Another road trip day. Stopped for coffee in Baton Rouge. ☕️
Another road trip day. Stopped for coffee in Baton Rouge. ☕️
Our WWDC episode of @coreint is up.
Happy that last night’s maintenance went smoothly — about twice as fast as expected. I had disabled photo upload during the downtime to minimize confusion. Up early, dropped the car off for service, then picked up coffee at Lamppost and walked back home. ☕️
Just a reminder if you missed the post from @news: we need to take down parts of Micro.blog for maintenance in about an hour. Thanks for your patience! Will post an update here when everything is back online.
I’ve watched a half dozen WWDC sessions and learned a lot. Great work Apple. But now I’m kind of burned out and getting back to web things I can ship on my own schedule. If this was an in-person WWDC, I’d probably be flying home today.
I’ve been doing a bunch of JavaScript and CSS this week and wow, browsers have come a long way. Sometimes I still code as if it’s the 2001 web, not 2021.
Watched a few WWDC sessions this morning. Shortcuts for Mac looks excellent. Also interesting that “almost the entire Mac app” for Shortcuts was written with SwiftUI. That sounds like it’ll be the path forward for future versions of Micro.blog.
Maybe my opinion will change after the WWDC State of the Union, but right now I’m most interested in tinkering with Shortcuts for Mac and wish it was available as a standalone download. I’m grabbing Xcode but may wait on the OS betas.
Universal Control is blowing my mind a little. Now that I have a new iPad, I’ve been meaning to try Sidecar, and this looks like a great step forward for juggling multiple devices.
Nice shout-out to Ferrite in the iPad multitasking demo at WWDC. 🎙
Apple Maps update looks great. I default to Google Maps, but gotta give Apple credit for sticking with Maps and improving it each year. (Also a good example of where big companies and big data are useful… Wish they’d focus more on those problems and not Weather, etc.)
Looking forward to WWDC but don’t really have any predictions. I’d like to see more improvements to Mac Catalyst. I’m going to keep my 16-inch MacBook Pro another 1-2 years so don’t really need hardware announcements either.
We added a secret Micro.blog pin for WWDC today! Just mention “WWDC” in a blog post this week to unlock it.
Afternoon road trip today, stopped in Fredericksburg on the way back.
Dragon’s Lair at Cidercade. The animation is just how I remembered it but it’s even more fun on free play. 🕹
Some great stuff in this LaMarcus Aldridge interview:
I always thought of playing for the Mavericks or the Spurs so to actually get to the Spurs and be a part of that dynasty of those three guys, I definitely enjoyed my time. We were right there if Kawhi doesn’t go down.
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First new blog post from @marco in a while is a great one:
It isn’t the App Store that has enabled all of the commerce on iOS — it’s the entire world of computing and modern society, created by a symbiotic ecosystem in which Apple played one part alongside many others.
I enabled bookshelves in Micro.blog for everyone this week. There is more tinkering I can do, but I think as-is it’s already useful for anyone reading and blogging about books. It’s also now possible to add new books that can’t be found via search.
On Core Intuition 466, @danielpunkass and I respond to feedback about our Apple vs. Epic take, then get into thoughts about next week’s WWDC. We’ve also decided to cut our sponsorship price in half. It hasn’t changed in years and seemed out of sync with the podcast market now.
Project Hail Mary arrived this week. Currently reading Crooked Kingdom to wrap up the Shadow and Bone books, then we’ll see what looks good next in the book queue. 📚
I like how Micro.blog stacks up against Twitter’s subscription. $5: Micro.blog hosting, photos, use your own domain name, categories, bookmarks, themes, CSS, plug-ins, bookshelves, standalone pages, native apps, open APIs. $3: undo tweet, thread viewer, free Twitter features.
Thanks to @stett for updating the “Marfa dark mode” plug-in for Micro.blog with a better color palette and other improvements. You can install it or update to the latest version under the Plug-ins section of Micro.blog.
I’ve finally been supplementing all the books I buy with also checking out e-books from the library. I love it, except I need to get used to the timing of everything… I was 2/3 of the way through A Man Called Ove when my loan expired. Back into the month-long hold queue. 📚
Finished reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab. Unlike anything I’ve read before. Beautiful. There’s never enough time. 📚
We have a placeholder web site for Micro Camp. There’s an email form if you want to get notified as we get the conference details worked out.