Updated to iOS 17. No problems, seems like a good upgrade. I think it fixed the web view refresh flicker problems we’ve been having in the Micro.blog app. | Continue reading
I’ve just loosely been following the Pennsylvania inmate’s escape and now capture. Wild story. Kudos to law enforcement for capturing him without firing a shot, and no one injured. | Continue reading
iPhone 15 Pro action button is interesting. I wouldn’t mind a rethink of the volume and power buttons too. I still accidentally take screenshots or otherwise fumble with the buttons. | Continue reading
I enjoyed the Mother Nature video at the Apple event. Usually these videos seem overdone and unnecessary, but this was actually a fun format to list the same somewhat dense environmental facts. On the other hand, we’re 30 minutes in and no products I’m particularly interested in. | Continue reading
Took the new-to-me Honda Element in to get checked out and the cost for a bunch of random fixes is a little mind-boggling. It’s got 127k miles and I thought maybe I could push it to 250k… Now I’m starting to doubt. | Continue reading
Over the weekend while I was working on my Letters from Europe page, I integrated footnotes using the Barefoot library. Completely forgot that @jsonbecker had already created a Bigfoot.js plug-in for Micro.blog. Anyway, now there are more plug-in options for footnotes! | Continue reading
24 years ago, Traci and I went to Europe with a rail pass and hardly any money or plans. We worked remotely: her as a contractor for Apple and me at a small Mac dev shop. Last week I rediscovered some emails and postcards we sent while traveling and I decided to put them together … | Continue reading
When the threads-api project was announced, it was so tempting to use it but I knew it would be too fragile relying on undocumented APIs. Sure enough, Meta has sent them a cease and desist letter and the project is now shut down. Trust in ad-based platforms will always get you bu … | Continue reading
The capitol and downtown buildings over yonder, reflecting in the windows. Eighth day of the Micro.blog photo challenge. | Continue reading
A couple people have read between the lines of my recent posts and wondered what is going on with my life. Short answer: we are selling our house of 17 years in northwest Austin and renting a place closer into town. Downsizing is hard. Feels like the right time for a major change … | Continue reading
App Store Connect is barely holding on today. Errors and more errors. Apparently this is the day I complain about other people’s software while I try to fix my own. | Continue reading
Starting to get the new Slack redesign in one of my workspaces but not others. I’m fine with the UI changes, but it’s jarring the way they roll these out so they don’t apply everywhere in the app. | Continue reading
Fascinating fallout happening in the JavaScript vs. TypeScript debate. In my experience, changing a language rarely brings the productivity gains you were hoping for. | Continue reading
More good advice from Manuel Moreale: Please, for the love of all things web-related, if you decide to do anything online, get yourself a domain name. We try to make this easy in Micro.blog, but it should be even easier. I’d like to spend some more time on it this year, so that t … | Continue reading
To follow up on some of the replies I’m getting about my hard drive, my philosophy is that nearly everything should be in one place. Less chance you will lose something important. Backups are simpler. Work anywhere. Same goes for what I post on the web: everything is on my blog. | Continue reading
Another new Micro.blog 3.2 beta is out for TestFlight. @vincent is tweaking the tags design and it’s looking really nice. I think we can probably ship this to everyone next week. And it’s a great time to try bookmarks and tagging in Micro.blog Premium if you haven’t upgraded yet. | Continue reading
Apple’s sending emails about getting apps ready for the Vision Pro App Store. Folks in the Apple dev community won’t like this, but I think Vision Pro will be a bust in the short term. Only develop for it for fun, not for a market. I’ll revisit it in 10 years when the tech catche … | Continue reading
Can’t even calculate the number of hours and probably days I’ve lost because I cheapened out when I bought my MacBook Pro with too small of a hard drive. Still really like this computer (16-inch Intel) and don’t want the hassle of upgrading it just for more space. | Continue reading
We’re ramping up the TestFlight betas again for Micro.blog 3.2 with bookmark tags. The UI is still evolving. We’ll iterate quickly from here and get the final release out pretty soon. | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale follows up with some thoughts after interviewing me for his People and Blogs series: That’s one of the main advantages of owning your place on the web: you can bend it and shape it to do exactly what you need it to do. I love even the small tweaks we can make to ou … | Continue reading
So many things are happening right now. Car, house, work. Change starts slowly but once momentum hits, it’s kind of unstoppable. | Continue reading
