In a way, it’s a great time to be an indie developer. But the challenge is getting noticed in all the noise when you’re just getting started. So many apps. And I get lots of emails that look AI-generated, so it’s becoming hard to tell what is a friendly email from another developer and what is fake.

Looking forward to the new season of The Gilded Age tonight. 📺

Sticker as bookmark. 📚

This 2-3 day cold appears to be running its course. Getting a mix of coding and reading done. Also eating too much candy. 🎃

Looking into this blog post from OpenAI, both OpenAI and Anthropic appear to be converging on an IETF draft to limit training via robots.txt. It uses the special user-agent string __usage_ai-training. I’ve updated the Micro.blog help page on robots to include this.

Very cool to see the Blowfish theme ported over to Micro.blog by @nhr. It’s a unique theme and has a bunch of settings to control the home page and other things.

Starting to feel a little bit better in time for Halloween. Got candy and carved a pumpkin. For fun, we still have the micro.boo domain collecting Halloween-related posts. 🎃

Mostly lying low today, still have a cold. Getting some work done anyway, though, various background work on Micro.blog. I put off early voting too long… Guess I will vote on Election Day.

Started watching: The Diplomat Season 4. A few episodes in. Good so far. 📺

“I can’t imagine ever officially ‘retiring’. I’ll always and forever be an actor.” — Patrick Stewart, July 2026

He’ll be in Avengers: Doomsday.