Manton Reece
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  • Watched: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. Glad I was able to see this in the theater today. Beautiful. 🍿

    → 5:51 PM, Nov 8
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  • Sometimes I forget about the way Micro.blog archives any web page you link to or bookmark, including images and styling. I just checked the database and there are hundreds of thousands of web pages and millions of resources. Slowly turning into a personal, miniature Internet Archive.

    → 11:49 AM, Nov 8
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  • I think Sandbar is on to something with their ring. I’ve wanted a faster way to record notes and post drafts for a while. But the Apple Watch should really be able to do this.

    → 10:40 AM, Nov 8
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  • Thinking about how much code is written by AI is becoming less interesting to me. We didn’t used to care how much code was written by literal copy and pasting. Although maybe we should have? 🤪

    → 10:08 AM, Nov 8
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  • I’ve seen the new Mac ad on TV several times now and really like it. There’s obviously something special about it. Didn’t realize at first that it was voiced by Jane Goodall.

    → 9:37 PM, Nov 7
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  • Watched: Pluribus S1E1, We Is Us. Not sure what to think of this yet. Rhea Seehorn is good, but want to watch a little more to see where the story is going. 📺

    → 8:30 PM, Nov 7
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  • Not sure if this is fair or not, but I think of Bird Bird Biscuit as a hipster version of Chick-fil-A. And to be clear I love both.

    → 4:07 PM, Nov 7
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  • If you are on the TestFlight beta for Micro.blog iOS, you will have seen our experiments to enable Liquid Glass. I’m admitting defeat today, going to opt out of the new UI for the next version. There are too many little glitches.

    → 12:00 PM, Nov 7
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  • OpenAI continues to shoot for the moon. Based on a tweet by Sam Altman, they seem fairly clear-eyed about it. It’s a gamble that AI will be needed everywhere. OpenAI will either succeed or fail spectacularly.

    I would bet on OpenAI long before the likes of Perplexity and startups riding only hype.

    → 11:14 AM, Nov 7
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  • Scott McNulty blogging about the new Star Trek LEGO set:

    $400 is a lot of money for some pieces of plastic, but how can you put a price on happiness?

    The minifigures look great. Wish I could just buy a few of them without the full set. We have no space for more LEGOs.

    → 9:19 AM, Nov 7
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  • Trying something new! A short video to start my morning. Coffee at Cosmic. ☕️

    → 8:58 AM, Nov 7
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  • Enjoyed this video with Matt Mullenweg and John Borthwick. I thought I was familiar with Betaworks, but I had never actually heard John speak. Some interesting thoughts here about the future.

    → 8:27 AM, Nov 7
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  • Watching the Wicked special on TV. I’m fine with it being one long commercial for the movie. Can’t wait. 🧹

    → 8:44 PM, Nov 6
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  • My blog has always been a mix of personal posts and business topics. It’s not a collection of press releases. It’s not perfect and it’s not everything. I think where we often go wrong is judging people harshly from a snapshot of their life, mostly out of context. Much better to look for the good.

    → 5:50 PM, Nov 6
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  • Staying busy this week. If I stop to let my mind wander, I can start to feel grief inching closer, like a dark fog coming over the water. Gotta stay on ground away from the coast, with things to do, for now.

    → 5:23 PM, Nov 6
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  • Unwired.

    Electrical equipment and meters are mounted on a wooden wall, in disrepair, with surrounding grass and vines.
    → 4:11 PM, Nov 6
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  • From the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI depositions, there are a couple more details around the firing of Sam Altman, but it appears mostly the same drama. Smoke but no fire. However, there was this fact that I did not know:

    According to the deposition, during Altman’s ouster, Anthropic reached out with a proposal to merge with OpenAI and take over leadership of the company.

    → 3:56 PM, Nov 6
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  • Video plan preview, launching Monday

    I posted a couple months ago about improving Micro.blog’s video hosting. Not just fixing the existing problems but greatly expanding what it can do. I’ve been thinking about how this impacts current and future customers, and I’m ready to share the next step.

    Technical plumbing for the new video support is already rolling out. It’s the biggest change to how uploads work since we first added photo hosting. Instead of a single hosted file, videos are processed into chunks at multiple resolutions to support quick playback.

    All Micro.blog subscribers will get 1-minute video uploads. There will be a new subscription plan to increase the limit up to 20-minute videos. The new plan will also be the place we add new features for podcasts.

    Videos hosted on Micro.blog will automatically cross-post to PeerTube and Bluesky at launch. POSSE! YouTube will be enabled whenever Google approves us. Mastodon will get a link back to your blog post to watch the video.

    I have heard the feedback that it appears too limiting to have only 1-minute videos on the rest of our plans. However, Micro.blog and Micro.blog Premium are a good value with their existing features. There’s a simplicity to not needing an asterisk on each plan for how long videos can be.

    After it ships, the complete set of plans will look like this:

    Micro.one: $1 — cheap, while supplies last!
    Micro.blog: $5 — standard hosting
    Micro.blog Premium: $10 — up to 5 blogs plus more features
    Micro.blog Family: $15 — up to 5 members per blog
    Micro.blog Studio: $20 — coming soon!

    Each plan includes everything at the lower tiers. This is a lot for us and for users to juggle, but I believe the best way we can keep prices low is by adding new features at higher tiers instead of raising the price on the $5 and $10 plans.

    For comparison, here are some other services and their prices:

    Tumblr Premium: $7 — up to 10 minutes
    WordPress Premium: $18 — less than 2 GB recommended
    Vimeo Plus: $12 — up to 5 GB
    Twitter / X Premium: $8 — up to 2 hours
    Bluesky: $0 — up to 3 minutes, 100 MB
    Mastodon: $? — less than 100 MB

    It’s all over the map. The pricing we have in Micro.blog feels right to me, and hopefully will be sustainable enough that we can support and expand it well into the future. And of course, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok are there if you want to directly monetize your videos, or if you want the $0 price and don’t mind feeding the ad machine.

    I can’t wait to share more about how this works in Micro.blog. It officially launches next week.

    → 3:06 PM, Nov 6
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  • Listening to the final episode of Under the Radar. Congrats to David and Marco on a great 10-year run!

    → 2:01 PM, Nov 6
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  • Leaning heavily into the YOLO mindset for travel planning right now.

    → 1:47 PM, Nov 6
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