We watched Still with Michael J. Fox last night. Really good. 📺
2023-05-15
Jean posted today about how Discover in Micro.blog will be less likely to include photos that don’t have alt text. Just an extra nudge to encourage more people to make their photos accessible.
2023-05-15
Making screenshots for App Store connect isn't my favorite thing. I don't do it often so always forget which dimensions go with which devices. Apple is too picky about this... Most people probably look at small versions of the screenshots anyway.
2023-05-16
Haven't done much more than skim through the Bluesky app source, but glad to see it released. I'm sure there are things in there I can learn from. MIT license too. 👍
2023-05-16
Special shout-out to @sod who has been working with us to update all the Micro.blog themes with improved Microformats markup and other fixes. A bunch have been updated already! Check your Plug-ins page every once in a while to see if there's an update to a theme you're using.
2023-05-16
People are often confused about what exactly Micro.blog is. Is it a Twitter clone? Is it a WordPress clone? Is it a Buffer clone? I like to think of it as a mashup of several things. This post from Alan Jacobs is another great perspective: the three paths of micro.blog.
2023-05-16
We are finalizing the Micro Camp schedule to post later today. Very excited about what we've got planned. Pencil in 12pm Pacific time on your calendar this Friday! With more sessions on Saturday too.
2023-05-16
Ready for the NBA draft lottery tonight. Wearing my Spurs t-shirt. 🏀
2023-05-16
Did a quick YouTube live streaming test. Seems to work as advertised. Resubscribed to Ecamm Live too, which has been helpful in past years to coordinate streaming files.
2023-05-16
Big announcement: we're welcoming Om Malik for a keynote conversation to kick things off at Micro Camp on Friday! The updated schedule is online now at micro.camp.
2023-05-16
Amazing. I’ve never believed in tanking and I had my expectations low, but… Spurs get the #1 pick. Victor Wembanyama is going to fit in perfectly. Can’t wait for next season. 🏀
2023-05-17
Had a lot of weird dreams last night. But waking up this morning, apparently the Spurs getting the #1 pick in the draft was not a dream. Here we go! Looking forward to more basketball this week... NBA finals just around the corner. 🏀
2023-05-17
Cool to see people take us up on the Summer of blogging coupon. $1/month full blog hosting! I'm biased but it's really a great value.
2023-05-17
Took some time this week to unravel the plumbing in Micro.blog with how blogs are published and feeds refreshed. At least for my account, it's making a dramatic improvement to timeline updates and cross-posting performance.
2023-05-17
There's a scheduled YouTube event for the Micro Camp live stream on Friday. We'll link it again later, but for folks signed into YouTube you can also click the "Notify me" button. It looks like this:
I missed that the videos from FediForum have been posted. Here’s the video of my demo of how Micro.blog works with the fediverse: youtu.be/2nKy-LKsS...
2023-05-18
Haven't been able to finish any books lately. Probably way behind where I was for reading goals last year. Not sure if I'm working too much or just no books are quite the right fit. 📚
2023-05-18
We'll have some door prizes for Micro Camp attendees. A license to MarsEdit, gift cards for movies, journals, coffee, and tea. 🎟️
2023-05-18
Retrobatch from Flying Meat has been really useful while making a slideshow for Micro Camp. I first wrote a script to download the A Day in the Life photo challenge, then Retrobatch resizes them all and adds the username (from the filename) at the bottom.
Episode 558 of Core Int is out with a discussion leading up to Micro Camp. The latest news on the schedule, why I'm nervous about preparing for it, and then speculation about Apple's headset rumors.
2023-05-18
We're a couple hours away from the start of Micro Camp 2023! Details at micro.camp. (By the way, the web site is just a Micro.blog-hosted blog with a custom HTML home page.)
2023-05-19
Getting ready for Micro Camp so of course the lawn care service folks just showed up in the front yard with their loud lawnmowers. I had to smile. Kind of takes the pressure off when things are mostly outside my control.
2023-05-19
Thanks everyone who joined us for the first day of Micro Camp. I loved talking to Om Malik and hope it gave everyone something to think about. Tomorrow we wrap up with 4 sessions from the community and the State of the Platform panel.
2023-05-20
Kind of stunned by the Heat stealing both games in Boston. I like this Celtics team (of course rooting for Derrick White always) but this is going to be tough. 🏀
2023-05-20
Ben Werdmuller links to a great thread by Christina Warren. I get the distrust of big social media, but having e.g. Instagram or Tumblr adopt an open protocol would be amazing. Thinking otherwise would be like being unhappy if Twitter brought back RSS feeds. It's only a good thing!
2023-05-20
We're going live in an hour for Micro Camp day 2, featuring sessions by Chris Campbell, Anna Havron, Mandaris Moore, and Miraz Jordan. Watch at micro.camp or on YouTube.
2023-05-20
Great discount on MarsEdit today! From Daniel Jalkut:
I usually only offer discounts of 10% or 20%, but in celebration of Micro.camp 2023 I’m offering a 50% discount on MarsEdit. Use this link and see the 50% discount when you continue to checkout: redsweater.com/store/
2023-05-21
Posted links for all of today's videos on micro.camp. Thanks again to our Micro Camp presenters! I still need to edit the keynote so that will go up on Monday.
2023-05-21
We shipped Micro.blog 1.7 for Android, available on Google Play. This syncs up the release with the features from the new iOS version. Lots of new stuff, like managing posts, uploads, username auto-complete, and external blogs.
2023-05-21
Did not expect to be installing a new version of Movable Type on EC2 this morning for testing, but here we are. Looks about the same as it did a decade ago. Nice to see it still works and is supported, though.
2023-05-21
One reason web development appeals to me is that while it can be complicated, it doesn't have to be. You can build for the web like it's 1995. For native apps, the complexity is required with tools, code signing, stores. Thinking about this as I wait for my code to be crunched and uploaded to Apple.
2023-05-21
San Antonio Museum of Art, raining. Used to be the Lone Star Brewing building.
