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Lovely evening spent in a local pub, drinking beer, eating pie and mash and coming fifth (out of seven teams) in the pub quiz with my fellow quizzer, Becky. A truly wonderful way to start the week.

9to5Mac blogging about a change in the iOS 26.4 beta:

In the App Store, the Search bar has been moved back to the top of the search tab. The search tab is also now integrated into navigation bar at the bottom instead of being separated in its own floating circle.

Good change. I think some Liquid Glass apps had gotten a little wonky with their tab bars, requiring extra taps to switch between modes.

Bullet items for the Fediforum conference in March. Subscribing must be easy. Some things will work better if they're slightly centralized, esp subscribing. Use DNS for naming people. Support RSS in and out, and test it once you add the feature, so many easy things to fix...

I shouldn’t be so harsh, but it’s disappointing to see that for every podcast platform with real power, one by one they come up with their own proprietary solution for video. There’s already a perfectly good RSS-based spec for how to handle this. I’ve been planning to support it in Micro.blog.

This thread started by John Spurlock has context for Apple’s HLS announcement. It appears to not use RSS at all, making it no better than YouTube or Spotify shows. Apple had a chance to lead on openness and they blew it… Cynically I wonder if it’s because they’re skimming ad revenue from the deal.

Joshua Rothman writing at The New Yorker about writers creating spaces to focus and inspire:

Having access to these spaces and resources has been a privilege. There’s no question that they’ve helped me write. And yet, if I look back over my career as a writer, the value I’ve derived from carefully controlling my environment has paled in comparison to my main source of motivation: scary e-mails from editors.

I would get nothing done without deadlines.

I use dark mode on my phone, but light mode on my Mac. So when I’m developing an app that will mostly be used from a computer, dark mode is unfortunately an afterthought. I came up with a theme system for the new RSS thing, but now considering throwing it out and just having good defaults.

On March 2nd, FediForum is hosting a special Growing the Open Social Web workshop. As part of registration, attendees are encouraged to submit a position paper with ideas for growing the social web. I have a very specific proposal: we should move away from email-like user ha...

The new RSS reader is mostly done. A few bug fixes and polish to finish. I think for a 1.0 it’s very good. It does a few new things that I’ve never seen in a feed reader before.

A few days ago I asked Manton Reece, the developer of micro.blog, if he could add a feature that gave me a feed of replies to all my posts on his service. I post a lot of stuff to micro.blog via my linkblog RSS feed. Every one of those items can be commented on. But unless I...

In Drummer, when I get too many tabs open from things I haven't looked at in a while, this is what I do.

1. I choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu
2. The menu opens with the new bookmark at the top of the list
3. If it's the first time I press Return and enter "Tabs I Closed Recently"
4. Then I drag the new bookmark under that headline.
5. Close the Bookmarks tab.
6. Remove the tab I just bookmarked.
7. Voila! Clutter Reduced.

My Twitter account has been hijacked. I can't log on, or change the password. I can't communicate with the company, so I'll try here. Please shut down my account, davewiner. To my friends who have Twitter accounts, if you see a post from davewiner on Twitter, please reply and let the people who see it know that it isn't from me.

A position statement for FediForum's unworkshop

Watched: Song Sung Blue. Good movie for a lazy Sunday night. Enjoyed it. 🍿

One term that keeps coming up in discussions about thriving in the AI era is “high agency.” This 30-minute longread by George Mack is a great way to get you thinking about how high or low agency shows up in your life.

Peter Steinberger hinted on a podcast last week that something like this might happen. Peter is joining OpenAI, and OpenClaw will stay independent in a new foundation. From Peter’s blog: When I started exploring AI, my goal was to have fun and inspire people. And here we ar...

Good first game at the all-star game(s). Wemby’s upset! He wanted that one. I had to root for World too. 🏀

Simon Willison blogs about Adam Leventhal coining “deep blue” to refer to programmers who are feeling a loss of purpose with new AI coding agents.