Trying out Adobe Podcast Studio. Some good ideas in this. We're still using Logic to edit @coreint, but better tools (with a sprinkling of AI) should be able to do at least 90% of what we currently do manually.
John Voorhees has a good section in his article about the Apple antitrust lawsuit and relevant market. I wish the case was more focused on the App Store, because from a dev perspective the market is really people who buy phones and apps. Apple dominates that.
Great article from Ben Thompson today on the Apple antitrust case:
…the Epic case may have shown that Apple’s policies around the App Store were (mostly) legal, but that didn’t mean they were right; now the DOJ, looking for another point of vulnerability, is trying to make the case that Apple’s right approach in delivering an integrated experience is in fact illegal.
He ties things together really well, especially: while the case isn't about the App Store, the frustrations with the App Store contributed to the environment in which legal action against Apple more broadly was necessary.
Backed How Comics Were Made. Only a couple days left on Kickstarter. I have a lot of books about art, comics, and animation especially, but I need more.
Still a lot of bluebonnets everywhere in Austin.
Finally catching up on the Decoder podcast interview with Jay Graber. Really inspired to get back to some Bluesky-related features. Feels like we’re only halfway there.
Taking a little time this morning to improve the plumbing for Bluesky. Getting closer to a system that can seamlessly mix posts and replies from multiple networks. I think this will be a unique strength of Micro.blog compared to other platforms.
Drove by this old gas station on Lamar a few weeks ago. Closed, junk everywhere, fence around the lot, clearly not long for this world. It had such a cool run-down look I wanted to snap a photo, but I was in my car and couldn't. Drove by today and it has already been demolished.
Colin Devroe has a new interview with me about all things Micro.blog. Interesting to compare what has changed and stayed the same since the last time I talked to Colin a few years ago.
Hot take on so-called white-collar crime, like the Sam Bankman-Fried sentence: 25 years is too long. I also thought Elizabeth Holmes was unfairly sentenced. Everyone wants a villain but real life isn't that simple.
April is just around the corner and we're doing another Micro.blog photo challenge! There will be daily prompts to help inspire posting a photo each day, and a collection so you can see everything together. Check out the details here.
ShareOpenly is a cool new post sharing option from Ben Werdmuller that works with Mastodon, Micro.blog, Bluesky, Threads, and other services. Good to have platform-agnostic sharing.
Primary database server hitting 75% disk space usage, time to revisit the long-term plan for scaling that part of the platform. Would prefer to shard some of the data and I had built the tables to allow that.
OpenAI’s unreleased voice engine is too good:
…uses text input and a single 15-second audio sample to generate natural-sounding speech that closely resembles the original speaker.
I’m generally optimistic about AI’s potential in tools to help humans, but we are clearly going to need more laws around this.
Core Int 593: California's Pretty Nice. WWDC 2024 dates are announced, thinking about our trip plans, and whether this is the peak of Apple's growth and success.
The last few Spurs games have been so good. First time they've won three in a row all season. Figuring out how to finish games, and Wemby looking great. Last night with an OT win despite NY's Brunson putting up 61 points. 🏀
Bluesky mentions in Micro.blog
Some folks on Micro.blog who also actively use Bluesky have noticed something new we've been rolling out over the last couple of days: Micro.blog will now look for replies on Bluesky to your blog posts, bringing them into the Micro.blog timeline. This transforms Micro.blog into a base platform to manage even more of your social interactions.
How does it work in practice? Here is the basic flow:
- Post to your blog. With Bluesky cross-posting enabled, Micro.blog will automatically copy your post to Bluesky.
- Someone on Bluesky sees your blog post and replies to your post. Their reply is copied to Micro.blog, showing up in the timeline and in the Mentions section just like replies from Micro.blog and Mastodon.
- Now you reply to the Bluesky post directly within Micro.blog. Micro.blog copies your reply back to Bluesky seamlessly.
Micro.blog is effectively a universal timeline for not just Micro.blog but also ActivityPub, Bluesky, and other services. We want to make the web a little better by encouraging people to post to their own blog while still being connected to friends. That means embracing open platforms wherever they are.
Micro.blog's timeline is not limited to just Micro.blog accounts. You can follow blogs with a domain name, Bluesky users, Threads users, and of course Mastodon users. Micro.blog has always been a sort of mashup of blogs and social networks, and as the post-Twitter world starts to take shape, you can expect Micro.blog to also become a more powerful feed reader.
It's still early days for the next phase of the social web. I'm going to keep working on this, improving our support for Bluesky, including the eventual push toward making Micro.blog a personal data server with the AT Protocol. We're not quite there yet but we're getting closer.
Wicked is an all-time favorite. Haven’t seen it in years and forgot a few details that you miss on the soundtrack. Amazing.
