Working this morning at Lazarus on Airport. ☕️
If I've learned nothing else managing servers, it's that you don't deploy changes in the evening, no matter how tempting it is to get something live right away, no matter how minor or well-tested a change it is. Morning is best. All day to test more, to get feedback, and to notice unforeseen quirks.
Finally saw The Holdovers. Really enjoyed it. 🍿
Time for an upgrade. Intel to M3.
David Pierce at The Verge writing about Google Podcasts going away and Google’s pattern of abandoning their own apps:
It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat features, immediately seems to forget it exists…
Coming back from lunch, saw a totally orange Cybertruck and in a weird way it actually looked better than the default color. If you’re going to be different, might as well lean into it.
After five years with the Touch Bar, kind of strange to get used to a real function key row again. A good strange, of course.
Working on an update to Micro.blog for macOS. Anyone have any Mac-specific gripes that need attention?
Got a lot of good feedback yesterday about what should be prioritized for Micro.blog for macOS. I can't get to everything, but this next release is shaping up to be very nice. One thing: much better keyboard navigation. I've been reserving command-R for years now and finally get to use it.
Good post from @mathowie@xoxo.zone about his ideal blogging platform. The part about integrating with other systems is essentially how Micro.blog works, but our text editor is where Micro.blog falls short for some people. Working on that.
Disney Imagineering is at the top of their game right now. Watching this YouTube video of new animatronics for the redesigned Splash Mountain → Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
No invite to WWDC for me this year. Still hoping to get out to San Jose for a couple days. We talk more about WWDC (and my new MacBook Pro) on Core Intuition 594, just posted.
Micro.blog 3.2 for macOS
Lots of improvements in this release. Full release notes:
- Added new logs window to show current blog publishing status and other errors.
- Added keyboard navigation for the timeline. Up and down arrows to select posts, return key to view conversation, and command-R to reply.
- Added View menu → Go to @username command to show your profile.
- Added keyboard shortcut command-[ for back button.
- Added right-click option to delete selected upload.
- Added "..." button for selected books in a bookshelf, same options as right-click.
- Improved book cover caching.
- Improved icons and other little layout fixes.
- Fixed Markdown header color when writing a blog post.
Here's a screenshot of the new logs window:
Perhaps the biggest change is finally some keyboard navigation for the timeline. Use the up and down arrow keys to select posts, the return key to view a conversation, and command-R to reply to a post.
I’m a day late for the Micro.blog photo challenge word “foliage”, but this was a nice view this morning. 🌳
"Most important things in life are a hassle. If life's hassles disappeared, you'd want them back." — Hayao Miyazaki
I'm doing another editing pass of Indie Microblogging. Changing the page size and running a test printing soon to see how it feels in hardcover instead of paperback. I know it's ridiculous that it has taken so long. New goal is to have it shipped by not-yet-announced Micro Camp 2024.
Nice new blogroll from Molly White. I love this part of the web... Sharing links to interesting blogs, discovering new writers, seeing how people shape their space on the web. That's what it's about.
I'm the guest on episode 7 of the Decentered podcast! This was a really fun discussion. We talk about the early days of Micro.blog, of course the fediverse, Mastodon, Bluesky, ActivityPub, the IndieWeb, how Micro.blog encourages blogging, and where things are going.
Slow afternoon. Time for some database server housekeeping.
Interesting article in The New York Times about training AI. The "cut corners" in the title is too loaded, and some of it seems a bit overblown:
Their situation is urgent. Tech companies could run through the high-quality data on the internet as soon as 2026, according to Epoch, a research institute.
Fair use is murky. Reproducing long documents word for word isn't right. But a hypothetical C-3PO should be able to read a book or watch a video. I think we'll need to clarify what is okay in training vs. what is okay when under human command.
Finished reading: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Hadn’t read this in about twenty years and I wondered if it would be as good as I remembered. It was. 📚
Watching this video on Twitter X of Elon Musk talking about multiplanetary human life... Makes me sad all over again that he ever bought Twitter. Not just for all the tech and social reasons, but also because of the distraction away from the mission of SpaceX, and related brand erosion.
The finale for Curb Your Enthusiasm was just right. Gonna miss that show but it was a good time to wrap it up. Last few seasons have been some of the best. 📺
