Beautiful photo from aows. When I retire, I’m just going to blog photos of train tracks. | Continue reading
Thanks again to @vincent for fixing one of the servers yesterday while I was in Rocky Mountain National Park with no cell coverage. Not happy with the blips in downtime recently, going to reprioritize this. Enjoying the morning with good wi-fi and coffee at Inkwell & Brew in Este … | Continue reading
Traveling today. Got to the airport early, plenty of time to catch up on a couple things. Submitted Micro.blog 3.0.3 to Apple to review. Hope everyone’s having a nice Friday! | Continue reading
Other things I learned about video games this week while we were temporarily without a Switch: the Wii with Skyward Sword still works, the N64 sort of works and then doesn’t, and the Game Boy Advance SP battery is starting to bulge, but replacements are just $10. ️ | Continue reading
We caved and bought another Nintendo Switch. The OLED Zelda edition. So nice. ️ | Continue reading
Ugh, this is a new pattern for me in Wordle. 712 X/6. ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 | Continue reading
I’ve migrated the App.net posts archive to S3, to simplify hosting the archive. I’m not going to do any more work on this. No import feature for Micro.blog. The data files are there if anyone needs them. Please only download your own posts, not everything. There are about 44 mill … | Continue reading
I like this post from Dave Rupert on lessons from old Russian small nuclear generators: I wonder if software has a kind of digital entropy, where even good software left untouched for a short timeframe rots and stops working. | Continue reading
Finished Ted Lasso. Overall really enjoyed it. This season almost lost its way a couple times, sometimes overthinking itself, but it wrapped up perfectly. | Continue reading
I seem to have made a serious AWS pricing miscalculation, transferring a bunch of small files from EC2 to S3. Data transfer is free, but PUT requests aren’t. With millions of requests, adds up to real money. This is why I usually prefer Linode’s flat pricing. | Continue reading
Similar to my announcement last month about supporting Bluesky, we’re adding Nostr cross-posting to Micro.blog starting today. You can enable it under Account → Edit Sources & Cross-posting: Nostr might have the most uncertain future among recent up-and-coming social web protocol … | Continue reading
Thanks everyone who sent me feedback about how you are using Micro.blog’s email newsletters. I took this into account while finishing the new feature, but I realize it’s a functionality change. It is very rare that we change a feature so significantly. Felt like it had to be done … | Continue reading
Micro.blog Premium includes an email newsletter feature, so readers of your blog can subscribe to receive posts by email. It’s designed around microblogs. For example, Micro.blog can gather up lots of short posts over the week or month and collect them into a single email. Today … | Continue reading
This article in Forbes has some new (to me) details on the creation of Nostr. | Continue reading
Trying audiobooks in Spotify for the first time. I’d like to see some UI tweaks for books, like less emphasis on chapters (books are not albums) and showing the time remaining with the speed taken into account. | Continue reading
Launching new features tomorrow. Going to lay low this afternoon instead of deploying major changes near the end of the day, which I’m sure I would regret. | Continue reading
Spilled a glass of water all over my MacBook keyboard. So that’s how my morning is going. Seems okay so far. | Continue reading
Working on improvements to email newsletters in Micro.blog. I’d like to split out the editing of queued newsletters to instead have a separate per-newsletter “intro” text, with the rest of the email not editable. Does that cause a problem for anyone? Will allow more flexibility i … | Continue reading
Love this from Matt Mullenweg. It’s what we believe at Micro.blog, too. …it’s not about how many views you have, how many likes, trying to max all your stats… sometimes a single connection to another human is all that matters. Happy 20th to WordPress. Heck of an achievement. | Continue reading
Did my daughter come to visit this weekend to see us, or to take the Switch and Tears of the Kingdom back to her apartment? Who can know. Anyway, we’re busting out the N64 and Ocarina of Time… As soon as we get an RCA → HDMI adapter. | Continue reading
I’m testing Calckey to improve compatibility with Micro.blog. Some of the UI is quite busy and not for me, but I love how they are showing ActivityPub usernames, with the profile photo and dimmed domain name. Might borrow this. | Continue reading
Went to pay our respects to my uncle, for Memorial Day. Tomorrow would’ve been his birthday too. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Love seeing all the “Where have I been?” posts. I blogged it on a whim and it’s so much more interesting to see the places other folks have gone. I also just realized I left Alaska off! Will edit. | Continue reading
Tinkering with something in Go this morning. Always felt like it would be a good language to know more about, and now finally have a real need. | Continue reading
