I made a short video showing some of the new notes feature in Micro.blog. | Continue reading
Having one of those moments while fixing a bug where I can’t believe this worked at all, for anyone except me. | Continue reading
I added a help page with an overview of how encryption works for notes in Micro.blog, and some basics about the API that Micro.blog and our new app Strata use. | Continue reading
Thanks to @vincent for all his work on our new mobile app Strata. It’s no small thing to get a new app off the ground, especially one that has to integrate with a larger platform API, sign-in, and encryption right out of the gate for 1.0. | Continue reading
Today we’re launching a major new feature for Micro.blog Premium subscribers. Micro.blog notes are a new way to save content in Micro.blog when you don’t want to use a blog post or draft. Notes are private by default, end-to-end encrypted across all platforms, with a special comp … | Continue reading
I’m expecting a little bit of pushback when launching something totally new, because it’s true that existing features are not without flaws. But I’ve dedicated a lot of time over the last month to fixing bugs. Hopefully even if it’s not always noticeable, it does make a differenc … | Continue reading
I have a really hard time coming up with dark mode colors. Nothing looks right. | Continue reading
Good interview at Platformer with Eugen Rochko. Some of his thoughts on AT Protocol: My hope still is that — fingers crossed — when Meta starts federating with Mastodon that the critical mass will be large enough that Bluesky developers will just say, okay, fine. Maybe that W3C a … | Continue reading
In software, sometimes to get attention it helps to release a 2.0. People tune out and don’t know that 1.1 and 1.2 were great. That’s sort of how I feel about Jon Stewart returning to The Daily Show. (Wha…?!) I never got into watching his TV+ show, or even recent Trevor Noah. Ton … | Continue reading
Increasingly feel that I’m paying an Objective-C tax in Xcode. Typing and debugging is so much slower than it was a few years ago, even as the rest of the app has improved nicely. | Continue reading
Started a little slow but that turned into a great game. Can’t believe I doubted Patrick Mahomes at any point in the game. Fun to see the cuts to Taylor Swift and her excitement too. | Continue reading
Congrats to @brentsimmons and the NetNewsWire contributors on the 21-year anniversary of the app! This sounds impossible and yet I did first mention NetNewsWire in a blog post back in 2003. Still as relevant for today’s web as ever. | Continue reading
I dunno folks, I’m starting to think Trump isn’t on our side: …while president, he told the leaders of NATO countries that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not paid the money they owed to the military alliance. Everything Hilla … | Continue reading
Haven’t posted a new home screen in a while. Our new app in the dock, almost ready. Otherwise my go-to apps remain about the same. | Continue reading
Still love developing Mac apps. It’s such a nice feeling to know I can continue to work on little improvements and bug fixes right up until the moment of release, because I don’t use the App Store. | Continue reading
Meandered from browsing old political posts on my blog, to wishing I could link to all posts that contain a certain keyword, to updating my search plug-in to handle this. I know not everyone is a developer, but maybe an under-appreciated feature in Micro.blog is the plug-in syste … | Continue reading
Finally got the hang of CloudKit JS. It’s not as flexible as I’d like, or as seamless as iCloud is in native apps. Sometimes feels that half the problem with web apps is just being signed out constantly. | Continue reading
Enjoyed this review of the Vision Pro from Joe Cieplinski. I’m not convinced about using it for real work, hours every day, but I do agree with how mature and polished visionOS is for a 1.0: This is the best 1.0 Apple has ever shipped. It’s probably the best 1.0 anyone has ever s … | Continue reading
New Core Int! A full hour show with our thoughts after using the Apple Vision Pro. | Continue reading
Spent time profiling server code today. I don’t do that often enough. It’s sometimes surprising what is dragging things down and can be optimized. | Continue reading
Didn’t realize until reading this blog post from the Fediverse Report that much of the new migration to Bluesky is from Japan. Seems significant as Twitter X was always popular in Japan. | Continue reading
Poked through the special counsel report on Biden’s documents. It’s upsetting that personal opinions that have little to do with the investigation were carelessly strewn through the report. Biden is qualified and capable to do the job. I’ve said before, I like him more now than I … | Continue reading
Last week Casey Neistat posted a fun video about the Vision Pro. I love those fun videos he makes. But his latest video is really what it’s about: Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream. It’s up there with Make It Count from 2012. “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale: The great list of all the blog platforms. I’m not just linking to this because Micro.blog is on it… It is a good, simple list of platforms that are actually nice for blogging, with prices for comparison. | Continue reading
When you pay for something, whether $5 or $3500, it’s natural to justify the purchase. You really want it to be worth it. This is mostly how I see the “the killer app is a huge Mac screen” justification for the Vision Pro. This device does have value, but maybe more for escaping … | Continue reading
