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Stephanie Booth, an OG blogger of great renown, now has a FeedLand blogroll on her blog. It is I believe going to make her blog feel less lonely. If anyone else wants to get one going, I have more confidence that it's pretty do-able. Screen shot.

When I started blogging, early on, I had a different system for discourse. Here's how it worked: 1. First each post would go out via email to a group of eleven people. I was cc'd. 2. The group was randomly chose each time, so you might not know anyone in your group, or you ...

Stormy weather

I read something on Brent's blog the other day that changed my thinking. He said

Brent said he cares about desktop software but not about phone and tablet versions of same. I found that liberating. It's always been a pain in the ass to do something beautiful on the desktop only to have to destroy its utility by squeezing it into a space with no keyboard or pointing device that's more accurate than my finger (I have huge fingers, and a normal size phone). I found it liberating, but -- I'm working on the design of an app that should work well on either a phone or a laptop, and I've had that in mind the whole life of the product. But now I realize in a new way that it's a choice. It always was, but it didn't feel that way.

Heh. Yesterday I started writing a post about something Brent wrote on his blog, and then I must've gotten distracted and didn't finish it. I will now proceed to explain.

Podcast: A new model for blog discourse.

RSL (Really Simple Licensing) can extend RSS feeds to describe how content is licensed for AI. They’re launching with lots of backers and quotes. Some overlap with Creative Commons Signals, which I blogged about a few months ago. Found via John Spurlock.

Let's help build the world we want to see.

It’s going to be a busy day, juggling several different things with work and life. Starting the morning with Summer Moon. Love that exclamation point. ☕️

It’s New Apple Stuff day, so the headlines are being dominated by that, but it’s worth taking a step back and paying homage to the site that has been the front page of tech news for two decades now, Techmeme. I’ve been a daily visitor since it started, and I appreciate how they pair the … Continue reading Techmeme 20 →

Trying not to read too much into Apple calling it iPhone Air, not iPhone 17 Air. Maybe it doesn’t get a yearly update? Maybe just to make it seem even more unique? I can’t see Apple dropping the numbers anytime soon because so much rides on hyping up iPhone sales each year.

Caught up with the Apple Event. Took me 30 minutes to realise I was watching last year’s event.

Anil Dash blogs about how Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. I take slight issue with the U2 joke, but otherwise I think it’s right:

The son of an immigrant, a child of the counterculture, a man offering an unmistakable fuck-you to Big Brother, and a person who, above all, would never kiss the ass of someone who had absolutely awful taste. This was Steve Jobs.

It’s ambitious for Apple to ship all of their version 26 operating systems on the same day next week. I thought macOS could wait a couple weeks. I’ll probably submit the Micro.blog iOS update soon-ish, when I can get the UI quirks fixed.

Spent a little time going through old pull requests on JSON Feed, merging in links for the website. There is still a lot to catch up on. Time flies! And I didn’t realize that the lack of communication on my part was holding folks up from fully embracing it.

I want to say that the orange iPhone is the official Micro.blog-themed phone, but the orange color isn’t really a close enough match. Gonna have to see these phones in person. Especially curious about the weight and balance of the Air.

The iPhone 17 Pro actually looks like a pretty big change. Aluminum, huge camera bump, crazy thermal system, faster AI, presumably more RAM.