delete from Posts.) | Continue reading
Driving to the coffee shop to work this morning, noticed I had a full tank of gas and briefly considered missing my exit and continuing on to Houston for the rally against gun violence. But too much to do today. Thoughts still with the families and everyone fighting for change. | Continue reading
Fixing some issues that could add duplicate posts in the timeline that some folks have run into this week. Hopefully. 🤞 | Continue reading
Congrats to @conradstoll on Grocery 3.0! The app keeps getting better. Nice review over at MacStories too. | Continue reading
I’ve mostly backed off political blogging, instead channeling my frustrating into work to make Micro.blog better for more people. But enough with anyone buying an AR-15 already! Beto is right on this. Texas deserves a governor who cares this deeply about making things better. | Continue reading
Up early Tuesday, lots going on today… But can’t shake the feeling that it’s Saturday for some reason. | Continue reading
Car battery died while I left my trunk open waiting for an IKEA pickup. Feels awkward to ask strangers for a jumpstart in the time of COVID, but people are nice. | Continue reading
If anyone wants to play along with the in-progress books support in Micro.blog for Mac, you can grab a beta download here. Reply editing isn’t wired up and some other things need polishing before we release it. Sneak peek is on YouTube here. | Continue reading
I still really like Objective-C and AppKit. I can think of a lot of improvements to make, but nothing like what we ended up with in Swift and SwiftUI. Shrug. | Continue reading
Trying to get back into the photo challenge after missing a bunch of days. Today’s word is beverage. Stopped at a food truck for brisket tacos and much-needed bottled water on a hot day. | Continue reading
When I’m in a coding rut I find it really helpful to work on something fun and different for a couple days. Here’s a sneak peek on YouTube (20 seconds) of something that will be in the next Micro.blog for Mac. | Continue reading
Much has been written about the deteriorating Music.app experience. The new UI never really clicked for me… I barely understand the difference between Listen Now and Browse. So I’ve been trying Spotify on the web and it seems as good or better than the native Music.app. | Continue reading
On the latest @coreint, we talk WWDC and then react to a recent 37signals podcast about selling the byproducts of your work. | Continue reading
Blogging and outlining share a long history together. Userland’s Clay Basket could create a full static site from an outline. NetNewsWire 1.0 had a built-in outliner for notes and blog publishing that would later be spun out as MarsEdit. Recently there have been new outliners tha … | Continue reading
This is cool! @sod has created a page that when clicked will take you to a random photo in the Micro.blog photo challenge. | Continue reading
We have a new public beta of Micro.blog for Android with a couple bug fixes. Here’s a link if you’d like to join the beta. | Continue reading
Expect I’ve unlocked my phone approaching 100,000 times since the first iPhone. Attempts to steal my phone: 0. Starting to question if the defaults are too secure, but there’s no perfect setting… Ideally would like it already unlocked when at home or near my watch. | Continue reading
For the last few weeks we’ve been reworking how Micro.blog subscriptions are upgraded. I just rolled out the changes. Shouldn’t affect existing customers much, but it’s a nice improvement for starting a new blog with Apple Pay, or managing a subscription. | Continue reading
Posted episode 513 of @coreint. We talk about whether we got accepted to the WWDC special event at Apple Park, and related thoughts and speculation about the event. | Continue reading
Sometime recently, Safari’s back button keyboard shortcut ⌘← stopped working. I’ve preferred this to ⌘[ because it’s much easier to reach when my right hand is on the MacBook Pro trackpad. Unfortunately I can’t seem to reset this using System Preferences. After a few days of unsu … | Continue reading
Last month we quietly added some better server monitoring to catch problems on hosted blogs. Happy that our uptime now shows 100% for the last month. Might be closer to 99% since it only checks every 5 minutes and won’t catch seconds of downtime, but still solid. | Continue reading
Wondering if I should be concerned that I haven’t received any truly negative feedback about my book. I know there are some sections that need work, but not hearing anything makes me question whether I should rework them or just continue to fix minor problems and ship it. | Continue reading
This is the last week to order Indie Microblogging in e-book or print editions. I know I’ve said that before, but really this time. I’ll be deploying some Micro.blog changes that disable the book order page after this week. It’ll be available to read on the web, but not offline. | Continue reading
Good morning! Busy day but first a little work and coffee. ☕️ | Continue reading
Driving through our old neighborhood, a lot has changed in the 20 years since we lived there, but the little grocery store and deli remain. | Continue reading
“A day, a week, a month, a year. Every second brings me here.” — Arcade Fire | Continue reading
I submitted a request for WWDC’s in-person day, but now I’m much less interested in attending than I was when we recorded the last Core Intuition. I don’t think WWDC will ever return to what it was. 8 years ago I blogged about the “eras” of WWDC… Just feels over now. | Continue reading
The most surprising thing about enabling email newsletters for my blog is that I enjoy getting a copy of my own recent posts on Monday mornings. It’s a nice mini review of what I have been interested in over the last week. | Continue reading
We posted episode 512 of Core Intuition tonight. WWDC event thoughts and more. | Continue reading
Not a silhouette, but the only photo I took today that reminds me of one. Kind of the opposite. | Continue reading
Nice update coming soon to Mimi Uploader, a batch photo uploader for iOS. The next version will show photos uploaded from other apps too. | Continue reading
Almost a week into the May photo challenge. I love the photos grid on the web. (Also now looks good in dark mode, thanks @vincent!) These challenges are so rewarding for us because you can see the effect right there, encouraging more photoblogs and finding new people to follow. | Continue reading
Herbs and flowers in the earth, for day 5 of the photo challenge. Happy Cinco de Mayo! This is from lunch on the patio at Mi Madre’s. | Continue reading
The extra time the 1Password folks worked on version 8 seems to have paid off. I upgraded and the workflow feels smoother to me than previous versions. The new search bar and auto-fill most anywhere is a better fit for how I was using it. | Continue reading