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Threads just added an online status feature, where it'll show your icon to others with a green dot if you're online. I turned it off. I don't see this as a social network, I see it as a two-way publishing medium. Big fundamental difference. My words speak for me here and on Threads. It's a strong argument in favor of "Follows" being the default algorithm, btw.

Earlier this year I wrote about some performance improvements to The Session using the content-visibility property in CSS. If you say content-visibility: auto you’re telling the browser not to bother calculating the layout and paint for an element until it needs to. But you...

Back in June I documented a bug on macOS in how Spaces (or whatever they call they’re desktop management thingy now) works with websites added to the dock. I’m happy to report that after upgrading to Sequoia, the latest version of macOS, the bug has been fixed! Excellent! ...

I missed the beginning of the Texas debate but from what I saw in the second half, Colin Allred did really well. Ted Cruz is so obnoxious. Always a tough race here, though. 🇺🇸

I recorded a quick video demo of the new theme preview in Micro.blog. This is such an obvious feature but it was sort of tricky to do before because of how Micro.blog is architected with static-site generation. Working pretty well so far!

Good glass-half-full analysis from Jason Snell about the new iPad mini with A17 Pro:

…this model feels more like a holding action that gets the iPad mini onto Apple Intelligence… while also using up some amount of chip excess. If I had to predict when we’ll see a next-next-generation iPad mini, I think I’d guess that it will probably be sooner than three years from now.

Things have accelerated since my post about Automattic and WP Engine a couple weeks ago. I’m writing this follow-up post not to pick sides, but because it feels right to blog about something this significant happening in the website hosting world. Banning WP Engine from Word...

[Mathew Ingram] Mathew Ingram's overview of the WordPress drama continues to be updated with new information. The hole just seems to be getting deeper and deeper. As he says: it's a mess. "It's pretty clear that Matt sees what he is doing as protecting WordP...

Everybody's maxing out on Wordle today. I stopped with one step left. Stumped. I may lose my streak today. A lot of people are.

[Anil Dash] Anil Dash makes a pertinent observation about the current state of the web: "At the start of this year, I wrote The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again, which began by calling back to the Internet of 2000. In thinking more about it, though, we m...

A long time ago I ran a free service called weblogs.com. It was the early days of blogs. RSS didn't exist yet, so there was no way to find out which blogs had new stuff other than going through your blogroll and clicking links. So I built a simple server, running in Frontie...

Firefox users: are you able to reproduce this doozy of a bug I’ve found in the latest version?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924798

A few more notes about the new theme preview feature at the help site.

New iPad Mini with the A17 Pro and AI looks good. At first I was surprised by the $500 price, thought for sure the previous model was less expensive, but no. I’m still enjoying the iPhone Pro Max as a mini mini iPad, but I’m already used to the iPhone size, so it no longer feels very big.

New way to preview themes, from the news blog:

Added new Preview button for themes in the plug-in directory. This will create a special preview version of your blog to try out the theme. Also improved the tab bar and navigation around plug-ins.

Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2024/10/15/added-new-preview.html

I’m going to try to record a video demo of this later. It’s a big change.

Wondering if this is the responsible way to enable view transitions on websites:

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
  @view-transition {
    navigation: auto;
  }
}

People posting screenshots of their chats with large language model tools, like it’s cute, like each one of those queries didn’t use exorbitant amounts of carbon, like those tools aren’t all built on masses of unpaid labour.

The story of Lore Harp McGovern is like something from Halt And Catch Fire.

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It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit. I refused. … Continue reading Those Other Lawsuits →