Two years ago this week, Glass launched for iPhone. I had subscribed right away because I wanted to support their work and saw potential in it, even if I will always default to posting photos to my own blog first. Since then, Glass has added an Android version and a web version, … | Continue reading
Marty and Doc waiting for the DeLorean to be constructed. | Continue reading
Discovered the Snow Peak brand of camping-related products this week… Love the design. I didn’t know I needed $50 chopsticks for camping, but now I want them! Seriously though, some amazing stuff here. Camp stove with modular kitchen setup looks great. | Continue reading
August is halfway over? Summer must be slowly winding down. Last chance to get our special Summer of Blogging $1/month blog hosting. A great value that includes all the standard features that are built into Micro.blog, like full blogs, photos, book blogging, and cross-posting to … | Continue reading
This year I’ve fallen behind in email again. Very sorry to Micro.blog folks who have waited patiently too long for an answer. Attempting to dig out by replying to all emails from today and also some of the oldest emails, each day until caught up. | Continue reading
NBA in-season tournament dates announced. It’s a little odd to me how it’s spread out over so many weeks, but I’m still excited about it. Should make all of those games much more interesting. | Continue reading
Stayed up late watching the Georgia indictment details get revealed. Incredible to see the conspiracy outlined so thoroughly even though it was expected. There was also an excellent interview with Hillary Clinton on MSNBC. Trump will not be president again. No way. 🇺 … | Continue reading
I recorded a video walk-through of Epilogue today and posted it here. Shows off the basics of tracking books you’re reading, and also a few not-so-obvious features. | Continue reading
It has been a great summer for movies. We’ve wrapped up seeing most of the “big” movies, so here’s a mini review of each. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. I love the art style in these movies. When the big animation studios moved from 2D to 3D, we lost some of what made hand- … | Continue reading
Oppenheimer was great. We drove down to San Antonio to see it in 70mm IMAX. | Continue reading
Packing up some old books. I’m trying not to look at everything, but every once in a while there is something priceless tucked away in a book that I had forgotten about, sometimes decades old. An old letter, postcard, or sketch. | Continue reading
Octopus tagging along with us during IKEA shopping this weekend. | Continue reading
I added a tags window in the latest Mac app for Micro.blog. Makes it easy to filter your bookmarks to a tag from the keyboard. Hit command-shift-T, type part of the tag, then the return key to focus the list, and return again to navigate to the tag. (Tags are for Micro.blog Premi … | Continue reading
I enjoyed the conversation on the latest ATP about text editors. Lots of deservedly good praise for BBEdit. I’m sure the hosts have gotten feedback about this already from listeners, but surprised there was no mention of Panic’s Nova. Feels like a good time to give an update on w … | Continue reading
Austin this morning from the train station. Unfortunately just a drop-off, not going anywhere myself. | Continue reading
Whenever I create a new file in Xcode and choose Objective-C as the language, I laugh a little. Am I creating more technical debt or am I saving countless hours of time not dealing with the sharp edges of half-baked new tech? Zig when they zag. | Continue reading
Just posted this week’s episode of Core Intuition: Homemade Granola. Not actually about food. We talk through my frustration with Apple-only development, Apple’s power over distribution, and where the Vision Pro sits on the spectrum of open to closed Apple platforms. | Continue reading
Back to cool air after our upstairs A/C went out for a day. Something usually breaks every summer, and the heat has been especially ridiculous in Texas this year. Very thankful for a quick repair, less than 24 hours. ☀️ | Continue reading
Did some testing this morning with Goodreads and it’s slow and clunky. Timeouts. Really happy with how much we’ve streamlined Micro.blog’s bookshelves so they are fast. Paraphrasing a Jason Fried quote: we can’t predict the future of technology, except that no one is going to wan … | Continue reading
Spent the afternoon polishing up the next Android release of Epilogue and submitting it to Google. Because I don’t use Android often, I don’t have a great sense of what UI feels right. Things like swipe-to-delete are very inconsistent across apps. New version is definitely better … | Continue reading
Congrats to Casey Liss on shipping Callsheet. I’ve been using the beta. Great app for quickly looking up someone from a movie or TV show while on the couch. This will replace IMDb for most people… It’s just a better experience. | Continue reading
Great article by Christina Warren on the history of the App Store and why we’re due for some kind of change, likely helped along by the EU’s Digital Markers Act. Apple taking a cut of all developer revenue is not sustainable forever. | Continue reading
Interesting news on GitHub for Mastodon search, noticed via @darnell@one.darnell.one. Full-text post search is coming, will be opt-in. Discoverability and search is a frequent topic on Micro.blog so I’ll be following this closely. | Continue reading
