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Read.cv is shutting down. That’s a bummer because it was a nice site and also allowed me to not have a portfolio, something I really don’t want to maintain these days. The site is shutting down officially on May 16th so I guess I have a few months to design and code myself a new portfolio again.

It’s funny how I’ve been doing this job for almost 15 years and for the vast majority of that time I never had a proper portfolio. But who knows, maybe this is gonna be an opportunity to design and code something fun.

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Went down the rabbit hole of old links and started listening to this episode of Core Int about Steve Jobs. 12 years ago. Blog posts and podcasts are an amazing snapshot in time.

When I quit Twitter, I had about 10,000 tweets. Not many by today’s standards. In all of that time, I remember deleting… one tweet. It was at WWDC. I’d like to think I rarely delete posts because I still stand by almost everything I wrote. But also, there’s always room in a blog for a correction.

I’ve been personally attacked a bunch today over a thread and private email that went off the rails, more personal criticism than I’ve received in the entire 8 years of running Micro.blog. A little stunned. But there have also been some amazing, thoughtful posts about what we’re doing. Thank you.

Wrote a draft post, deleted it. Trying to remind myself that I do not need to have the last word on every topic. Sometimes it’s better to just let things go.

Usually on election night and the day after, I dig into county stats, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it in November. Finally looked up my precinct here in Austin: 84% for Kamala Harris. 🇺🇸

Techdirt covers the empty promise from Mark Zuckerberg on the fact-checking team, including this comment:

Texas is, apparently, famous for its unbiased, neutral residents, as compared to California, where it is constitutionally impossible to be unbiased.

🤪

Another idea. One of Tesla's competitors could offer a trade-in, where they commit to recycling all the parts of your Tesla, so you are actually taking a Tesla off the road. And for a few extra dollars they can send you a scrapbook of your old Tesla being lovingly taken apart suitable for RT'ing.

Wouldn't it be smart for Kia or Rivian or some other EV competitor of Tesla's to name their car Bluesky and have it only come in blue?

Strata 1.2 for iOS is now available. This release adds a new tab bar with bookmarks and highlights. Going forward we can do more with bookmarks in Strata without complicating Micro.one and Micro.blog.

My answer to almost any societal or political problem is: more blogs, more communities. It’s an oversimplification but a lot of great things come from this first step, to slowly pull away from centralized control and big platforms. When I don’t know what to do, I do this.

I noticed that Micro.blog was spending a lot of time dealing with files in Hugo’s static folder in custom themes, an artifact of how Micro.blog has to manage files across multiple servers. The optimization to make this faster introduced a couple new problems. Everything is resolved now. Fun morning!

A little lonely in the accessibility lab earlier today for demos at the GDS press launch, whilst AI and Apps took the limelight next door.

Detective stories and tales of bughunting in software and hardware.

Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web.

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Better than the real thing. All true too.

Refresh for more.

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The most depressing moment of Trump 1.0, for me, was leaving the local supermarket, after seeing the kind of empty shelves you see in third world countries with broken or non-existent economic systems. This was when it sunk in how far the United States had fallen. But someh...

Reminder that when you’re angry, lashing out at people who are not the problem is counterproductive. It sometimes feels like we’re all balancing on a knife’s edge. I get it. But I’m done with the outrage machine. It’s performative.

Many interactions are not possible without JavaScript, but that doesn’t mean we should look to write more than we have to. The server doing something useful is a requirement for building an interesting business. The client doing something is often a nice-to-have.

There’s also this:

It’s really fast

One of the arguments for a SPA is that it provides a more reactive customer experience. I think that’s mostly debunked at this point, due to the performance creep and complexity that comes in with a more complicated client-server relationship.

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In all the elections I could vote in where my candidate lost, I certainly felt frustrated and disappointed. My blog captures it going back to 2004. But I never felt like giving up on America because you get another shot in the midterms. Now, I don’t know. It will take decades to fix this. 🇺🇸

I spent a few days designing and implementing the protocol that allows WordLand to be the writing tool for Bingeworthy, thus giving it a real writing and publishing function, instead of the usual ridiculous tiny little textbox. Today I'm going to make it work for writing and...