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Sometimes I drive the long way around, through old neighborhoods, imagining the people and buildings that used to be there. Time erases so much.

Great video on YouTube (via Matt Haughey) of old Pacific Electric Railway stations in Los Angeles. I would’ve loved to see some of these when they were active. 🚂

I’m excited to welcome Bonnie Rue to the Micro.blog team! She will be helping with new community-focused projects, leading curation of the Discover section, and working with me to respond to community issues.

We’ll keep improving our community guidelines and adapting to what the community needs. The social web is evolving quickly with new platforms. Micro.blog has always had a unique philosophy: content ownership through blogs, and a safe place to interact with others. As the social web becomes more connected, Micro.blog will stick to its mission while trying to balance the right set of tools to connect with people on other platforms.

I also want to thank the folks who were interested in this role at Micro.blog. I wish we could hire several people! Maybe one day we’ll be able to.

The Lever podcast does have an RSS feed. A good way to find the feed when the usual hacks don't work is to post it here, where it's a matter of pride for the braintrust to dig it up. Thanks as always. 😄

An old quote falsely attributed to Gandhi. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Over the weekend I flipped the switch on a new app that makes my blog available on WordPress. It seems to work really well. The WordPress site is Daveverse. And because it's on WordPress it is also available on ActivityPub, at @scripting@daveverse.org, which means you can re...

It’s been hard for me to write about Friday because it was so overwhelming, to see so many friends and loved ones and teachers and mentors there, including friends of my late Father’s I hadn’t seen in years, and to be with all of the people who have been driving the mission of the Rothko … Continue reading Rothko Chapel Garden →

Watched: Being Eddie. Really enjoyed this. 🍿

I wrote this as a comment on Doc's blog. Doc, I’m working on a discourse system that works better than comments, imho. One thing it does is lets me use the full fidelity of the web instead of forcing me to type in yet another Inadequate Text Box (ITB) with none of the featu...

I keep hearing and reading people bitching and moaning about the web being dead, lamenting the good old days of the web, when real people were out there, and sites weren’t all about promoting some shit nobody cares about or attempting to amass an audience only to then flip i...

I’ve updated Micro.blog with support for Day One journals. In the Mac app we’ve had a manual export to Day One for a while, and now the platform can automatically copy your blog posts to Day One. This uses Day One Premium’s “Email to journal” feature.

You can enable it on Micro.blog’s “Sources” page:

If you haven’t checked out our cross-posting options in a while, we have built-in support for over 10 different services, from Bluesky to PeerTube to Tumblr. I think our cross-posting features are unmatched by any other platform.

For more details about Day One, see this help page.

Here's a screen shot of what the Daveverse home page looks like. It's got all the stuff from scripting.com. It's not a perfect rendering of my Old School blog, I have more features, but it's pretty good. I'll be testing this out and thinking about it now, as we go forward. But here's the milestone: I have a WordPress place to hook into now that has pretty much everything I write outside the tiny little text boxes. What I write in WordLand or Drummer, the two places I write for real. The rest of it is throw away nonsense, a waste of time. No one reads anything, everyone fighting for attention.

Follow this on Mastodon at @scripting@daveverse.org.

I was going to tell you how much I like the Lever podcast, and wanted to recommend it, but they make it impossible to find the RSS url for the feed. The usual hacks don't seem to work. Since I'm subscribed to it on Pocket Casts, I thought I might be able to find the URL on their web interface, and it's possible I might have found it that way. Nope. It just points to the web page for the podcast, which did not have the RSS feed. I know they must have one. I was looking for a way to download my OPML file, would be nice if you could do it from the desktop.

We ought to be thinking about a filtering system for feed readers based on loose instructions written by users, and shared on the web, to be parsed by our AI. Design your personal algorithm with AI. Share the good ones with your friends, and have it work on the web, in any feed reader. There are ways to do that.

Spoilers follow. Like Doc, I have trouble getting into TV series, but not Pluribus, probably because it came from the showrunner of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, two series that I have watched from beginning to end at least three times. The star of Pluribus, Rhea Seaho...

Reading The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien.

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 three exciting indie teams!

• FRENEMIES
• RUMSPRINGA (IG: @RumspringaImprov)
• CHIT CHAT (IG: @ChitChatImprov)

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 November 15th, 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/60023/

Magnet Theater

Good article in The New Yorker about water in Texas including the failure to build a seawater desalination plant. From a hearing in Corpus Christi with residents pushing back against it:

The hearing started around noon; by midnight, it was still under way, and three women in the audience, including a former mayoral candidate and a college professor, had been arrested for disorderly conduct.

Seems like a mistake not to be working on desalination. We’re going to need this eventually.

We had to run an errand out off 620, so stopped at the park at Mansfield Dam. Short video with a few clips.