Posted links for all of today’s videos on micro.camp. Thanks again to our Micro Camp presenters! I still need to edit the keynote so that will go up on Monday. | Continue reading
Great discount on MarsEdit today! From Daniel Jalkut: I usually only offer discounts of 10% or 20%, but in celebration of Micro.camp 2023 I’m offering a 50% discount on MarsEdit. Use this link and see the 50% discount when you continue to checkout: redsweater.com/store/ | Continue reading
We’re going live in an hour for Micro Camp day 2, featuring sessions by Chris Campbell, Anna Havron, Mandaris Moore, and Miraz Jordan. Watch at micro.camp or on YouTube. | Continue reading
Ben Werdmuller links to a great thread by Christina Warren. I get the distrust of big social media, but having e.g. Instagram or Tumblr adopt an open protocol would be amazing. Thinking otherwise would be like being unhappy if Twitter brought back RSS feeds. It’s only a good thin … | Continue reading
Kind of stunned by the Heat stealing both games in Boston. I like this Celtics team (of course rooting for Derrick White always) but this is going to be tough. | Continue reading
Thanks everyone who joined us for the first day of Micro Camp. I loved talking to Om Malik and hope it gave everyone something to think about. Tomorrow we wrap up with 4 sessions from the community and the State of the Platform panel. | Continue reading
Getting ready for Micro Camp so of course the lawn care service folks just showed up in the front yard with their loud lawnmowers. I had to smile. Kind of takes the pressure off when things are mostly outside my control. | Continue reading
We’re a couple hours away from the start of Micro Camp 2023! Details at micro.camp. (By the way, the web site is just a Micro.blog-hosted blog with a custom HTML home page.) | Continue reading
Episode 558 of Core Int is out with a discussion leading up to Micro Camp. The latest news on the schedule, why I’m nervous about preparing for it, and then speculation about Apple’s headset rumors. | Continue reading
Retrobatch from Flying Meat has been really useful while making a slideshow for Micro Camp. I first wrote a script to download the A Day in the Life photo challenge, then Retrobatch resizes them all and adds the username (from the filename) at the bottom. | Continue reading
We’ll have some door prizes for Micro Camp attendees. A license to MarsEdit, gift cards for movies, journals, coffee, and tea. ️ | Continue reading
Haven’t been able to finish any books lately. Probably way behind where I was for reading goals last year. Not sure if I’m working too much or just no books are quite the right fit. | Continue reading
I missed that the videos from FediForum have been posted. Here’s the video of my demo of how Micro.blog works with the fediverse: youtu.be/2nKy-LKsS… | Continue reading
There’s a scheduled YouTube event for the Micro Camp live stream on Friday. We’ll link it again later, but for folks signed into YouTube you can also click the “Notify me” button. It looks like this: | Continue reading
Took some time this week to unravel the plumbing in Micro.blog with how blogs are published and feeds refreshed. At least for my account, it’s making a dramatic improvement to timeline updates and cross-posting performance. | Continue reading
Cool to see people take us up on the Summer of blogging coupon. $1/month full blog hosting! I’m biased but it’s really a great value. | Continue reading
Had a lot of weird dreams last night. But waking up this morning, apparently the Spurs getting the #1 pick in the draft was not a dream. Here we go! Looking forward to more basketball this week… NBA finals just around the corner. | Continue reading
Amazing. I’ve never believed in tanking and I had my expectations low, but… Spurs get the #1 pick. Victor Wembanyama is going to fit in perfectly. Can’t wait for next season. | Continue reading
Big announcement: we’re welcoming Om Malik for a keynote conversation to kick things off at Micro Camp on Friday! The updated schedule is online now at micro.camp. | Continue reading
Did a quick YouTube live streaming test. Seems to work as advertised. Resubscribed to Ecamm Live too, which has been helpful in past years to coordinate streaming files. | Continue reading
Ready for the NBA draft lottery tonight. Wearing my Spurs t-shirt. | Continue reading
We are finalizing the Micro Camp schedule to post later today. Very excited about what we’ve got planned. Pencil in 12pm Pacific time on your calendar this Friday! With more sessions on Saturday too. | Continue reading
People are often confused about what exactly Micro.blog is. Is it a Twitter clone? Is it a WordPress clone? Is it a Buffer clone? I like to think of it as a mashup of several things. This post from Alan Jacobs is another great perspective: the three paths of micro.blog. | Continue reading
Special shout-out to @sod who has been working with us to update all the Micro.blog themes with improved Microformats markup and other fixes. A bunch have been updated already! Check your Plug-ins page every once in a while to see if there’s an update to a theme you’re using. | Continue reading
Haven’t done much more than skim through the Bluesky app source, but glad to see it released. I’m sure there are things in there I can learn from. MIT license too. | Continue reading
