Love seeing all the “year in books” blog posts from folks. If anyone’s curious about how Micro.blog handles this, I recorded a video on YouTube a few months ago that walks through the Epilogue interface and how it integrates with your blog. For 2024, more blogs please!
The draft of the book is in Ulysses, each of the 70+ chapters as sheets, and the web site is hosted on Micro.blog with a couple theme tweaks for the contents sidebar. I wrote a little Ruby script that will push all my changes from Markdown files back up to Micro.blog, via Micropub’s “update” JSON.
https://book.micro.blog https://gist.github.com/manton/f4470f28ea50d649bbf08d9e43097f29
Updated book.micro.blog with the latest draft. Lots of little edits, and more updates for X, Mastodon, and Bluesky. Near final, planning to link up the ePub tomorrow and call it done.
Mickey and Minnie in Steamboat Willie, finally in the public domain. Happy New Year! 🎉
Year in books for 2023 https://www.manton.org/2023/12/31/year-in-books.html
I like John Gruber’s airport lounge analogy for iMessage. Michael Tsai takes it one step further to underscore how Apple’s control still twists what is possible.
https://daringfireball.net/2023/12/beep_beep https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/12/29/beeper-and-the-centurion-lounge/
I’m sure I’ve blogged about this before but deploying Micro.blog is like a hilarious 15-step process. So dumb! And yet I do it at least once a day usually. Eventually it’ll be worth burning a couple days to automate it.
I said during Micro Camp back in May that I hoped Micro.blog would be open source by the end of the year. Didn’t happen, too much else to do. Still have plans along those lines, as soon as I can carve out time to get the structure for everything set up correctly.
Bluesky replies via Bridgy https://www.manton.org/2023/12/28/bluesky-replies-via.html
Public Storage is maybe too public https://www.manton.org/2023/12/28/public-storage-is.html
Learning from this blog post that GitHub has 1200 MySQL servers.
https://github.blog/2023-12-07-upgrading-github-com-to-mysql-8-0/
Finished watching the Dragonsteel spoiler Q&A. It took a few days, off and on. I’ve read about 20 of Brandon Sanderson’s books and I still don’t even understand many of the questions! Love the super fans. 📚
In Evan Prodromou’s list of big and small fediverse traits, I lean more to big, but I don’t agree with everything in the big list. As one example, I think billion-person servers would recreate many Facebook-like problems. Evan’s list is great for sparking discussion, though.
I was thinking about Nick Heer’s post about the current top few social networks to replace Twitter, and specifically performance. I feel like Threads and Mastodon are fast, but it’s true that Bluesky is really fast. Wonder if federation performance will end up being AT Protocol’s strength.
Nitpick with some modern web services: I don’t like the trend of expiring URLs, like temp S3 resources for profile photos. It makes caching more difficult. In everything I design, I assume that a human might see the URL. That makes everything simpler and more stable.
At some point in the last few days, one of the changes to my blog has caused Hugo to go off the rails… Instead of taking a couple seconds to run, takes minutes. Having some difficulty tracking it down.
Watched some of the usual Christmas movies over the last week, and a couple new ones… 🎄 Then went on an anime tear with Princess Mononoke, Tales from Earthsea, Weathering with You, The Wind Rises, and Kiki. 🍿
https://www.manton.org/2019/12/27/my-favorite-christmas.html
Happy holidays, everyone! A new episode of Core Intuition just went up, the last episode of 2023. We talk Apple Watch, Adobe and Figma, and look forward to next year.
https://coreint.org/2023/12/episode-580-adobe-can-buy-us-now/
Following Bluesky users from Micro.blog https://www.manton.org/2023/12/24/following-bluesky-users.html
More good progress in Bluesky: there are now RSS feeds for all user profiles. This is just a useful baseline for supporting different things. Nice, clean microblog feeds without titles.