For the last few weeks we've been reworking how Micro.blog subscriptions are upgraded. I just rolled out the changes. Shouldn't affect existing customers much, but it's a nice improvement for starting a new blog with Apple Pay, or managing a subscription.
2022-05-16
Expect I've unlocked my phone approaching 100,000 times since the first iPhone. Attempts to steal my phone: 0. Starting to question if the defaults are too secure, but there's no perfect setting... Ideally would like it already unlocked when at home or near my watch.
2022-05-16
We have a new public beta of Micro.blog for Android with a couple bug fixes. Here's a link if you'd like to join the beta.
2022-05-17
This is cool! @sod has created a page that when clicked will take you to a random photo in the Micro.blog photo challenge.
2022-05-18
Try hard. ☕️
Bike and outliners with M.b
Blogging and outlining share a long history together. Userland’s Clay Basket could create a full static site from an outline. NetNewsWire 1.0 had a built-in outliner for notes and blog publishing that would later be spun out as MarsEdit.
Recently there have been new outliners that work with Micro.blog. I blogged about publishing to Micro.blog via Dave Winer’s Drummer. Maurice Parker wrote about his Zavala outliner and integrating it with Micro.blog via Shortcuts.
Bike is a new Mac outliner from Jesse Grosjean of Hog Bay Software. It has a clean interface that feels closer to a text editor than most outliners, and it can save as OPML and plain text. I’m also fascinated that the native .bike file format is just HTML.
I wired up publishing from Bike to Micro.blog with Maurice’s Humboldt that provides Shortcuts for Micro.blog. It looks like Bike has great AppleScript support. You can iterate over the rows in an outline, or you can just grab the contents as HTML like this:
tell application "Bike"
set doc to front document
export doc as bike format
end tell Note that the export command requires a paid Bike license.
You can download my test shortcut here. It’s a little hacky. It strips out the HTML header/footer with a simple find-and-replace in Shortcuts. It will need a little more work if you want to clean up the outline and publish real blog posts with it.
2022-05-19
On the latest @coreint, we talk WWDC and then react to a recent 37signals podcast about selling the byproducts of your work.
2022-05-20
Much has been written about the deteriorating Music.app experience. The new UI never really clicked for me... I barely understand the difference between Listen Now and Browse. So I've been trying Spotify on the web and it seems as good or better than the native Music.app.
2022-05-20
When I'm in a coding rut I find it really helpful to work on something fun and different for a couple days. Here's a sneak peek on YouTube (20 seconds) of something that will be in the next Micro.blog for Mac.
2022-05-20
Trying to get back into the photo challenge after missing a bunch of days. Today’s word is beverage. Stopped at a food truck for brisket tacos and much-needed bottled water on a hot day.
I still really like Objective-C and AppKit. I can think of a lot of improvements to make, but nothing like what we ended up with in Swift and SwiftUI. Shrug.
2022-05-21
If anyone wants to play along with the in-progress books support in Micro.blog for Mac, you can grab a beta download here. Reply editing isn't wired up and some other things need polishing before we release it. Sneak peek is on YouTube here.
2022-05-21
Car battery died while I left my trunk open waiting for an IKEA pickup. Feels awkward to ask strangers for a jumpstart in the time of COVID, but people are nice.
2022-05-22
