Finished reading: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst. A little bit cozy fantasy, a little bit romantasy. Fairly quick read, trying one last push to finish a couple books before the new year. | Continue reading
Merry Christmas! This present combines two of my favorite things into one shirt. | Continue reading
Today’s photo challenge prompt is travel. Driving by the old air traffic control tower at Mueller. | Continue reading
Jason Snell blogging at Macworld about how much the Siri delay has affected other products: Nothing exposes the imbalance between Apple’s hardware designers and its software organization than multiple products reportedly being finished months or years in advance, forced to idle b … | Continue reading
Hope everyone is having a relaxing holiday week. What a crazy year! I love this time, as things slow down, anticipating all the possibilities of the new year to come. | Continue reading
If you’re following the Micro.blog holiday photo challenge, there will be a special “pin” to unlock. It should be active soon, and it won’t be too strict about participation… I’m going to make it so it only requires posting in about half the holiday prompt days. Not too late to c … | Continue reading
For today’s winter wonder photo challenge prompt grinch, at the Trail of Lights. | Continue reading
In addition to the Micro.blog holiday photo challenge, we also have micro.christmas, a fun domain that gathers up recent posts about the holidays. | Continue reading
Manu Moreale reflecting on a Mastodon post that attempted to simplify the world into effectively good and bad people: I keep thinking about this tweet because to me it embodies one of the core issues I have with general social media discourse: the lack of depth. This fits with a … | Continue reading
My default AI for coding help is GPT-5.2 in Codex on “high”. It is very good. But just when I think they’ve mostly solved hallucinations, ChatGPT gets a couple easy fact-checks wrong. As models get more efficient and cheaper, I expect more users to be routed to longer thinking to … | Continue reading
“Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it.” — Kermit in The Muppet Christmas Carol Going through more of my mom’s things, still miss her every day. And thinking of my dad often too, even though it has been many, many years now. | Continue reading
Kicking myself for deployment mistakes as we wind down for the holidays. We have a few big things planned for early next year. I probably should stop working on new things until then, but can’t resist. Also got new iOS and Android bug fixes submitted today. | Continue reading
Careless blunder while deploying a security improvement today, which caused posts created from the native apps to go into an outdated saved articles list for a short time. To minimize the fallout, I’ve restored them to drafts in your Posts list. You can post again or use the draf … | Continue reading
When we complain about the App Store, it’s not just the fees. It’s the lack of control and fragmented billing. With our Micro.one $1 plan — cheap! — I’m actually paying more to Stripe (33 cents) because credit cards aren’t good for small transactions. But having everything in one … | Continue reading
I’m tempted to just get all my political news from Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. But I do watch CNN every morning during breakfast. I don’t expect to break this habit until at least after the midterms, if ever. And politics is pervasive, everywhere. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
The New Yorker has put their 100-year archive online in a really nice way. I’ve poked around on a few old issues. Over the last year I’ve scaled back my news reading… Cancelled the NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, everything. I read blogs, tech news, and for long-form The New York … | Continue reading
Laurens Hof at Connected Places wraps up the Threads / fediverse experiment: My take is that Meta and Threads have played the game well. They immediately capitalised on the moment in 2023 when decentralisation and Twitter-alternatives got large-scale attention, and knew how to sa … | Continue reading
Updated the Mac app today with a few little improvements, including a right-click context menu for Movies. I’ve wanted this a few times to copy a link to a movie or TV show. Most menus also support holding down the option key to switch to Markdown. | Continue reading
I missed that iOS 26.2 in Japan allows developers to replace Siri from the side button. This seems like a big deal. | Continue reading
An invaluable resource. The Internet Archive is getting close to 1 trillion pages archived: Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been capturing the web—saving the voices, creativity, and communities that make up our shared digital history. Nearly one trillion pages later, we’re st … | Continue reading
Posted a quick 1-minute video on YouTube (boo!) to demo a new feature to install Open Graph preview cards for Micro.blog themes, even if you don’t use the full design from the theme. | Continue reading
Unfortunately picked today with an expected high of 100° as the day I should start taking long walks again. | Continue reading
I’ve had a couple side conversations recently about centralized video. John Gruber makes a strong case today that this needs to be solved soon: With YouTube, Google has a centralized chokehold on video. We need a way that’s as easy and scalable to host video content, independentl … | Continue reading
