Wheel of Time season 2 had a few good moments, but overall it’s just too much to squeeze into 8 episodes. No time to develop the most important character because the writers can’t seem to decide who the show is about. Veering way off the books probably doesn’t help. | Continue reading
Sad watching the coverage of war in Israel. Meanwhile in this country we don’t have a Speaker of the House for petty, incompetent reasons. Reminder to voters that we actually got a bunch accomplished the first two years of Biden’s presidency. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Between trying to sell our house, moving to a new place, and keeping up with actual work, I’ve managed to squeeze in some time here and there to work on my car. I recently put new OEM cross bars on it and our old rooftop box. The Element’s roof has a really nice design that makes … | Continue reading
Just posted Core Intuition episode 571. From the show notes: Daniel and Manton discuss Apple’s latest round of in-person and online “Apple Experts” events, the Apple Vision Pro sessions and whether the NDAs allude to anything exciting, and Daniel’s shoulder injury and worrying ab … | Continue reading
I’m finding so many old things as I clean out boxes from the garage. WWDC 2001 bag was a nice find. I’ve donated most away. Here’s a sticker from WebEdge, a web conference I helped run in a former life. | Continue reading
Our old house hit the market today and the professional photos are kind of stunning. Looks like a nice place. Hope a new family enjoys it as much as we did. | Continue reading
Spotify will include 15 hours of audiobooks as part of paid subscriptions. This sounds great to switch over to listening when I get stalled reading a print book or e-book, if the audiobook isn’t available quickly on Libby. Not in the US yet, though. | Continue reading
It’s one of those mornings. Accidentally texted some Redis info and server logs to our realtor instead of @vincent. 🤪 | Continue reading
We’ve had an hours-long outage at our hosting provider Linode, mostly affecting photos using the CDN. They have rolled out a fix and we’re hoping things get back to normal. You may want to disable the CDN for your blog under the Design page temporarily if you’re still seeing issu … | Continue reading
Dan Moren writes about a bizarre 12-hour iCloud meltdown on his account. Doesn’t seem like much has changed since 2016 when I blogged that iCloud is too opaque. I still prefer Dropbox for everything important. | Continue reading
Not sure I’ve ever been this busy, simultaneously moving and getting our old house ready to sell. Dozens and dozens of little things to do. I fell behind in almost everything else, slowly crawling back to writing code, editing podcasts, email, etc. Thanks for your patience if you … | Continue reading
I get that Democrats wouldn’t be thrilled to save McCarthy after… well, everything he’s done. I’m sure they know what they’re doing. Yet, this is all a waste of everyone’s time. Matt Gaetz running amuck, sowing chaos. Felt like this was an enemy of my enemy is my friend moment. & … | Continue reading
Dave Winer: “Open web” is redundant I like IndieWeb because it emphasizes smaller, more distributed sites run by people, not big companies. But Dave is right. The default for the web is openness. | Continue reading
Nice post by Remy Sharp about intercepting broken links and redirecting them to the Internet Archive. Reminds me of the Micro.blog Premium feature (see video on YouTube) where we archive a copy of any web page you link to. I’d love to do more with this. | Continue reading
This is a cool look at old icons from Rogue Amoeba. Fission probably needs an update but overall it’s a really nice set. That bottle for Audio Hijack is still one of my favorites. | Continue reading
Losing my mind trying to get fetch or axios or superagent or anything in React Native to not follow redirects. About to give up and write my own Obj-C or Swift networking bridge. | Continue reading
If anyone has doubts about Threads supporting ActivityPub, listen to Mark Zuckerberg on Decoder. Some of what Mark says is almost IndieWeb-esq at times! I still believe Facebook has done a lot of harm to society, but they are clearly hoping to be more open with Threads and that’s … | Continue reading
We’ve updated Micro.blog for iOS to version 3.2.1 with some additional improvements. One change you’ll notice right away is that the formatting toolbar now has more traditional “b” for bold / “i” for italic buttons. In previous versions I thought that showing the Markdown syntax … | Continue reading
A couple interesting bits in the letter about Epic Games layoffs: six months of severance pay, and Project Liberty continues: We’ve been taking steps to reduce our legal expenses, but are continuing the fight against Apple and Google distribution monopolies and taxes, so the meta … | Continue reading
Our sleepy dog kept me company today during podcast recording. Lots of dog snoring, which may or may not be picked up on the microphone. Preferable to the usual barking, though. A quiet day with no package deliveries. | Continue reading
Why am I watching another Republican debate? It’s chaotic, awkward… Just kind of a mess. Maybe this should be like the State of the Union format so Biden gets a few minutes to respond at the end. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Looking forward to macOS Sonoma, but decided to hold off with the install until next week, after we’ve shipped Micro.blog 3.2.1 for iOS. Don’t want to risk any last-minute Xcode build problems. | Continue reading
