BLK Vinyl.

Bit off a little more than I could chew today, so I’m scrambling. Not a great feeling.

Thinking again about disabling all support for .php requests in Micro.blog. It’s needless traffic, thousands and thousands of requests a day that go nowhere, looking for WordPress exploits. There’s legitimate use for redirecting old URLs, but it’s very rare that an old blog even exposes .php URLs.

There are always little coding details that are hard to predict before launch until things are mostly ready to go. This morning worked on our gift invites for Micro.one. Existing Micro.blog customers will be able to invite and pay for someone to get a year of blog hosting for $10. https://micro.one/

Fourth quarter of this Longhorns game is wild and way too stressful. Enjoyed the first few quarters, though! Yikes. 🏈

Wow, Longhorns starting really strong. 🏈

Lots of new books and films in the public domain today! Including the first version of Mickey Mouse with white gloves in The Opry House, available on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/walt-disneys-mickey-mouse/Mickey+Mouse+005+-+The+Opry+House+(1929).mp4

Love this post from Allen Pike, about magic and the seemingly impossible accomplishments just being a lot of work and planning:

"The pianist whose fingers seem supernaturally nimble, the presenter whose message seems viscerally compelling, and the artist whose paintings seem impossibly realistic all wield the same magic: they’ve invested more time than you’d expect." https://allenpike.com/2024/an-unreasonable-amount-of-time

Happy new year! I just sent an email with no subject line… Amateur hour over here as we start 2025. Hope it’s not a preview of what the rest of the year will be like.

Retired jerseys at Frost Bank Center. Last game of 2024, Spurs vs. Clippers. 🏀

Nowhere Bookshop. 📚

Hotel Emma at the Pearl. Spending the day in San Antonio.

Micro.one will not have source feeds https://www.manton.org/2024/12/31/microone-will-not-have-source.html

Having fun this morning working on a couple animated GIFs for the Micro.one website. Using Gifox for the basics, which I really like so far. Simple, clean design. And Acorn 8 can now edit animated GIFs as layers, great for quick resizing or edits. https://micro.one/

“Did you ever re-subscribe to The Washington Post?”

“No. And I never will.”

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

Algorithmic timeline endgame https://www.manton.org/2024/12/30/algorithmic-timeline-endgame.html

Another detail about Micro.one, especially for folks who want to share it with friends and family as soon as it launches: it will be limited to 3000 total subscribers. That’s a tiny number at the scale of big silos, but it’s a lot for us. Needs to be sustainable in the context of the whole platform. https://micro.one/

Fleet Coffee on Manor. ☕️

“When ya ain’t got nothin', you got nothin' to lose

You’re invisible now, ya got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel?” — Bob Dylan

Found this first edition, signed copy of A Song for Arbonne at Half Price Books the other day and had to get it. Read it so long ago that it’ll be like reading it for the first time. I’m always on the lookout for old Kay books, they seem in short supply. 📚