Weird dreams last night… I met with Elon Musk and we talked about curation, small developer teams, and how Micro.blog could carve out a nice market niche away from the Twitter chaos. And for some reason my iPhone clock kept mixing up AM and PM. Maybe a sign I need a break.
2022-12-06
ChatGPT is a video game. That's okay, I like video games too! But I'm not going to get distracted into thinking it's a productive use of work time. I'm enjoying the screenshots folks share and otherwise ignoring it. (Maybe I'll regret this stance when the robots come for me…)
2022-12-06
I've renamed and expanded the help page about how Micro.blog works with Mastodon. Includes more answers to common questions.
2022-12-06
Got a new feature ready to ship but gonna hold it until tomorrow morning. All the pieces are deployed, tested, just hidden in the UI, and always seems like a mistake to launch things late in the day.
2022-12-06
Pushed out a new iOS beta of Micro.blog 3.0 with user search in Discover. Reminder for new folks joining the early TestFlight, still some missing features that we’ll put together before it ships next year. testflight.apple.com/join/lWxM...
2022-12-06
Feeling pretty chill about the Georgia election. Watching the results with the least stress compared to any election in years. It’s going to be fine. 🇺🇸
2022-12-07
MarsEdit 5 is out! Features new Markdown highlighting and quick micropost window. Works great with Micro.blog. Congrats @danielpunkass!
2022-12-07
Brittney Griner finally released. Paul Whelan still held. It's not exactly a fair prisoner exchange, but at least Brittney is out. 🏀
2022-12-08
CDN for Micro.blog blogs
Micro.blog has always tried to put all the important URLs for your blog at your own domain name if you have one, including URLs for photos you post to your blog. I like this because it’s consistent with prioritizing content ownership, and makes migrating photos to another blog host easier in the future. We like clean, simple URLs.
Today we’re adding an option to enable serving photos from a content delivery network. This will update your photo URLs to use the CDN, while your home page and other blog pages will still use your own domain name. As your blog grows, especially with years of uploaded photos, this can really improve performance as people visit your blog from all over the world.
To enable the CDN, click on Design and look for the “ Use content delivery network for images” checkbox:
There is no extra charge for this feature, and it’s included in all plans. Happy photo-blogging!
2022-12-08
Just typed "blogged down" instead of "bogged down" in a message. Blogs on the brain, always. 🧠
2022-12-08
Finished reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang. Fantasy but only just barely, it’s really an alternative history about language, race, class, friendship. Brilliant. 📚
2022-12-09
This week’s Core Intuition is up with discussion of the MarsEdit 5 release and ChatGPT. We go long on this one, about an hour, possibly because I can’t stop rambling incoherently about AI.
2022-12-09
Still confused about the game Elon is playing with the so-called Twitter Files. I'm not seeing any obvious unethical behavior from the old team at Twitter. Just looks like Elon is trying to burn every bridge he crossed over to become CEO, including I expect with Jack Dorsey.
2022-12-10
This bit from our news blog is probably worth highlighting here too. We've improved cross-posting in Micro.blog, now preserving alt text when sending photos to Twitter. Required a trip down the OAuth rabbit hole for a new endpoint and updating old code.
2022-12-10
I’ve been trying to walk up to the coffee shop every other day. Mostly quiet out as I headed back home, sky reflecting on the lake but no rain yet.
Doing some database housekeeping this morning. One of our tables to keep track of Mastodon activities had grown out of control, introducing a little downtime last night. Should be running much better now.
2022-12-11
Tested cross-posting from Micro.blog backwards and forwards today with test accounts. Photos, no photos, alt text, Twitter, Mastodon. Always works, so puzzled why it can be flaky for some people. Next up: more logging and upload retries.
2022-12-11
