WWDC day! Unrelated but kind of related, I downgraded Apple One family plan to just iCloud+. Going all-in on Spotify because that's what the kids use anyway.
2022-06-06
This is a cool Shortcut from @ezellwrites for taking text from a book and sharing it as a quote to your microblog. It pulls in your Micro.blog bookshelves for a book you're reading.
2022-06-06
I've added a special Micro.blog pin if you mention "WWDC" in a microblog post today. Screenshot of a few of my pins… You can view these under the Account screen.
Didn't see a whole lot at WWDC that will directly impact Micro.blog, but want to test out Stage Manager for iPad. Also will keep an eye on Passkeys.
2022-06-06
I don’t buy that many print books anymore. Decided to splurge on this copy of Mistborn. This quick video is my first time looking at it… Really nice paper and ink. 📚
Installed the iPadOS 16 beta only to discover that Stage Manager doesn't work with the latest iPad Mini. Kind of bummed by this, though admittedly the screen is small.
2022-06-06
Watched a few WWDC sessions this morning. Good stuff, but nothing I can really use right now. Think I’ll hold off installing macOS Ventura for a while.
2022-06-07
Finished reading: Enchanters' End Game by David Eddings 📚
2022-06-08
Micro.blog will now keep track of previous versions of a blog post when it's saved. It will keep these extra copies for 60 days. It's designed as a simple, short-term backup in case something is edited or deleted that needs to be restored. Here's a screenshot of the new link:
There's a new episode of Core Int out with our first thoughts on WWDC 2022. What is the future of the in-person part of the conference, Apple's new APIs and services, Charts, Passkeys, SwiftUI, AppKit, and more.
2022-06-09
I still play Wordle every day. Posting this one because guess 4 is interesting to me... Correct letters, wrong order.
Wordle 355 5/6
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Tip for Markdown: add 2 spaces at the end of each line so that it wraps correctly.
2022-06-09
Watched the first of the January 6th hearings. It is still stunning that this day actually happened, and that even now so many people are being misled and lied to. Unacceptable that Fox News didn’t show the hearing.
2022-06-10
The live The Talk Show from this year's WWDC is up. Sorry to miss this in person, but the 4K video looks really nice. Good complement to the Apple videos to round out the WWDC week.
2022-06-10
Upgraded one of the Micro.blog servers today. Shouldn't be super noticeable, just a little bit of extra performance.
2022-06-10
This article in the New York Times about the Great Salt Lake was really eye-opening. I noticed the lake level difference between visiting in 2013 and 2022, but didn't know it was this serious.
2022-06-10
Better change log for Micro.blog features and fixes
We've come up with a new way to document changes to Micro.blog. In the past, we usually only note big changes on @news or on my own blog, so everything is scattered and small changes are rarely even mentioned. To fix this, there's now a special category on news.micro.blog that will list most changes to the platform, both big and small.
I've customized the news blog home page and feed to exclude these posts, so if you're following @news, you won't get all the noise of the day to day changes that we roll out. And because it's all powered by a normal Micro.blog-hosted blog, it's something that is easy for us to maintain. If you really want to know about everything, you can also subscribe to this RSS feed.
2022-06-10
So excited about this that I’m even linking to Twitter. Scott Lynch working on Gentlemen Bastards novellas:
Collectively, these three novellas form a bridge narrative, inessential but enriching, taking Locke and Jean from immediately after REPUBLIC to immediately before THORN.
2022-06-10
When I added compatibility with Mastodon in Micro.blog, I required custom domain names because I think that's the best way to control your identity. Lately thinking about relaxing that, because it does limit what we can do if you don't have your own domain name.
2022-06-11
d20 Tavern in Denton. Such a great idea. Tons of games and 20 beers on tap, so you can roll a d20 to randomly select a beer. We played the NYC Ticket to Ride. (My daughter also wrote an article about the place for the Denton Record-Chronicle!)
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.” — Jo Walton
Murals outside Aura Coffee. Protect kids not guns. ☕️
