Can’t even calculate the number of hours and probably days I’ve lost because I cheapened out when I bought my MacBook Pro with too small of a hard drive. Still really like this computer (16-inch Intel) and don’t want the hassle of upgrading it just for more space.
We’re ramping up the TestFlight betas again for Micro.blog 3.2 with bookmark tags. The UI is still evolving. We’ll iterate quickly from here and get the final release out pretty soon.
Manuel Moreale follows up with some thoughts after interviewing me for his People and Blogs series:
"That’s one of the main advantages of owning your place on the web: you can bend it and shape it to do exactly what you need it to do."
I love even the small tweaks we can make to our own sites. Having control over your site helps it fit your words and photos in a way that just isn’t possible when plugging content into the cookie-cutter mainstream social media platforms.
So many things are happening right now. Car, house, work. Change starts slowly but once momentum hits, it’s kind of unstoppable.
Love this new bookstore + coffee shop in Austin, First Light Books. Lots of thoughtful touches like the laptop-free book nooks for reading.
The photo challenge grid for Micro.blog is so cool right now. Lots of green for today (“forest”) and orange for yesterday (actually “orange”). Thanks everyone who is participating!
For technical folks who are interested in the plumbing of the social web, @snarfed has a great feature grid that compares IndieWeb, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and Nostr.
https://micro.blog/snarfed https://snarfed.org/2023-09-04_50856
Day 2 of the Micro.blog photo challenge: buildup.
First day of the Micro.blog photo challenge: abstract.
Found some old postcards and emails we sent from Europe in 1999 and they are absolute gold. May try to put some of them online as an archive if I get permission from @traci. Here’s a highlight from traveling before wi-fi existed:
"We won’t be connecting the PowerBook to the Internet again until we get to the next city, probably, but we should be checking email the rest of the week anyway. There’s a restaurant here that gives free Internet access when you order a dinner, which should be nice if it’s true."
Nice blog post from Allen Pike about link formatting. I’d add that overthinking SEO is a good way to lose your way. Design links for readers and the rest will take care of itself.
After owning a house for 20+ years, submitting a rental application is a nerve-racking process. Don’t usually have this kind of fear of denial.
Manuel Moreale has started a new People and Blogs series where he interviews people about their blogs. The post with me just went live today. I love this idea and look forward to future posts in the series.
This is how Amazon always wins… I want to pick up an organizing storage-type thing and think IKEA would be perfect. But it’s a bit of a drive, so I check Target and they have basically the same thing. But then I realize Amazon also has something similar that can be here tomorrow for zero effort.
It’s just about time for the September photo challenge! Got any ideas for prompt words to inspire each day’s photos? Jean has the details here and her email address to send them to. We’ll pick a random word each day and collect everyone’s photos together.
https://micro.welltempered.net/2023/08/30/september-photoblogging-challenge.html
The third-party Mastodon web app Phanpy has a conversation view that reminds me a lot of Tweetie on iPad. The multi-pane layout in that app never really caught on, but I always thought it was a nice use of space.
Noticing the moon as a long day winds down.
Sarah Gooding, writing at WP Tavern about Automattic’s 100-year plan:
"What resources will a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) point to 50 years from now? Or will URLs be discarded into the scrap pile of obsolete building blocks as soon as there’s a better, more efficient way to identify web addresses?"
I think URLs and HTTP are here to stay. The web is over 30 years old and the basic foundation is strong.
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-launches-100-year-domain-and-hosting-plan-for-38k
There’s a new episode of Core Intuition out. We talk about Daniel shipping a beta of MarsEdit with Mastodon support, the value of feedback from customers, upcoming plans, microblogging and social network differences, and how sometimes we have to cut features to ship.
https://coreint.org/2023/08/episode-568-just-ship-the-damn-thing/
Honda Element: CarPlay upgrade https://www.manton.org/2023/08/28/honda-element-carplay.html