Submitted another Micro.blog iOS bug fix update off to Apple for review. I’ve gotten much more consistent about keeping TestFlight betas up to date too. I think it’s making a difference.

Ben Werdmuller on the latest People & Blogs:

My site is my online identity; I write about things that I find interesting. That’s all I want it to be. It’s just me.

Ben’s blog has become one of my favorites. Lately a mix of tech, politics, fediverse, and the IndieWeb.

Our TV screen going out that I blogged about? It’s fixed, replaced some board or another for $200 + $40 diagnostic fee. I’m not sure the TV was worth much more than that, but when we bought another TV to replace it… it just wasn’t as good. Returned the new one. Happy, and less junk in the landfill.

This is perhaps a slightly contrarian take on the failure of Humane’s pin. Eventually I believe there will be a successful product like it. It will need to be simpler, though. No laser. Cheaper. Faster. I won’t judge the team too harshly for being so ambitious. They probably...

Stephen Colbert in last night’s Late Show monologue:

Do you want to know how messed up things are? The lightest story in the news is a plane crash.

Humor helps. See also: MapQuest’s brilliant rename the Gulf of Mexico website.

Nice update to the Bayou theme:

Included in this version is the option to define how many microposts and longform posts are shown on the homepage, change the categories for microposts and longform posts, set the site language (en, de, es, fi, fr, it, pt, ru), and change the date format.

The TikTok-ification of other platforms (Reels, Shorts) is optimizing for user engagement instead of usability. Good luck pausing, rewinding, or sharing one of these clips. At times it’s actually user-hostile.

Maybe I’ve been conditioned by seeing the GPT-4o name everywhere, but I don’t hate the iPhone 16e name. Weird lineup to still include the iPhone 15 without Apple Intelligence.

Matt Webb reflecting on 25 years of blogging. On the very early days of blogging:

So I would post 4 or 6 times a day, like most people. Just a line with a shower thought, or a link and a comment, or a response to someone else

I’ve also found that before Twitter, blogs were often microblogs.

This life in weeks page by Gina Trapani is amazing.

Today we updated another part of Micro.blog to support blog post summaries. When automatically cross-posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and LinkedIn, the summary will now be included for long-form posts with a title. It will look something like this after being copied to...

Mastodon has shared their plan for quote posts. It is well-researched and thoughtful. Yet I have conflicting thoughts on it. I admire that the team is trying to think through the safety ramifications. I’ve long said we should not blindly copy features from the big silo platf...

Got some great feedback on Micro.blog’s new blog post summary (or excerpts) feature. Today the first round of improvements rolled out based on that feedback, including setting a summary when starting a new post on the web. Still to come later this week: support in cross-posting.

Micro Social 1.5 looks like a big update. Can’t wait to check this out when it hits the App Store:

A customisable Instagram-style photo timeline, making browsing and replying to photos more intuitive than ever. Plus, introduce a new way to engage with images using customisable photo reactions—tap the heart and leave a personal response.

Also books features and more. There will be a “Plus” one-time purchase to unlock new features.

Michael Tsai has collected some posts remembering Martin Pilkington. It is hard for me to even wrap my head around losing a member of the Mac developer community like this, far too soon. I spent a little time today reading through some of his old blog posts. Rest in peace.

Finished reading: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. Not all of it worked for me but I’ll read almost any book about books. Also some nice historical fiction-y bits weaved in. 📚

We also went to see the Oscar-nominated animated shorts at Alamo today. This year includes some really strange films. But all good in their own way. I’d vote for In the Shadow of the Cypress. 🍿

Flow was extraordinary. It’s like nothing else. 🍿

People who shoot on film (or who used to) will probably enjoy this video from Adrian about when he brought 100 rolls of film on a road trip.

NSHipster is back again with a bunch of tips for running AI models on a Mac with Ollama. Also this:

If you wait for Apple to deliver on its promises, you’re going to miss out on the most important technological shift in a generation.

There are so many new (sponsored) rules in the celebrity all-star game that I stepped away for a minute and there was a mascot playing on the court. Which honestly makes me just want to see a full game of only team mascots. 🏀

Nice single-page site from Pixelfed about social web technologies. Think about if more platforms supported everything on that page.

Wrote up some documentation for the first phase of our blog post “summary” feature rollout. Like a lot of things in Micro.blog, this is a foundation. Other things can be built on top of it.

It has now been a couple days since I stopped federating my posts to Mastodon. As expected I get effectively no replies from Mastodon now. I still get replies from Micro.blog and Bluesky. RSS still exists. Good experiment so far.

Good updates and bug fixes out today, especially the new Micro.blog for iOS release. Tomorrow, releasing the first phase of the blog post summary feature I mentioned yesterday.

Spurs have lost 3 of the last 4 since De’Aaron Fox joined, but 2 games were lost by only 1 point. Meanwhile Wemby is doing everything:

That stat line makes Wembanyama the first player in NBA history to record multiple games of 20+ points, 15+ rebounds, 5+ blocks and 5+ made 3-pointers.

Won’t be surprised if he eventually has the record for most 5x5s too. 🏀

Nice new developer site and technical design overview for Bridgy Fed. Whenever I’ve looked at the Bridgy code, I’ve always been impressed that it’s not over-engineered considering how much it can do. The same project in the hands of another developer might be 5x the amount of code.

I sent Micro.blog 3.4.2 off to Apple for TestFlight beta review. If approved, will send it to Apple again for the release build, where presumably a different human will review the same build. 🤪

I’m going to attend this Bluesky & Beyond event next week and FediForum next month. I’ve felt like withdrawing from active participation in standards work, though. I can only do so much and need to focus on where I can actually make a positive difference.

It took me a while to decide to add official support for blog post summaries, but now that I’m committed I’m finding all sorts of little things that should make things better for long-form posts. Hugo already has nice support with .summary, just need to finish a new editing UI and timeline tweaks.