As I think about how to add tags to bookmarks in Micro.blog, I've been drawing inspiration from services like Pinboard but also my own (now sadly defunct) Mac app Clipstart. This video demo was from way back in 2009… I think the tagging UI is still really good.
I still believe we should welcome Threads to the fediverse, but the news that ActivityPub seems far off has soured my experience posting manually to Threads from my microblog. They grew too big, too quickly. Meanwhile, sounds like Tumblr's ActivityPub effort has also stalled.
Power in the house went out. Summer in Texas is never a great time for this. Hopefully not long, lots of worker trucks in the neighborhood trimming trees and scheduled maintenance on the meters. Getting almost no signal on Verizon, so had to go to the coffee shop for a while to work. ☕️
Major addition to bookmarks in Micro.blog is coming along really well. Likely will ship next week. 🏷️
Reminder that it's still summer, which means we're still offering blog hosting for only $1/month to new folks who join Micro.blog. There's no easier way to blog that's as full-featured and affordable. Feel free to share the link to anyone who might benefit from it! ☀️
Thinking about ActivityPub made me wonder what Tumblr has been working on, so I clicked around over there for a bit. I missed that Tumblr has live video now, with tipping in "diamonds"? Seems a little out of place with the rest of the platform.
Dusted off the old Drobo, which hasn't been plugged in for a year. A little surprised it still seems to work. Don't feel great about investing in a dead product, but might get another drive to put in it anyway.
A new episode of Core Intuition is out. We talk about Apple's threat to withhold iMessage from the UK, what is acceptable for public surveillance, and the larger issue of powerful tech companies leveraging their size for good and bad.
Finished reading: The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding. Read the first half of this a few months ago and then took a break before picking it up again. Really gets going in the second half. Excellent. 📚
Spent a few hours yesterday trying to get Micro.blog to work better with Calckey (now Firefish). Made progress but not enough. ActivityPub remains extremely difficult to debug without reading the source code for other projects.
Occasionally I go looking for new domains and I'm always annoyed with all the new TLDs that Amazon has reserved that they don't allow anyone else to use: .book, .read, .like, and others. They've been sitting on these for years. It's like domain squatting at a massive scale.
The second FediForum has been announced, coming up in September. I really enjoyed the discussions at the last event and plan to attend this next one. They also have the video for the quick demo I did of Micro.blog and how it interacts with Mastodon.
