Elon Must complaining about Apple not featuring his apps. But as Stephen Hackett points out, if anything Apple should be demoting Grok even more:

Currently, the Grok app has a 12+ age rating. Given the sexual content that is so easily accessible through the chatbot, that sure seems low to me.

Really happy with this change we rolled out today for the Micro.blog Family subscription plan:

Micro.blog Family now allows you to transfer “ownership” of a blog to someone else in your family (or small team). So you can manage payment for up to 5 blogs, but another member can post to their own blog and control the blog’s settings.

Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2025/08/12/microblog-family-now-allows-you.html

Under the “People” section, there’s a new “Make Owner” button for each member of the blog. This makes the Family plan more flexible for a variety of setups.

Cards theme now updated with support for the new category intro text we introduced in Micro.blog this week.

Installed the iOS 26 beta. Liquid Glass is much weirder and more bubbly on iOS than on macOS. Don’t feel too strongly about it except that old and new apps now feel like they are from different operating systems.

Flowers.

Maurice Parker blogs that his outliner Zavala will always be free. I also think there’s a good parallel in here to what people might do if they didn’t have to work as much. They would still do something! Creating or helping people will always be rewarding.

Reddit blocking the Internet Archive is another step back for the open web, but maybe not too surprising after they shut down API access last year.

…we’re limiting some of their access to Reddit data to protect redditors.

Protect users, or protect Reddit monetizing user data by selling it to AI companies?

Thanks @jim for the quick update to the mnml theme for Micro.blog, adding support for the category intro text feature. I’ve updated a couple more plug-ins (like Marfa and Alpine) and others will be updated later.

GitHub CEO resigns to go back to doing his own thing:

…my startup roots have begun tugging on me and I’ve decided to leave GitHub to become a founder again. GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon. I’ll be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition and am leaving with a deep sense of pride in everything we’ve built as a remote-first organization spread around the world.

GitHub is a unique product that deserves to be run independently. But also, I’m not too worried about this change.

Today we rolled out two improvements to category management in Micro.blog on the web. The first is a new selection interface so you can more easily delete lots of categories at once. This was particularly a problem when importing from other blog systems, which could create l...

Listening to Decoder with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao. Stunning to me that Notion has 900+ employees. I can’t even imagine what I would do that many people. Wouldn’t mind 9 employees for Micro.blog, though.

Kev Quirk has gone back and forth between Micro.blog and Mastodon, now back on Micro.blog. It really can’t be overstated how great it is to move followers between platforms. One of the most important features of the fediverse.

Parker Ortolani blogs some initial thoughts about GPT-5:

I’ve been saying for about a year now that I believe the future of computing is software on demand. GPT-5 might just have made that a reality. It’s certainly at least the first glance at a future where that’s the case.

I’m not completely bought into this vision, where apps and UIs can be adapted on the fly, but I wouldn’t rule it out either. The screenshots from Parker are super impressive.

Mark Gurman reporting at Bloomberg on Apple getting App Intents ready for the new Siri: The plan now is to ship the feature alongside a broader Siri infrastructure overhaul in the spring and market it heavily. But there’s some concern inside the company, I’m told. Engineers...

Thinking about how I use AI for coding, I prefer to automate a lot of the JavaScript work, more than HTML or CSS. Feels right to have as much control over anything that touches the design. It’s hard to imagine a world where I’m not going to want to tweak the UI.

This is fun: The Bluesky Dictionary, tracking when all the words in the English dictionary have been mentioned in a Bluesky post. Currently about halfway there.

Meandering research for something new led me to Bashō, and this form of poetry I had never heard of before:

Around 1682, Bashō began the months-long journeys on foot that would become the material for a new poetic form he created, called haibun. Haibun is a hybrid form alternating fragments of prose and haiku to trace a journey. Haibun imagery follows two paths: the external images observed en route, and the internal images that move through the traveler’s mind during the journey.

“I think the most powerful thing that the new Alexa+ has done for me is it has made me forgive Apple for not shipping anything with the new Siri.” — Casey Newton on Hard Fork

Find My has always been too slow for me. It feels like Apple sometimes caches a user’s last location on their servers, but either for not very long or just infrequently. So you fire up the app, and it appears to ping each phone to get the latest location. Gotta be a better way that is still private.

Updated to Tahoe beta 5. No problems, pretty much the same for me as beta 4. I don’t actually use many of Apple’s built-in apps, so until more third-party apps are updated for Liquid Glass, it’s not a very jarring upgrade. I use Xcode, Terminal, Photos, and then all other Apple apps only rarely.

This interview of Sam Altman by Cleo Abram is excellent. I know there are some Sam haters out there. I received some shit for my blog post about him. But there are deep questions here about the future, some interesting speculation, and figuring out how to anticipate potential future harm too.

Just noticed this new Micro.blog theme: Bothy. Looks good!

One of those mornings. Working from the hospital lobby, with the GPT-5 announcement video on in the background but I forgot my headphones at home, so just glancing at the subtitles every once in a while. Please see: Micro.blog free for nurses. Also just deployed a cross-posting checkbox fix.

Added a new reading goals bar to the top of Bookshelves in the Mac app. Love the way it turned out, with little progress indicators for the goal progress. Here’s a video:

Dia adds $20/month subscription, with plans for other tiers later. I like Dia even without the AI features. Most people are not going to pay for either ChatGPT or Claude and a web browser. Wishing them luck because it is a nice browser.

Odd to see a Tim Hortons in Texas. ☕️

Feels important to mark today’s gift from Apple to Trump. Tim Cook continues to hurt his legacy, in almost an Elon Musk-like way, between the direction of the App Store and dealing with Trump. Just sad. He was the right person to lead Apple for a time. I still think peak Apple was a year or two ago.

Good post from A New Social about the difference between bridging and cross-posting. The illustrations really help too.

This is how I think about the UK’s Online Safety Act, and similar laws in Texas that introduce new rules for checking a website visitor’s age before showing adult content. Most people agree that it’s reasonable for someone working behind the counter at an old-fashioned adult...

Speaking of age-gating, I filled out Apple’s new age questionnaire for apps last week. Micro.blog’s apps are 16+. I think by design our platform is better protected than many in exposing harmful content, but to be safe for kids requires much more work with automated tools and a staff of curators.