For technical folks who are interested in the plumbing of the social web, @snarfed has a great feature grid that compares IndieWeb, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and Nostr.
The photo challenge grid for Micro.blog is so cool right now. Lots of green for today ("forest") and orange for yesterday (actually "orange"). Thanks everyone who is participating!
Love this new bookstore + coffee shop in Austin, First Light Books. Lots of thoughtful touches like the laptop-free book nooks for reading.
So many things are happening right now. Car, house, work. Change starts slowly but once momentum hits, it's kind of unstoppable.
Manuel Moreale follows up with some thoughts after interviewing me for his People and Blogs series:
That's one of the main advantages of owning your place on the web: you can bend it and shape it to do exactly what you need it to do.
I love even the small tweaks we can make to our own sites. Having control over your site helps it fit your words and photos in a way that just isn't possible when plugging content into the cookie-cutter mainstream social media platforms.
We're ramping up the TestFlight betas again for Micro.blog 3.2 with bookmark tags. The UI is still evolving. We'll iterate quickly from here and get the final release out pretty soon.
Can't even calculate the number of hours and probably days I've lost because I cheapened out when I bought my MacBook Pro with too small of a hard drive. Still really like this computer (16-inch Intel) and don't want the hassle of upgrading it just for more space.
Apple's sending emails about getting apps ready for the Vision Pro App Store. Folks in the Apple dev community won't like this, but I think Vision Pro will be a bust in the short term. Only develop for it for fun, not for a market. I'll revisit it in 10 years when the tech catches up to the dream.
Another new Micro.blog 3.2 beta is out for TestFlight. @vincent is tweaking the tags design and it's looking really nice. I think we can probably ship this to everyone next week. And it's a great time to try bookmarks and tagging in Micro.blog Premium if you haven't upgraded yet.
To follow up on some of the replies I'm getting about my hard drive, my philosophy is that nearly everything should be in one place. Less chance you will lose something important. Backups are simpler. Work anywhere. Same goes for what I post on the web: everything is on my blog.
More good advice from Manuel Moreale:
Please, for the love of all things web-related, if you decide to do anything online, get yourself a domain name.
We try to make this easy in Micro.blog, but it should be even easier. I'd like to spend some more time on it this year, so that transferring or configuring custom domains is effortless.
Fascinating fallout happening in the JavaScript vs. TypeScript debate. In my experience, changing a language rarely brings the productivity gains you were hoping for.
Starting to get the new Slack redesign in one of my workspaces but not others. I'm fine with the UI changes, but it's jarring the way they roll these out so they don't apply everywhere in the app.
App Store Connect is barely holding on today. Errors and more errors. Apparently this is the day I complain about other people's software while I try to fix my own.
A couple people have read between the lines of my recent posts and wondered what is going on with my life. Short answer: we are selling our house of 17 16 years in northwest Austin and renting a place closer into town. Downsizing is hard. Feels like the right time for a major change. 🏡
The capitol and downtown buildings over yonder, reflecting in the windows. Eighth day of the Micro.blog photo challenge.
When the threads-api project was announced, it was so tempting to use it but I knew it would be too fragile relying on undocumented APIs. Sure enough, Meta has sent them a cease and desist letter and the project is now shut down. Trust in ad-based platforms will always get you burned.
24 years ago, Traci and I went to Europe with a rail pass and hardly any money or plans. We worked remotely: her as a contractor for Apple and me at a small Mac dev shop. Last week I rediscovered some emails and postcards we sent while traveling and I decided to put them together as a web page.
Over the weekend while I was working on my Letters from Europe page, I integrated footnotes using the Barefoot library. Completely forgot that @jsonbecker had already created a Bigfoot.js plug-in for Micro.blog. Anyway, now there are more plug-in options for footnotes!