Making screenshots for App Store connect isn’t my favorite thing. I don’t do it often so always forget which dimensions go with which devices. Apple is too picky about this… Most people probably look at small versions of the screenshots anyway. | Continue reading
Jean posted today about how Discover in Micro.blog will be less likely to include photos that don’t have alt text. Just an extra nudge to encourage more people to make their photos accessible. | Continue reading
We watched Still with Michael J. Fox last night. Really good. | Continue reading
Enjoying the new Zelda so far. Although I’m mostly watching other people in the family play. Minor spoilers as we switch between accounts. | Continue reading
For a while now, Micro.blog has been archiving copies of web pages for Micro.blog Premium users, whenever you link to something or bookmark it. The archive has grown to about a million items (web pages and their images and other resources). Lots of potential here for future tools … | Continue reading
I’d like to update our terms of service to add a note about reclaiming old accounts, so we finally have an official policy. In a nutshell: If you’ve ever had a paid subscription, we will host your blog indefinitely, even after you cancel. You can always export or delete your data … | Continue reading
More about the M.b problems overnight: I made what I thought was a minor code cleanup change yesterday that inadvertently affected the servers' ability to recover from failed background tasks, so publishing and timeline updating started slowing down and eventually just stopped. V … | Continue reading
We published a new Core Intuition. Daniel and I talk about the upcoming Micro Camp, event planning, iPad versions of Final Cut Pro and Logic, and thoughts on WWDC. | Continue reading
Playing with Google Bard. Impressed that it has much more recent data than ChatGPT. It knew about something that happened just a few days ago. | Continue reading
There’s a new beta out for Micro.blog 3.0. This adds the last big missing feature: posting to external blogs like WordPress. It should work with blogs that support the MetaWeblog or Micropub APIs. | Continue reading
Wordle 692 6/6. Went from thinking I’d get it in 3 guesses to barely getting it. 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 … | Continue reading
I’m excited to announce: Summer of blogging! For new folks signing up on Micro.blog, hosting is only $1/month for the summer. Full blog, photos, themes, ActivityPub, Bluesky cross-posting, and more. It’s a great time to start a blog at your own domain. | Continue reading
Two great new themes for Micro.blog are available: Outpost by @mikehaynes and Tiny by @Mtt. So happy whenever I see new themes. It takes a lot of work for someone to refine these and share them. Thanks y’all! | Continue reading
Got lost again browsing tld-list.com. So many fun new TLDs. Luckily was talked down from impulse buying another domain name. For now. | Continue reading
Thinking more about Heather Armstrong. I didn’t know her, but she was my age, and started her blog a year before mine. Must be difficult to put your whole life online. I keep my worlds fairly compartmentalized… My blog is my work, thoughts, travel, hobbies. But not the very perso … | Continue reading
From a post by @adders, remembering Heather Armstrong: Already the early days of blogging are being forgotten, and the ability of the web to quietly erase history as sites fail and go offline means that those incredible, exciting, experimental days are being lost. But we shouldn’ … | Continue reading
Caught the last half of the Trump town hall. CNN was criticized for hosting this, but Kaitlan Collins did a great job fact-checking and pressing him on non-answers. It’s not really amplification. Zero risk that voters outside his base were convinced by anything he said. 🇺 … | Continue reading
I’d love to see Mastodon adopt some variation of NIP-5 so that single-user instance usernames can be collapsed to just the @-domain name. I would support this in Micro.blog too (and maybe should just do it). | Continue reading
I’m fascinated with Nostr, but I’m having trouble getting on board with it because its development is disjointed and the creator is (I think) anonymous. The team at Bluesky is writing about their work. They have a blog. Same with Mastodon. Just easier to get behind a public, cohe … | Continue reading
Thinking about fiatjaf’s Bluesky is a scam post. Some of the criticism seems fair, some feels premature, and “scam” is too loaded. Let’s see how it goes. My opinion hasn’t changed since AT Proto was announced: domain name usernames and data portability in Bluesky is interesting a … | Continue reading
Shocked to hear that Heather Armstrong has died. See: dooce.com, Wikipedia. One of the great early bloggers. Rest in peace. | Continue reading
Can’t remember the last time I had an actual flat tire. 20 years ago? Longer? Luck ran out today. Slow leak that was patched a week ago came back with a vengeance. | Continue reading
Texas house getting HB 2744 out of committee is great news, even if feels like the bare minimum we could do. It’s okay to do this in stages. First raise the age limit from 18 to 21, then ban all assault weapons, then start a buyback program to reduce the AR-15s already out there. | Continue reading