Impressed with Olivia Rodrigo’s album GUTS. Good stuff. | Continue reading
For day 26 of the photo challenge: beverage. My go-to coffee when at home, cold brew with oat milk. Getting started for the day with Micro.blog timeline catch-up and code pull requests. ☕️ | Continue reading
When we first added ActivityPub support to Micro.blog years ago, I used the phrase “Mastodon-compatible” because I was worried that “ActivityPub” would be confusing for normal people. It now seems time to adopt “fediverse” as a term throughout our UI instead. Curious how Threads … | Continue reading
Skimming through more of this interview with me that was posted yesterday, really happy with how it turned out! Except the part in the middle where I forget @vincent’s name and you can see my brain turn to mush in realtime. We’re just human here at Micro.blog HQ. | Continue reading
With the writers strike ending, wonder how soon we can expect a return of SNL. No need to film anything in advance and I’m imagining all these comedians have a backlog of ideas. | Continue reading
Fun to see this new take on a Micro.blog client from @heyloura. It’s a great example of using the API to build a different user experience that can prioritize different aspects of navigation and features. | Continue reading
I love reading the perspective of people who have moved from their own Mastodon server to using Micro.blog hosting, like this post from @rachsmith. Thanks! There’s still more we could do to make this integration better. | Continue reading
There’s a new video interview with me up on YouTube. Thanks @numericcitizen for talking to me! We cover a lot about Micro.blog, thoughts about social networks, travel, hosting beyond someone’s lifetime, user experience, and what might be coming to Micro.blog in the future. | Continue reading
On the latest Core Intuition we talk about whether to order new Apple products, gripes about managing online payments for phones, and the macOS Sonoma upgrade from a dev perspective. | Continue reading
It’s a special photo challenge for day 23: a day in the life. This is me testing my camera this morning before being interviewed by @numericcitizen. | Continue reading
I’ve got a bunch of Bluesky invite codes. I’m just gonna put them in this Gist if anyone wants to grab one. I’ll update the list as I can, but you might need to try a different code if one is already taken. (I check in on Bluesky occasionally and let M.b send most of my posts ove … | Continue reading
I’ve been ordering a lot of little things from Amazon lately as I try to turn my car into a micro-camper. Amazon has let way too many sponsored search results clutter up the buying experience. It’s going to hurt them long term if they don’t clean it up. | Continue reading
Love what Patrick Rhone is doing with this new blog For You. From yesterday’s post: When you ask for help, you are not admitting failure or lack of ability to solve the problem. To the contrary, you are using your ability to bring further resources to bear. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Takes a little while to get there but love when all the threads start to come together. Wonderful. | Continue reading
Ran through my Micro.blog demo at FediForum pretty quickly because I wanted to stay under the 5-minute goal, but also because my dog has been barking all morning. Can’t believe he was quiet for the whole demo. | Continue reading
I often tune into the news while eating breakfast. Impressed with Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on CNN this morning. He always seems more grounded and human than most CEOs. | Continue reading
I’ll be joining FediForum today. It starts in about half an hour. Mostly will lurk today, but looking forward to hearing what people are working on and what to solve next in the fediverse. Then tomorrow I’ll show off a little of Micro.blog. | Continue reading
I don’t usually look at Wordle stats. I solve the puzzles for fun and to wake my brain up a little, doesn’t matter if I get it in 2 tries or 6. But apparently I’ve played 543 times… Not sure I’ve played any game that many times before. | Continue reading
Today’s photo challenge word is “edge”… The retaining wall in our yard is currently being destroyed and rebuilt. Gotta make things nice for new potential buyers. | Continue reading
The second FediForum is this Wednesday and Thursday! Two half days. I’ll be doing a quick demo of how Micro.blog fits in with the fediverse, including recent Pixelfed integration. | Continue reading
Got my signed copy of Sword of Kaigen from the Kickstarter. The hardcover turned out great. | Continue reading
Huge downpour as I was leaving HEB. I guess my life is boring, because running through the rain with my groceries, getting drenched, is the most alive I’ve felt in a while. Woohoo! We needed all of this rain. ️ | Continue reading
We “lost” an episode of Core Intuition because of audio quality problems, so we decided to post an edited transcript as a bonus for members. I’d like to make it public later, but for now you can get a link in the members channel on our Slack. See the membership page for more info … | Continue reading
Thanks to Hunter Biden for taking one for the team on the gun charges. Maybe the GOP will get serious about gun legislation and we can ban assault weapons next? (Sigh.) 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Skipping the iPhone 15 this year, my 14 Pro is still in perfect condition. No case, no scratches. I do envy USB-C upgraders, though. | Continue reading
The latest @coreint podcast is out. Daniel and I react to this week’s Apple event. | Continue reading