Thanks to Hunter Biden for taking one for the team on the gun charges. Maybe the GOP will get serious about gun legislation and we can ban assault weapons next? (Sigh.) 🇺🇸
Skipping the iPhone 15 this year, my 14 Pro is still in perfect condition. No case, no scratches. I do envy USB-C upgraders, though.
The latest @coreint podcast is out. Daniel and I react to this week’s Apple event.
https://micro.blog/coreint https://coreint.org/2023/09/episode-569-we-have-enough-white-cables/
Updated to iOS 17. No problems, seems like a good upgrade. I think it fixed the web view refresh flicker problems we’ve been having in the Micro.blog app.
I’ve just loosely been following the Pennsylvania inmate’s escape and now capture. Wild story. Kudos to law enforcement for capturing him without firing a shot, and no one injured.
iPhone 15 Pro action button is interesting. I wouldn’t mind a rethink of the volume and power buttons too. I still accidentally take screenshots or otherwise fumble with the buttons.
I enjoyed the Mother Nature video at the Apple event. Usually these videos seem overdone and unnecessary, but this was actually a fun format to list the same somewhat dense environmental facts. On the other hand, we’re 30 minutes in and no products I’m particularly interested in.
Took the new-to-me Honda Element in to get checked out and the cost for a bunch of random fixes is a little mind-boggling. It’s got 127k miles and I thought maybe I could push it to 250k… Now I’m starting to doubt. 💰
Over the weekend while I was working on my Letters from Europe page, I integrated footnotes using the Barefoot library. Completely forgot that @jsonbecker had already created a Bigfoot.js plug-in for Micro.blog. Anyway, now there are more plug-in options for footnotes!
https://www.manton.org/letters-from-europe/ https://micro.blog/jsonbecker
24 years ago, Traci and I went to Europe with a rail pass and hardly any money or plans. We worked remotely: her as a contractor for Apple and me at a small Mac dev shop. Last week I rediscovered some emails and postcards we sent while traveling and I decided to put them together as a web page.
When the threads-api project was announced, it was so tempting to use it but I knew it would be too fragile relying on undocumented APIs. Sure enough, Meta has sent them a cease and desist letter and the project is now shut down. Trust in ad-based platforms will always get you burned.
https://github.com/junhoyeo/threads-api/releases/tag/the-end
The capitol and downtown buildings over yonder, reflecting in the windows. Eighth day of the Micro.blog photo challenge.
A couple people have read between the lines of my recent posts and wondered what is going on with my life. Short answer: we are selling our house of 17 years in northwest Austin and renting a place closer into town. Downsizing is hard. Feels like the right time for a major change. 🏡
App Store Connect is barely holding on today. Errors and more errors. Apparently this is the day I complain about other people’s software while I try to fix my own.
Starting to get the new Slack redesign in one of my workspaces but not others. I’m fine with the UI changes, but it’s jarring the way they roll these out so they don’t apply everywhere in the app.
Fascinating fallout happening in the JavaScript vs. TypeScript debate. In my experience, changing a language rarely brings the productivity gains you were hoping for.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-hooliganism-and-the-typescript-meltdown-a474bfda
More good advice from Manuel Moreale:
"Please, for the love of all things web-related, if you decide to do anything online, get yourself a domain name."
We try to make this easy in Micro.blog, but it should be even easier. I’d like to spend some more time on it this year, so that transferring or configuring custom domains is effortless.
To follow up on some of the replies I’m getting about my hard drive, my philosophy is that nearly everything should be in one place. Less chance you will lose something important. Backups are simpler. Work anywhere. Same goes for what I post on the web: everything is on my blog.
Another new Micro.blog 3.2 beta is out for TestFlight. @vincent is tweaking the tags design and it’s looking really nice. I think we can probably ship this to everyone next week. And it’s a great time to try bookmarks and tagging in Micro.blog Premium if you haven’t upgraded yet.
Apple’s sending emails about getting apps ready for the Vision Pro App Store. Folks in the Apple dev community won’t like this, but I think Vision Pro will be a bust in the short term. Only develop for it for fun, not for a market. I’ll revisit it in 10 years when the tech catches up to the dream.