Happy birthday to Jimmy Carter. 100 years! Amazing. Hope he gets his wish to vote for Kamala Harris. Early voting is soon. 🇺🇸
Decided a few weeks back to stop Wordle at 1200. It’s fitting that I did terribly on this last one.
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Relay has raised $1 million for St. Jude this year. Incredible.
Ghost fediverse pricing https://www.manton.org/2024/09/30/ghost-fediverse-pricing.html
I think the new “finished” pane turned out well. This has been a much-needed improvement to Micro.blog. Because we fire off publishing and Hugo-ing in the background, it was irritating to keep an eye on the status and find the new blog post link.
House shopping during election season is great. There are so many political yard signs, you can tell a lot about what your future neighbors are like.
Really enjoyed seeing The Wild Robot. Beautiful. Glad I read the book first too… The movie follows the story closely but some characters, dialogue, and details were bound to change. 🍿
Last night’s SNL was great. Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, Dana Carvey, Jean Smart… That’s the way to start the 50th season. 📺
I ended up disabling Type to Siri. Kept accidentally triggering it with impatient double-taps on the tab bar.
Austin forever. New mural on 51st.
Molly White blogs about POSSE:
"The next time a new social media site comes along, you can plug it in to your existing system. And the next time a social media site dies or becomes untenable, you just disconnect it. With this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted."
Cherrywood Coffeehouse. ☕️
I’m still interested in Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, but maybe I’m not the market because I can barely tell the difference between the Wayfarer, Headliner, and Skyler styles. Also I buy new glasses about once every 10 years.
No-training Creative Commons https://www.manton.org/2024/09/26/notraining-creative-commons.html
Pushed another TestFlight beta of Micro.blog with lots of little tweaks that had been bugging me. Still a few bugs in this version, plus the work of replacing the old text editor.
“Orion makes every other VR or AR device I have tried feel like a mistake — including the Apple Vision Pro.” — Ben Thompson, who interviews Meta’s CTO
Meta Connect 2024 https://www.manton.org/2024/09/25/meta-connect.html
Mira Murati is leaving OpenAI. If things had gone differently after the board shakeup, she would’ve been the CEO and Sam Altman would be at Microsoft. But it didn’t appear that she had been sidelined either. She led the live OpenAI announcements for GPT-4o instead of Sam just a few months ago.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254431/openai-cto-mira-murati-leaving
Just uploaded a new TestFlight beta with support for iOS 18 dark and tinted icons. Looks way better now for folks who’ve customized their home screen icons.
Automattic vs. WP Engine will have a chilling effect on WordPress hosting. When I decided to use Hugo in Micro.blog, I considered using WordPress under the hood instead. It would’ve brought significant benefits, but at the cost of bloat and web hosting monoculture. Glad to have avoided this drama.