Day 3 of the photo challenge is experimental… Didn’t have a good idea for the photo until I was reading (Wise Man’s Fear) and noticed “experiment” on the page. | Continue reading
Photo challenge, day 2. I bought this camera last year thinking it would be worth it for the zoom, especially for school events like marching band. I don’t use it often but the photos are priceless. | Continue reading
Last month was difficult in ways I haven’t blogged about yet. Needed a break, so loaded up the kayak to take a little peaceful time on the water after working downtown this morning. | Continue reading
On our Plans page we have $5, $10, and $20 options. I kind of want to put a “our most popular plan!” label on the cheapest $5 option because: 1) it’s true; and 2) to poke fun of all the SaaS apps that always highlight their middle tier. | Continue reading
Love seeing all the photos for the May photo challenge. I’m hoping to finally get the 30-day Photo Challenge pin myself this month. You’d think I would’ve gotten this pin by now as the first Micro.blog user, but it keeps eluding me. | Continue reading
Late this week but hopefully worth the wait… Core Intuition 511 about Elon Musk and Twitter! Plus a follow-up about how it’s going with customer support email. | Continue reading
Love seeing completely different themes on Micro.blog, like the design for micro.alexezell.com by @ezellwrites. Just noticed that it’s in the plug-in directory too! | Continue reading
About a month ago, we rolled out a change that made microblog posts much faster to appear in the timeline… except for some folks where it was inadvertently slower instead. I think I’ve now got that fixed. Will continue to look for more optimizations. | Continue reading
If you’re new to Micro.blog, make sure to check out the third-party apps if the official native app isn’t quite right for you. New version of Gluon just shipped with a bunch of improvements. | Continue reading
If you’re using Micro.blog bookmarks, check out this Shortcut for iOS and macOS from @rknightuk to make saving web pages easier. If you’re on Micro.blog Premium, we’ll also archive a copy of any bookmarked pages so they are highlightable and searchable. | Continue reading
Achievement unlocked? No idea where the key is to this old lock and the trick with leveraging the force of 2 wrenches together totally works to bust it open. | Continue reading
It’s cool to see people reading the microblogging book. Reminder that we’re going to stop accepting orders for the e-book and print editions after this month. That’ll help me wrap up the final edit and focus on Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Email response time in Help Scout for the last couple of months. Average about 14 hours. Could be better but I feel good about this… Huge improvement compared to last year. | Continue reading
Morning everyone. Coffee and work outside at Cenote. ☕️ | Continue reading
I expect Twitter to pause anything new during this limbo period between the Twitter board accepting Elon’s offer and it actually happening. It’ll be a great few months for other social networks to innovate and add features while Twitter is at a standstill. | Continue reading
Updated Micro.blog for macOS with a couple bug fixes today, including a fix from @otaviocc for Day One photo export. | Continue reading
Lunch earlier at Torchy’s. Hadn’t been there in a while, nice to see some menu tweaks like fresh avocados instead of fried. | Continue reading
We love welcoming new people to Micro.blog. Thanks for giving it a try if you’re new! Mastodon has also seen a big increase in users and that’s good for the web too. (Reminder that you can configure Micro.blog to follow and reply to Mastodon users directly from Micro.blog.) | Continue reading
Last night had a dream that was too bizarre and timely not to share… In it, I met Eugen Rochko at a conference, and he showed me a prototype tablet with a physical keyboard that could only post to Mastodon. “And we call it iPhone,” he said. What?! No idea what this means. | Continue reading
Mostly running errands this morning as the Elon Musk + Twitter news was breaking. Watched the rain slowly fill the sidewalk from the front porch of my uncle’s house, there to meet some workers helping with his garage. The sound of rain takes the stress out of everything for me. | Continue reading
Hello new folks joining Micro.blog! [From @kimberlyhirsh](https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2022/04/25/everybody-on-twitter.html): Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out to wherever else people end up. Yep! This is why Micro.b … | Continue reading
Still disappointed that the Spurs didn’t make the playoffs, but I guess I have to begrudgingly admit that the Pelicans finished the season strong. Looks like the Suns series might go to 7 games. | Continue reading
Walking around Barton Springs for the first time in a while. Kind of shocked to see Shady Grove closed and rundown. | Continue reading
Just realized I didn’t show the Bookshelves pin in the demo video about books on Micro.blog. I knew I was forgetting something. | Continue reading
In my demo video yesterday, I used the Scribe theme by @ChrisHannah. Looks really nice with the book list even without any customizations. | Continue reading
I know it’s not always clear how all of Micro.blog’s book features fit together, so I recorded a 10-minute video walk-through on YouTube. It goes through Micro.blog bookshelves, Epilogue, and updating your blog with pages, categories, and filters. | Continue reading
When a company gets too big, they inevitably forget why they exist. Not even the greatest, mission-driven companies seem to be able to escape this fate. The only way to stay true to your roots is to stay small. | Continue reading
Needed to be in Georgetown for a band UIL concert this afternoon, so had a long lunch sitting outside at Hat Creek with my laptop. Nice spot above the San Gabriel River. | Continue reading
If you’re not on Micro.blog Premium, you might not know that Micro.blog has a read-later bookmark interface with highlights. Helps when blogging and quoting. I updated the Dark Mode interface for it today, switching to an orange-ish highlight instead of the murky yellow before. | Continue reading
On this week’s Core Int, @danielpunkass and I follow up on SwiftUI button sizing, cross-platform frameworks, and the new mobile web design for Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Today we launched a design update for the Micro.blog web interface. Vincent has been working on this with a focus on the mobile interface especially, and it looks great on the iPad as well. In the previous version, when viewing on mobile the sidebar would collapse and you’d get a … | Continue reading
Thunderbird Coffee. Kind of cold outside this morning. ☕️ | Continue reading
Listening to Bruce Springsteen’s Thunder Road. One of my favorite live recordings, pops up on shuffle every once in a while. | Continue reading
Lots of work to do this morning. Trying to start the week right with coffee and breakfast tacos. ☕️ | Continue reading
Core Int 509: we talk about Setapp’s reaction to the war in Ukraine, how Setapp is going in general, React Native, SwiftUI, and whether web frameworks are leapfrogging native ones. | Continue reading
Now that I’m tracking all of my book reading in Micro.blog, I cleared out my “currently reading” and “want to read” lists in Goodreads. But when I finish a book, after blogging it I do add it to Goodreads just to let Goodreads keep track of my 2022 reading goals. | Continue reading
All caught up on support email this morning, mostly updating orders for the book. Also, there should be an Easter egg emoji. Seems like something that color emoji variations would be good for. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings. When I started this series, I thought it was a little obvious. But I’m enjoying it more and more with each book. | Continue reading
Can’t believe we’re already getting peaches on the new tree. Only planted it a few weeks ago and thought it might be years until it was big enough. | Continue reading
I sent the following email to anyone who was early to pre-order the book Indie Microblogging. My main goal was to inform people who might have pre-ordered a year ago that we lowered the price, and that they can update or cancel their order if they need to. Sidenote: We use SendGr … | Continue reading
I’ve been making small edits to book.micro.blog over the last couple of weeks. Not as much progress as I’d like, but progress. If you want an e-book or print edition, orders will be open for the rest of the month only. Not going to keep selling it after we go to print. | Continue reading
My initial take on the Elon Musk buyout offer: the web is better when it is more distributed, with more platforms. Reject his offer and let Elon build a new social network if he’s so passionate about it. Too risky to put such a large platform in the hands of someone so divisive. | Continue reading