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  • Micro.blog 3.5.1 for iOS and Tahoe beta

    Today we shipped an update to Micro.blog for iOS that has lots of little bug fixes. You can grab it in the App Store. Here are the changes:

    • Added publish status to post options screen for publishing drafts.
    • Added poster frame URL when copying HTML for videos.
    • Improved accessibility with more button labels.
    • Fixed profile menu position on iPad and improved height.
    • Fixed disappearing drafts button while loading.
    • Fixed uploads thumbnail images sometimes not loading.
    • Fixed publishing progress status to not appear when saving drafts.
    • Fixed link button on iOS to always check clipboard for website URL to include.
    • Fixed copying Hugo shortcodes for photo collections.
    • Fixed some buttons to be easier to tap.

    A new version for Android will follow soon.

    I’m also updating the Mac app with a few improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. If you want to try the beta, you can download it directly for your Mac.

    → 10:20 AM, Jun 16
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  • D. Griffin Jones blogs a mockup of the Finder icon, restoring the colors:

    The frustrating thing is that Apple definitely prototyped this exact design. It was probably one of the first designs they tried.

    One issue Apple might’ve run into is what to do about dark mode. In Tahoe, they keep the person outline in the same blue. I hope they continue to iterate on this.

    → 9:45 AM, Jun 16
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  • Listened to AppStories on my walk this morning. Fascinating what a completely different WWDC experience I had without a ticket this year, mostly hanging out in San Jose. I had a great time, though, more chill and less frenzy than past years. Part of getting older is I don’t need to do everything. 🍻

    → 8:46 AM, Jun 16
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  • Because I wrecked my Xcode install for release builds by upgrading to macOS Tahoe, I’m switching over to Xcode Cloud. Probably should’ve done this earlier. By waiting a few years, at least Apple probably has gotten most of the kinks worked out.

    → 11:57 AM, Jun 15
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  • The left-aligned text for alerts in macOS Tahoe is such a welcome improvement. Apple just needs to center the icon and it’ll be good.

    → 8:45 AM, Jun 15
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  • I just updated the Micro.blog photoblogging page with the latest words for week 3! 📷

    → 5:03 PM, Jun 14
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  • Stay safe everyone going to a No Kings protest. I like this:

    A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these.

    🇺🇸

    → 12:32 PM, Jun 14
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  • Now that I’ve had a little more time with it, I see what Dia is going for. It’s not just about asking AI questions about a web page. It also aspires to become the starting point for all questions, replacing dedicated apps like ChatGPT or Claude.

    → 8:41 PM, Jun 13
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  • Gatto from Enrico Casarosa sounds amazing:

    The Annecy crowd cheered the announcement and went wild as Docter unveiled animation tests of a distinct, unique hand-painted look, something Pixar has never shown before. The film appears to be rich in colors from Venetian settings, and blends 2D hand paint textures with cutting-edge CG animation.

    → 7:01 PM, Jun 13
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  • Trying Dia, which is now available if you had an Arc account. It is very interesting. Not sure yet whether I will stick with it, or go back to Arc.

    → 10:29 AM, Jun 13
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  • We’ll be doing a couple betas of Micro.blog for iOS, whenever Apple approves it. If you’d like to be on the latest version, you can sign up on TestFlight. I tend to do short betas — just a few days or week and then it’ll ship to everyone.

    → 10:13 AM, Jun 13
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  • Casey Liss blogs some initial reactions to WWDC, including on the new iPad multitasking:

    They work well with a finger, but work great with a pointing device. The new multitasking mechanism will remove many of the shackles I feel when using my iPad Pro. I no longer feel like I’m trying to wade through wet cement when using it. I don’t feel like I’m bending to its needs — rather, it’s bending to mine.

    → 10:08 AM, Jun 13
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  • Steve Job’s commencement speech at Stanford is so good. On the 20th anniversary, the Steve Jobs Archive has published notes and drafts he sent himself. I love seeing this.

    → 9:01 PM, Jun 12
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  • Tragic airplane crash in India. A single survivor out of over 200 people… Keep thinking of Unbreakable.

    → 7:30 PM, Jun 12
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  • Today I’ve been fixing little bugs in Micro.blog for iPhone that have been annoying me. Any glitches that you’d like to see prioritized? Let me know!

