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I’ve been reading a lot of e-books and audiobooks, so wanted to pick up something new in print. Just arrived: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh. 📚

Improved several things in the Bookshelves section of Micro.blog on the web. More consistent navigation and book sorting fixes.

Austin has come alive in the last week with blooming red buds, mountain laurel, and bluebonnets.

Finished reading: Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings 📚

Realized last week that I need to actually use the email newsletter feature of Micro.blog myself so that I notice more of the quirks that we can smooth over. You can now subscribe to weekly emails on manton.org. Got the first one today and it looks pretty good!

We watched the Oscars live last night and were confused and then stunned by what happened with Will Smith and Chris Rock, and I hoped by this morning I could focus on other things. Still can’t stop thinking of what Denzel Washington told Will Smith: “At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.”

Working on Epilogue this morning, and Android + iOS builds have my Intel MacBook fans going at full speed. Not ready to jump to M1 yet, though. When I bought this 16-inch MacBook Pro, I said I’d keep it for at least a few years and trying to stick to that.

Congrats to @marco on the new Overcast redesign. I’ve been using the beta and it’s a really nice update.

Following up the new bookmarks improvements with more changes today: added Pinboard import and fixed some other problems. Thanks to folks who have upgraded to Micro.blog Premium to take full advantage of bookmark archiving, highlights, and search! That helps us make it better.

The last time I was here (Wright Bros Brew & Brew), you could park across the street because it was just a dirt parking lot next to the train tracks. Now it’s a Whole Foods and Target. ☕️

New Spurs mural on east 4th. Getting coffee around the corner at Wright Bros. ☕️

We’ve started to get the videos from Micro Camp up on the YouTube channel. Thanks again to our speakers and everyone who joined us!

I’m reading through Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the web. On web sites being too difficult to create:

Building websites has gotten substantially easier in many ways, but it’s also become more complex, and there remain a number of pain points which make the experience more difficult than it needs to be. This has several negative consequences. First, it disempowers site authors by hampering their ability to express themselves. Second, it drives content to native app platforms, which diminishes the Web’s reach. Finally, it encourages centralization by tilting the playing field towards large publishers and platform providers with sophisticated engineering teams and complex infrastructure. Our goal is to reverse these trends by making it easier to build and maintain sites.

There is a lot of good stuff in this document.

Today we rolled out a few improvements to bookmarks, including an import from Instapaper and Pocket. This is meant to complement Micro.blog’s bookmark archiving, where Micro.blog archives a copy of a web page and allows making highlights in it. Like the archiving and highlig...

So impressed with Ketanji Brown Jackson. What a great pick for the Supreme Court. 🇺🇸

We’ve been glued to KXAN for the last couple hours. Tornados in the Austin area, just unreal. Missed us, with only some rain that quickly passed through. 🌧

Why is it that although we are now in the millions building and creating for the Web, only very few share their knowledge and experience on their own websites? Or, in other words: Why doesn’t every one of us have a blog? Zach Leatherman asked this question on Twitter the oth...

Over the first couple of days of 2022, I read a lot of year-in-review posts, like Michelle’s, Dave’s, Hidde’s, and Jeremy’s, to name a few. What a pleasure to read about such a great variety of different perspectives and realities! Thank you, everyone. In my case, last year ...

Facebook memes taught me that, instead of facing my fear of needles, I could instead pretend I conscientiously object to vaccination programs, now my lungs are riddled with Covid and I can’t breathe. Sitting in my legally parked car eating a zinger burger was such an affront...

30 years ago, on August 6, 1991, a computer scientist working at CERN introduced a project to the public he had been working on for several months. The project, as he described, combined “the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful glob...