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  • Parker Ortolani is impressed with the HomeView:

    It’s been shockingly fast and responsive when I’ve barked orders at it controlling the lights or changing the music that’s playing on it. The hardware feels incredibly premium, which is of course not surprising. But for a $299 device, it is next level.

    → 4:08 PM, Nov 13
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  • Easier map embeds

    I have a new version of Sunlit in review at Apple, and Android in development, so I wanted to improve how Micro.blog allows map embeds on your blog for check-ins. I’ve updated the default theme Sumo to support this directly. The Hugo code is really simple now:

    {{ with .Params.location.map_url }}
      <img src={{ . }}">
    {{ end }}
    

    You can also include a size parameter at the end for larger maps — “s”, “m”, “l”, or “xl” — like ?size=m for a medium (600x600) map.

    It looks like this on my check-ins blog:

    Map thumbnail.

    We’ll update the other themes over time, or you can edit the templates on your blog to include the above code. Some themes may need a little extra CSS so that maps look good. For more details about Micro.blog’s support for locations, including sending location data via the API, check out this help page.

    → 1:04 PM, Nov 13
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  • John Gruber in another blog post on fallout from Jensen Huang:

    … the degree to which Alice Huang worked for or with China’s MSS is almost a footnote on this scandal. It’s not central to the story at all.

    Except that the “spy” story is what captured people’s attention. News media was all over it. The smuggling is complicated and the affairs alone might not have been enough to force Jensen out, at least not so quickly.

    → 11:50 AM, Nov 13
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  • Love the transition on U2’s new album from “Can’t Stop Us Now” into “Torn” with Dolly Parton. I wasn’t sure what to expect from her final recording. Feels beautiful and tragic. 🎶

    → 11:30 AM, Nov 13
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  • I continue to have mixed feelings about posting quotes from X. On the one hand, I’d prefer to avoid giving attention to that platform. On the other hand, pulling text out from a closed silo onto the open web is actually good for the web. Micheal Tsai is really great at doing this.

    → 11:00 AM, Nov 13
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  • Micro.blog is now on at•store, a nice way to discover Bluesky and AT Protocol apps. Funny side effect of how they look for “mentions” of Micro.blog, there are some book reading posts that show up there from Micro.blog users.

    → 10:53 AM, Nov 13
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  • I can accept and forgive a lot of things. But I don’t want to have anything to do with people who are dishonest. Especially when anyone can build an app or start a business, trust and sincerity are everything.

    → 10:26 AM, Nov 13
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  • Matt Mullenweg on X:

    Founder advice: The first smear campaign is always the worst. But after you survive it, you gain freedom.

    → 10:12 AM, Nov 13
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  • Up late enough to listen to a little of the new U2 album just released. 🎶

    → 11:07 PM, Nov 12
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  • Joel Spolzky blogged way back in 2000 that we should never rewrite software from scratch. I’ve always tried to follow that advice. Now, it’s slightly less absolute. Old software gets bloated and slow, and rewrites no longer carry the cost they used to.

    → 7:06 PM, Nov 12
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