Still love developing Mac apps. It’s such a nice feeling to know I can continue to work on little improvements and bug fixes right up until the moment of release, because I don’t use the App Store.
Meandered from browsing old political posts on my blog, to wishing I could link to all posts that contain a certain keyword, to updating my search plug-in to handle this. I know not everyone is a developer, but maybe an under-appreciated feature in Micro.blog is the plug-in system. Just HTML and JS.
Finally got the hang of CloudKit JS. It’s not as flexible as I’d like, or as seamless as iCloud is in native apps. Sometimes feels that half the problem with web apps is just being signed out constantly.
Enjoyed this review of the Vision Pro from Joe Cieplinski. I’m not convinced about using it for real work, hours every day, but I do agree with how mature and polished visionOS is for a 1.0:
"This is the best 1.0 Apple has ever shipped. It’s probably the best 1.0 anyone has ever shipped. […] All the things people have been complaining about iPadOS not being ready for proper productivity? visionOS already has all that settled."
New Core Int! A full hour show with our thoughts after using the Apple Vision Pro.
https://coreint.org/2024/02/episode-586-a-little-bit-of-the-future/
Spent time profiling server code today. I don’t do that often enough. It’s sometimes surprising what is dragging things down and can be optimized.
Didn’t realize until reading this blog post from the Fediverse Report that much of the new migration to Bluesky is from Japan. Seems significant as Twitter X was always popular in Japan.
Poked through the special counsel report on Biden’s documents. It’s upsetting that personal opinions that have little to do with the investigation were carelessly strewn through the report. Biden is qualified and capable to do the job. I’ve said before, I like him more now than I did years ago. 🇺🇸
Last week Casey Neistat posted a fun video about the Vision Pro. I love those fun videos he makes. But his latest video is really what it’s about: Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream. It’s up there with Make It Count from 2012. “If it was easy, everyone would do it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IiTdSnmS7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxfZkMm3wcg
Manuel Moreale: The great list of all the blog platforms. I’m not just linking to this because Micro.blog is on it… It is a good, simple list of platforms that are actually nice for blogging, with prices for comparison.
When you pay for something, whether $5 or $3500, it’s natural to justify the purchase. You really want it to be worth it. This is mostly how I see the “the killer app is a huge Mac screen” justification for the Vision Pro. This device does have value, but maybe more for escaping work than anything.
Tested the Vision Pro for the first time today, in the Apple Store. The passthrough quality and immersive video are pretty unbelievable. Apple must’ve done something right because afterwards I was questioning my whole life (or at least my tech opinions). Still no plans to buy one, yet.
Bluesky domain handles in Micro.blog https://www.manton.org/2024/02/08/bluesky-domain-handles.html
Bluesky has added another million users this week, bringing the total to over 4 million. By comparison, the ActivityPub-based fediverse has about 10 million users according to FediDB. The situation will change when Threads is added, but if Bluesky keeps growing it’s worth asking how they’ve done it.
To underscore the feeling over the last couple weeks that there has been a rise in COVID cases again, today the doctor’s office called to reschedule because almost everyone in their office has it. 😷
My first thought on hearing about the Epic and Disney partnership is that this is how Fortnite eventually gets back into the App Store. Apple is going to need games and content for the Vision Pro.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/7/24065281/disney-epic-games-investment-fortnite-metaverse
Adam Newbold blogged last month about resisting the urge to respond to some posts online:
"The urge to engage can be overwhelming. It’s normal to want to respond—to correct a mistruth, to set the record straight, to defend a point, or to just add words of strength and courage in the proximity of hate and negativity. But it’s really best that you don’t."
It’s difficult sometimes to know when it’s appropriate to reply and when it’ll just make things worse. One way to think about it: is my comment going to be welcomed and considered by the recipient, even if they disagree? If not, skip it.
Apple has approved our new app and I’m sort of almost shocked, but happy. You never know! It’s a big relief to know that we can continue to plan for a new thing. Plenty of other things to work on before it’s enabled in the App Store, though.
Working on a new (small) web site and using @Mtt’s Tiny theme. The new microhooks are so useful, it’s making me think more about how we can integrate this convention into more themes and even the Micro.blog editing interface.
https://micro.blog/Mtt https://mattlangford.com/2024/02/02/new-tiny-theme.html
Wordle 962 4/6. Sharing this one because it’s a sort of perfect pattern that doesn’t happen often. Still playing nearly every day.
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