Looking forward to what people come up with for today’s Micro.blog photo challenge word “train”… Love train-related photos. 🚂
Storm clouds.
I tried www.lyrak.com because I try all social apps, but it forced me to follow 5 people (couldn’t view their posts first) to finish sign-up. Don’t have much confidence that whoever okayed that UI will build something I’d want to use. Complaints are cheap, though. Will keep an eye on it.
Matt Mullenweg on the Beeper acquisition, adding to their previous acquisition of Texts:
"Today the announcement went out that we’re combining the best technology from Beeper and Texts to create a great private, secure, and open source messaging client for people to have control of their communications. We’re going to use the Beeper brand, because it’s fun."
Seems like we’re in an interesting, perhaps pivotal moment for text messaging and DMs, and Automattic is set up to be an important player. Smart strategy.
https://ma.tt/2024/04/beeper-texts/ https://automattic.com/2024/04/09/automattic-acquires-beeper/
For day 8 of the Micro.blog photo challenge: prevention.
Book to read while we wait for the eclipse, with a sort of appropriate title, Sunbringer. 🌑
Happy eclipse day! It’s going to be a little cloudy here but still looking forward to the experience. 🌑
The finale for Curb Your Enthusiasm was just right. Gonna miss that show but it was a good time to wrap it up. Last few seasons have been some of the best. 📺
Watching this video on Twitter X of Elon Musk talking about multiplanetary human life… Makes me sad all over again that he ever bought Twitter. Not just for all the tech and social reasons, but also because of the distraction away from the mission of SpaceX, and related brand erosion.
Finished reading: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Hadn’t read this in about twenty years and I wondered if it would be as good as I remembered. It was. 📚
Slow afternoon. Time for some database server housekeeping.
I’m the guest on episode 7 of the Decentered podcast! This was a really fun discussion. We talk about the early days of Micro.blog, of course the fediverse, Mastodon, Bluesky, ActivityPub, the IndieWeb, how Micro.blog encourages blogging, and where things are going.
Nice new blogroll from Molly White. I love this part of the web… Sharing links to interesting blogs, discovering new writers, seeing how people shape their space on the web. That’s what it’s about.
I’m doing another editing pass of Indie Microblogging. Changing the page size and running a test printing soon to see how it feels in hardcover instead of paperback. I know it’s ridiculous that it has taken so long. New goal is to have it shipped by not-yet-announced Micro Camp 2024.
“Most important things in life are a hassle. If life’s hassles disappeared, you’d want them back.” — Hayao Miyazaki
I’m a day late for the Micro.blog photo challenge word “foliage”, but this was a nice view this morning. 🌳
Micro.blog 3.2 for macOS https://www.manton.org/2024/04/05/microblog-for-macos.html
No invite to WWDC for me this year. Still hoping to get out to San Jose for a couple days. We talk more about WWDC (and my new MacBook Pro) on Core Intuition 594, just posted.
Disney Imagineering is at the top of their game right now. Watching this YouTube video of new animatronics for the redesigned Splash Mountain → Tiana’s Bayou Adventure.
Good post from @mathowie@xoxo.zone about his ideal blogging platform. The part about integrating with other systems is essentially how Micro.blog works, but our text editor is where Micro.blog falls short for some people. Working on that.
https://micro.blog/mathowie@xoxo.zone https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/