Love this new bookstore + coffee shop in Austin, First Light Books. Lots of thoughtful touches like the laptop-free book nooks for reading. | Continue reading
The photo challenge grid for Micro.blog is so cool right now. Lots of green for today (“forest”) and orange for yesterday (actually “orange”). Thanks everyone who is participating! | Continue reading
For technical folks who are interested in the plumbing of the social web, @snarfed has a great feature grid that compares IndieWeb, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and Nostr. | Continue reading
First day of the Micro.blog photo challenge: abstract. | Continue reading
Found some old postcards and emails we sent from Europe in 1999 and they are absolute gold. May try to put some of them online as an archive if I get permission from @traci. Here’s a highlight from traveling before wi-fi existed: We won’t be connecting the PowerBook to the Intern … | Continue reading
Nice blog post from Allen Pike about link formatting. I’d add that overthinking SEO is a good way to lose your way. Design links for readers and the rest will take care of itself. | Continue reading
After owning a house for 20+ years, submitting a rental application is a nerve-racking process. Don’t usually have this kind of fear of denial. | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale has started a new People and Blogs series where he interviews people about their blogs. The post with me just went live today. I love this idea and look forward to future posts in the series. | Continue reading
This is how Amazon always wins… I want to pick up an organizing storage-type thing and think IKEA would be perfect. But it’s a bit of a drive, so I check Target and they have basically the same thing. But then I realize Amazon also has something similar that can be here tomorrow … | Continue reading
It’s just about time for the September photo challenge! Got any ideas for prompt words to inspire each day’s photos? Jean has the details here and her email address to send them to. We’ll pick a random word each day and collect everyone’s photos together. | Continue reading
The third-party Mastodon web app Phanpy has a conversation view that reminds me a lot of Tweetie on iPad. The multi-pane layout in that app never really caught on, but I always thought it was a nice use of space. | Continue reading
Sarah Gooding, writing at WP Tavern about Automattic’s 100-year plan: What resources will a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) point to 50 years from now? Or will URLs be discarded into the scrap pile of obsolete building blocks as soon as there’s a better, more efficient way to iden … | Continue reading
There’s a new episode of Core Intuition out. We talk about Daniel shipping a beta of MarsEdit with Mastodon support, the value of feedback from customers, upcoming plans, microblogging and social network differences, and how sometimes we have to cut features to ship. | Continue reading
There are a bunch of things I want to add to my Honda Element to make it my own. I just finished the first upgrade: CarPlay. I didn’t really know what I was doing but somehow stumbled through it. It is a huge improvement compared to the 15-year-old factory radio. Documentation on … | Continue reading
Still playing Wordle almost every day. Happy Wordle #800 day! 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | Continue reading
The music video for Used To Be Young by Miley Cyrus really struck me. Simple. Powerful. | Continue reading
Restaurants usually wrap a fork, spoon, and knife in a napkin. I got three knives instead! Someone in the kitchen is laughing. Keep it weird, Kerbey Lane. | Continue reading
And to follow up on this, there’s a little known policy for Micro.blog hosting: when you have a paid subscription, we continue to host your blog forever even after you cancel and stop paying. Good URLs don’t change and don’t go away, unless you want them to. | Continue reading
I love this idea: WordPress.com’s 100-year plan. But at $38k, it’s too expensive for most people. I’ve been planning something similar as a complement to Micro.blog, but from a completely different angle. | Continue reading
Looked through my old Clipstart source code for the first time in years, to answer a rare support question. Probably should’ve open-sourced the app. Everything broke when Apple abandoned QuickTime. | Continue reading
Heck of a mugshot, Trump. It feels like an angry, fitting reflection of that line from his inauguration speech: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Funny how different I drive depending on the car. In the Subaru Outback, adaptive cruise control on and let the car steer itself. In my son’s manual transmission Honda Civic, kind of recklessly like I’m street racing. And in the Honda Element, in the slow lane as if I have all th … | Continue reading
Sunset as we drive over the Trinity River in Fort Worth. | Continue reading
Made a sort of impulsive purchase of a used car: 2008 Honda Element SC, for a mini camper. Full details, photos, build, and more to follow in a longer blog post when I have it in my hands and set up. “It doesn’t make any sense. That’s why I trust it." | Continue reading
Jean just announced our next Micro.blog photo challenge! Starts September 1st. | Continue reading