I may have Osborne effect-ed myself a little with the blog post teasing Micro.one. Current customers: do not worry. The first phase of the plan for Micro.one is limited. If you’re already subscribed to Micro.blog, you’re in the right place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect https://micro.one/

Don’t miss the sneak peek screenshot link in Sam Grover’s update post about Mimi Uploader. I think photo collections could be a really good fit for the app. https://samgrover.com/2024/12/18/some-updates-on.html

I’ve been rolling this idea around in my head for a couple years, in various forms, and think I’m finally ready to do something with it. Updated placeholder website: micro.one https://micro.one/

Mike McCue from Flipboard announcing Surf:

"Built from the ground up on ActivityPub, AT Proto and RSS, you can create and surf amazing custom feeds that organize people, videos, articles, images and podcasts around the things you care about."

I don’t have access to the beta yet, so not entirely sure what it is, but sounds promising! Maybe a little like Flipboard merged with Tapestry. https://flipboard.social/@mike/113674804218860674

The weather’s changing. Rain and wind, leaves falling down at Cherrywood. ☕️

Didn’t expect how much I’d like the new full-screen photos view that is built into the Micro.blog photo collections plug-in. To see it in action, scroll through my blog home page and click on a photo. https://www.manton.org/

We had tickets to the Peter Pan musical last week and somehow with work and looking for a house we forgot to go. Calendars are hard. Very disappointed, both to miss the musical and also because I’m still not at the point in my life where I can just throw away money for no reason.

I sort of want to increase the border radius of every button by 1px every few days until they are perfectly rounded and see if anyone notices.

Very interested that Delta is trying Apple’s external link entitlement. There are so many gotchas, but hopefully it works for them. From MacStories:

"After tapping through a full-screen warning from Apple that you’re about to embark on a dangerous adventure to the World Wide Web…"

🙂 https://www.macstories.net/news/an-app-store-first-delta-adds-patreon-link-for-purchase-and-perks/

This sounds great! A New Social: “We believe in an open social web centered around people, not platforms. We build bridges, not walls.” The non-profit organization will be the new home for Bridgy Fed. https://www.anew.social/

This post on the news blog might seem minor, but it’s already making a huge difference. My brain had not come to terms with how bogged down the background timeline updating could get. I’m not even sure how larger platforms with millions of followers handle fan-out quickly. https://news.micro.blog/2024/12/17/improved-speed-of.html

Good recap at WP Tavern of State of the Word from Tokyo. Matt Mullenweg:

"Some people might see 2024 as a year of distractions or attacks from bad actors in the community. But it was really a year of growth and focus where we were able to accelerate so many things that we’re doing." https://wptavern.com/recap-of-the-state-of-the-word-2024

Cosmic sticker. ☕️

We went to see War of the Rohirrim a few days ago. It has the feel of the battle scenes of Return of the King, but stretched to the entire 2-hour film. Worth seeing for LotR and anime fans. There is no chance to catch your breath, though. The quiet scenes are taken up with voice-over narration.

Acorn 8 is a really big update. Congrats Gus Mueller! https://shapeof.com/archives/2024/12/say_hello_to_acorn_8.html

I usually post one photo at a time, so my last post was mostly an excuse to test the new layout for photo collections in the Micro.blog mobile app. Here’s a screenshot. Photos scroll horizontally, tap to go full-screen. This currently only works for collections, not any set of photos… yet.

A couple photos today as I was walking along Riverside.

It’s amazing how many things we worry about that don’t actually matter.

I recorded a new demo of Micro.blog photo collections on YouTube here. This video shows the Mac app’s interface for photo search and collections. https://youtu.be/q1_AL8JUrRA

Worked on a few things over the weekend, including Mastodon posts and photos import. Micro.blog and Mastodon have had moving followers for a while, but you couldn’t actually move your Mastodon posts. Now you can import a Mastodon archive and Micro.blog will copy the posts and photos to your blog.