Ben Werdmuller follows up on the fediverse symbol, blogging that Meta should be commended for adopting ActivityPub before any other large network: Whatever you think about Meta’s goals for participating, I do also think Meta’s presence gives the network a sort of legitimacy that … | Continue reading
I like the proposed symbol for the fediverse: ⁂. It’s just unicode so doesn’t need anything special to use everywhere on the web. Part of me still thinks we should move toward “social web” as a phrase, though. The web should be the social network. | Continue reading
Sounds like we’re in for an interest rate cut next month. We sold our house last year, starting to explore what’s next, so this will be a welcome change. | Continue reading
From The Information, fascinating to see the different approaches in headset strategy. Meta: we can’t make this for $1000, so forget it. Apple: it must be the best, and the best costs $3500, ship it. | Continue reading
Apple may embrace JPEG XL, via Jade van Dörsten’s microblog. It feels better for XL to be the standard, because it’s backwards compatible and we can just call it JPEG, rather than using WebP or HEIC. Chrome is still a problem, though. | Continue reading
Between me and my kids, we share birthdays with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and… Kamala Harris’s dad. I don’t know what this means but I like it. | Continue reading
Texans, our state nightmare of needing to take a wallet with us for groceries at HEB may be almost over… Central Market now has Apple Pay. No timeline yet for all HEBs, but I now believe. Never thought I’d live to see this day. 🤪 | Continue reading
Kamala Harris, for the people. Great speech. What an amazing week for Democrats and America. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Feeling good about the bug squashing today. Which probably means I’ve overlooked something. 🤪 | Continue reading
As I work on contenteditable divs, having flashbacks to pre-CSS web development with browser layout differences. Rewrote a bunch of code today, works great in Safari. Chrome and Firefox, not quite. | Continue reading
Nice to see new Covid shots approved, will be out in the next week or so. A lot of people have caught the virus right now. Hoping we can stay healthy a little longer. 💉 | Continue reading
Federico Viticci posting on Threads: My realization in 2024 has been that the DMA fork of iOS is the best iPhone experience. We can finally use our phones like actual computers with more default apps and apps from external sources. | Continue reading
Good news for train fans: Amtrak route from New Orleans to Mobile should open next year. So many short segments like this need to be restored or built new across the country. | Continue reading
Did you know Iconfactory has a microblog on Micro.blog now? Love the new Totoro wallpaper for Wallaroo. | Continue reading
Feeling a bit of regret not making the trip to Portland for XOXO. Hope it’s a good one for folks. | Continue reading
“This is loud in our country’s call because while we all love freedom, it is love that frees us all. Empathy emancipates, making us greater than hate or vanity. That is the American promise, powerful and pure.” — Amanda Gorman at the DNC | Continue reading
I liked the change of pace with Bill Clinton just going with a printed copy of his speech or notes. Apparently he was way off script. Maybe a little more time to breathe when ignoring the teleprompter. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Are ChatGPT notifications actually a thing? I’ve never seen this before, so can’t tell if it’s a real or hallucinated feature. | Continue reading
The LEGO interstitials in MKBHD’s Pixel 9 review video are a really nice touch. | Continue reading
Strongly agree with this post from John Gruber, responding to The New York Times (which I no longer read): Very few presidents have ever been faced with such a clear decision between the good of the nation and the drive of their personal ambition. Biden’s ambition is legendary. B … | Continue reading
Some people downplay the iMessage lock-in, but it’s real for me. Otherwise I’d switch to Android just to mix things up. Instead, I’ll likely drop $1k on a new iPhone this fall, rewarding Apple. | Continue reading
Working hard to fix issues in the new Micro.blog editor. I know it’s frustrating when things change out from under customers. I think it’s in good shape now, but not perfect, and I missed a couple things for the initial release. So many different ways that people blog. | Continue reading
ActivityPub and Mastodon API developers, any thoughts for the discussion on FEP-eb22 here? I want to move this forward. I think it’s a missing piece to help Mastodon clients adapt to more platforms. | Continue reading
I knew Netflix was doing games, but I didn’t realize they had good games. Monument Valley 3 looks really nice. | Continue reading
I’m with the folks who say we’re likely in an AI bubble similar to the dot-com boom. That is, it’s going to pop, but we’ll still be left with something great. But I can’t rule out that AI is so profound a change that there won’t be a pop. More a correction, trimming out the fluff … | Continue reading
