New email newsletter templates https://www.manton.org/2023/05/31/new-email-newsletter.html

Thanks, I’ll get this fixed today. For completeness, here’s the link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/

This article in Forbes has some new (to me) details on the creation of Nostr.

Trying audiobooks in Spotify for the first time. I’d like to see some UI tweaks for books, like less emphasis on chapters (books are not albums) and showing the time remaining with the speed taken into account.

Launching new features tomorrow. Going to lay low this afternoon instead of deploying major changes near the end of the day, which I’m sure I would regret.

Spilled a glass of water all over my MacBook keyboard. So that’s how my morning is going. Seems okay so far.

Working on improvements to email newsletters in Micro.blog. I’d like to split out the editing of queued newsletters to instead have a separate per-newsletter “intro” text, with the rest of the email not editable. Does that cause a problem for anyone? Will allow more flexibility in other ways.

Love this from Matt Mullenweg. It’s what we believe at Micro.blog, too.

"…it’s not about how many views you have, how many likes, trying to max all your stats… sometimes a single connection to another human is all that matters."

Happy 20th to WordPress. Heck of an achievement.

Did my daughter come to visit this weekend to see us, or to take the Switch and Tears of the Kingdom back to her apartment? Who can know. Anyway, we’re busting out the N64 and Ocarina of Time… As soon as we get an RCA → HDMI adapter.

I’m testing Calckey to improve compatibility with Micro.blog. Some of the UI is quite busy and not for me, but I love how they are showing ActivityPub usernames, with the profile photo and dimmed domain name. Might borrow this.

I may roll it out this week. Seems to be working pretty well for me.

Went to pay our respects to my uncle, for Memorial Day. Tomorrow would’ve been his birthday too. 🇺🇸

Love seeing all the “Where have I been?” posts. I blogged it on a whim and it’s so much more interesting to see the places other folks have gone. I also just realized I left Alaska off! Will edit.

Tinkering with something in Go this morning. Always felt like it would be a good language to know more about, and now finally have a real need.

Where have I been https://www.manton.org/2023/05/28/where-have-i.html

Just watched way too many replays and commentary on the final seconds of Celtics/Heat. Another memorable game 6 in Miami. Bring on game 7! 🏀

Listened to a couple hours of the Texas house debating impeachment against our corrupt attorney general. Kind of shocked to hear the final vote, overwhelmingly for the articles. Paxton is removed from office pending the trial. Wow. 🇺🇸

Seems like most people on Bluesky are looking for a Twitter clone and haven’t thought about decentralization. I do wonder how AT Protocol with presumably a small number of Big Graph Services will handle banning users vs. hiding through moderation filters. Fewer big servers means less flexibility to ban, potentially. (Haven’t been able to load the Habla post yet.)

Seems unlikely that we’ll end up with a single unified social web platform. I like Mastodon’s focus on communities. I like Bluesky’s thinking on distributed moderation. I like the IndieWeb’s principles of ownership. I like Nostr’s private messaging. How will we tie all of this together? Blogs.

This week Bluesky rolled out their custom timeline feeds. Pretty interesting approach. However, I’m going to disable automatic cross-posting from my blog to Bluesky for a while… Bluesky feels so much like Twitter that it has been too distracting for me. Will check back in later.