Manton Reece

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Spurs had a great, much-needed win last night. Highlights: Lonnie’s dunk and DeMar’s game-winner. I know it’s silly but I’m in a much better mood in the morning when sports goes my way the night before. Still need to string together a few wins to stay in the playoff race. 🏀

→ 12:00 PM, Apr 12

Along with dealing with fallout from server stability problems last week, I’ve been sneaking in some performance improvements and bug fixes. Please continue to report issues if you run into problems. (I see everything even if I sometimes get behind on replying.)

→ 4:54 PM, Apr 11

Finished reading The Sword of Kaigen by M. L. Wang. Halfway through this turned into a different (and even better) story than I was expecting. Surprising and tragic and very good. 📚

→ 4:52 PM, Apr 10

Upgraded another Micro.blog server today. Still investigating and tweaking a few things.

→ 3:30 PM, Apr 10

We published episode 459 of @coreint, talking about vaccine appointment web sites, the conflict in some of Apple’s services that are only partly a force for good, and more.

→ 1:04 PM, Apr 10

Gluon for Android (the latest beta) now supports push notifications when you’re @-mentioned on Micro.blog. Thanks @vincent! I was just testing this on my Android phone and it’s great to see in action. (Works on iOS too.)

→ 12:54 PM, Apr 8

I’ll be upgrading one of the Micro.blog servers this morning. There shouldn’t be any downtime. A little closer to everything getting back on track.

→ 10:03 AM, Apr 8

Sorry for the Micro.blog flakiness today. I’ve resolved a few issues, and push notifications are now working again. I will continue to monitor the servers and have some additional improvements for tomorrow. Thanks!

→ 10:55 PM, Apr 7

It’s time for Micro Monday episode 100! I really enjoyed talking with @patrickrhone and @jean on the podcast about where we are with the community and what more we can work on.

→ 4:09 PM, Apr 5

I picked Baylor to make the championship game (and win it) but pretty much nothing else in my NCAA bracket went right this year. Meanwhile, the NBA season feels like a sprint to the playoffs… The west play-in tournament is going to be tough. 🏀

→ 7:42 PM, Apr 3

Wait, they put Iron Giant in the new Space Jam? Actually looking forward to this now that I’ve seen the trailer. Nice that there’s some 2D animation in it, too.

→ 2:54 PM, Apr 3

Carvana has the best customer support. Can’t think of any company that does something at their scale and is as helpful. Maybe Apple? We’ve been juggling cars again and super happy not to deal with traditional dealerships.

→ 11:36 AM, Apr 3

On Core Intuition 458, @danielpunkass and I talk about WWDC returning as an online conference, and whether Apple’s priorities and the spirit of the company have changed since Think Different.

→ 2:48 PM, Apr 2

Excited for the proposed Amtrak expansion (PDF). Dallas to Houston and LA to Vegas seem long overdue. More would be even better, but these investments (plus the private trains like Brightline) can only help.

→ 10:12 AM, Apr 1

I’ve had the Chauvin trial testimony on in the background as I work, off and on. The multiple videos, camera angles, 911 call audio, witnesses talking about the rising level of distress on the scene… It all paints a vivid and overwhelming picture. Heartbreaking.

→ 5:13 PM, Mar 30

This week’s Micro Monday guest is @rom. From the show notes:

…an avid photographer, and especially enjoys sharing food photos. He shares a lot of photos on Flickr, and we talk a bit about how online communities evolve.

→ 12:52 PM, Mar 29

My usual morning routine: check email, @-mentions, and turn on CNN for a few minutes while eating breakfast. Watching the George Floyd family and lawyers take a knee for 8:46 outside the courthouse… A powerful statement. 8 minutes is a long time.

→ 9:24 AM, Mar 29

Finished reading: Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson. Now only have Rythm of War as the last published Stormlight Archive book to read. I bought it already but going to detour into some other books first and save it for later. 📚

→ 9:45 PM, Mar 28

Congrats to @brentsimmons, @vincode, and the other contributors helping ship NetNewsWire 6. It’s a big update.

→ 6:39 PM, Mar 28

Reading break outside in between deploying server fixes.

→ 5:57 PM, Mar 28

It’s always 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Fixing some new bugs from yesterday’s publishing and redirects feature deploy.

→ 11:46 AM, Mar 28

Micro.blog redirects
I rolled out several improvements to Micro.blog today. I’ve been working on a long-term plan to significantly improve publishing performance for blog posts, and the first part of that is live now. It may not be immediately noticeably but it will start to make a difference for some parts of the publishing workflow behind the scenes. (And in the best case, some things will already be faster.)

I also finished better support for redirecting URLs in hosted blogs. This cleans up some clunkiness in the old implementation:
- When you create a page where the text content is just a plain URL, Micro.blog will better redirect to that URL without loading any of the design layout for your blog. This eliminates the flicker or partial page load you could see previously in some themes.
- There is now a separate “New Redirect” button under Pages on the web. This lets you set up extra redirects, for example old URLs when migrating from a previous blog platform. These redirects are only checked when a page does not already exist on your blog.
Note that when using the import feature of Micro.blog — from WordPress, Ghost, Medium, or Tumblr — Micro.blog tries to automatically create redirects to preserve your old URLs. It also redirects common RSS feed URLs. It does not list these special redirects on the Pages screen.

Thanks everyone for using Micro.blog! We’ve seen a lot of new interest this week with the release of Ulysses. More improvements on the way.
→ 3:41 PM, Mar 27

On Core Intuition 457, we celebrate Ulysses shipping with support for Micro.blog, then talk about competition and follow up on Apple’s relationship with developers.

→ 7:48 PM, Mar 26

Noticed that a couple supporting services for Micro.blog have changed since the last update to our privacy policy, so I just edited it. You own your content, of course, and we try to store as little private data as possible. Probably still room to improve how we write about this.

→ 11:08 AM, Mar 25

Finished reading: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson 📚

→ 8:28 PM, Mar 24

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