Looking at the Daylight computer again, so nice. I love that the “smooth video playback” section uses Steamboat Willie for the video clip. Public domain Disney. 🎉

Trying out the new Bluesky support in the WordPress reader. Very cool. Similar to what we’ve tried to do with Micro.blog, but totally different user experience, which is great.

TechCrunch review of the Bee:

In a world where the average person is beset from all sides by constant digital surveillance, I appreciate any opportunity I can get to not be recorded. Therefore, the idea of walking around with an eavesdropping gizmo strapped to my wrist 24/7 was not particularly appealing.

None of these devices are quite right yet. Recording everything is too creepy. Recording too little (because of extra button clicks) isn’t as useful. I want something in between, that makes dictating thoughts effortless when I’m by myself. Maybe it shuts off when there are other voices.

Clicking around on Peter Steinberger’s release.bar. Interesting repo summaries. Because all the Micro.blog apps are open source, looking at my account provides a snapshot of recent changes.

I know it’s a temporary icon but every day I think about switching back to Apple Music just because of the Spotify disco ball. 🤪

I’m too slow finishing a book I checked out on Libby, so had to put the Kindle in airplane mode so it doesn’t expire. I do this a lot. But then there’ll be another book I’d like to get into at the same time and now can’t sync it. I hate to DNF books I’m 3/4 of the way through, just losing steam. 📚

Only just learned about Null Island. Love the name. There’s a CNN article today about cruise ships stopping there:

Just a few weeks ago, Holland America announced plans to include Null Island as a stop on its 129-day round-the-world voyage in 2028, following an earlier stop on its 2024 trip.

Amazing and fitting considering how GPS has changed so many things. 🗺️

I don’t use Plex, but I’ve seen a couple people mention this lifetime plan pricing increase. Mike Rockwell blogs:

But $750 feels insane. That’s more than ten times the price of the annual subscription. That feels like too high of a multiple to me.

That’s a lot to pay all at once. I’m not sure lifetime plans are workable for some types of hosted software anyway. I have plenty of server costs each month to run Micro.blog, and the subscriptions sustain that. If I want to keep running Micro.blog for let’s say 20 more years, it’s risky to have too much revenue upfront instead of later.

I was feeling good with that 15-0 start to the game, but this third quarter had been tough. Lots of fouls, not enough shots going in for the Spurs. 🏀

Watched the first part of the Starship v3 launch live, then the final minutes later. Never gets old. Extraordinary views. 🚀