If you poke around on news.micro.blog, you’ll see that we are updating our native apps very often. Just having a suite of native apps used to be a competitive advantage, but now anyone can create an app quickly, so the advantage is app maintenance and support.
Tony Stubblebine announcing Medium’s TK writing app:
TK is a private, agentic notebook to craft writing that compounds into deep thinking, which creates influence across your entire world. What shape is that influence? We’re still figuring that out, but we know it starts with humans writing more.
It feels like a cross between Day One and a blogging app. I think there are some good ideas in here.
I’m slowly converging all the disparate Micro.blog company sites into a shared design. The news blog is the latest to update. These posts are also on @news in Micro.blog and on @micro.blog on Bluesky.
If you’re not getting the Micro Monday email newsletters, we send them out every two weeks to active users. You can find yesterday’s email on the web too.
If you read too many posts on X and maybe even Threads, you’ll start to think that the Anthropic vs. OpenAI race that is relevant to software developers also matters for the rest of the world. A billion people just use ChatGPT and have never heard of Astra, Fable, or Opus.
App versioning is fascinating to me, which is partly why I’m bummed at the popularity of date-like strings as versions. Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 released today, even though Opus 5.5 is already out. What does it mean? No one knows.
Load balancers are driving me crazy today. Sorry for the server downtime blips. 🙁
This is cool: corpus.blog page for my blog. Found via @sonicrocketman. It pulls together links between blogs.
Brian Schrader blogged about reading blogs instead of social media:
I don’t see the kinds of bizarro-world content that proliferates on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. because I just don’t spend time on algorithmic social media.
Mastodon isn’t immune to this either because it’s not just the algorithms. Using a social reader instead of an RSS reader means that the posts with the most engagement — and things that make people angry have more engagement — are more likely to bubble up in your timeline with subsequent replies and links.
Very cool to see MacStories podcasts support HLS video streaming. This is a critical part of keeping podcasts open as more and more people look to video. Micro.blog Studio supports this for hosted video too!