Finished reading: Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas. Felt a little muddled in the middle but solid closing, setting up more characters for the rest of the series. 📚 | Continue reading
Really strong opening night at the DNC. Joe was good. So much love from the crowd. Special guests on abortion were compelling. There were some echos from 2008 in Hillary’s speech, and this after 2016: …we refused to give up on America. Millions marched. Many ran for office. We ke … | Continue reading
Signed in to Facebook. It’s sort of a weird app if you haven’t used it in years. Wonder how long until the app is only Reels and Marketplaces. | Continue reading
For the Democratic convention this week, I’m looking forward to Hillary’s speech tonight. Her campaign in 2016 didn’t pan out, but it did matter. Totally normal now to have a woman as the nominee. This year we take the next step. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Mayoral candidate in Cheyenne, Wyoming running with an AI bot that will make decisions for the city: Standing behind a lectern with a sign that read “AI FOR MAYOR,” he gave a brief PowerPoint presentation on the history of AI. Then he stepped aside to give the floor to his Mac mi … | Continue reading
Rolling out the new web-based Micro.blog editor now… Let us know if you have any feedback or run into bugs. There was a brief issue with the reply text box not loading, now fixed. (Caching the wrong minimized JS, argh!) | Continue reading
This line from Leon Mika’s post about naming computers rings true. It’s pragmatic but also a little sad: …when AWS came onto the scene, the prevailing train of thought was to treat your servers like cattle rather than pets. His blog post also uses the audio narration feature in M … | Continue reading
Still some selection quirks in the new editor, but overall it’s so much better, don’t see a reason to hold on the release tomorrow. For longer blog posts with HTML, sometimes the cursor can jump annoyingly, but it’s easy enough to work around. | Continue reading
Micro.blog users who check the logs page will notice that the platform routes publishing requests to one of our servers and includes the server name in the log. The names were originally added to help me debug, but as an easter egg I also linked to the Disneyland Railroad wiki pa … | Continue reading
Just registered for FediForum, a 3-day event for the fediverse coming up in September. I’ve attended the last two events and got a lot out of it. Good for both developers and anyone interested in learning more beyond Mastodon. | Continue reading
Pretty happy with how the new editor for Micro.blog is coming along. I’m going to ship it Monday. It’ll be enabled when starting a new post, editing a post, and for replies. Not yet for CSS or theme editing. Screenshot here for a quick reply… Notice better highlighting, preview t … | Continue reading
Posted a new Core Intuition, this week covering the latest App Store news with new linking entitlement rules and in-app purchase in Patreon. We also talk about my upcoming Markdown text editor change in Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Nice blog post on Writing Slowly about using notes in Micro.blog and getting set up with Strata for iOS. | Continue reading
Annoyed by yesterday’s server problem. Essentially one of our servers was accepting incoming connections, but it couldn’t connect to another server to verify domain names for SSL certs. The whole point of having Hugo-based static blogs is to minimize dependencies, but there’s alw … | Continue reading
It was four years ago this week that Epic Games launched so-called Project Liberty, their attempt to force Apple’s hand on external purchases. Lawsuits, DMA… And now we have third-party marketplaces and Fortnite back in the EU. It’s no longer crazy to imagine we’ll get this world … | Continue reading
Having one of those mornings where I sort of can’t believe how well this coding is going. Sometimes everything just works. | Continue reading
There are a lot of misses in the current Amtrak map. Las Vegas, which Brightline is making progress on. But one of the biggest has gotta be the station in Maricopa instead of Phoenix. Ridiculous that this route has been broken for decades. (Biden’s infrastructure deal will eventu … | Continue reading
For the first joint event with Joe and Kamala together, really smart to focus on healthcare and prescription drug costs. There has been real progress on this that Joe can talk about. It lets the crowd show their appreciation for the president, the press will cover it, and it high … | Continue reading
Now that I’ve cancelled my NYT subscription, going to wind down my daily use of Wordle too. So many ads now, and the fun has run its course. Planning to stop playing after puzzle 1200. | Continue reading
This new Rivian travel kitchen looks so good. I’d be tempted to get it if I hadn’t already spent a small fortune on my Snow Peak camping things. | Continue reading