I uploaded a very short 21-second demo video to YouTube, showing the Mac app's updated character counter for posts with block quotes. Same behavior across all platforms as described in this announcement post.
2023-02-27
With the big character limit change behind us, I had a free morning to work on anything. This is my favorite thing about being small. Added a new CSV export for highlights based on recent feedback.
Don't sleep on our bookmarks and highlights feature. 🙂 It is going to grow into something special.
2023-02-28
Last night, stayed up until 1am reading Assassin's Quest. Felt like I was 17 years old instead of 47. 📚
2023-02-28
Loved the first book in this world so decided to get A Day of Fallen Night on release day. Still have a couple other books to finish first before I can start this. 📚
Can't believe it's March already, at least for folks on the other side of the world. Reminder to Mastodon folks: you can follow and participate in the Micro.blog photo challenge by following @challenges@micro.blog. We'll be sharing some more details as things get underway.
2023-02-28
It's bad enough that Linode dropped their logo, but now prices are going up by 20%? I haven't done the math but this is going to be a big hit to our Micro.blog hosting costs. Not happy.
2023-03-01
Day 1 of the Micro.blog photo challenge! Today’s word is “secure”. I noticed this keyhole covered up or filled in at the coffee shop.
Good write-up on Six Colors about the updates to Twitterrific and Tweetbot, which let you opt out of getting a refund. Strongly recommend if you had a subscription to download the update and opt out. Just takes a few seconds and will really help those developers.
2023-03-01
I've said before I never want to change Micro.blog's $5 standard hosting price. The best way to increase revenue is to get more customers and make our $10 plan valuable. But if we ever change it, I promise not to blame it on macroeconomic headwinds. Customers want clear and honest answers, not spin.
2023-03-02
Love seeing the photos coming in for the March photo challenge. My favorite view is this grid view of thumbnails. Related, I think it's time we enable the CDN for all blogs by default. I'll make that change later today and of course you can opt out.
2023-03-02
John Gruber writing about the App Store / Twitter apps refund problem:
Consider the gut punch of losing your job — you stop earning income. It’s brutal. Now imagine that the way it worked when you get fired or laid off is that you’re also suddenly on the hook to pay back the last, say, 6 months of your income. That’s where Tapbots and The Iconfactory are.
2023-03-02
We went seriously down the genealogy rabbit hole last night, with a couple "oh wow" moments of discovery. Need to do a little more research at the library (print books! microfilm!) and then will try to write it up in a blog post.
2023-03-02
Looking up at the sky as we’re expecting bad weather tonight. Wind is starting to pick up.
Solitude is coffee and a breakfast taco and my laptop, having the whole outside to myself for a little while. Lazarus Brewing. ☕️ (Also trying to do all my photo challenges in black and white for something new.)
Thanks @Aywren for the kind words about Micro.blog and how it connects to the fediverse and other services. Love this line: "Micro.blog has the ability to connect everything together in a crazy good way."
2023-03-03
I've been trying the Bluesky beta (still private, but they have a waitlist). I'm open to supporting it because Micro.blog isn't based on any single protocol. It's a blogging platform and social network that connects with the web. ActivityPub, Micropub, WebSub, RSS, XML-RPC, whatever.
2023-03-03
I'm going to attend FediForum on March 30th (day 2) to show how Micro.blog and Mastodon work together. Should be interesting! Feels like 2023 is going to be different tech communities coming together in our shared post-Twitter world.
2023-03-03
In case anyone doesn't notice the post on @news, there was an issue with loading photos from the CDN tonight after an HTTPS certificate expired. I've fixed it and also added the CDN to our monitoring so this won't happen again.
2023-03-04
Looks like Mastodon will be getting expanded support for showing styles in posts. Micro.blog already sends bold, italics, and other basics to Mastodon, so this will be a nice improvement for folks reading in Mastodon.
2023-03-05
Day 5 of the photo challenge: tile.
Two new iOS app updates to start the week: Sunlit 3.4.4 fixes setting alt text, and another Micro.blog 3.0 beta with support for saving and publishing drafts.
2023-03-06