Oh jeez, just spend too many minutes wondering why this code wasn’t working until I realized I had typed “theme.opml” instead of “theme.toml”. 🤪 | Continue reading
The next FediForum is coming up in a couple weeks. I just registered. Join us for two half-days of discussions, demos, presentations, teaching, learning and plotting next steps in moving the open social web, the Fediverse and social media based on open protocols forward!FediForum … | Continue reading
Starting to get tempted by the iPhone Air, but still committed to keeping my old phone for a while. I listened to two shows this week that were really good: MKBHD’s review and today’s Dithering. | Continue reading
I’m cracking up at this essay in The New Yorker: A two-bedroom house with a front yard and a back yard? Psh. What do you need all that space for? Yoga? I’m from New York. I once paid two thousand dollars a month to live in the freight elevator of the former Filene’s Basement, in … | Continue reading
Om Malik really likes the iPhone Air: I don’t tend to get smitten by something so quickly, but the “Air” is really up there. It’s so thin you think a strong gust of air could really blow it away from your hands. (These puns keep coming on their own. I swear I’m not trying.) | Continue reading
As a consumer, I never ask to reverse a credit card charge because I know how difficult it is for small businesses. If someone forgets they signed up for Micro.blog, misses the emails, a chargeback costs us $15. It makes it feel pointless for us to offer inexpensive $1 subscripti … | Continue reading
NVIDIA investing $100 billion in OpenAI with plans to build 10 gigawatts of data center capacity. Sam Altman: Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we’re building with NVIDIA to both create new AI breakthroughs and empowe … | Continue reading
Not sure why, but I shot a quick video going up the glass elevator at the hospital. Maybe because our photos and videos fill in details of visits when we don’t write everything down. | Continue reading
Still waiting on bug fixes in our Android app to be approved. Apple’s review times seem consistently faster than Google now. I don’t want any review for bug fixes, of course, but gotta hand it to Apple for improving this so much. | Continue reading
Barry Hess on his blog: What I wouldn’t give for all of us to be a bit more naive. A bit less social media. A bit less 24-hour news. | Continue reading
Today we’re announcing support for Mastodon quote posts in Micro.blog. This is a new feature in Mastodon 4.5 that has been in development for quite some time. It is live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online, the two servers run by Mastodon gGmbH, and it will be rolling out to o … | Continue reading
Paul Frazee has another post about the relationship between a PDS and the app layer of AT Protocol. With diagrams! Good description of how moderation and migration can work. | Continue reading
Mark Gurman writing about recent news and also next year’s foldable iPhone: As for how the foldable iPhone will look, I am increasingly told that users should imagine two titanium iPhone Airs side-by-side. In other words, it’s going to be super thin and a design achievement. | Continue reading
I’ve been testing with Mastodon quote posts, which I’ll officially announce (partial) support for in Micro.blog tomorrow. Not gonna lie, a little surprised that my first pass implementation mostly worked. As I’ve said too many times, ActivityPub testing is tricky. | Continue reading
This is really neat for fediverse devs: ActivityPub.Academy. Essentially a modified version of Mastodon that can show a log of activities being sent, to troubleshoot interoperability problems. | Continue reading
WNBA playoffs! Watching Aces vs. Fever. Only a quarter left and Aces might be falling too far behind. | Continue reading
I can see why The Legend of Ochi didn’t get a wide theatrical release, but I loved it. Some really beautiful scenes. 🍿 | Continue reading
Decided against Liquid Glass-ifying Epilogue for now. It’s such a huge distraction, some developers spent the whole summer dealing with this. Luckily there’s a UIDesignRequiresCompatibility opt-out. | Continue reading
I stopped for a minute to look at this sign, just as a flock of birds took to the sky. | Continue reading
Finally catching up on WWDC sessions and documentation for Liquid Glass. Took me way too long to realize that hidesSharedBackground is what I wanted. And because this is React Native, I get to swizzle UIBarButtonItem to customize things. JavaScript plus a sprinkling of Obj-C. | Continue reading
Revolution.Social is becoming one of my favorite new podcasts. Great episode with Chris Messina. Rabble is on a roll with this. | Continue reading
Interesting blog post about analytics. I think surveillance is too strong a word for simple referrer logging, but I do agree that most personal blogs don’t need this: The other reason you might put analytics on your site is to know when someone links to your writing. Again, if th … | Continue reading
What more needs to be said about assault weapons? They need to be banned. Most of the worst mass shootings — including this latest at the church in Minnesota — would’ve been less terrible if the shooters could not fire off 100+ rounds quickly. I’ve blogged about this many times, … | Continue reading