A random conversation today made me curious about what countries I’ve visited in Europe. I got lost looking at maps and thought I might as well try to make a list. Apparently 9 countries in the world: United States Canada Mexico England France Germany Italy Greece Switzerland And … | Continue reading
Just watched way too many replays and commentary on the final seconds of Celtics/Heat. Another memorable game 6 in Miami. Bring on game 7! | Continue reading
Listened to a couple hours of the Texas house debating impeachment against our corrupt attorney general. Kind of shocked to hear the final vote, overwhelmingly for the articles. Paxton is removed from office pending the trial. Wow. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Seems unlikely that we’ll end up with a single unified social web platform. I like Mastodon’s focus on communities. I like Bluesky’s thinking on distributed moderation. I like the IndieWeb’s principles of ownership. I like Nostr’s private messaging. How will we tie all of this to … | Continue reading
This week Bluesky rolled out their custom timeline feeds. Pretty interesting approach. However, I’m going to disable automatic cross-posting from my blog to Bluesky for a while… Bluesky feels so much like Twitter that it has been too distracting for me. Will check back in later. | Continue reading
Jean and I have been talking this week about what’s next to prioritize around the Micro.blog community. I often focus on technical improvements to blogs, but we’ve had some good momentum recently with community features too, such as rolling out profile pronouns, user blocking, an … | Continue reading
Joking aside, I really like Nostr. Something about it is very elegant. You just have to ignore 80% of it, especially anything around cryptocurrency. It’s a wild west platform with a few nuggets of gold. | Continue reading
Folks, Nostr is really easy to understand. Your username is 64 random letters and you just enable NIP-5, NIP-39, and put your private key in a hardware wallet. Simple! Mainstream adoption for non-technical users will not be a problem. | Continue reading
Good morning! Took an early walk. Coffee now at Summer Moon and I have some server changes to deploy. Also way behind in email and hope to catch up over the next couple days. ☕️ | Continue reading
I’m testing cross-posting to Nostr. I’m still not really sure how to link to Nostr accounts… If you’ve ventured out into the wild west of Nostr country you might be able to find me with @manton.org or npub1ae42p0d24pmccr47unf2a3hv2trmk9lrmr65ges4v3x5pscs4yrquu7ul9. 🤪 | Continue reading
Adding a new query to Micro.blog’s server status check to throw an error if the queue backlog is unusually high. Will be able to better track this error as platform downtime. | Continue reading
Upgraded Ruby last night and thought everything was stable. But no. Putting my sysadmin hat on for a bit this morning while everything gets back to normal. | Continue reading
The new episode of Core Intuition covers last week’s Micro Camp and looking ahead to WWDC. Thanks for listening! | Continue reading
Been thinking a lot about Nostr this week. Finally realized that it resonates in a “worse is better” way. This is a good thing and will help me grok how it fits alongside ActivityPub and Bluesky. | Continue reading
I’m continuing to use ChatGPT all the time. On a whim today I asked it what the philosophy of Micro.blog is and it nailed it. You can read the transcript here. | Continue reading
At last weekend’s Micro Camp, we had a panel session with me, Jean, and Vincent where we answered questions from the live chat. We didn’t have time for all the questions, so I wanted to try to answer a few more that we missed. Here we go… Re: long posts and how they get truncated … | Continue reading
The more I tinker with Nostr, the more I understand the appeal for developers. It is fun. But there are so many usability challenges. User search and discovery are difficult. | Continue reading
When we added muting to Micro.blog, there was a discussion about whether user blocking should be added at the same time. My feeling was that Micro.blog is built around public blog posts on the web, so blocking didn’t seem particularly useful, and might even give someone a false s … | Continue reading
Great game and series. Didn’t really feel like a sweep with the Lakers in each game until late. Congrats to the Nuggets. | Continue reading
Checking out the Kagi search engine, via Daring Fireball. I remember hearing about this but never tried it. Looks clean, fast. I don’t think I’m at the point of wanting to pay for web search quite yet. So tired of ads, though. | Continue reading
San Antonio Museum of Art, raining. Used to be the Lone Star Brewing building. | Continue reading
One reason web development appeals to me is that while it can be complicated, it doesn’t have to be. You can build for the web like it’s 1995. For native apps, the complexity is required with tools, code signing, stores. Thinking about this as I wait for my code to be crunched an … | Continue reading
Did not expect to be installing a new version of Movable Type on EC2 this morning for testing, but here we are. Looks about the same as it did a decade ago. Nice to see it still works and is supported, though. | Continue reading
We shipped Micro.blog 1.7 for Android, available on Google Play. This syncs up the release with the features from the new iOS version. Lots of new stuff, like managing posts, uploads, username auto-complete, and external blogs. | Continue reading