FeedCity

One year of consisten posts is nothing to sneeze at. But when each one is genuinely useful, actionable, and insightful, that's another level of achievement.

Along the Walnut Creek Trail.

For the last few weeks I have been making a cup of decaf tea in the late evening, almost as part of a wind-down ritual for the day. While I was making a cup this evening, I heard birds singing. I felt the warmth from the tea in my hands and the warmth of the bird song in my...

At this evening’s Homebrew Website Club, I asked: What was the biggest change in our websites since we started them? This question was inspired in part by Paul saying something to the effect of how we build our websites and, in the process, figure out what we want our website...

The new trailer for Laika’s Wildwood looks so good. Visuals alone, I think Laika might have something truly special here. Audiences are going to increasingly want handcrafted work. See also the quote from Travis Knight earlier this year.

Last year, we launched a new plan for Micro.blog called Micro.one. It was only $1/month and included nearly everything from a standard Micro.blog subscription. It was a bit of an experiment. Micro.one actually had a cap of 3000 registrations. I was worried that we would lose...

A little crazy that we have 12 separate downloadable apps for Micro.blog across Mac, iOS, and Android. I’ve finally made a special download page for all of them: micro.blog/download

Great post from @danielpunkass reflecting on his time at Apple 30 years ago:

I quit in 2002, shortly after Apple released the first iPod MP3 player. I was antsy. Only 26 years old by that time, I wanted to go back to school for another college degree, this time in music. It’s funny to think back now at how “done” I thought our work at the company was. I was looking at the future through Mac-colored lenses, and it seemed as though everything important had been done.

I appreciate that X gave me back access to my account that I was locked out of, but they were apparently charging me for premium when i couldn't use the account, and had no way to turn it off. Okay they can keep the money. But now I want to turn off premium for the account I was using when I didn't have access to my real account, and can't find the commands to do that. Asked ChatGPT and it either hallucinated or X removed the command. So near as I can tell I now have two accounts on Premium.

I'm screwing around with the JSONL stuff again. I'm interested in know about any work people have done that process incoming JSONL data. I'd like to see if I'm even in the ballpark of something useful. Today I'm making it so that my app can be used in production to handle more than one stream. The key thing is it's hooked up to FeedLand via a very simple JSON interface delivered in realtime via websockets. For feeds that support rssCloud, the appearance of the new item in the JSONL feed happens a fraction of a second after it was published. That's how fast the web of 2026 is.

"What comes next, after the algorithmic social feed that’s defined our digital social lives for the last decade?" I believe this very useful presentation will be referred back to for years to come.

Before the Spurs game, moment of silence for Brandon Clarke and Jason Collins… but then it fades to a Draft Kings commercial. Really in poor taste. I don’t think I had strong opinions about all the gambling promotion until now. 🏀

Google approved two of our apps in less than an hour today, one app in what felt like minutes. Maybe they are automating more of the review? Whatever they’re doing, I like it.

I should’ve had tacos for lunch. Obama stops in Austin for a visit:

Former President Barack Obama stopped by an Austin taco restaurant Tuesday afternoon alongside Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico and gubernatorial hopeful state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, according to videos shared online.

I have regained control of my Twitter account. I really missed it, truth be told. Thanks to Scoble for helping here. As he so often has.

This bit of code kept coming up, so I wanted to make it easier to find.

I’ve avoided essentially live-blogging the OpenAI trial, because I know everyone is sick of AI, but maybe I should have blogged a little more. I’ve listened to significant portions of the testimony, probably 10-15 hours over the last week. Feels like it’s winding down now that Sam Altman is done.

Your browser does not support the video tag. Fun to track my small improvements bodysurfing using @dawnpatrol.app and @surfline — I use @procreate Dreams to add an overlay. Also on Instagram