Me complaining a year ago:
No, I don’t want to rate the app, or the Skype call, or the mechanic, or the quality of a support email, or a song, or my doctor’s appointment, or whether the web page answered my question… I don’t really want to rate anything ever again! If I actually have feedback, I know how to send it.
The prompts have only gotten worse since then. By trying to improve customer service, they’ve actually destroyed it.
A small, pointless Apple Intelligence chat completion failure as I’m chatting with Verizon support… It thinks I’m talking to myself? I know it’s a cheap shot to gripe about AI, but this is really basic stuff.
Trying to get internet at the new place. AT&T will only talk on the phone and they make everything complicated. Google Fiber is in the neighborhood but not on our street. Verizon was supposed to overnight a 5G router a few days ago, it hasn’t shipped. Trying to avoid cable if fiber is imminent.
There are so many great quotes in the Six Colors report card for 2024. Hardware is good, the Mac is good, but Apple has run their relationship with developers into the ground, and most people think Apple Intelligence is a miss.
Parker Ortolani blogs about Bluesky clients:
I want Tweetbot or Twitterrific, but for Bluesky. I’m not seeing that yet. The opportunity is clearly there, it has tens of millions of users making it three times the size of Mastodon.
John Gruber adds a note on Daring Fireball about timeline position sync.
Many people want an app that can manage multiple accounts on different networks. That’s fine. But what I want is one identity that can interact with all open platforms. A client app can never provide that, only new platforms like Micro.blog.
I don’t see myself using Bookshop.org’s new e-books until there’s Kindle support, but now that I’ve read this article on Wired, I’m convinced they’re on the right track. From CEO Andy Hunter:
The first step is to launch the platform. Our second step is to make it popular, so we have leverage. And then we can start fixing what we consider to be the industry problems around ebooks.
Micro.blog iOS folks on the TestFlight beta, the latest build fixes an issue editing longer blog posts. If anyone sees any new problems, please let me know. We’ll do the App Store release this week.
Just reading more about the Luka Dončić trade to the Lakers. Can still hardly believe it. I thought Luka might be the kind of player would stay in Dallas forever. 🏀
Dave Winer writes about links on the social web:
Support for links is the basic requirement of the web, the same way we say feeds are required to be a podcast. If you don’t support links not only aren’t you the web, you’re anti-web.
Yesterday Sam Altman and a few other folks from OpenAI did an ask me anything on Reddit. Some interesting answers about upcoming models, showing more thinking like R1, and this comment on open weights from Sam:
i personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy; not everyone at openai shares this view, and it’s also not our current highest priority.
Very nice video preview of smart replies in @gregmorris’s app Micro Social. I think a lot of people on Micro.blog are going to like this.
Last little bit of the sunset.
Oops, while testing something I accidentally sent out another random post (that I didn’t write!) to my blog and other services. Time to step away from the keyboard.
Nice simple teaser site for Tapestry, shipping next week. It combines a bunch of sources into a single timeline, extensible with JavaScript.
Playing with private note tags in the latest update to Lillihub. It is based on the Micro.blog API but adds its own features and user experience. This is what is possible when there’s an API that developers can just run with.
When I read the tech news or listen to podcasts, my mind sometimes wanders into how I would talk about this with @danielpunkass on Core Int. It’s going to be hard to break the habit. But I packed up my microphone and threw away the mic stand. “Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
In the context of Apple services revenue, I want to mention something I noticed yesterday. I opened the App Store to check something, and staring me in the face right on the home page was an ad for Truth Social. Between that and search ads clutter, ads only make the App Store worse. 💰
For the first time in over a week, today I felt like I could catch my breath. There has been a lot going on.
Tragic what happened with the crash in DC. I’m sure the next time we watch a figure skating competition, even years from now, it will be hard to shake the memory. Every day, every minute, small and big events rewrite the future.
Commuter train heading downtown. From the other side of the fence at Cosmic.
Now that Core Intuition is over, we need to give a little thought to the permanent archive of MP3s. Unfortunately the files are spread across our own servers, S3, and Libsyn. It’s probably about 15 GB and sort of difficult to move around.
Great points in this conversation about how Micro.blog handles longer blog posts with titles. Maybe the time has come for a change here. I’ve never wanted Micro.blog’s timeline to be a bunch of summaries and “read more” links, but right now we should be encouraging longer posts, not relegating them.
Pouring down rain this morning, so maybe not a good time for that walk I was planning. Today is the first day in a week that I don’t have anything on my calendar. That means coding and email progress.
Another upcoming theme from @Mtt! This looks great. It solves a problem that many people ask about:
In my opinion, longform content should have higher visibility than microposts. Unfortunately, that content is often lost in the constant stream of thoughts we push out. As a remedy, I’m soon to release a Micro.blog theme that prioritizes longform content without losing your microposts.
Pika Pulse is shutting down:
We’re a small team and we want the bulk of our time and energy to be spent building the best software we can. It’s not possible for us to read everything…
I wondered how they handled it and now we know it was a random selection of posts. I wanted Micro.blog’s Discover to feel like a snapshot of posts from the community, but we really do look at each one. It is hard.
We’re overdue for changes too. There will always be some community aspect to Micro.blog, even if small, because I’m unsatisfied with every other social network.
Looking out over the trees and mist from the parking garage at the title company. Just signed our life away for the next 30 years.
Recently there have been some sporadic problems with custom CSS and themes in Micro.blog — basically a glitch when I rolled out an optimization to make Hugo static files faster. I’ve made more improvements today. Please reach out if your blog is hosed in any way.
Still digging through support email. Happy to announce that starting next week, @sod will also be joining on a very part-time basis to help answer email questions. We worked with him a year ago on Micro.blog templates too. I’m inspired and thankful for the help!
While I don’t think it’s likely, if in the future, the only EV allowed to be sold in the United States is a Tesla, as Elon Musk has an office in the White House, that won’t be the most ridiculous thing to happen in Trump’s term. Not even close.
From the Verge: Volkswagen cancels ID.7 sedan for US.