Left my headphones at home by accident. Now need to plan my whole day around which coffee shops probably have the best music on. ☕️
2023-05-02
Noticed today while reviewing code that the first GitHub commit for Micro.blog was about 9 years ago. So much has happened since then, but also hardly anything. Software is never done because the world and people are always changing.
2023-05-02
Maybe the most surprising thing to me about Bluesky's early success is the "fun" aspect. I'm not very fun online — my microblog posts are often work-related or serious — but it seems clear there was a post-Twitter void here that Bluesky is filling. Casey Newton writes on Platformer:
Bluesky should continue to cultivate the sense that it is weirder and funnier than Twitter. That means leaning into some of the eye-rolling terms that users are insisting on, including skeets.
2023-05-02
Waterfall at Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden. 🍺
Mastodon has added support for showing styled text in the new version deployed on mastodon.social. Looks good with bold and italics in blog posts federated from Micro.blog.
2023-05-03
Enjoyed the first episode of White House Plumbers. Also, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey might be half-brothers?! They need to go on Finding Your Roots.
2023-05-03
Almost done with book edits. The task of manually reformatting all the footnotes and layout for the print edition was dragging me down, so figured out how to automate it with print CSS tools like Prince. Wow, going to save days or weeks of work.
2023-05-03
Eugen Rochko and team are fighting spammers at mastodon.social:
We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)
Haven't seen this affect Micro.blog yet, but if anyone notices any unwanted @-mentions or other problems, let us know.
Update: Spoke too soon, definitely hitting us too. 🙁
2023-05-04
Looking at this spam, I think our approach to accepting Mastodon DMs needs to change in Micro.blog. We forward them via email because we don't have a private messaging system. But someone shouldn't be able to intrude in your inbox. My fault. Going to rethink this today.
2023-05-04
Finished the first pass of rethinking how incoming direct messages work in Micro.blog. I still believe that most social networks should not reinvent the wheel with messaging, because it's unlikely to be as secure as dedicated services like iMessage and WhatsApp. But we roll with what we've got.
2023-05-04
Wondering what the Bluesky team has in mind for private messaging, if anything. Mastodon's DMs have always felt awkward to me, both the user experience (hard to distinguish public and private posts) and the technical bits (any admin can read your messages).
2023-05-04
Jack Dorsey gives $10 million to Nostr and related projects. Setting aside opinions on his leadership at Twitter, it feels significant that these funds are not VC-style investments. Presumably the reward is seeing interesting technology flourish, not profit.
2023-05-04
This year's NBA playoffs have been great. So many close games, ignoring a couple blowouts like last night's Lakers/Warriors. With the Spurs out of contention early and their players scattered to different teams, I've been enjoying the postseason more than usual, finding new teams to root for. 🏀
2023-05-05
Created a new blog on my Micro.blog account today, a placeholder for something new. Found a couple bugs in the process. I should do this more often... So easy to forget about the onboarding experience, or lack thereof.
2023-05-05
I recorded a video on YouTube that goes through how I personally use Micro.blog for my own blog. It's a little long and rambling, about 25 minutes, but it covers a bunch of features that folks might find useful.
2023-05-05
Easy to get caught up in the excitement about the coronation. We are so stuck in divisive partisan debates over here that it's hard to imagine the U.S. being that united around anything. 🇬🇧
2023-05-06
Too many guns. After yesterday's shooting in Allen, Greg Abbot "offered the full support of the State of Texas"… So that means he'll work to ban assault weapons, right? That's the kind of support we need.
2023-05-07
Posted episode 556 of Core Intuition. We talk about tipping in Apple Stores, using ChatGPT, and whether Apple has missed "the year of AI" because they thought it was "the year of AR".
2023-05-07
If you missed it earlier from @news:
We are monitoring some performance problems because of unexpected server load. Thanks for your patience.
I'm continuing to troubleshoot (and optimize) slow blog publishing a cross-posting today. Almost back to normal but not quite.
2023-05-07
