Election day! If you're in the US, make a plan to vote today. I've been traveling and out of my usual routine of reading the news every day, which has actually been nice. 🇺🇸
2022-11-08
Noticed some Micro.blog background queueing problems that could've significantly delayed a few things, such as deleting blog posts. Fixed and should be catching up now.
2022-11-08
A few days ago at Salt Point. After camping, detoured into San Francisco for a day of being a city tourist with reliable wi-fi.
New Brighton State Beach. Wi-fi at the park, 10 minutes to Verve Coffee… I may never leave.
ActivityPub is notoriously chatty, and all the new activity has been dragging down some of Micro.blog's background tasks. I'll be rolling out a series of optimizations and Mastodon-related tweaks over the next couple of days.
2022-11-09
Keeping the news off and planning to go to bed early and check election results in the morning. I have low expectations for the midterms, and win or lose I think I'll sleep better if I ignore it. The protracted results 2 years ago over several days really messed with me. 🇺🇸
2022-11-09
I was hopeful for Beto until I went to early vote in Texas a couple weeks ago. No wait. No line. No one was there. Expect the turnout was terrible. Disappointed, but maybe nationally Democrats can hold on. 🇺🇸
2022-11-09
We improved a few things with Mastodon support this week:
- Added
alttext for images to cross-post to Mastodon. 🎉 - Added the ActivityPub username in M.b profile web pages. Links to follow form. 🔗
- Other performance improvements and bug fixes. 🐞
2022-11-10
Coffee and overnight oats at Cat & Cloud. Great start to the workday. ☕️
We do a bunch of ActivityPub work in the background, and last night the queue was over 100,000 waiting items... So much new activity. Made a couple tweaks and this morning it's back to 0.
2022-11-10
Walton Lighthouse.
Released a new beta of Micro.blog 3.0 for iOS. It's still early, several things aren't wired up yet, but you can join via TestFlight here if you'd like to follow along.
2022-11-10
Rolled out another change I forgot to make with this morning's Mastodon changes: your "about me" text from Micro.blog now shows up for Mastodon users too. (Mastodon will cache profiles so may take a while to update everywhere.)
2022-11-10
More details from @vincent on today's 3.0 beta update. The app is coming along nicely... I use it as my main Micro.blog app on iOS now, even if I have to reach for the mobile web version for some things.
2022-11-10
Finished reading: Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand 📚
2022-11-11
Posted a new message to our internal Basecamp with the title "Twitter implosion marketing" to brainstorm how to get the word out. Happy to hear ideas from the community too! If you like Micro.blog, let's figure out how to tell people how it fits into the post-Twitter world.
2022-11-11
Experimenting with some new text on our home page, for new folks who are not signed in. We'll keep iterating and tweaking until we get the messaging right. (Already regretting the jab against billionaires, probably will drop that.)
2022-11-11
Kind of a bizarre camp location tonight, had my doubts as we were approaching on the road past shuttered houses and buildings from another era, but the view at sunset was worth it. Terminal 4 at Point San Pablo.
NetNewsWire with an update on the feature to follow Twitter from within the app:
We have no intention of removing this feature, despite Twitter’s troubles and poor prognosis. It’s more important than ever, we believe, since it helps people find their off-ramp from Twitter.
2022-11-12
I always have to resist the temptation to compete with every platform. Micro.blog does so much but it also tries to solve specific problems within each niche of features. It's a challenge to do just enough of the right things without creating the Microsoft Word of web platforms.
2022-11-12
One of my favorite places in the world: the Walt Disney Family Museum. Checked out the Jungle Book special exhibit, organized in large part from Andreas Deja's collection. These are 4 animation drawings by Frank Thomas.
Not Frozen, although I’d like to see that too one day… Bono: Stories of Surrender. Incredible show. Couldn’t think of a better way to wrap up a couple weeks on the road.
Had a conversation last night before the show that I can't quite get out of my head... Long story short, makes me want to order a 23andMe DNA kit.
2022-11-13
On the BART for a while...