I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting to Threads. I like the foundation Meta has built with Threads and expect it to be successful, but I’m going to scale back my use until ActivityPub is ready. Most of what I write (including this!) needs to start on my blog. | Continue reading
Fixing bugs and submitting apps to App Review this morning. As a long-time Apple developer going back to the 1990s, I now spend most of my time on web and cross-platform technologies. I’ll always love the Mac, but what a trap the Apple-only development rabbit hole is. Apple is to … | Continue reading
Today we added Pixelfed cross-posting to Micro.blog. This joins our existing set of cross-posting services like Mastodon, Tumblr, Flickr, Bluesky, Nostr, and others. Now you can post photos to your own blog, at your own domain name where you control your identity, and have Micro. … | Continue reading
New blog post editor for Micro.blog from @amit: Scribe. Clean, full-screen editor with styled text. | Continue reading
Snapped this photo while we were making a u-turn in Dallas the other day. Took me daughters here 14 years ago for lunch with their dolls. 🥲 | Continue reading
I’ve driven by this tower a bunch of times on I-35 and was always curious about it. Turns out it’s an experiment in wireless energy transmission, built in 2017. A century after Nikola Tesla, fascinating that folks are working on this again. | Continue reading
We added a new about page with a little more about what Micro.blog is and what our values are. | Continue reading
I’m still waiting to see how DMs evolve in the fediverse before deciding what to do with Micro.blog, but one thing I’m sure of: we’re not going to have messaging that isn’t encrypted. Private replies to Mastodon users (which works now) will remain as a legacy feature, mostly hidd … | Continue reading
Interesting what @dansup@mastodon.social is up to with a new messaging app called Sup. Early video demo is here. Sounds like it uses Mastodon to connect with users, but Signal protocol instead of ActivityPub for messaging. Meanwhile I still like Nostr’s approach to encrypted DMs. | Continue reading
Mystery boxes of records at Josey Records in Dallas, $10 each. | Continue reading
Frustrated with Dropbox ever since Apple required these sync apps to move to a new official API. Dropbox was rock solid, always working. Now I see frequent Finder errors or refusal to move files around. I know, “security”, but from sandboxing to this, not convinced locking down m … | Continue reading
For folks who have been using Micro.blog bookmarks… First of all, thanks! I’m curious: do we need a workflow for tracking “unread” or “read” articles? I’ve been wondering if we could do something clever so you could “tag” an article as read, maybe with an emoji or special tag. | Continue reading
Empty apartment with built-in bookshelves, just one potential future. We’ve been thinking about downsizing ever since all the kids moved out. Change is hard, though. | Continue reading
Finished reading: Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan. This was great. Really well paced, seems like a perfect setup for the series. First of six books. | Continue reading
Writing some new web page text and maybe it’s early in the morning or maybe I watched too much of the news already today, but when I tried to type “independent” I misspelled it and it auto-corrected to “indictment”. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Wasn’t expecting this kind of profound wisdom from the apartment sales guy today: “The world is too big to stay in one place.” | Continue reading
When the coffee shop recognizes me and remembers my regular order, it’s gonna be a good day. ☕️ | Continue reading
If you’ve been fascinated with the Worldcoin Orb, but not sure how to feel about it, check out Molly White’s comprehensive write-up: Having my eyeballs scanned by a shiny chrome orb so I can someday receive cryptocurrency disbursements because artificial intelligence has stolen m … | Continue reading
Over the last couple years, I’ve gone from mostly reading books on a Kindle (Paperwhite), to only on the iPad Mini, and now back to the Kindle (basic 6-inch). Actually prefer the smallest screen. | Continue reading
Recorded another very short screencast to show the latest Micro.blog for macOS update. Less than a minute long. It’s here on YouTube. | Continue reading
Didn’t realize how exhausted I was toward the end of the week. Yesterday shipped new features, then took a nap after dinner, then read, then had a full night’s sleep. Up early and worked on the Mac app, shipping the 3.0.1 bug fix update. Feel back on schedule now. | Continue reading
Today we are shipping a new feature for Micro.blog Premium subscribers: bookmark tags. This is a big improvement for using bookmarks, and it touches several parts of the platform and apps. There is updated documentation for bookmarks with new screenshots. There is a new version o … | Continue reading
At this point I just laugh when Xcode tells me WebView has been deprecated since macOS 10.14. I know! I could set aside a week to rewrite code that works, or wait until it’s removed from macOS, which I’m skeptical will ever happen. (Haven’t updated to Sonoma yet, though…) | Continue reading