Listening to Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road. One of my favorite live recordings, pops up on shuffle every once in a while. 🎶
2022-04-18
Waterloo Park.
Thunderbird Coffee. Kind of cold outside this morning. ☕️
Micro.blog mobile and tablet redesign
Today we launched a design update for the Micro.blog web interface. Vincent has been working on this with a focus on the mobile interface especially, and it looks great on the iPad as well.
In the previous version, when viewing on mobile the sidebar would collapse and you'd get a hamburger menu that was clunky to use. Now, the most important menu items like Timeline, Mentions, and Discover will move to the header, with a new popover menu for accessing other features.
You can see the new layout even on desktop by just resizing your window smaller. Here's what the header looks like on tablet and at small desktop window sizes:
And on the iPhone, with the new popup menu open:
We are very excited to roll this out. The iOS and Android apps will always be a great choice for posting or checking replies, but they can't do everything the web version can do. The web version of Micro.blog is now much nicer to use everywhere.
2022-04-19
On this week’s Core Int, @danielpunkass and I follow up on SwiftUI button sizing, cross-platform frameworks, and the new mobile web design for Micro.blog.
2022-04-20
The photo challenge is back! Starts May 1st.
2022-04-20
If you're not on Micro.blog Premium, you might not know that Micro.blog has a read-later bookmark interface with highlights. Helps when blogging and quoting. I updated the Dark Mode interface for it today, switching to an orange-ish highlight instead of the murky yellow before.
Needed to be in Georgetown for a band UIL concert this afternoon, so had a long lunch sitting outside at Hat Creek with my laptop. Nice spot above the San Gabriel River. 🍔
When a company gets too big, they inevitably forget why they exist. Not even the greatest, mission-driven companies seem to be able to escape this fate. The only way to stay true to your roots is to stay small.
2022-04-20
Bouldin Creek Cafe. ☕️
I know it's not always clear how all of Micro.blog's book features fit together, so I recorded a 10-minute video walk-through on YouTube. It goes through Micro.blog bookshelves, Epilogue, and updating your blog with pages, categories, and filters.
2022-04-21
Raining a little this morning. Coffee at Lazarus. ☕️
In my demo video yesterday, I used the Scribe theme by @ChrisHannah. Looks really nice with the book list even without any customizations.
2022-04-22
Just realized I didn’t show the Bookshelves pin in the demo video about books on Micro.blog. I knew I was forgetting something.
2022-04-22
Barton Creek.
Walking around Barton Springs for the first time in a while. Kind of shocked to see Shady Grove closed and rundown.