    → 4:34 PM, Jun 12
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  • I’m sure this acquisition of Clay was in the works for a while, but the timing feels wrong so soon after the Automattic layoffs. I’ve been mostly supportive of Matt Mullenweg and Automattic through all the drama. I’d just like to see them get back on track.

    → 2:38 PM, Jun 12
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  • Enough with AI

    I’m going to take a break from AI-related blogging for a few months. I think the pause will do me and my readers some good. It’s too divisive an issue, and I expect in the coming years there will be a small but vocal faction that pushes back against AI more than there has been pushback against any other technology in the last 100 years.

    As much as I am optimistic, it’s going to be a little painful for society, as everyone wrestles with the ramifications of intelligent agents and machines. (Hopefully mostly in software form. I remain adamant that humanoid robots are a bad idea.)

    You can roll your eyes at this post. While I have a good track record of predicting the fallout from other major tech shifts, like mobile app distribution (2011) and centralized social networks (2012), there are too many forces at play here to be certain of what AI will look like in a decade. I only know that it will change many things. I can barely guess at the details.

    I’ll close with a word of caution for the skeptics. In your arguments against AI, avoid exaggeration and extremes to fit your narrative. There has been significant misinformation on that side, from proclamations about copyright and fair use — issues that are not at all settled — to inflated or outdated numbers on energy and water use. In a blog post this week, Sam Altman shared the first numbers I’ve seen from a major AI cloud provider:

    People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.

    Of course, it’s more complicated than that. There is training and there is Jevons paradox. But that’s the point, these discussions should have nuance. If they don’t, they are probably off the mark.

    Thanks to everyone who has written thoughtful posts on this subject in reply to my own posts. I remain focused on what humans can do — writing, photography, and art in Micro.blog. Nilay Patel, with John Gruber and Joanna Stern for The Talk Show Live this week, talked about how the rise of agents will upend the business model of the web. But people have counted out the open web before. It’s still here and strong.

    AI will help me code, it’ll help review my writing, it’ll help me brainstorm, but it’ll never write posts for my blog. I’m typing this draft on my phone, on a plane back to Austin, offline without wi-fi. Even as it feels like AI is taking over too many things, there will always be quiet spaces where humans can just think and be creative, and that will always matter.

    → 1:11 PM, Jun 12
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  • The Talk Show Live was excellent. My WWDC week is winding down… It was great to catch up with folks. Saw several people tonight I hadn’t seen in years.

    → 2:50 AM, Jun 11
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  • I downloaded the .ipsw for macOS Tahoe before realizing I would need a second Mac to install. So just did the Software Update, naively thinking it would prompt for which partition to use. Nope. So I’m accidentally running Tahoe on my main system. Onward!

    → 6:47 PM, Jun 10
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  • Liquid Glass is getting a little bit of hate after the first day of WWDC. Apple can dial it back in some places, but I think it’s mostly going to work. I’ve also tested the Micro.blog iOS app with it. We’ll update our UI as we get closer to the final iOS 26 release. Amusing button glitches:

    → 2:10 PM, Jun 10
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  • Dave Winer blogging about Bluesky’s choice of using domain names for handles:

    They were smart at Bluesky to use DNS this way. Why invent your own identity system when the net itself has a great distributed system that scales?

    → 2:02 PM, Jun 10
  • Catching up on yesterday for the photo challenge. Day 9, wood. From walking around Oakland, near Children’s Fairyland.

    A tree stump is situated in a grassy area with trees and a fenced area in the background.
    → 1:11 PM, Jun 10
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  • Ben Thompson writes about Apple refocusing on what they’re good at for WWDC. For the new models:

    What is compelling about the Foundation Models Framework is how it empowers small developers to experiment with on-device AI for free: an app that wouldn’t have AI at all for cost reasons now can, and if that output isn’t competitive with cloud AI then that’s the developer’s problem, not Apple’s; at the same time, by enabling developers to experiment Apple is the big beneficiary of those that discover how to do something that is only possible if you have an Apple device.

    → 12:47 PM, Jun 10
  • Planning to install macOS Tahoe later today. For now, only downloaded SF Symbols 7. Still no robot icon! 🙁

    → 3:42 PM, Jun 9
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  • There’s more in Apple’s new Foundation Models than I was expecting. The struct interfaces and tool calling especially. Fascinating.

    → 3:30 PM, Jun 9
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