Landing in San Diego.
Finished reading: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. There is a lot going on in this. So many different point of view characters. Going to start book 2. 📚
Stopped in Corsicana for a coffee and world-famous fruitcake to go. I don’t even love fruitcake, but I’m fascinated with the Collin Street Bakery history. Next up need to watch the Fruitcake Fraud documentary. ☕️
We released a new episode of @coreint today, with more discussion about Blinksale and subscription services. Then @danielpunkass gives an update on shipping MarsEdit 4.6.
We released a new beta of Epilogue for iOS. You can now tap and hold on a book cover in Discover to quickly add it to one of your bookshelves.
Today’s Micro Monday episode features @aa! Just finished listening to this in the car this morning. He talks with @jean about leather working, snail mail, blogging, and taking the time to craft something of quality.
We’ve continued to tweak the new profile popup so that it’s more usable. Faster, smaller, and off to the side a little now. Pretty happy with this version! Here’s a screenshot to capture the progress.
MarsEdit 4.6 was released today with some nice improvements for Micro.blog! Automatically hiding/showing the title field, and creating new blog categories directly from within MarsEdit when writing a post.
Wrapping up another quick trip to Denton. Breakfast earlier at Avoca Coffee. ☕️
We published a new Core Intuition today talking about @danielpunkass’s plans for MarsEdit 5, upcoming improvements for Micro.blog in MarsEdit 4.x, macOS versions to support, SwiftUI, and the relevance of Tumblr vs. Micro.blog.
Caught up on support email. I had started to lag behind again. Still really happy with the way Help Scout works… It has been one of our better upgrades.
Good feedback on the web profile popup we rolled out yesterday. Thanks everyone! We fixed a couple issues today and will continue to tweak it.
New web feature that @vincent has been working on, via the news blog:
Hover the mouse over someone’s profile photo to get a quick look at their full name, bio, web site, and link to follow them.
This is especially useful in Discover if you want to quickly follow someone new.
Rolled out some bug fixes to the Mac version of Micro.blog this week. “Check for Updates” to get the latest version. Improves dragging from Apple Photos and several other tweaks.
This week’s special guest on Micro Monday is @val! She talks with @jean about moving to Kyrgyzstan, posting a photo every day, and the community on Micro.blog.
Finally starting the Malazan series. I’m reading on Kindle Unlimited which includes the Audible narration as an option, so I can read or listen and it’s synced up. Wish every e-book purchase worked this way. 📚
Finished reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 📚
If you missed it over the weekend, I created a new plug-in that changes your home page to just be full of photos and basic navigation. Great for photo blogs while still allowing text and full-length blog posts outside of the home page. Updated it today for smaller screens.
We have a bug fix update today for folks on Android! @vincent actually finished this version months ago but it had been hung up in Google app review for some reason. Finally got it approved.
Grab the update on Google Play. The next version is also coming along well, so expect more for Android this year.
Finished reading: My Neighbor Totoro by Tsugiko Kubo. A short book, for kids or Miyazaki fans. Adds more details and scenes than the movie. Wonderful. 📚
Just discovered The Wandering Inn, an epic 7-book (and counting) fantasy series that the author publishes on the web every week as new chapters are written. Essentially a massive blog, later collected as Kindle and Audible books. 📚
Posted Core Intuition last night. We start with a discussion about the latest ownership change for FogBugz, then thinking more broadly about services that work but that don’t improve.
Hello, photo bloggers! I created a new plug-in that replaces your home page with a grid of photos and links for your other pages. No post text on the home page. Hope it’s a good start for people who want to go all-in on photos. Called simply “Home page photos”.
Working while the car gets an oil change and other service, outside at the dealer’s covered patio before it gets too hot. Only 80° now, the usual high of 100°+ later. Counting down the days until we get out of Texas for a little while later this summer.