Tested the Vision Pro for the first time today, in the Apple Store. The passthrough quality and immersive video are pretty unbelievable. Apple must’ve done something right because afterwards I was questioning my whole life (or at least my tech opinions). Still no plans to buy one … | Continue reading
I’ve always liked how Bluesky uses a domain name for your handle. Starting today, Micro.blog has built-in support for verifying these! If you’ve signed into Bluesky with Micro.blog, it will automatically return your AT Protocol “DID” from the .well-known URL for your blog. No DNS … | Continue reading
Bluesky has added another million users this week, bringing the total to over 4 million. By comparison, the ActivityPub-based fediverse has about 10 million users according to FediDB. The situation will change when Threads is added, but if Bluesky keeps growing it’s worth asking … | Continue reading
To underscore the feeling over the last couple weeks that there has been a rise in COVID cases again, today the doctor’s office called to reschedule because almost everyone in their office has it. | Continue reading
My first thought on hearing about the Epic and Disney partnership is that this is how Fortnite eventually gets back into the App Store. Apple is going to need games and content for the Vision Pro. | Continue reading
A created another short video for Micro.blog, this time going through some of the bookmark-related features in Micro.blog Premium. Bookmarking a web page, highlights, and AI summaries. | Continue reading
Scrolling through news.micro.blog, there have been 42 blog posts so far this year. Each one is announcing a new feature or set of bug fixes. Many features are sort of hidden below the surface, so if you’re using Micro.blog and ever think “huh, nothing has changed recently”… check … | Continue reading
Adam Newbold blogged last month about resisting the urge to respond to some posts online: The urge to engage can be overwhelming. It’s normal to want to respond—to correct a mistruth, to set the record straight, to defend a point, or to just add words of strength and courage in t … | Continue reading
Apple has approved our new app and I’m sort of almost shocked, but happy. You never know! It’s a big relief to know that we can continue to plan for a new thing. Plenty of other things to work on before it’s enabled in the App Store, though. | Continue reading
Working on a new (small) web site and using @Mtt’s Tiny theme. The new microhooks are so useful, it’s making me think more about how we can integrate this convention into more themes and even the Micro.blog editing interface. | Continue reading
Wordle 962 4/6. Sharing this one because it’s a sort of perfect pattern that doesn’t happen often. Still playing nearly every day. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | Continue reading
Congrats to the Bluesky team on opening to everyone today! Expecting a lot to happen this year with AT Protocol. | Continue reading
Just tuned into the last part of Biden’s speech today on the border security and foreign aid bill. He looked good and made a strong case. Really dumbfounding if Republicans don’t back this. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
Great overview (and video) from Craig Hockenberry on how Tapestry works with JavaScript and JSON under the hood. Essentially there is a plug-in system so that it can be extended to work with lots of platforms. | Continue reading
Ben Thompson’s review of the Apple Vision Pro is excellent. There’s a lot there. I don’t think I had fully thought about how Apple’s expanding product line is (in a way) limiting each platform. The iPhone replaced the iPod, but no product since attempts to do that. Gotta buy all … | Continue reading
Submitted a new 1.0 app to Apple! Requires a Micro.blog account, so who knows whether it will go through app review smoothly. A recurring conflict with the App Store: Apple wants an app that anyone can download and I just want to build something useful for my existing customers. | Continue reading
Getting good feedback (positive and negative) about how we’re using AI in Micro.blog. We transcribe podcasts automatically and we summarize bookmarked web pages. It is fairly isolated, but even so I get that some folks don’t trust AI even for this. I don’t want to push the limits … | Continue reading
Rolling out bookmark improvements in Micro.blog Premium today. Two things: Micro.blog will now try to summarize the text of a web page that is bookmarked by sending it to our future robot overlords at OpenAI. This is hidden by default, but can be enabled by clicking Bookmarks → “ … | Continue reading
I’ve said before that it’s difficult to write in 300 characters about the war in Gaza. I’ve been drafting a full blog post about it, but I don’t think I will ever post it. I love blogging about many topics, including politics, but this is so divisive that I can’t see any good tha … | Continue reading
Got some random requests to sign into my Google account, so locked it down a little better this morning. No more SMS verification, 2-factor via authenticator app, new password. I’m not super paranoid but I think I need to do that for more services. | Continue reading
Enjoying the Grammys so far. Trevor Noah is such a great host. New Curb Your Enthusiasm tonight, too! | Continue reading
The leap from my old Nokia phone to the first iPhone was enormous. We sort of want all tech breakthroughs to feel that way. But it’s okay if most new devices are more iterative. They don’t need to change the world completely to still have a place in it. | Continue reading
My guess is we’ll see a ruling on the Trump immunity question this week. We’re all impatient, for good reason, but getting this right might save time in the long run. The judges will have a rock-solid answer and the supreme court won’t need to hear it again if there’s another app … | Continue reading