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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Out there.
Recently, I read two posts within a few days that both resonated a lot with me. The topic of both pieces was the same: Writing. Or more specifically, writing on your own site. The first piece, “Just write.”, is by Sara Soueidan and if you haven’t read the article, I highly e...
Interview mit Aaron Parecki
Homebrew Website Club tomorrow! 6:30pm at Mozart’s Coffee. We’ll keep it informal as we get back into holding this meetup. Time to review recent IndieWeb events, Micro.blog progress, or talk about updates to our sites.
On this day
Last week I added a new archive page to Micro.blog-hosted sites. It includes dates and the first part of each post, marked up with Microformats. Jonathan LaCour used this to write a script that parses the HTML looking for posts on today’s date in previous years, then pulls t...
You can add any Micro.blog timeline to Feedbin and it looks really good, with profile icons next to each post and inline photos. Check out this screenshot over on Feedbin’s blog.
On my almost-daily podcast, Timetable, today I talk about rebuilding the Facebook integration in Micro.blog and getting organized.
Monday morning, lots of phone calls. Not my favorite thing.
It’s a little late this week, but we published Core Intuition 338 today. Thanks for listening!
Loved the new episode of Internet Friends. Covers a lot: @drewcoffman coming to terms with using Twitter too much, how the user base has changed, what we need from a community, staying creative, blogging, and how @ablaze is using Micro.blog.
In other Slack news this week, they moved their blog from Medium to their own domain name, powered by WordPress VIP. Because they had medium.com URLs before, none of their old posts redirect. At least they’ve got things future-proof now.
You usually can’t control or predict what other companies do. On the latest Timetable, I talk about going ahead with an idea despite some competition. Plus basketball. 🏀
Much faster home page updating for Micro.blog-hosted sites rolling out now. Also, moving to a separate “Archive” page in the navigation and away from pagination. Feedback welcome. (This is a first step. Better year/month organization will come later.)
Today’s Timetable covers microcasts, Facebook changes for Micro.blog, and Twitter’s API announcement this week. Just 7 minutes. Enjoy!
Upcoming meetups: NSDrinking tomorrow night at Radio Coffee & Beer. 8pm. Also, Homebrew Website Club returning first Wednesdays: August 1st at Mozart’s Coffee. 6:30pm. Hope to see some of y’all there!
Dirk is back for a 21st season with the Mavs. Looks like he will pass Wilt Chamberlain on the all-time points list. But not before LeBron passes them both. 🏀
On today’s episode of Timetable, I go into more detail about the recent performance improvements, related glitches, and thoughts on podcast hosting business models.
Anchor on free podcasting
Nir Zicherman has a post on Medium about how podcast hosting should be free. Nir is the co-founder of Anchor, a company with $14 million in venture-capital funding. Nir writes:
Back in the day, you would have had to pay to store your photos online. But that outdated busines...
Faster publishing in Micro.blog
Last week I parked myself at a coffee shop one morning and re-architected how blog publishing in Micro.blog works. As some of you know, hosted blogs on Micro.blog are based on Jekyll. While this has some advantages that I wrote about in 2016, it brings some performance drawb...
Happy Monday, everyone! There’s a new episode of Micro Monday up. Great to hear from new voices who haven’t been on a podcast before.