Micro Camp 2023 is coming up soon! May 19th - 20th. We've posted the topics for the second day's presentations.
2023-05-08
Ever since I read that Bluesky has about 1.9 million folks on the waiting list, I've been thinking about what happens as more invites roll out. By comparison: Mastodon has over 7 million users, with 1 million on a single server. Plus a bunch more across the non-Mastodon fediverse.
2023-05-08
Lonnie Walker ready when he’s called on. Love it. 🏀
2023-05-09
Really good episode of Dithering this morning on Bluesky vs. Mastodon. As convenient as it would be to have a single decentralized protocol "win", I want to be ready for a future with multiple successful web-friendly platforms.
2023-05-09
Texas house getting HB 2744 out of committee is great news, even if feels like the bare minimum we could do. It's okay to do this in stages. First raise the age limit from 18 to 21, then ban all assault weapons, then start a buyback program to reduce the AR-15s already out there.
2023-05-09
Can’t remember the last time I had an actual flat tire. 20 years ago? Longer? Luck ran out today. Slow leak that was patched a week ago came back with a vengeance. 🛞
2023-05-09
Shocked to hear that Heather Armstrong has died. See: dooce.com, Wikipedia. One of the great early bloggers. Rest in peace.
2023-05-10
Thinking about fiatjaf's Bluesky is a scam post. Some of the criticism seems fair, some feels premature, and "scam" is too loaded. Let's see how it goes. My opinion hasn't changed since AT Proto was announced: domain name usernames and data portability in Bluesky is interesting and worth exploring.
2023-05-10
I'm fascinated with Nostr, but I'm having trouble getting on board with it because its development is disjointed and the creator is (I think) anonymous. The team at Bluesky is writing about their work. They have a blog. Same with Mastodon. Just easier to get behind a public, cohesive vision.
2023-05-10
I’d love to see Mastodon adopt some variation of NIP-5 so that single-user instance usernames can be collapsed to just the @-domain name. I would support this in Micro.blog too (and maybe should just do it).
2023-05-10
Caught the last half of the Trump town hall. CNN was criticized for hosting this, but Kaitlan Collins did a great job fact-checking and pressing him on non-answers. It’s not really amplification. Zero risk that voters outside his base were convinced by anything he said. 🇺🇸
2023-05-11
From a post by @adders, remembering Heather Armstrong:
Already the early days of blogging are being forgotten, and the ability of the web to quietly erase history as sites fail and go offline means that those incredible, exciting, experimental days are being lost. But we shouldn’t forget those who forged the future of digital media, and Heather Armstrong was one of them.
2023-05-11
Thinking more about Heather Armstrong. I didn't know her, but she was my age, and started her blog a year before mine. Must be difficult to put your whole life online. I keep my worlds fairly compartmentalized... My blog is my work, thoughts, travel, hobbies. But not the very personal.
2023-05-11
Got lost again browsing tld-list.com. So many fun new TLDs. Luckily was talked down from impulse buying another domain name. For now.
2023-05-11
Two great new themes for Micro.blog are available: Outpost by @mikehaynes and Tiny by @Mtt. So happy whenever I see new themes. It takes a lot of work for someone to refine these and share them. Thanks y'all!
2023-05-11
I'm excited to announce: Summer of blogging! For new folks signing up on Micro.blog, hosting is only $1/month for the summer. Full blog, photos, themes, ActivityPub, Bluesky cross-posting, and more. It's a great time to start a blog at your own domain.
2023-05-11
Wordle 692 6/6. Went from thinking I'd get it in 3 guesses to barely getting it.
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2023-05-12
There's a new beta out for Micro.blog 3.0. This adds the last big missing feature: posting to external blogs like WordPress. It should work with blogs that support the MetaWeblog or Micropub APIs.
2023-05-12
Playing with Google Bard. Impressed that it has much more recent data than ChatGPT. It knew about something that happened just a few days ago.
2023-05-12
We published a new Core Intuition. Daniel and I talk about the upcoming Micro Camp, event planning, iPad versions of Final Cut Pro and Logic, and thoughts on WWDC.
2023-05-13
More about the M.b problems overnight: I made what I thought was a minor code cleanup change yesterday that inadvertently affected the servers' ability to recover from failed background tasks, so publishing and timeline updating started slowing down and eventually just stopped. Very sorry, Europe!
2023-05-13
Reclaiming usernames policy
I'd like to update our terms of service to add a note about reclaiming old accounts, so we finally have an official policy. In a nutshell:
- If you've ever had a paid subscription, we will host your blog indefinitely, even after you cancel. You can always export or delete your data, or resubscribe later and all your data will be there.
- If you've never paid and your account has been inactive for one year, we may clear it out so someone else can use the name. You will be notified before this happens.
I say "may" because I think there needs to be some wiggle room for unique situations. There won't be any automatic deletion of accounts.
2023-05-13
For a while now, Micro.blog has been archiving copies of web pages for Micro.blog Premium users, whenever you link to something or bookmark it. The archive has grown to about a million items (web pages and their images and other resources). Lots of potential here for future tools.
2023-05-13
Enjoying the new Zelda so far. Although I'm mostly watching other people in the family play. 🙂 Minor spoilers as we switch between accounts.
2023-05-13
