New web analytics tool from @vincent looks like a nice fit for blogs and small web sites: tinylytics.
I recorded a very short (12 seconds!) video on YouTube showing the new toggle in Micro.blog to quickly show just photo uploads or video or audio. It appears for Micro.blog Premium subscribers because that's where we support video hosting and podcasting.
Only just occurred to me that Apple Vision would've been a great product to introduce at the height of the pandemic. Now, we want to reconnect in person, not hide away behind screens.
Since ditching cable years ago, I feel like we've tried everything... Sling, PlayStation TV, Hulu + Live TV, even back to cable streaming with Spectrum TV. New favorite: YouTube TV. Only downside is no regional sports networks. Need a better over-the-air antenna for Spurs games.
Great game. Congrats to the Nuggets. And an impressive postseason for this underestimated Heat team too. Now just 10 days until the NBA Draft. 🏀
I posted a video to YouTube to demo Micro.blog's new reading goals interface on the web. By default it's private just for you, whether you want to read 2 books or 20. Or none! No pressure.
Federico Viticci got me with the Don Draper quote for his Vision Pro story. One of my favorite scenes in television, and a quote I used in my book too. Federico goes on:
I’m convinced that Vision Pro and the visionOS platform are a watershed moment in the arc of personal computing. After trying it, I came away reflecting that we’ll eventually think of software before spatial computing, and after it.
I still think it will be decades before this technology is usable and affordable in more AR-style glasses. But it is exciting to read everyone's hands-on experience of the future.
Watched the BlackBerry movie and enjoyed it. Relevant for today too: it's not a good idea to bet against Apple. Vision Pro is still quite different than every previous Apple product, though… Trying to perfect a niche device category vs. improving a mainstream device that people already want.
Despite the chaos at Twitter this year, I'm a little surprised that after paying Twitter for API access for the last couple months my app was still suspended. Just can't trust big ad-based platforms.
High of 101° today in Austin. It's gonna be one of those summers, huh? Gotta get away somewhere.
Rolled out changes to the default uploaded filenames in Micro.blog. This is the beginning of the end to the random filenames, although it still falls back on those for many situations.
Another Brandon Sanderson book has arrived! Secret project #2: Frugal Wizard's Handbook. Love the illustrations in the margins. I started this on e-book last month but will finish with the print version.
There's a new Core Intuition out. We talk more about last week's WWDC, debate whether Apple is using "AI", revisit Siri, and skim over some of the other session topics.
It has been too long since we've updated the emoji in Micro.blog. Via @news, added a few new ones that were in the queue, hopefully can do more this year:
Added two new emoji to Discover: 🧘 for meditation and 🎭 for theater. Also added 🏳️⚧️ to LGBTQ+ in addition to 🏳️🌈.
Hanging out at Civil Goat Coffee with my daughter. Working a bit while she reads. ☕️
Across the Spider-Verse was amazing. Love the art in these movies so much. I wish all comics adaptations were like this. 🍿
Q*bert at Cidercade. 🕹️
Kayaking.
