Half Price Books flagship store in Dallas. 📚

For folks who have been using Micro.blog bookmarks… First of all, thanks! I’m curious: do we need a workflow for tracking “unread” or “read” articles? I’ve been wondering if we could do something clever so you could “tag” an article as read, maybe with an emoji or special tag.

Empty apartment with built-in bookshelves, just one potential future. We’ve been thinking about downsizing ever since all the kids moved out. Change is hard, though.

Finished reading: Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan. This was great. Really well paced, seems like a perfect setup for the series. First of six books. 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9781101965344

Writing some new web page text and maybe it’s early in the morning or maybe I watched too much of the news already today, but when I tried to type “independent” I misspelled it and it auto-corrected to “indictment”.

Wasn’t expecting this kind of profound wisdom from the apartment sales guy today: “The world is too big to stay in one place.”

When the coffee shop recognizes me and remembers my regular order, it’s gonna be a good day. ☕️

Matilda at Zilker Hillside Theater. 🎭

If you’ve been fascinated with the Worldcoin Orb, but not sure how to feel about it, check out Molly White’s comprehensive write-up:

"Having my eyeballs scanned by a shiny chrome orb so I can someday receive cryptocurrency disbursements because artificial intelligence has stolen my job sounds like something from the pages of a half-baked sci-fi novel. It also sounds like the kind of operation that venture capitalists would value at over a billion dollars."

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of

Over the last couple years, I’ve gone from mostly reading books on a Kindle (Paperwhite), to only on the iPad Mini, and now back to the Kindle (basic 6-inch). Actually prefer the smallest screen.

Recorded another very short screencast to show the latest Micro.blog for macOS update. Less than a minute long. It’s here on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjBGikqgwA

Didn’t realize how exhausted I was toward the end of the week. Yesterday shipped new features, then took a nap after dinner, then read, then had a full night’s sleep. Up early and worked on the Mac app, shipping the 3.0.1 bug fix update. Feel back on schedule now.

Bookmark tags for Micro.blog Premium https://www.manton.org/2023/07/28/bookmark-tags-for.html

At this point I just laugh when Xcode tells me WebView has been deprecated since macOS 10.14. I know! I could set aside a week to rewrite code that works, or wait until it’s removed from macOS, which I’m skeptical will ever happen. (Haven’t updated to Sonoma yet, though…)

Finished reading: Dungeons & Dragons: The Druid’s Call by E. K. Johnston. I think I was drawn to these prequels because of the fond memories I have of reading Dragonlance back in the day. 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9780593598160

This time we got him! 😜 New surprise indictment:

"According to the court filing, Trump employees attempted to delete security footage at the Florida resort and one said “the boss” wanted a server deleted."

🇺🇸

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-2020-election-probe/index.html

This week’s episode of Core Intuition is up! We talk about X.

https://coreint.org/2023/07/episode-566-you-could-be-one-of-those-people/

Going to bump to version 3.0 for the update to Micro.blog for macOS tomorrow. I think it’s warranted with the new bookmarks stuff, but also because the last version was 2.9.1 and I don’t believe in .10 versions. (It’s hard to explain… Somewhere in the Core Intuition back catalog we talk about this.)

Listening to What Was I Made For?, by Billie Eilish. Went to see Barbie a couple days ago and still thinking about it a little. Really good. 🎶

Threads appears to count every character in a URL as part of the 500 characters. A little surprising because I’m used to either Micro.blog (with inline links so no URL counts) or Twitter and Mastodon (with all URLs counting as a fixed size).