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A great scene from The West Wing. Use your imagination, something similar is probably happening right now.

Monday session

It’s late on Monday 23rd and I’m typing this weekly recap that I was supposed to write on a Sunday but it’s been a hectic day—today wasn’t much better, autostrade per l’italia loves me—and I was too tired to write it last night so I’m doing it now. Week three has been intere...

This is a silly and inconsequential thing to rant about, but… What is the point of crushed ice? It melts too quickly. I understand it for Sonic and Chick-fil-a, but not for a coffee shop. 🤪

Yesterday my kids asked why I was snapping a photo of a construction site where a restaurant used to be, and I had to think… I like taking pictures of things that will change.

It’s going to be too easy to hate on Tesla’s robotaxi rollout. I’m a little sympathetic to a single mistake overshadowing all the rides that are fine, but this tech is clearly inferior to Waymo. It’s a very, very small area in Austin that Tesla is operating in. No excuse for being in the wrong lane.

I often see people asking questions about the value of vintage typewriters. Questions like:  Is it really worth $550 to buy a clean, oiled, and adjusted typewriter from a repair shop? What about the cheap typewriters I see for $20-50 on Facebook Marketplace? Are they any “good”? What’s with the dramatic difference in prices? Am … Continue reading Typewriter Repair Costs and Valuation: Professional Shops versus Collectors versus First Time Buyers

"Substack's One Weird Marketing Trick was leveraging the economic interests of traditional media employees against their publishers to get positive "earned media"."

Ever since Salter Cane recorded the songs on Deep Black Water I’ve been itching to play them live. At our album launch gig last Friday, I finally got my chance.

It felt soooo good! It helped that we had the best on-stage sound ever (note to the bands of Brighton, Leon at the Hope and Ruin is fantastic at doing the sound). The band were tight, the songs sounded great live, and I had an absolute blast.

I made a playlist of songs to be played in between bands. It set the tone nicely. As well as some obvious touchstones like 16 Horsepower and Joy Division, I made sure to include some local bands we’re fond of, like The Equitorial Group, Mudlow, Patients, and The Roebucks.

Podcast: WordPress and me.

"There are clear indications from oppressive governments around the world that biometrics will be used to harm human rights, regardless of their accuracy or fairness."

Dan Knauss, one of the organizers of WordCamp Canada, wrote a post on their blog using WordLand. This is wonderful! Look at the screen shot at the top of the page. That's the whole point of WordLand. It gets out of your way and let's you write for your WordPress site.

I wanted to do a brief podcast to explain how WordLand came to be, and what I learned on my exploration of WordPress. This, for me, was like time travel. They had picked up on a lot of what we were doing in the 90s and early 00s, and even though I was alive while this was ha...

Happy International Typewriter Day!  Today commemorates the date in 1868 when Christopher Latham Sholes was granted a patent for the first commercially successful typewriter. What are you doing to celebrate? I’m writing about the typewriter market to help out beginning collectors.

One more thing about the linkblog, it no longer cross-posts to social media sites. I want to see if I miss having the links there. It also won't have the limits. Maybe it'll be better if my accounts are a bit more quiet. Also the RSS feed is in a new location, I want to wait a bit to make sure it works before distributing the URL.

Note to linkblog readers: I just flipped a switch and am now using WordLand to do the linkblog. Today's links are good, but the ones from prior days were mainly test posts. They will scroll off in a few days, and it'll be as it always has been. Still diggin.

The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.

Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for these exciting indie teams!

• Quicksand
• Lazy Boy
• Ventson

I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!

Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)

Saturday day June 21st, 2025 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/59690

Magnet Theater

Most people outside of Micro.blog don’t pay attention to our news blog, so quoting this here too:

Fixed an issue where mentions to Mastodon users weren’t actually sent to remote servers if Micro.blog hadn’t yet cached the ActivityPub info for that user.

If you’re on Bluesky, we also automatically mirror our bug fixes and features to the micro.blog profile over there.