I’ve been putting off an infrastructure upgrade because 💰, going to bring online another new server today. This would be a great time for everyone to upgrade to Micro.blog Premium. 🙂 Seriously though, you’ll get a major new feature launching next month.
Matt Haughey in a blog post about renting a Tesla:
"I wish other EVs could be this good. I will never own a Tesla, but I can see the appeal now. It was easy to drive, even easier to recharge, and was quite comfortable and made every other car I’ve driven feel like a relic from a past era of personal travel."
As a side note, seems a trend where execs are becoming more public characters — with their random dumb thoughts posted online — at the same time that everything is becoming political. So now we buy products based on our values instead of quality. Sometimes good, sometimes taken too far.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2023/12/04/an-unexpected-tesla-model-3-review/
Finished reading: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Absolutely wonderful. 📚
Can’t believe I’m still working on the book. Just a few final end-of-year updates. New excerpt:
"Even the name itself and the bird branding are gone. The letter X feels like an appropriate placeholder for the platform’s grave. Here lies a dying platform. X marks the spot where it used to be."
Tweet Marker’s whole purpose was for cross-platform, cross-app timeline sync. There was never anything like it because it’s not actually a profitable idea on its own. But there are many apps that could benefit from something like this. Imagine note sync across Ulysses, iA Writer, Bear, and Obsidian.
The future of Nostr might not actually be for microblogging but instead as a cross-platform generic sync API for any type of small data. I know this was baked into the original idea, but the more I think about it, the more it feels like a unique solution to several things.
Apple Pay has made me lazy about credit cards and it finally came back to bite me. Drove to Dallas yesterday and forgot my wallet in Austin. Generally hasn’t been a problem… restaurants, gas, movie, coffee, all fine. Until the hotel where they assume you’re a criminal if you don’t have an ID.
Went to the early IMAX screening for Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron tonight. Managed to avoid seeing any trailer, plot summary, or review, so everything was a surprise. Still thinking about it so won’t say more for now. Subtitled, and I’d like to see the dubbed version later. 🍿
Starting to see “included in Premium” free audiobooks in Spotify. This is going to be great.
La La Land Kind Cafe. ☕️
I’m excited that Texas is in the playoffs, but only picking four teams is always going to leave someone out who should have a shot at it. College rankings have always felt subjective to me so I don’t give it much thought. The Longhorns barely lost that game anyway. 🏈
Quiet night camping at Ray Roberts Lake State Park.
Sunset at Lake Ray Roberts.
My quick 5-minute demo from FediForum is now on YouTube. I show off Micro.blog and fediverse integration. It’s a whirlwind tour of several different things including how we think about cross-posting.
Just published Core Intuition 578 about the MarsEdit 5.1 release, AI and copyright, software licensing, and more. Lots of good stuff in this episode I think.
https://coreint.org/2023/12/episode-578-snarfing-up-the-data/
Working more this weekend on the feature I teased about a few days ago. Work has accelerated and now I’m confident in the design and technical bits. The hardest part is pulling myself back every day to work on smaller fixes and improvements.
Castro is back online and Tiny is considering finding a new home for the app, via Rob Fahrni. For Micro.blog we host podcasts, and we have our Wavelength app, but we’ve thought about doing more. Kind of neat to imagine Castro in our suite of apps if we had a non-$0 acquisition budget.
https://castro.fm/blog/future-of-castro-podcasts-december-2023 https://rob.crabapples.net/2023/12/02/castros-future.html
Glass announced they are raising their prices for next year, but it looks like even with the change I would save money if I switched to the yearly plan. Interesting to see how different companies handle yearly discounts. 50% off is an unusually good deal.
December already! I still have 9 books left on my reading goal for the year. I’m halfway through a couple things already so I might hit it if I read more over the holidays. 📚