It’s that time of year when my iTunes Match subscription renews and I don’t know what will happen if I cancel it. One day need to figure out how to find iTunes Match tracks that are not on streaming. Or do I even care anymore? Just throwing money into Apple’s services revenue pot.
Honda Element: weBoost https://www.manton.org/2023/10/16/honda-element-weboost.html
Drove out to west Texas today. Left late, felt like I was always chasing the sun, and it was dark before I got to the Davis Mountains. Forgot how amazing the stars are.
Just published a new Core Intuition episode about ActivityPub support in WordPress.com and its impact on Micro.blog, plus a a discussion of Humane and the potential for new AI-based devices.
https://coreint.org/2023/10/episode-572-this-is-my-web-house/
Watching Biden react to the chaos in the world, the narrative that he is “too old” just does not match reality. He’s competent and thoughtful. Meanwhile almost nothing Trump says makes any sense. Biden is doing the job of president and Trump is still on some kind of improv stand-up comedy tour. 🇺🇸
Basketball fans who don’t usually have a way to tune-in to Spurs games: Spurs/Heat on TNT tonight. Big change from the last few years when we had almost no national coverage. And it’s still just the preseason! 🏀
The updated vaccine floored me for a couple days. I was starting to wonder if it was worth it, but then I remembered that I haven’t been actually sick in three years. Knock on wood, feeling lucky about that. I used to get a cold or flu or something every year. 💉
The Morning Show does a great job of reinventing itself each season. I wasn’t sure after the first season if they could sustain it, keep it relevant, but here we are in season 3 and it still works. Last episode with the Paul Marks interview was really good. 📺
Great to see WordPress.com’s support for ActivityPub. Following WordPress blogs from Micro.blog looks good, although @-mentioning Micro.blog from within WordPress isn’t working for me. I’ve been testing and reviewing the code, will make any tweaks I can so everything is compatible.
Went to the HEB on Lake Austin Boulevard today to get the updated COVID vaccine. When I was growing up, this was a Safeway that they had literally built around a big tree rather than cut it down. But nothing lasts forever, and the site is unrecognizable now. There’s a great history of it here. 💉
https://austin.towers.net/in-1977-the-tree-safeway-kept-austins-grocery-stores-weird/
A random shot from a few weeks ago, walking down Steck over Shoal Creek back to the Honda dealer, waiting for service. 🚙
Updated the Epilogue beta on TestFlight with a new feature for book cover management using your own Internet Archive / Open Library account. Still early. You can browse editions of books and upload new covers. Here’s a quick video demo:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/NQiJcODo https://www.manton.org/2023/10/10/updated-the-epilogue.html
We don’t get a lot of disputed charges in Micro.blog. Maybe once a year. But it’s especially frustrating when a potential spammer disputes a charge. Every dispute costs us a $15 fee, so now we’re effectively paying extra for someone to violate our guidelines.
It’s only preseason but great to see more of what Victor Wembanyama can do. Great first half, so much potential for this Spurs team. 🏀
Threats against ActivityPub https://www.manton.org/2023/10/09/threats-against-activitypub.html
I’m the guest on the latest ShopTalk Show! Really enjoyed talking with Dave and Chris about blogging and social networks. We cover a bunch of Micro.blog features.
https://shoptalkshow.com/586/ https://daverupert.com/ https://chriscoyier.net/
Wheel of Time season 2 had a few good moments, but overall it’s just too much to squeeze into 8 episodes. No time to develop the most important character because the writers can’t seem to decide who the show is about. Veering way off the books probably doesn’t help. 📺
Sad watching the coverage of war in Israel. Meanwhile in this country we don’t have a Speaker of the House for petty, incompetent reasons. Reminder to voters that we actually got a bunch accomplished the first two years of Biden’s presidency. 🇺🇸
Honda Element: rooftop box https://www.manton.org/2023/10/07/honda-element-rooftop.html
Just posted Core Intuition episode 571. From the show notes:
"Daniel and Manton discuss Apple’s latest round of in-person and online “Apple Experts” events, the Apple Vision Pro sessions and whether the NDAs allude to anything exciting, and Daniel’s shoulder injury and worrying about getting older and being stuck in our ways as the technological world changes."
https://coreint.org/2023/10/episode-571-an-old-dog-with-old-tricks/