We’ve been glued to KXAN for the last couple hours. Tornados in the Austin area, just unreal. Missed us, with only some rain that quickly passed through. 🌧
2022-03-22
So impressed with Ketanji Brown Jackson. What a great pick for the Supreme Court. 🇺🇸
2022-03-23
Bookmark improvements in Micro.blog
Today we rolled out a few improvements to bookmarks, including an import from Instapaper and Pocket. This is meant to complement Micro.blog’s bookmark archiving, where Micro.blog archives a copy of a web page and allows making highlights in it. Like the archiving and highlights, the import feature is for Micro.blog Premium subscribers.
I’ve personally wanted to consolidate my bookmarks to Micro.blog, because I’ve had some things in Instapaper and some newer posts in Micro.blog. Micro.blog is not designed as a replacement for every feature in other read-later services, but instead a quick way to save links and either reference them later or start a new microblog post from a highlight.
To learn more about bookmark archiving and highlights, check out the video in this post on the news blog from when we announced Micro.blog 2.0.
I’ve also improved other aspects of bookmarks, like faster loading, paging through many hundreds or thousands of bookmarks, and better profile icons for domain names that are added to Micro.blog.
2022-03-23
Mozilla's vision for the web
I'm reading through Mozilla's vision for the evolution of the web. On web sites being too difficult to create:
Building websites has gotten substantially easier in many ways, but it’s also become more complex, and there remain a number of pain points which make the experience more difficult than it needs to be. This has several negative consequences. First, it disempowers site authors by hampering their ability to express themselves. Second, it drives content to native app platforms, which diminishes the Web’s reach. Finally, it encourages centralization by tilting the playing field towards large publishers and platform providers with sophisticated engineering teams and complex infrastructure. Our goal is to reverse these trends by making it easier to build and maintain sites.
There is a lot of good stuff in this document.
2022-03-23
We've started to get the videos from Micro Camp up on the YouTube channel. Thanks again to our speakers and everyone who joined us!
2022-03-24
New Spurs mural on east 4th. Getting coffee around the corner at Wright Bros. ☕️
The last time I was here (Wright Bros Brew & Brew), you could park across the street because it was just a dirt parking lot next to the train tracks. Now it's a Whole Foods and Target. ☕️
2022-03-25
Following up the new bookmarks improvements with more changes today: added Pinboard import and fixed some other problems. Thanks to folks who have upgraded to Micro.blog Premium to take full advantage of bookmark archiving, highlights, and search! That helps us make it better.
2022-03-25
Congrats to @marco on the new Overcast redesign. I've been using the beta and it's a really nice update.
2022-03-25
Working on Epilogue this morning, and Android + iOS builds have my Intel MacBook fans going at full speed. Not ready to jump to M1 yet, though. When I bought this 16-inch MacBook Pro, I said I'd keep it for at least a few years and trying to stick to that.
2022-03-27
We watched the Oscars live last night and were confused and then stunned by what happened with Will Smith and Chris Rock, and I hoped by this morning I could focus on other things. Still can’t stop thinking of what Denzel Washington told Will Smith: “At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.”
2022-03-28
