The new beta of Micro.blog for iOS is coming along really well. We're at the point where I can see the finish line, and I'm comfortable punting some more features into the next update.
2023-03-20
I really enjoyed this episode of The Talk Show with guest Jason Kottke. Their talk of 404 links after years (and decades!) of blogging inspired me to expand our archiver in Micro.blog to make it easier to preserve a copy of web pages you link to. I recorded a YouTube video with the details.
2023-03-20
Watching some of the recent Microsoft Copilot demos and playing with Bing, I wonder what AI products they will roll out before everyone else can even attempt to catch up. Maybe a Microsoft voice assistant box? It would leapfrog Alexa and Siri.
2023-03-20
I hadn't been following Hachette v. Internet Archive closely, so spent a few minutes listening to Brewster Kahle's statement. It seems part of a larger issue of whether we can own digital content or will have to rent it. The Internet Archive is such a force for good, glad they're fighting this.
2023-03-20
Great article in Texas Monthly about Community Impact, a hyper-local newspaper for neighborhoods around Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and elsewhere.
2023-03-21
Micro.blog was acting a little sluggish so I looked at the logs and of course the servers are being hammered again by "hackers" attempting to exploit security holes that don't exist. Blocked a bunch of stuff and should be better now.
2023-03-21
Really didn't want to be up at midnight still dealing with attacks on our servers, but here we are. Good news is I was able to optimize a few things that will be helpful going forward anyway.
2023-03-22
Dunno if I'm late or early to this, but I'm playing with the OpenAI API. Impressive. The folks over there know what they're doing.
2023-03-23
Finished reading: The Cat who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa. Books about books. 📚
2023-03-24
We don't use AWS for that much, but costs just about doubled last month with more CDN usage. I tweaked some settings to try to bring it down a little. 💰
2023-03-24
Great story from the @RogueAmoeba blog about a meeting with Adam Curry, Eddie Cue, and Steve Jobs that may have saved Audio Hijack.
2023-03-24
I like this summary by @snarfed of why HTTP content negotiation is more trouble than it's worth. Simple, different URLs for different things are easier to debug, copy/paste between apps, etc. I often look at Micro.blog's JSON in a web browser, no special tools needed.
2023-03-24
On the latest Core Int, we talk about shifting deadlines for shipping Black Ink and the potential for integrating new AI tools in developing our apps.
2023-03-25
With yesterday's podcast, we hit 550 episodes. Some listeners may have noticed that we've slowed down a little, recording every other week while there has been a lull in sponsors. Hoping we can do a few new secret member-only episodes this year.
2023-03-25
Worked a bunch this weekend trying to decommission an EC2 server (hosting App.net archives!) by moving millions of little files to S3. Taking forever, often failing. I've been maintaining this for years and really want to turn the page on it, but can't accept losing any data.
2023-03-27
