Rewatching the opening of the original Jurassic Park up through the Brachiosaurus. It really is an incredibly good sequence. Greatest dinosaur movie… after Land Before Time. 🙂 | Continue reading
I like how in Jurassic World when they say, “we had to make the dinosaurs bigger and crazier because people were bored with regular dinosaurs,” they aren’t talking about the people in the movie. They’re talking about us, in the audience. Actually some beautiful scenes in this one … | Continue reading
iOS folks, if you’ve noticed that annoying Micro.blog app problem where the new reply pane isn’t tall enough, you may want to grab the latest TestFlight beta where we’re testing the fix. This is also in review for Android already. No risk to using TestFlight, it’s just sometimes … | Continue reading
Today we’ve updated Micro.blog for macOS to version 3.5.8, fixing a couple problems. I’ve also improved the Logs window to color in green the lines for when a blog publish was finished. Just makes it a little easier to see when glancing at the window. Micro.blog keeps the log to … | Continue reading
It’s a solemn July 4th. We’re on the wrong path. Yet if you have time off or are spending the weekend with family, enjoy it. We can choose to celebrate the good, such as the chance to correct some mistakes in 2026. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
We can never really know what people are going through on the internet, because so few people share their full selves online. In a sad way, it’s best to assume that not everything is okay. That way we can show true empathy, not attacks, not even a performance of fake kindness. | Continue reading
Submitted the latest round of Android improvements to Google for approval. There’s one fix that hasn’t even made it into an iOS release yet. Depending on review timing, this might be the first time that we’ve shipped bug fixes for Android before iOS! | Continue reading
Found via Loura, A Small Web July, spending time away from big social media: Beefing up my RSS feed with content I want to see, both big-and-small web. YouTube isn’t a problem for me until I go onto the website itself and get sucked into a hole, but subscribing to a channel on RS … | Continue reading
We are still planning an Android update soon. I worked on a couple minor tweaks this morning, to go along with other recent improvements brought over from iOS. Actually feels good to tinker in Android Studio again since my world is mostly Xcode. | Continue reading
Simon Willison: Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw. This analogy works in a couple different ways. You can ignore the table saw if you love the craft of creating with han … | Continue reading
The Verge: Racist videos that appear to be created with Google’s AI video generation tool Veo 3 have raked in millions of views across TikTok, according to findings from the nonprofit media watchdog Media Matters. The full report from Media Matters is very disturbing. It’s not ju … | Continue reading
Saw something today that reminded me of MyEdit.com, which was a little web app I built in 2002, for editing notes. That was back when I only had a couple domain names, not dozens. Never released it publicly. The notes in Micro.blog are worlds better, so I guess all ideas eventual … | Continue reading
As voicemail transcripts get better, I hope we eventually get muting. Maybe with keywords (matching “you’ve been approved”) or even an AI-based approach (“auto-delete any future calls like this one”). | Continue reading
I’m considering some improvements to our Bluesky and AT Protocol implementation in Micro.blog. Currently we can cross-post blog posts to Bluesky, either manually or automatically whenever you post to your blog. You can also follow Bluesky users directly in Micro.blog. You can eve … | Continue reading
Patrick Rhone: There are many possible paths. Our path was our path paved with our opportunities and our choices. Your path is and always will be your path paved by your choices. | Continue reading
Joanna Stern’s latest video about AI energy use is informative and fun. Folks on either side of the AI debate will probably enjoy it. | Continue reading
Maybe you’re a fantasy book fan and need some good news? Brandon Sanderson’s Isles of the Emberdark shipped to Kickstarter backers today, everyone else in about a week. I’m planning to start it tonight. I thought it was going to be a novella… Excited to see it’s a full novel. &#x … | Continue reading
Just sad and deflated about the senate passing Trump’s bill. It’s going to hurt a lot of people, including many people who voted for Trump. Today was mostly inevitable after the election, but there are still some positive, more narrowly targeted things we can focus on, while we w … | Continue reading
Amazon’s scale is mind-boggling to me. They now have a million robots for their fulfillment warehouses. | Continue reading
Matthew Prince announcing a major new effort at Cloudflare to block AI crawlers: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. I’m concerned that this … | Continue reading
Fascinating post from Allen Pike about spending $1000 as a trial with AI coding agents. I can’t justify nearly that much money. (See: bootstrapped, no investors.) But when working with CSS changes a few days ago, I dropped about $5 using Codex CLI. For me, in small bursts like th … | Continue reading
Cloudflare dropped a big change today in a series of blog posts today about AI bots. I was about to post a quick take, but I’m taking more time to read all the posts first. There’s a lot there. | Continue reading
Walked to the coffee shop this morning, but when I got there and opened my laptop, it appears to be updating to the latest macOS Tahoe beta. Sigh. Must’ve clicked an OK button yesterday by accident. | Continue reading
There are several good segments in today’s interview with Matt Mullenweg. My favorite might be the exchange with Nilay Patel around whether Tumblr is profitable yet. It actually lines up well with my post from last year, I support the mad king. Nilay: Is Tumblr sustainable today? … | Continue reading
