Manton Reece

Updated my murals page with larger, left-aligned thumbnails. Have I mentioned how much I love having a blog? Only a dozen days left in this series… Starting to finalize the last murals I want to visit.

Legendary mural on the drag. Walking around here takes me back to being a student. So familiar despite how much has changed.

Day 17, another mural on east 7th. Til Death Do Us Part, by Federico Archuleta.

We have a brand new web site for Micro Camp, designed by @vincent! It better showcases the speakers and links to the session videos. Already talking about what a Micro Camp 2022 might look like.

I still consider this part of Austin, but technically a little farther out at Milburn Park. Cedar Park had an open call for muralists to paint this wall a couple of years ago. Nice way to incorporate the door into the design.

This post on Kotaku (via @jack) makes some good points. When too much content is lost in chat history, the web gets a little worse. I’m happy that we went the opposite way and moved from Slack to forums.

On Core Intuition 480, @danielpunkass and I react to Apple’s September event, talk about the latest Sunlit update, getting things done, and the pros and cons of paying a little or a lot for hosting.

I’m halfway through visiting 30 murals in 30 days. This has taken a little more driving around than I first expected, because I want to include popular murals that are nowhere near my house. Turns out it’s a good way to learn new bits of Austin history.

A small part of a mural that stretches along the Planet K on 183. I drive by this often and glad to see it last so long.

Nearing the halfway point for murals. Day 14, on the side of Kammok on east 7th.

Watching the Apple event, of course. iPad Mini looks great, and I would’ve bought this if it was available when I got my iPad Air earlier this year. Same basic design as the Air, just more convenient for what I use it for: e-books, web, chat.

Not totally sure what this mural is about but I like it. On Brazos next to The Driskill.

Huge mural celebrating the 19th amendment at Congress and Cesar Chavez.

So happy. This model train is now ours… Just needs a little love and wiring to bring it back to life. N Scale.

Carver Branch Library. When I stopped by today, an artist was updating the mural with fresh paint.

20 years ago, listening to NPR when the story cut out and they broke in with the news. Wondered how widespread the attack was. Should we go to work? Take our daughters to day care? A lifetime ago, they are 21 now. Glad we’re out of Afghanistan… Time to turn the page. 🇺🇸

Kobe and Gianna Bryant, outside P Terry’s on 183.

Big news for Epic and all iOS developers. The judge clearly put thought into this and made a reasonable, defensible compromise. It’s not everything Epic wanted, but it’s a great step forward.

Micro.blog automatically redirects old feed URLs from other blog systems, but that was broken the last couple of weeks. If you still had RSS subscribers from an old site, you may have noticed a backlog of posts go through RSS this week. That hit my blog too.

Victory Grill on 11th, originally opened at the end of World War II with dining, blues, and jazz as African American veterans returned to a segregated Austin.

We rolled out some improvements to the Dark Mode version of Micro.blog on the web, based on feedback over the last week. We’ll continue to tweak things.

Kellie’s on Burnet. Sweet mural for day 8.

Another day, another mural. East 6th on the side of Whisler’s, by Federico Archuleta.

Starting the morning with coffee and breakfast tacos at Lazarus Brewing. Great space with lots of outside seating too. ☕️