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Finished reading: Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson. I read the e-book, but I also got the print edition in the mail yesterday. Half of the book is white text on black pages! I’ve never seen this before in a novel. 📚

After hours of downtime with our primary photo storage, I’ve given up on Linode and started restoring failed uploads and switching to our S3 backup. Very disappointing. I’ll post a final update to @news when everything is back online. I also learned some new things to make this more robust.

I wasn't planning on this, but there was a report that there was a problem with BingeWorthy, and I looked into it and was able to fix it.

When I added a feature that lets you ask ChatGPT to review the program you're looking at, I broke the ability to add a new program to the database. It took about 15 minutes to track down and verify and fix -- and now that very important function works again.

As long as I was in there working around, I updated the Bingeworthy RSS feed to only report program additions. The other events it was reporting just weren't as interesting.

I also added that feed to my blogroll on scripting.com.

I'd say it works a lot better now.

Sunday afternoon session in Belfast

Feels like every day for a month I’ve been waking up to one emergency or another — some real, some fabricated. This morning, there was a power outage at a Linode data center that is affecting our photo hosting. Blah.

Going to Belfast. brb

Today's wiring progress: got about half the cat6 jacks wired, and also the speaker jacks!

The new Billy Joel documentary — And So It Goes — on HBO was great. They had so much time to go deep on a lot of things. I actually knew next to nothing about him except the songs.

If you had asked a mathematician for advice on the Supreme Court ruling that money is speech, it was a totally foreseeable outcome that money would overwhelm speech, that the only speech would be money. We're right there now.

No blogging this Saturday, enjoyed goofing off for a change. 😄

A lovely, well-balanced cocktail as I finish up this week’s reading and notes on The Notebook for this week’s book club meeting tomorrow morning. (The lemon twist really makes this.)

The other day, I finished reading 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster. It was a Christmas gift from my dad, who apparently picked it without even knowing what the book was about. It sat there, in my bedroom, for more than 6 months because it’s a 950-page novel, and I was convinced that I...

Did you know that you can open Bluesky starter packs in Micro.blog and follow people directly? I’d like to work on expanding this soon. Some more details and an example in this post last year. Micro.blog is small so it’s a good way to branch out.

We finally got the solar panels installed! This has been holding back a bunch of the rest of the project. Finally I can get permanent power connected and get rid of the temporary power pole, and finally get the rest of the crew in here to install the ACs and such!

Yes only 5 panels is silly, I am going to try to add more, but I have to fight the city code first.

July 18-25, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany Thursday, July 24 at 6:00pm DÜSSELDORF, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Xafé im KAP1 Bibliothekscafé Homebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for everybod...

The real question that typewriter enthusiasts want to know is: will the Royal KMM typewriter be making an appearance too?!!! Or will the new Jessica be using some sort of crappy computer laptop? If she does use a typewriter, should it be a similar KMM or should she change it to something else, and if … Continue reading

A little surprising, Meta is expanding the Threads API. Might be time to consider doing more with it. Micro.blog can cross-post but only retrieve posts if the fediverse is enabled. Downside of doing more is jumping through the hoops of Meta’s approval machine.

Mac folks, any bugs you’ve noticed recently in the Micro.blog app? Fixing a couple little things for macOS 26 Tahoe beta.

Congrats to Manu Moreale on the 100th interview in his People and Blogs series! This one features Marisabel Munoz, who writes about her process of starting long-form blog posts by hand:

I use Moleskines (I prefer it due to the lines) and fountain pens—the ink’s flow slows my thoughts, helping me process them. Then comes the sculpting: what stays, what expands, what’s cut. It’s like editing, but not quite… more of a second draft.

I think I was subconsciously inspired by Federico Viticci’s post when I tried this prompt with ChatGPT Agent last night: I created book.micro.blog and www.manton.org. I want to look through longer blog posts (at least a couple paragraphs) on my blog that are about social me...