Huge news from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg. Apple is considering partnering with Anthropic or OpenAI for Siri: After multiple rounds of testing, Rockwell and other executives concluded that Anthropic’s technology is most promising for Siri’s needs, the people said. That led Adrian P … | Continue reading
Every year since I blogged about fixing exclusive app distribution way back in 2011, there have been little cracks appearing in Apple’s monopoly wall. Growing developer resentment. The lawsuit from Epic Games. New laws like the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Change is clearly accelera … | Continue reading
Project Hail Mary trailer is out! Loved the book. Perfect choice of directors for the movie, I think they’ve got this. | Continue reading
One question for AT Proto as a blog backend is whether users will want a single record in their PDS that works across Bluesky clients and custom platforms. In that case, a custom “full-length post” embed inside Bluesky’s own lexicon seems to make the most sense. I don’t want to r … | Continue reading
Bluesky folks, I’ve been thinking about adding WhiteWind cross-posting to Micro.blog. The lexicon looks straightforward. There’s also Leaflet, which is trying to do a little more with its document structure. Any early adopter “blogging with AT Protocol” users have thoughts? | Continue reading
I started listening to the latest Decoder podcast with guest Matt Mullenweg, but I’m not yet to the part about Tumblr. Not hugely surprising, they have paused the (monumental) task of moving Tumblr’s backend to WordPress: The company announced the plan to move over the more than … | Continue reading
Some people dread Mondays. Not me. You have the whole week ahead, and anything is possible. | Continue reading
Final day of the photo challenge. After a busy weekend, I needed a little solitude. Houndstooth Coffee on MLK. ☕️ | Continue reading
Starting to roll out some improvements to the Micro.blog “marketing” home page, for new users or when you’re signed out. The content isn’t really different yet. I’m sticking with the full-screen paintings, and several layout and link problems are fixed, especially on mobile. Stil … | Continue reading
Rumors from Ming-Chi Kuo have Apple smart glasses about two years out, mixed reality glasses three years. I assume there is nothing set with dates that far away. Looking forward to seeing what Apple can do with glasses, but it’s all pinned on Siri getting much better. | Continue reading
The Internet Archive has a blog post reacting to last week’s Anthropic case and its potential effect on libraries: This decision reinforces the idea that copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes—like making a book searchable, training an AI, or preserving web pages—can … | Continue reading
Andreas Deja blogs about the upcoming 40th anniversary of The Black Cauldron: …our inexperience as young film makers really shows in the film. Many of us were straight out of art school with little experience in animation. But…I keep meeting young people who are very fond of The … | Continue reading
Speaking of Texas state parks, over the weekend I dug into confusion about the number of parks. There are two new parks in development, but not yet open: Albert & Bessie Kronkosky State Natural Area Powderhorn State Park Going to update my list later, bumping the count from 88 to … | Continue reading
Mineral Wells State Park. The hike down to the lake and back was a little steeper and more rocky than we were expecting. Great morning but too hot. | Continue reading
Went to see F1 tonight. Had no expectations, but it stays engaging throughout the fairly long running time. Visually it feels like they really pulled it off. 🍿 | Continue reading
Passed a billboard for Basecamp on the highway somewhere outside of Austin today. That was unexpected. | Continue reading
This year has been a roller coaster in so many ways. Thanks everyone who has supported me and Micro.blog. I’m currently working on a slight redesign to our home page, fixing glitches and unifying the Micro.one and Micro.blog pages. I don’t usually make enough time to tell new fol … | Continue reading
Winding down on the last few days of this month’s Micro.blog photo challenge. Not too late to post a photo or two if you want to join at the end! 📷 | Continue reading
Browsing stock.adobe.com, there’s a new problem with the flood of AI-generated artwork. I’m willing to pay more for art created by a human, just as I want to read words written by a human and not a robot. AI-generated art is abundant and cheap to produce. Yet they are both priced … | Continue reading
Gemini CLI continues to get hung up on fairly simple things. It’s the free version, using a lightweight model, so I don’t mean to complain too much. Sort of stuck in a loop of trying to update CSS files: I apologize for the repeated issues with the replace tool. It seems I’m stil … | Continue reading
After road trips across the country, to California multiple times, all over Texas, through Utah, and to New York… My good luck with the Honda Element ran out this week. Fender bender in a parking lot ripped off my back bumper. It was cracked anyway, so guess it was past time to r … | Continue reading
Great point from Jeff Johnson on the arbitrary tier 1 / tier 2 differences in Apple’s proposed EU rules: What I found striking about the search differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 is that in creating this distinction, Apple clearly considers App Store search to be a developer f … | Continue reading
I was asked this week about our policy when a subscription expires or sadly even if someone passes away. I know I’ve blogged about this, but I don’t think it was formally documented, so I wrote up a simple help page for it. | Continue reading