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Still waiting on bug fixes in our Android app to be approved. Apple’s review times seem consistently faster than Google now. I don’t want any review for bug fixes, of course, but gotta hand it to Apple for improving this so much.

Barry Hess on his blog:

What I wouldn’t give for all of us to be a bit more naive.

A bit less social media.

A bit less 24-hour news.

Today we’re announcing support for Mastodon quote posts in Micro.blog. This is a new feature in Mastodon 4.5 that has been in development for quite some time. It is live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online, the two servers run by Mastodon gGmbH, and it will be rolling out...

As mentioned in my first-hat and forbidden socks posts my Brother KH-930e knitting machine was unable to knit two-color Fair Isle patterning due to two cam buttons being stuck together. I didn't really know where to start with figuring this out. I remember doing some se...

Paul Frazee has another post about the relationship between a PDS and the app layer of AT Protocol. With diagrams! Good description of how moderation and migration can work.

A new doc for RSS nerds. WordLand is an editor for WordPress docs, which then of course appear in RSS 2.0 feeds. Each WordPress site has a feed, but WordLand has a shadow feed, with a few additions and differences which I document here for the first time, with examples. The main reason is I wanted to use Markdown as the default format for text in WordLand, and also wanted to be able to use it for linkblogging, which is not possible as WordPress feeds are defined. The idea is that you should use the WordPress feed for most things, but if you are using a reading app that understands Markdown, you should subscribe to the shadow feed, and if you are doing a linkblog, you must use the shadow feed, or the links won't be transmitted, kind of obviating the purpose of a linkblog.

Has the internet led to more polarization, or is this more of a great unmasking, where people feel more comfortable to share opinions they've always held?

Adios, Cáceres!

If you’re not playing music while you’re working, you’re missing out. It’s incredible how sounds can transform how our brain works. You can, on tap, put yourself into a different mode of being with music; you can change your drive, motivation, mood, and more. There are some apps that have started to hack this, such … Continue reading Work With Music →

I’ve been testing with Mastodon quote posts, which I’ll officially announce (partial) support for in Micro.blog tomorrow. Not gonna lie, a little surprised that my first pass implementation mostly worked. As I’ve said too many times, ActivityPub testing is tricky.

Mark Gurman writing about recent news and also next year’s foldable iPhone:

As for how the foldable iPhone will look, I am increasingly told that users should imagine two titanium iPhone Airs side-by-side. In other words, it’s going to be super thin and a design achievement.

Sunday night session

This is really neat for fediverse devs: ActivityPub.Academy. Essentially a modified version of Mastodon that can show a log of activities being sent, to troubleshoot interoperability problems.

WNBA playoffs! Watching Aces vs. Fever. Only a quarter left and Aces might be falling too far behind. 🏀

New release of the feedlandSockets code. Still more work to do.

I’ve drafted some posts about current events, especially working through my thoughts on free speech and social platforms, but I think my blog needs to veer away from the political for a while. Also, watched Josh Shapiro on Meet the Press this morning and thought his answers were really good. 🇺🇸

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Here's a thought for WordPress users and developers. WordPress is huge, but it's just part of the web. That's what it means to be on the web, my friends. Everything connects to anything on the web. Once we build out a social network from WordPress, all the other systems will have no choice but to hook up too. All this talk of AT Proto and ActivityPub being the connecting glue is nonsense. The web is the connecting glue.

Last night I learned about headless WordPress installations from a tweet by Matt Mullenweg. I wrote a blog post on my WP site with what I've learned and the questions I still have. It's actually easier for me to write posts on that site when all I have is my iPad. I do all m...