When at home I’ll eat a quick lunch in front of the TV. Make lunch, turn on CNN. It’s a commercial break. Switch to MSNBC. More ads. Try ESPN. Still ads. Channel surf for a few more minutes, but now I’m done with lunch, often without seeing any real content. And I pay for this? | Continue reading
On this week’s Core Intuition, we talk all about the WWDC announcement. Because of course we do! Mostly online, potential for a small in-person group, and other hopes and speculation. | Continue reading
Twitter announces more Bluesky details: Starting as a centralized platform, Twitter can take steps to open up APIs and provide choices to users, and this can be a path towards restoring trust in the current service. The premise of Bluesky, however, is to work towards a transparen … | Continue reading
If anyone’s curious how I made my Wordle page, I copied my puzzles from where I had shared them via Slack and iMessage, and formatted them in a basic HTML file. Then created a new template static/wordle/index.html in my Micro.blog theme. View source for the HTML bits. | Continue reading
On a whim, created a web page on my blog with a grid of all my Wordle puzzles for March. Kind of a nice snapshot of my mornings this year. | Continue reading
Spurs over the Nuggets, one of my favorite wins of the season. They’re playing great at the right time. 3 games left. | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles | Continue reading
As Micro.blog hosting has improved, I’ve thought our $5/month plan compares favorably with WordPress.com’s similarly-priced plans. Surprised that WordPress.com has now gutted their pricing lineup, with nothing in between $0 and $180/year. $5 to me is still simple and obvious. | Continue reading
On this week’s episode of Core Intuition, we talk about crosswords, @danielpunkass’s calendar widget, frameworks, and WWDC. | Continue reading
No April Fools jokes from me today, just bug fixes. Deployed a server fix for conversations in third-party Micro.blog apps, and updated the Mac app to version 2.4.3 with a couple improvements. | Continue reading
Always love “going indie” posts. John Siracusa: By 2022, I had returned to thinking not only that it’s possible for me to quit my day job, but that it’s necessary for me to do so. http://hypercritical.co/2022/03/30/independence-day | Continue reading
Congrats to @RogueAmoeba on the release of Audio Hijack 4! Really big update. Their blog post has details on the new features, design, and scripting. | Continue reading
I think it was @amit who suggested something like this change at Micro Camp earlier this month, on the panel with @pimoore. Thankful for all the Hugo experts who actually know more than I do about it. | Continue reading
Deployed a bunch of server changes today. Some behind-the-scenes stuff that @vincent has been working on, plus fixes to managing themes and pages. Micro.blog now respects min_version in Hugo’s theme.toml file and will show this notice to make it easy to update: | Continue reading
I’ve been reading a lot of e-books and audiobooks, so wanted to pick up something new in print. Just arrived: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh. | Continue reading
Improved several things in the Bookshelves section of Micro.blog on the web. More consistent navigation and book sorting fixes. | Continue reading
Austin has come alive in the last week with blooming red buds, mountain laurel, and bluebonnets. | Continue reading
Realized last week that I need to actually use the email newsletter feature of Micro.blog myself so that I notice more of the quirks that we can smooth over. You can now subscribe to weekly emails on manton.org. Got the first one today and it looks pretty good! | Continue reading
We watched the Oscars live last night and were confused and then stunned by what happened with Will Smith and Chris Rock, and I hoped by this morning I could focus on other things. Still can’t stop thinking of what Denzel Washington told Will Smith: “At your highest moment, be ca … | Continue reading
Working on Epilogue this morning, and Android + iOS builds have my Intel MacBook fans going at full speed. Not ready to jump to M1 yet, though. When I bought this 16-inch MacBook Pro, I said I’d keep it for at least a few years and trying to stick to that. | Continue reading
Congrats to @marco on the new Overcast redesign. I’ve been using the beta and it’s a really nice update. | Continue reading
Following up the new bookmarks improvements with more changes today: added Pinboard import and fixed some other problems. Thanks to folks who have upgraded to Micro.blog Premium to take full advantage of bookmark archiving, highlights, and search! That helps us make it better. | Continue reading
