Apple is twisting the truth https://www.manton.org/2024/02/16/apple-is-lying.html
Some of my best blog posts are buried behind really boring, unhelpful post titles. If a post resonates with folks and is shared, it can only be because someone actually read it. The opposite of clickbait.
Mastodon and public data https://www.manton.org/2024/02/15/mastodon-and-public.html
If you’ve been following the Bridgy and Mastodon drama, consider that many Mastodon users don’t want a bridge that allows Bluesky to federate with Mastodon, but they do want Bluesky to support ActivityPub so Bluesky can… also federate with Mastodon. 😜
Jason Snell writing at Macworld:
"What I’m saying is that if Apple would take the chance on four or five wild ideas, it might learn enough to create one or two hits. Given the sluggish growth in its Wearables, Home, and Accessories product category lately, it feels like it might be worth getting a little weird and risking failure to chart some new directions in home tech."
Apple is so successful now that most of what they do is judged against the iPhone, but smaller weird products could lead somewhere great too. Amazon did this and it led to the Kindle and Echo.
Excellent interview with Jay Graber on Techmeme Ride Home, on YouTube here. Clear framing of Bluesky’s goals and how the platform fits into the web. Sometimes I still can’t believe we’re all working toward a more open, social web again. 🎉
I made a short video showing some of the new notes feature in Micro.blog.
Having one of those moments while fixing a bug where I can’t believe this worked at all, for anyone except me.
I added a help page with an overview of how encryption works for notes in Micro.blog, and some basics about the API that Micro.blog and our new app Strata use.
Thanks to @vincent for all his work on our new mobile app Strata. It’s no small thing to get a new app off the ground, especially one that has to integrate with a larger platform API, sign-in, and encryption right out of the gate for 1.0.
Introducing notes in Micro.blog https://www.manton.org/2024/02/13/introducing-notes-in.html
I’m expecting a little bit of pushback when launching something totally new, because it’s true that existing features are not without flaws. But I’ve dedicated a lot of time over the last month to fixing bugs. Hopefully even if it’s not always noticeable, it does make a difference.
I have a really hard time coming up with dark mode colors. Nothing looks right.
Good interview at Platformer with Eugen Rochko. Some of his thoughts on AT Protocol:
"My hope still is that — fingers crossed — when Meta starts federating with Mastodon that the critical mass will be large enough that Bluesky developers will just say, okay, fine. Maybe that W3C approved standard protocol is the way to go instead of making our own custom stuff. Even if it doesn’t happen out the gate, maybe it will still start making sense for them someday."
Because Threads is opt-in for the fediverse and Bluesky keeps growing, ActivityPub might not end up dwarfing AT Proto the way we expected.
https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/
In software, sometimes to get attention it helps to release a 2.0. People tune out and don’t know that 1.1 and 1.2 were great. That’s sort of how I feel about Jon Stewart returning to The Daily Show. (Wha…?!) I never got into watching his TV+ show, or even recent Trevor Noah. Tonight’s a new chance.
Increasingly feel that I’m paying an Objective-C tax in Xcode. Typing and debugging is so much slower than it was a few years ago, even as the rest of the app has improved nicely.
Started a little slow but that turned into a great game. Can’t believe I doubted Patrick Mahomes at any point in the game. Fun to see the cuts to Taylor Swift and her excitement too. 🏈
Congrats to @brentsimmons and the NetNewsWire contributors on the 21-year anniversary of the app! This sounds impossible and yet I did first mention NetNewsWire in a blog post back in 2003. Still as relevant for today’s web as ever.
https://micro.blog/brentsimmons https://www.manton.org/2003/01/14/macworld-and-new.html
I dunno folks, I’m starting to think Trump isn’t on our side:
"…while president, he told the leaders of NATO countries that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not paid the money they owed to the military alliance."
Everything Hillary Clinton said about Trump has been proven right. 🇺🇸
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/trump-nato-russia.html
Haven’t posted a new home screen in a while. Our new app in the dock, almost ready. Otherwise my go-to apps remain about the same.
