Congrats to the Bluesky team on opening to everyone today! Expecting a lot to happen this year with AT Protocol.
Just tuned into the last part of Biden’s speech today on the border security and foreign aid bill. He looked good and made a strong case. Really dumbfounding if Republicans don’t back this. 🇺🇸
Great overview (and video) from Craig Hockenberry on how Tapestry works with JavaScript and JSON under the hood. Essentially there is a plug-in system so that it can be extended to work with lots of platforms.
Ben Thompson’s review of the Apple Vision Pro is excellent. There’s a lot there. I don’t think I had fully thought about how Apple’s expanding product line is (in a way) limiting each platform. The iPhone replaced the iPod, but no product since attempts to do that. Gotta buy all the things.
Submitted a new 1.0 app to Apple! Requires a Micro.blog account, so who knows whether it will go through app review smoothly. A recurring conflict with the App Store: Apple wants an app that anyone can download and I just want to build something useful for my existing customers.
Getting good feedback (positive and negative) about how we’re using AI in Micro.blog. We transcribe podcasts automatically and we summarize bookmarked web pages. It is fairly isolated, but even so I get that some folks don’t trust AI even for this. I don’t want to push the limits either.
Bookmark improvements for AI, browsers https://www.manton.org/2024/02/05/bookmark-improvements-for.html
Got some random requests to sign into my Google account, so locked it down a little better this morning. No more SMS verification, 2-factor via authenticator app, new password. I’m not super paranoid but I think I need to do that for more services.
I’ve said before that it’s difficult to write in 300 characters about the war in Gaza. I’ve been drafting a full blog post about it, but I don’t think I will ever post it. I love blogging about many topics, including politics, but this is so divisive that I can’t see any good that will come from it.
Enjoying the Grammys so far. Trevor Noah is such a great host. New Curb Your Enthusiasm tonight, too! 📺
The leap from my old Nokia phone to the first iPhone was enormous. We sort of want all tech breakthroughs to feel that way. But it’s okay if most new devices are more iterative. They don’t need to change the world completely to still have a place in it.
Made a short 2-minute video about Micro.blog cross-posting to other services, especially manually copying a post to Threads. I’ve been using this feature quite a bit. Also useful if you just want a little more control.
My guess is we’ll see a ruling on the Trump immunity question this week. We’re all impatient, for good reason, but getting this right might save time in the long run. The judges will have a rock-solid answer and the supreme court won’t need to hear it again if there’s another appeal. 🇺🇸
Spent some time this weekend experimenting with browser extensions. I had avoided this too long, thinking a bookmarklet should be good enough for anyone. But it is nicer to install with a search and a click. In-progress source code over at GitHub.
Until reading through Jason Snell’s FAQ, didn’t really occur to me that Apple has spent so much time trying to get away from managing multiple windows, from Simple Finder to the iPad, and now it’s like the other extreme. Windows on the side, on the ceiling, on the wall in the other room, everywhere!
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/02/answering-a-few-early-vision-pro-questions/
Slow weekend. Sitting on the couch, hanging out with the dog. I could imagine using a Vision Pro right now. But if I’m reevaluating my tech, maybe a better upgrade would just be a larger phone.
Amazing video from Casey Neistat going around New York City wearing the Vision Pro. My opinion keeps alternating between “I need this now” and “no one should ever have this”… It’s a wild product and I wonder if even Apple knows where it’s going.
I try to welcome feedback, but it’s tiring to be lectured on how I’m wrong about Apple when I criticize their business. I’ve been developing Mac apps continuously for the last 30+ years, got an iPhone on day one, and I think about this constantly… But no, everyone else must know more than I do! 🤪
Experimenting with other ways to use the OpenAI API, and one thing that has struck me is the price difference between GPT 3.5 and GPT 4. It is dramatic. If it wasn’t for the token limit of 3.5, I’d just use that for everything. It’s still good.
Just posted a new @coreint with a follow-up about the CTF, Blank Ink for iOS, and (of course!) the Apple Vision Pro.
https://coreint.org/2024/02/episode-585-manton-doesnt-like-it/ https://micro.blog/coreint