The last time I was here (Wright Bros Brew & Brew), you could park across the street because it was just a dirt parking lot next to the train tracks. Now it’s a Whole Foods and Target. ☕️ | Continue reading
New Spurs mural on east 4th. Getting coffee around the corner at Wright Bros. ☕️ | Continue reading
We’ve started to get the videos from Micro Camp up on the YouTube channel. Thanks again to our speakers and everyone who joined us! | Continue reading
I’m reading through Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the web. On web sites being too difficult to create: Building websites has gotten substantially easier in many ways, but it’s also become more complex, and there remain a number of pain points which make the experience mor … | Continue reading
Today we rolled out a few improvements to bookmarks, including an import from Instapaper and Pocket. This is meant to complement Micro.blog’s bookmark archiving, where Micro.blog archives a copy of a web page and allows making highlights in it. Like the archiving and highlights, … | Continue reading
So impressed with Ketanji Brown Jackson. What a great pick for the Supreme Court. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading
We’ve been glued to KXAN for the last couple hours. Tornados in the Austin area, just unreal. Missed us, with only some rain that quickly passed through. | Continue reading
Finished reading: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Epic. Felt like 2 books and easily could’ve been. I wonder if we could ever see a sequel or novellas with these characters. | Continue reading
Don’t think I mentioned this last week, but there have been some behind-the-scenes improvements to blog publishing. We now surface errors in the Hugo log that weren’t visible before. Also some fixes for posts showing up in the timeline. | Continue reading
Rolled out some improvements to our Goodreads import. It now attempts to find other editions of a book when Goodreads does not provide an ISBN for the book you read, which is especially common for Kindle books. | Continue reading
Posted episode 505 of @coreint. How it went at Micro Camp, the book, and new FastScripts. | Continue reading
I added a new export option to Micro.blog: Posts → … → Export → “Export theme and Markdown”. This gives you a Hugo-structured folder of theme templates, merged in with custom CSS, plug-in templates, and Markdown for any posts. Basically everything except uploaded photos. | Continue reading
Rolled out better support for Goodreads RSS feeds, which were slow or unreliable before. In Goodreads “My Books” list, look for the little orange icon at the bottom of the page. You can add that URL to Micro.blog under Account → Edit Feeds. (Or just use Micro.blog’s Bookshelves!) | Continue reading
One step forward, one step back. Upgraded a server yesterday with faster hardware, which broke something else. All fixed now. | Continue reading
Rolled out a couple fixes for Micro.blog Premium email newsletters: replying to newsletters now correctly forwards the email to your Micro.blog email address, and photos are better resized for Gmail. | Continue reading
I’ve copied all the Markdown files for Indie Microblogging to this GitHub repository, for people who would prefer to submit issues or pull requests. | Continue reading
Continue to fix typos and other mistakes in the Indie Microblogging book. Going to revisit a few chapters that need more work than superficial edits. Also, a clarification on pre-orders: the e-book and print orders are just for a limited time. Probably a couple more weeks. | Continue reading
My mom found this notebook paper I had used when I was 13 years old to plan out the route to my friend Sam’s house, taking 3 buses across Austin. Why did I copyright this?! | Continue reading
Kind of feels like summer in Austin today. Good day for lunch and coffee outside for a while. ☀️ | Continue reading
We’ve updated Wavelength for iOS with a couple bug fixes. Easy way to record, edit, and publish your podcast with Micro.blog Premium. | Continue reading
Jean posted a photo of the folks who could join us in-person for Micro Camp. Not shown: me fumbling with the camera timer and trying to run into the frame. | Continue reading
Some people have noticed that Indie Microblogging wasn’t showing up in Micro.blog’s own bookshelves feature. You can now add it via this web link. Still can’t be searched in Epilogue because Google Books doesn’t have it. Need to rethink our books search. | Continue reading